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  • From: bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
  • To: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] The power of a voice - Odetta
  • Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 10:45:16 -0800 (PST)

The reason I asked is because I might 'know' her songs , just not her name.
I read about her in the NYT and other papers that she was a folk singer. I'm
familair with Woody Guthrie, Burl Ives, Pete Seeger, and many others. 'had
just never heard the bname "Odettea". I 'youtubed her, and according to the
number of youtubes, her biggest, or most popular song , must be her rendition
of "What A Friend We Have In Jesus" ?

It also said she was most popular in the fifties, though I am familiar with a
lot of fifties music, I was not yet born.................

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--- On Thu, 12/4/08, Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com> wrote:

> From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] The power of a voice - Odetta
> To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Thursday, December 4, 2008, 11:39 AM
> On Dec 4, 2008, at 11:10 AM, bob ford wrote:
>
> > What's a couple of her best known songs. I had
> never heard the woman's name until
> yesterday..............
>
> ..................................... which is to say you
> would likely not recognize the names of "her
> songs," because you were not interested in her various
> genres.
>
> Google Odetta on Wikipedia and become enlightened of a
> great talent.







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