Folksingers 'Round Harvard Square
Folksingers 'Round Harvard Square | ||||
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Studio album by Joan Baez, Bill Wood, Ted Alevizos | ||||
Released | 1959 | |||
Recorded | Boston, May 1959 | |||
Genre | Folk, Negro spiritual, Greek traditional music | |||
Length | 46:37 | |||
Language | English, French, Greek | |||
Label | Veritas | |||
Producer | Lemuel Marshall Wells | |||
Joan Baez chronology | ||||
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Folksingers 'Round Harvard Square is a collaborative folk album featuring Joan Baez, Bill Wood and Ted Alevizos; it is also Baez's debut appearance as six of the eighteen tracks were solos by her. The album was recorded by Stephen Fassett in "a friend's basement studio" in Boston, May 1959.[1]
In 1963, an unauthorized reissue of the album was released on Squire Records as The Best of Joan Baez[2] (minus four tracks that did not contain Baez' vocals — "Le Cheval dans la baignoire," "The Bold Soldier," "Lass from the Low Country" and "Rejected Lover"), but was withdrawn after Baez took legal action against it (by which time the album had already made the top-fifty on the U.S. albums charts).[3]
Harvard Square is a place in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Baez had a residence at Club 47, located on the square.[4]
Track listing
All tracks are written by Folksong or Traditional, except where noted
No. | Title | Performers | Length |
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1. | "On the Banks of the Ohio" | Baez | 2:40 |
2. | "O What a Beautiful City" (Spiritual) | Baez | 3:21 |
3. | "Sail Away Ladies" | Baez | 2:49 |
4. | "Black Is the Color" | Baez | 2:42 |
5. | "Lowlands" | Baez | 2:48 |
6. | "What You Gonna Call Your Pretty Little Baby" (Spiritual) | Baez | 2:30 |
7. | "Kitty" (South African Folksong) | Baez & Wood | 2:01 |
8. | "So Soon in the Morning" (Spiritual) | Baez & Wood | 2:08 |
9. | "Careless Love" (Spiritual) | Baez & Wood | 2:27 |
Total length: | 23:26 |
No. | Title | Performers | Length |
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1. | "Le Cheval dans la baignoire (The Horse in the Bathtub)" (Stephen Coleman) | Wood | 2:08 |
2. | "John Henry" | Wood | 3:17 |
3. | "Travellin' Shoes" | Wood | 2:13 |
4. | "The Bold Soldier" | Wood | 1:53 |
5. | "Walie Walie" (Appalachian Folksong) | Alevizos | 2:02 |
6. | "Rejected Lover" (Spiritual) | Alevizos | 3:28 |
7. | "Astrapsen–The Sun Is Risen" (Traditional Greek) | Alevizos | 1:46 |
8. | "Lass from the Low Country" (North Carolina Folksong) | Alevizos | 3:11 |
9. | "Don't Weep After Me" (Trad. West Indian Folksong) | Baez–Wood–Alevizos | 2:49 |
Total length: | 23:11 |
References
- ^ Harkins, Thomas E. (August 15, 2019). Woodstock FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Fabled Garden. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9781493050802 – via Google Books.
- ^ The Best of Joan Baez at Discogs (list of releases)
- ^ "Joan Baez, Bill Wood, Ted Alevizos - Folksingers 'Round Harvard Square" – via www.discogs.com.
- ^ Starr, Larry; Waterman, Christopher Alan; Hodgson, Jay (August 30, 2009). Rock: A Canadian Perspective. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-542761-5 – via Google Books.
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- Joan Baez, Vol. 2
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- Farewell, Angelina
- Noël
- Joan
- Baptism: A Journey Through Our Time
- Any Day Now
- David's Album
- One Day at a Time
- Blessed Are...
- Come from the Shadows
- Where Are You Now, My Son?
- Gracias a la Vida: Joan Baez canta en español
- Diamonds & Rust
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- Play Me Backwards
- Gone from Danger
- Dark Chords on a Big Guitar
- Day after Tomorrow
- Whistle Down the Wind
- Sacco & Vanzetti
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- Portrait of Joan Baez
- The First 10 Years
- The Joan Baez Ballad Book
- Hits: Greatest and Others
- The Contemporary Ballad Book
- The Joan Baez Lovesong Album
- Best of Joan C. Baez
- The Joan Baez Country Music Album
- Joan Baez: Classics
- Rare, Live & Classic
- "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You"
- "Copper Kettle"
- "Diamonds & Rust"
- "Farewell, Angelina"
- "Forever Young"
- "Here's to You"
- "Honest Lullaby"
- "The House of the Rising Sun"
- "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue"
- "Joe Hill"
- "Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream"
- "Lily of the West"
- "Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word"
- "Mary Hamilton"
- "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down"
- "Reunion Hill"
- "Scarlet Tide"
- "Silver Dagger"
- "Speaking of Dreams"
- "Sweet Sir Galahad"
- "There but for Fortune"
- "We Shall Overcome"
- "What Have They Done to the Rain"
- Discography
- Albert Baez (father)
- Mimi Fariña (sister)
- David Harris (husband)
- Richard Fariña (brother-in-law)
- Joan Baez: I Am a Noise
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