Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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The Story of Jazz (narrated by Langston Hughes; Folkways). A neatly telescoped chronicle of the U.S.'s greatest native art form from Basin Street to Birdland. Using segments of historic recordings, Narrator Hughes gets thumping, jumping assistance from Bix Beiderbecke, Louis Armstrong, Bunk Johnson et al. Folkways also offers...
Burl Ives Sings "Little White Duck" and Other Children's Favorites (Columbia). Big Daddy thrums his guitar and sings Mr. Froggie Went A-Courtin', The Grey Goose, and the rest, with a voice that is clear as a mountain stream and cozy as sitting by the fire. In...
Song and Play Time with Pete Seeger (Folkways). Only a tossed coin could choose between Burl Ives and Pete Seeger in folk-song appeal. Purists may find Seeger's numbers a shade more authentic or the twang of his guitar a trifle more personable.
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Stories of Mark Twain (Walter Brennan, Brandon de Wilde; Caedmon). Richly furrowed and pecan-sweet, Actor Brennan's voice is perfectly flavored for Twain's famed saga of a betting man, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County." Ex-Child Actor de Wilde, 18, does equally well by...