Happy Birthday to Moe!
Posted by Michael Eldridge on December 2, 2010
December 2d is the 105th birthday of Moses Asch, founder of Folkways records and the man responsible for bringing many top-notch calypsonians to the attention of American audiences on the Disc, Stinson, and Folkways labels from the mid-1940s through the early 60s. More in this post from last May and at Smithsonian Folkways, from whose site I nicked the above image.
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Helan Går Dey « Working for the Yankee Dollar said
[…] Happy Birthday to Moe! […]
The Real Sam Charters « Working for the Yankee Dollar said
[…] read that Charters happened upon Spence when, as a song collector and field recorder for Moe Asch‘s Folkways Records, he was traveling the Caribbean in search of local musical styles […]
Fidel Castro « Working for the Yankee Dollar said
[…] internationalist of long standing, Invader recorded “Fidel Castro” for an album on Moe Asch‘s New York-based Folkways label (Calypso Travels, FW 8733) that also included denunciations […]
Ivan Chermayeff « Working for the Yankee Dollar said
[…] the Rinzler houses the Moses and Frances Asch Collection, and Invader cut dozens of sides for Moe Asch between 1945 (when he came to the States to pursue a copyright claim to “Rum and Coca […]