Woody Guthrie (Live July 7, 1944)
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- Опубліковано 4 чер 2011
- This rare segment of BBC Radio's Children's Hour features a brief interview with folk singer Woody Guthrie. He recorded "The Wabash Cannonball" and "900 Miles" for this broadcast.
Woody was a Merchant Marine, washing dishes on a Liberty Ship, the troop ship Sea Porpoise which carried troops to the Normandy beach in early July 1944. After the troops were sent ashore, the ship hit a mine but made its way back to England; Woody was routed through London toward Glasgow, Scotland, toward the United States. On a song manuscript dated "July 13th, 1944", Woody wrote, "this train is carrying me outside from London now; on up towards Belfast, and Glasgow."
While in London, he went to the offices of the BBC where he introduced himself as a member of The Martins and the Coys and was given the opportunity to sing on the Children's Hour. After an autobiographical statement, he was recorded singing with his guitar accompaniment two railroad songs.
I fell in love with Woody Guthrie’s music when I was 19 years old, with a head full of late ‘70s and early ‘80s punk and hardcore (The Clash, DOA, Black Flag, X, Iggy, Minutemen, etc.). It was immediately apparent that Woody was the forerunner to ALL of that stuff, and so much more.
Absolutely true. No amps, no mics, no mixers and a guitar not quite in tune, but still he gets across.
You just can't beat the roots of Americana and folk music. I'm so grateful technology was able to save relics such as these.
It was also during his time in the merchant Marine that he was working a ship delivering soldiers to the beaches of Normandy. At the time Black and White soldiers were strictly kept in separate parts of the ship. But he defied the rules so that some Black soldiers could play music with him, and held a concert for the troops. During that crossing of the Atlantic, several ships were hit by U-boats.
Uh hmm
You must read "OK, Joe" from Louis Guilloux, a french writer to confirm what's appened in 1944
It was during his time as a Merchant Marine that he confided in one of his shipmates that he thought that he was starting to succumb to Huntington's. It was not named as such back then. Woody told him about what happened to his mother, and thought that the same thing was starting to happen to him.
I am 22 years old and I absolutely love Woody! Not the most popular in my age group but I hope he will never be forgotten!
I'm 16 and I like him to
I am 75 and I like him.
I am 40 and I agree
I'm 61 and I love him. It's not that Woody that mustn't be forgotten, it's also those songs and what they stand for.
I don’t know about that! Lots of kids too wise for todays offerings have been digging Folk Music
A man, an old guitar, songs you will never forget. I don´t think WG knew how fantastic his songs were. I am a Dane and have been to the Midwest once...many years ago (Iowa and Minnesota) - and I see the farms and countryside when I listen to Woody´s songs. Thanks to the people who recorded him.
This music makes me think of my dearly departed grandfather. When I hear this music I smile and cry at the same time.
I've been listening to his music since I was 10 i'm now 19 and his music just NEVER gets old. I will play/sing his songs to my children so his genius continues to live on!
You still listening?! :)
@@1coopjsn Sure am! ;)
@@CaitlinGilliganMusic just turned 65 & 💘 Woody!!! ❄️❣️🌎❣️❄️
i love woody guthrie all my favorite music has roots in him. LOVE LIVE WOODY AND ROBERT JOHNSON
Woodie’s book ‘Bound for Glory’ is a truly great read
Hopefully one day someone will find some super8 or cinnifilm of woody playing. It's amazing how little there is of him on film.. Just shows who his audience was. Poor people who couldn't afford cameras..
I work as a dishwasher part time. By chance I listen to folk music while I wash (Woody included). I had no idea he served as a mess man as a merchant marine. Something about that makes me a bigger fan of his.
Thanks for posting! Glad to see some of our fine younger people finding about our folk heritage...and discovering the one and only Woody Guthrie. Because of you and UA-cam Woody will always find a new audience
thanks for uploading this clip, so raw!
this is so great. and so great to think that i was born exactly 60 years later. woody is one of my musical legends, up there at the top with pete seeger and fabrizio de andre
Woody Guthrie was truly a "Musical-Humanitarian"!
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Wonderful ! Many thanks for posting !!!
Awesome to hear woody's voice.
being a 21 yr girl i have fallen in love with this man and his music.
And the love still endures I’m certain
This is amazing. Thank you.
Thank you for sharing this.
and once more 900 miles brings goose bumbs woody really sings with emotion
Those steam train whistles were quite impressionable, had a lonesome sound. Lots of percussion and bells too.
Great song writer.... Love listening to Woody's tunes..
