The 37 tracks available here contain some of the group's favorite rounds, quodlibets and others. Many are in the collection, "Rounds Galore" by Sol "Roundman" Weber. OF SPECIAL INTEREST IS THE INTERVIEW WITH PETE SEEGER ON DISC 2, TRACK 1 - AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME AS A SEPARATE DIGITAL DOWNLOAD ITEM FOR ONLY $5.00 !
In the 20-minute interview Pete talks about and sings "Joy and Temperance," a round his family sang, sings rounds his father and his father's contemporaries composed, talks about the early days of The Weavers, and gives us the history of "Tzena, Tazena, Tzena, Tzena." Sometimes he sings a-cappella, and he also accompanies himself on his banjo.
It's a great interview, and as with all the tracks on this great 2-CD set, you can purchase individual tracks or buy them all together for the same price as the physical CD. With the MP3 files, there is NO SHIPPING involved and you get the music delivered directly to your home computer via the internet. These are individual MP3 tracks, available for purchase and download. To listen to a sample, click the headphone icon under the image to the left. To Buy an MP3:
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-------------------------------------------------------------------- Format: MP3 Files Year Released/Length: 2007 / 49:43(Disc 1) 51:40(Disc 2) Style/Genre: Folk/Rounds Voicing: Mixed quintet A cappella?: All except 3 songs
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Friends Come Around (John Hetland)
Cuckoo (trad., words modernized by Sol Weber)
Glass Houses (Anon.)
Should I? (Joanne Hammil)
Chickens (Anon. spoken round)
Kiwi Fruit (Anon.)
Autumn Tide (18th century, Dorian Mode)
The Chocoholic's Confession (Joelle Adlerblum)
Scotland's Burning (trad.)
Row, Row, Row (Jim Propp-Gubin)
O Lovely Spring (Roland de Lassus)
Together Again (John Krumm)
Karshi Barchina (Bulgarian)
Duct Tape Madrigal (Lou Nathanson)
Gibberish (Anon., spoken round)
Samba (Brazilian)
Listening (Jan Maier)
1,3,5,8 - Pedagogical Round (Bob Dorough)
Little Tommy Tinker (Anon.)
In the Bathtub (Joanne Hammil)
By the Waters of Babylon (from Psalm 137, William Billings)
Wedding Round (Alix Hermann, Evy Mayer)
To Charlie (Elliot Simon)
Winds of Change (John Krumm)
Swingin' Along (Anon.)
Disc Two: Interview with Pete Seeger
Joy and Temperance (Anon.)
Tzena, Tzena, Tzena, Tzena (Issachar Miron, Gordon Jenkins)
Dona Nobis Pacem (Give Us Peace) (Trad.)
Hymn to the Russian Earth/Can You Feel the Rhythm (Trad., Adele Rolider, arr. Sol Weber)
Perfect Light (Hayden, Sarah Williams)
Amazing Grace (Trad.)
Prisoners (German, new English translation by John Krumm)
Peace, Salaam, Shalom (Pat Humphries & Sandy O.)
Ribbon, Bell and Song (John Krumm)
Alleluia (orig. "Hashiveinu," Hebrew folk tune)
Dreams of Harmony (Joanne Hammil)
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