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Joe Glazer - Welcome to America: Songs of American Immigrants

Details

Format: CD
Catalog: 1952
Rel. Date: 05/30/2012
UPC: 093070195226

Welcome to America: Songs of American Immigrants
Artist: Joe Glazer
Format: CD
New: NOT IN STOCK IN OUR STORE, BUT AVAILABLE TO ORDER $19.98
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Formats and Editions

DISC: 1

1. America, America
2. No Irish Need Apply
3. Pat Works On The Railway
4. Kilkelly
5. When I First Came To This Land
6. Oleanna
7. Swede From North Dakota
8. Song Of The Golden Land
9. Mayn Yingele
10. The Raftsmen
11. I Lie In The American Land
12. Farm Worker's Song
13. Deportees (Plane Wreck At Los Gatos)
14. Welcome To America
15. We Shall Overcome

More Info:

Social historian and folksinger Joe Glazer here presents 15 songs reflecting the dreams, aspirations, and struggles of some of the immigrant groups that have come to America-Irish, Scandinavian, Jewish, Central European, and Mexican. Originally recorded and released on Glazer's label, Collector Records, the album includes songs written by Woody Guthrie and Oscar Brand as well as Glazer himself. This recording is one of 20 albums by Joe Glazer in the Smithsonian Folkways collection. The liner notes are from the original Collector Records cassette and contain brief information about each song.
        
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