Re: [ARSCLIST] John Hammond discovered everybody, was Community Radio

[Cary Ginell <SoundThink@xxxxxxx>]

In a message dated 7/17/2006 5:26:43 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

John  Hammond was responsible for discovering Benny Goodman, Count Basie,  
Billie
Holiday, Robert Johnson, Bessie Smith, Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin,  Pete 
Seeger,
and Bruce Springsteen, among others.


You can make credible arguments about just about all of the above,  except 
Seeger, which is a really ludicrous statement. Seeger helped form the  Almanac 
Singers in the early '40s, some two decades before Hammond happened upon  him. 
Then he helped form the Weavers and had a whole other career in the early  
'50s before being snuffed out by the HUAC. So where was Hammond when Pete was  
blacklisted during the '50s???
 
Cary  Ginell
Origin Jazz  Library
www.originjazz.com