Antedating of "Folkie"

[Dan Goncharoff]

I just think it is wrong -- it ignores Pete Seeger.

DanG


On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 7:33 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> > have not produced one composer the equal of George Gershwin
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> Isn't that like saying "opera has not produced one librettist equal to
> Tolstoy."
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> On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 4:26 PM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu
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> > folkie (OED 1966)
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> > 1964 _N.Y. Times_ 29 Nov. X23 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)  The
> > folkies=
> >  ... have not produced one composer the equal of George Gershwin, Cole
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> > er, Harold Arlen.
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> > [NOTE:  This article is quoting earlier usage in an article by Gene Lees
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> >  the November or December 1964 issue of HiFi / Stereo Review.]
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> > Fred Shapiro
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