Broadside Show, WBAI-FM, New York, NY, May 1962 (SOUND UPGRADE)

Shortly after I had seeded the May 1962 Broadside Show in its entirety (from my cassette copy) at http://www.hungercity.org/details.php?id=1681
I was graciously offered an upgrade from a fellow Hungercity citizen (who might want to remain anonymously)

His discs (he included an additional one with the "Songs Of Freedom" show from July 30, 1963) arrived this week -- upon listening, I realised that it is indeed an upgrade over my cassette copy (hardly any tape hiss) -- THANK YOU SO MUCH!

The speed variations on first track also exist on this upgrade and indeed seem to come from the Master reel-to-reel (as I had suspected). The CD is somewhat awkwardly tracked (4 tracks in total), the performance is a little faster in speed (which sounds more correct to my ears). All in all, I'd label the sound quality as A- (as opposed to B+ of my own copy)

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Israel "Izzy" Young (host), with Agnes "Sis" Cunningham, Pete Seeger, Gil Turner, Bob Dylan

Track list:
01 GIL TURNER: Benny Kid Paret
   Discussion
02 BOB DYLAN: Ballad Of Donald White
   Discussion
   PETE SEEGER: I Can See A New Day; Discussion
   Discussion; PETE SEEGER: Billy Sol (impromptu; fragment)
   Discussion
   GIL TURNER: The Shelter Song (?); Discussion
03 BOB DYLAN: The Death Of Emmett Till
   Discussion; PETE SEEGER: I Wanna Go To Andorra; Discussion
04 Discussion; BOB DYLAN: Blowin' In The Wind (with all others); Sign-Off by Izzy Young  


Lineage: pre-FM reel (this show was apparently never broadcast)->unknown (low) generation transfer(s)->CD-R (TAO)received
->EAC Rip (TAO gaps removed)->Flac Level 8 (align on sector boundaries)

Comments:
The three Dylan tracks from this (apparently never aired) radio show have been in circulation as far back as "Great White Wonder" -- most notably on "Broadside", Label: Gunsmoke Records GSR2.

The complete broadcast does not offer much more of Bob Dylan (except an "I don't know" to the question why more songs have been written about badmen than "good" men, or Dylan's admittance that he has never heard of the country of Andorra...).

Still, it's nice to see his contributions in context -- a radio show hosted by Israel "Izzy" Young, with Agnes "Sis" Cunningham, Pete Seeger, Gil Turner, and Bob Dylan, Interesting discussions about topical song throughout -- more on the similarities between Gil Turner's "Benny Kid Paret" and some Dylan songs from that period, the source of Dylan's "Ballad Of Donald White", etc. at http://www.bobdylanroots.com/emberl.html

Some more info:
Gil Turner (1933-1974)
Gil Turner, born Gilbert Strunk in Bridgeport, Connecticut, was an important figure associated with Broadside. An early member of the magazine's editorial board, he was responsible for bringing artists such as Bob Dylan, Bonnie Dobson, and Mark Spoelstra to the attention of Sis and Gordon Friesen. A member of the New World Singers, Turner helped arrange the initial Broadside Folkways LP. He was actively involved in civil rights marches in the South during the early 1960s and also composed the well-known anthem "Carry it On."
The first recording of Bob Dylan's Blowin' in the Wind was made by The New World Singers in 1962. Frequently, Dylan was not the first to record his own songs. (The New World Singers were also the first to record Dylan's "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright." The story goes that Dylan approached Gil Turner backstage at a New World Singers' performance with the words to Blowin' in the Wind, and asked if he could sing it for him. Turner was so impressed that he asked Dylan if he could take the song upstairs to the stage and perform it with the group, and he did (Cohen, Traum personal communication, 2000).
http://www.folkways.si.edu/projects_initiatives/broadside/artists/gil_turner.html