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Auteur Art Samuels and the Montréal Youth Singers

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One World

One World
[1956]
Album “Man of the Whole Wide World”, Folkways Records

“An ideal is something to dream about, until it becomes a practical necessity for survival. Then it
calls, not for dreamers, but for planners. In this age of shrinking distances and long-range missiles,
even hard-headed ultra-nationalists must be beginning to realize that the choice is boiling down to co-existence or no-existence. Projected logically, then, it would seem that this could lead to a world
federation of states -- or, in the simpler term, one world.”
You may talk of a world that’s divided,
(continuer)
envoyé par Alessandro 11/3/2010 - 14:14
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Soldier Boy

Soldier Boy
[1956]
Album “Man of the Whole Wide World”, Folkways Records

"The sharply altered mood and the minor key variation l’m sure, won't keep you from detecting the ghost of Mademoiselle from Armentières, the lusty World War One marching song. . . and I won't pretend that the resemblence is an accident. Perhaps, these songs had their place, once… perhaps they still bring beery-nosta1gia to some… but I submit that they, like the wars that spawned them, have had their day, and that anyone who believes otherwise is living in the hopped-up past of the pre-Hiroshima era."
What’ll you do when you’re unemployed, Soldier Boy?
(continuer)
envoyé par Alessandro 11/3/2010 - 14:13
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Man of the Whole Wide World

Man of the Whole Wide World
[1956]
Album “Man of the Whole Wide World”, Folkways Records

“I wrote this one some four years back, but unlike some of my earlier songs, if you were to ask me today to sit down and write about the things I believe in, I don't think the words would come out any different. I've sung it to a lot of people in a lot of places, and the way they respond seems to me to mean that most people are agreed on the fundamentals that would go to make a decent world -- not the least of which is peace.”
Who am I and where do I come from?
(continuer)
envoyé par Alessandro 11/3/2010 - 13:38




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