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Folk
JOURNEY THROUGH 400 FOLK SONGS
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Folk
Folk is the expression of popular music as performed in all regions and each era without the aid of enhanced instruments and media. Styles are as diverse as the underlying local cultures and compositions include both traditional themes and songs by identified authors. North American singer-songwriters are emblematic of the international folk scene of the 1950-70 period. They include Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel, Leonard Cohen, Neil Young and many others.
10 peculiar folk themes from the 60s
When he delivers a song that later becomes popular, the singer-songwriter is just its creator and first performer. He has no control over how others will fix it and the song's later life is quite another story. The secondary fate experienced by each of the ten folk themes below is instructive in this regard:
- 1957 ∙ La foule (Edith Piaf Fr)
- 1960 ∙ Where have all the flowers gone (Pete Seeger)
- 1961 ∙ She moves through the fair (Carolyn Hester)
- 1961 ∙ The lion sleeps tonight (the Tokens)
- 1964 ∙ House of the rising sun (the Animals UK)
- 1966 ∙ Hey Joe (Jimi Hendrix)
- 1967 ∙ Without her (Harry Nilsson)
- 1967 ∙ Suzanne (Leonard Cohen, Can)
- 1968 ∙ Those were the days (Mary Hopkin UK)
- 1969 ∙ Streets of London (Ralph McTell, UK)