I named my son after Woody ❤
It's years later and maybe some day we will understand Woody Guthrie, but for now he is music history. RIP Woody, You have made your mark.
How in the world did you locate this piece of history? an absolute classic if ever I heard one. next, somebody will find a Pete Seeger bit from Sesame Street. I only wish somebody would. I heard him appear on the show when it was brand new and I was a wide-eyed kid. I'd heard Seeger on a record before that-my sister had one I remember, and my uncle had about everything the Weavers ever did.
listening to him makes me smile I wish I could of meet my cuosin
Yes Angel, Woody is timeless
Unique SURPRISE performance on UK BBC of Woody in a children program… 1944….. Somebody kept it safe ❣️🎶🌷🌞💃🕺👌💫🌹🌺
A Legend.
Excellent Voice
wow woody really lived the life id love to live
Beautiful
This spawned so much of the good music you hear now
woody guthrie's speaking voice is exactly the same as his singing voice, exactly the opposite of bob dylan
You need to get your hearing checked. Bob Dylan is cut from the same cloth, as Woody Guthrie.🙄
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The opposite of Dylan is Michael Jackson 😉
Bob was made fun of in Greenwich Village for speaking like Woody in everyday conversations.
@@rinalore What do mean by this? Totally different backgrounds.
Namaskar, Thank you , BNK
Happy Birthday Woody Guthrie ❤️
That BBC chick ain't never before met someone who washes dishes!
At least she's giving Woody some exposure. He did get much of that in the States until Dylan brought him out of obscurity in the early 60s. When was Woody's first mainstream broadcast in the US?
classic---- tape--- love it H Leventhal
fantastic ' thank you ' the b.b.c. for not erasing it ! it is a pity you ' the b.b.c. erased the 1965 teletape of the ' bob dylan show ' parts one / parts two ' ' not to mention the 1961 ' teleplay / tape ' mad house on castle street ' bob dylan played a small part in this play ' he sang ' " the swan on the river "' lost for ever !!!!!!!!!!!thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Makes you proud to be an American. He represents one of America's great gifts to the world!
YES !!
Hurrah for Woody !!!
Woody is a hero of mine.
back in the early 50s the cannon ball went through forest park in st.louis,,i remember standing on a foot bridge as it passed under my feet,,funny the things you remember at 65
because people my age don't listen to woody, well very few... why does me saying I'm 21 bother you that much at least i know good music when i hear it.
WOW, this is GOLD !
A recording from during the big war, WOODY taking time to record, excellent and so beautiful !
And his country labeled him a communist ?
(McCarthy tried to jail him like they did Pete Seeger)
@oldschoolpunkchris1 He lived such an amazing life. If you're interested, I would recommend Woody's autobiography entitled "Bound For Glory." It's a very good read for both the historical and music perspective.
he was the real deal
Make tears come to my eyes. God bless Woody. I know what he went through at Greystone...a crime !
Today is Woody's 110th.
This just shows how old it is. They said there was only 48 states and just some of the words they use.
I used 2 warsh dishes in the Army, tho in the '60's It was sort of semi automatic. It reminded me of the history of the country: George Washing Ton.
@OptimismBlues2010 check out Woody, Cisco and Me by Jim Longhi, which recounts the colorful exploits of Woody and his friends in the merchant marine. A great blue-collar classic!
Giant.
Wabwash cannonball as sung by W.Guthrie 1944
I stood on the wild Atlantic and the broad pacific shore
saw the queen of the flowery mountains ,south belle by the door
shes long tall and handsome and loved by one and all
and a modern combination called the Wabash cannonball
listen to the jingle, and the rumble and the roar
As she comes around the woodland, lakes and by the shore
hear that mighty rushing engine, hear that lonesome hobo squall
shes rolling through the jungle on that Wabash cannonball.
well She rolled down to Memphis on a cold December day
when she pulled into the station you could hear the people say
There's a gal from Birmingham, She's long and she's tall
Just rolled down to Memphis on the Wabash cannonball.
well, the Eastern states are dandy, so the Western people say
from New York to Saint Louis, Chicago by the way
To the lakes of Minnesota where the rippling waters fall
and we find them by no other than the Wabash Cannonball.
Oh, here's to daddy Caxton let his name stand
hes honored and respected all over Dixie land
For his earthly race is over and the curtain 'round him fall
well ship him back to glory on that Wabash Cannonball.
so listen to the jingle, and the rumble and the roar
As she comes around the woodland, lakes and by the shore
hear that mighty rushing engine, hear that lonesome hobo squall
shes rolling through the jungle on that Wabash cannonball.
