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Sunday, May 23, 2021

DESERT ISLAND DISCS choice

Paul Robeson - Joe Hill



but then I do like the tempo and arrangement of this version from Joanie*!


* my mother's name was Joan and she detested with a childhood fury to be called 'Joanie' so as a consequence her brother called her little else. I tried it once, she chased me down the garden path with a broom! As it was her parents who taught me this song and regularly played it on the phonogram (look it up!) I deducted this to them and to her

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