Re: [IRCA] WHKP-1450 and their Commie music format

[Kr01a@xxxxxxx]

Don't know about their politics but did (and still do) enjoy their  music.  
Had
just moved from TX to NYC and was living in a hotel on 46th Street in  '60.
A group of us used to go to the village fairly regularly after work.   They 
often
played in a "coffeehouse" near Washington Square.  If my memory is  correct,
that's where they actually started to play as a group somewhere around  '61
or so.  Sometimes the nights ended up as mornings (g)  I was in  my early
30's back then, lots of good memories.  I'm going to have to look for  
WHKP...
 
73, Mac, kr0i  
 
 
In a message dated 7/8/2010 12:10:57 A.M. Central Daylight Time,  
amdxmail@xxxxxxx writes:



Dunno about Peter, Paul and Mary, but "If I Had a Hammer"'s  two writers 
were respectively a Communist and what the McCarthyites used to  call a 
"fellow traveler."

Pete Seeger joined the Young Communist League  (YCL) in 1937, and the 
Communist Party of the USA (CPUSA) in 1942.

Lee  Hays was a regular contributor to the Marxist periodical New Masses in 
the  1930's.  In a letter published in the January 11, 1938 issue, he  
describes himself as "a rank-and-file worker of a Soviet  America."

Steve Francis
Alcoa,  Tennessee





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