Ciaran H Thank you for text🌺🌻🌺
What does Wabash cannonball mean? I’m Dutch...
@@0otee Name of a Railroad train.
"You can either go to the church of your choice
Or you can go to Brooklyn State Hospital
You'll find God in the church of your choice
You'll find Woody Guthrie in Brooklyn State Hospital
And though it's only my opinion
I may be right or wrong
You'll find them both
In the Grand Canyon
At sundown."
No gods and precious few heroes but Woody might have been one.
Godblessyou
A rare interview...
Great stuff...woody came a generation too soon...had he come later he would have surpassed Dylan
dylan is guthrie possessed he was there when he passed and woody became part of him
@@morriskiihnl6826 Dylan’s career was already well underway by the time Woody died in ‘67.
I was bórrrn in Oklahoma...🌹❤️🌺
@OptimismBlues2010 i was washing dishes last night singing this in my head haha
SHe's the wabbash cannonball, I'd suggest you to listen to the Scott h biram version, he's a big Guthrie fan.
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I here his son's (Arlo) voice when Woody speaks. Never realized they sounded so much alike. Love them both and their music.
The Ads at the start of this video are odd. Why did the guy with the gun make a point that a female police officer put him in cuffs?
Certainly agree that it's a good book. Wouldn't want to live it though. It gives an insight into his songs definitely.
That was called standard BBC enunciation and was compulsory for British broadcasters in those days as it was believed to be readily understandable. People did elocution lessons to learn to speak that, if they wanted to work in radio or go on the stage. These days you have to have a regional accent to work at the Beeb.
Now you also have to be a minority!
@@gregdaweson4657 Empire is gone
@@SandfordSmythe yes it is, we should have let the germs win.
please listen to what he says and act on it.
@RT66TBIRD she was not being snobbish at all she is posh and well spoken and very polite and there are many people like this who have a genuine interest in other people and made some excellent prograammes, snobbery is looking down on people think tony blair, and women like this give me the horn
I agree and the laughter is not at Woody but just ordinary nervous empathetic laughter.
A major inspiration for Bob Dylan
I love the snobbish Brit woman chuckling at Woody's comments. Probably exactly the kind of person that Woody despised. I love the chuckle after he mentions picking up nickels singing in the saloons-I guess this is some children's radio show. I can just picture Woody walking into the studio, unshaven, with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth with "This Machine Kills Facsists" on his guitar. Thanks for finding this.
She is not being snobbish. Yes, she's posh but she is trying to present Woody sympathetically to British children. The chuckles are nervous laughter, not sneering. Woody wouldn't have despised that.
i love it... woody created timeless music...900 miles is a great song. i just hate when i see people cover this song and add all these unnecessary complicated tid-bits. its annoying and many of these "virtuoso's" do not possess the talent to take such a song to the technical depths they are trying for. REmember folks, any idiot can get complicated. It takes a genius to understand simplicity.
Even Woody called _Bound for Glory_ "autobiographical fiction." If you really want to know the details of Woody's life, read _Ramblin' Man_ by Ed Cray or _Woody, Cisco, and Me_ by Jimmy Longhi.
guess that makes you an old soul Sara! Tell you friends and make sure you do some picking too....
pikkn up nickels
I guess that's just because;
I'm mean in the East, mean in the West,
Mean to the people that I like the best.
I go around a-causin' lot of accidents,
And I push folks down, and I cause train wrecks.
I'm a big disaster -- just goin' somewhere's to happen.
I'm an organized famine -- studyin' now I can be a little bit meaner.
I'm still a whole lot too good to suit myself -- just mean...
Wonder what English people made of this music
The presenter sounded very uncomfortable.
we love it brother,,,,,
A lot of English people probably have a deeper understanding of the history of many kinds of American music than many Americans do. It took British people, mainly like the Rolling Stones in bands, to give many white Americans an appreciation of the blues and soul music, for example. Likewise it was in Britain and other parts of Europe that rockabilly music, beyond the hits, was discovered and celebrated.
oooooooh very dangerous letting the children hear Woody, might get all sorts of ideas...
"Snobbish Brit woman" - in fact, you're probably the sort of person Woody despised.
Great upload.
Yes, she isn't being snobbish. She's trying to present him sympathetically to children, some of whom might have grown up onto Woody's message.
She's like: Ah ha ( this backwards country bum) tell us Woodie uhh go ahead Woodie entertain us!
That's bull. She's trying to present Woody sympathetically to children. The laughter is empathetic nervous laughter. And it's Woody if you're familiar with his life and work; not Woodie.