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Various Artists
Brother Can You Spare a Dime?
Genres: Country, Folk, Special Interest, Pop

Track Listings (16) - Disc #1
1. Brother, Can You Spare A Dime? - Bing Crosby
2. The Boulevard Of Broken Dreams - Deane Janis
3. Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries - Rudy Vallee And His Connecticut Yankees
4. In The Still Of The Night - Glen Gray And The Casa Loma Orchestra
5. Love Walked In - Shirley Temple
6. On The Good Ship Lollypop - Shirley Temple
7. Unemployment Stomp - Big Bill Broonzy
8. The Gold Diggers' Song (We're In The Money) - Dick Powell
9. All In Down And Out Blues - Uncle Dave Macon
10. Fifteen Miles From Birmingham - The Delmore Brothers
11. The Coal Loading Machine - The Evening Breezes Sextet
12. NRA Blues - Bill Cox
13. I Ain't Got No Home In This World Anymore - Woody Guthrie
14. The Death Of Mother Jones - Gene Autry
15. All I Want - The Almanac Singers/Pete Seeger
16. The White Cliffs Of Dover - Glenn Miller And His Orchestra

CD Details

All Artists: Various Artists
Title: Brother Can You Spare a Dime?
Members Wishing: 2
Total Copies: 0
Label: New World Records
Release Date: 9/25/2001
Album Type: Original recording reissued
Genres: Country, Folk, Special Interest, Pop
Styles: Classic Country, Traditional Folk, Nostalgia, Oldies, Vocal Pop
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 093228027027

Synopsis

Album Description

A much-requested CD reissue from the original New World LP! American society was much less homogeneous during the Great Depression (1929-1941) than it became after World War II. There were still quite sharply defined classes, divided along economic, geographic, and ethnic lines. Each group was affected by the Depression, but in different ways and to different degrees. Each had its own tradition of popular song, and this carefully compiled sampling of recordings from the thirties gives a vivid picture of how each fared and how it reacted to the almost universal adversity of that decade. Included is a 36-page booklet with a lengthy essay on the Great Depression and copious notes on each recording by noted American music scholar Charles Hamm. Sixteen tracks.

CD Reviews

Original recordings that made and are history

F. Behrens | Keene, NH USA | 11/08/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"In the Golden Days of the esoteric LP, the New World label concentrated on American music. Among its best sellers was a single LP titled "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime: American Song During the Great Depression." Most happily, it is again available on CD (80270-2). Using only original recordings of the era, the producers have included 16 numbers. Most of them, naturally, lean towards the pessimistic: the title song, "The Boulevard of Broken Dreams," "All in Down and Out Blues," and "The Coal Loading Machine." Just as naturally, there are songs of either ignoring reality ("We're in the Money," "On the Good Ship Lollypop," "Love Walked In") or hoping for better times around the corner ("The White Cliffs of Dover"). Among the singers, we have Bing Crosby, Deane Janis, Kenny Baker, Dick Powell, and Woody Guthrie. Never mind the fact that educators should pounce on this CD as living history. Perhaps the hopes and fears expressed in these echoes from the past will help us get through our own traumas. (...) Grab this one and soon."