Date:         Wed, 19 Jul 2006 10:36:12 -0700
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From:         Roger and Allison Kulp <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:      Re: John Hammond discovered everybody, was  Community Radio
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This is very similar to the sort of nonsense espoused by "Michael Savage",an admiited McCarthyite! Only he really means it !
  Roger Kulp

steven c <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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From: "Cary Ginell" 
> I wouldn't say he was happy at all. Pete was not making much money
because
> of the blacklist. According to Seeger's biography, Asch kept the Seegers
> eating throughout the fifties by paying him a fixed weekly sum that
started at $25
> "in lieu of royalties." And Asch kept Pete working. By 1955 he had made 29
> albums for Folkways. He testified before the HUAC in August of 1955 and if
it
> wasn't for the Folkways recordings, he would not have had any income.
>
At which point, Senator Joe McCarthy (had he not been discredited and well
on the way to drinking himself to death) probably would have suggested a
nuclear attack on Folkways...

Steven C. Barr


 		
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