Mercury Records Collection: MG-20917: Alone With Ronnie Gilbert

MG-20917: Alone With Ronnie Gilbert

Label Type :	white Mercury promotional type C (VENDOR, two dots)
Matrix Number :	SIDE-A	MG 20917A M1 RR RI
	SIDE-B	MG 60917B M1 RR II

Comments

Equivalent release: Mercury SR-60917 (stereo).

promotional copy (for broadcast) with white Mercury label.

Inside The Groove

A great and spiritual folk singing by one of the legendary members of the Weavers!

Personal Impression (and brief notes)

The Weavers - Pete Seeger, Fred Hellerman, Lee Hays and Ronnie Gilbert. They were definitely the greatest folk group until they disbanded in December 1963. They left many impacts and influences among the music scene around the world.

Ronnie Gilbert alone left this fine album in 1964. With the help of a guitarist Sam Brown, who did musical directing and arrangements, Ronnie Gilbert chose a fine series of folk songs as well as topical songs written/adapted by Phil Ochs, Pete Seeger and Bob Dylan. She also sang several classic tunes, such as “My Favorite Things” by Rodgers - Hammerstein.

The above fact doesn't mean this LP is a boring and ordinary kind. Actually her singing heard here is awesome. Not only she is so good at singing beautifully, but also her beautiful and talented singing (with solemn and tensed atmosphere) gives rise to our spiritual feelings. Many of us must be moved by her great singing I believe.

A great folk album recorded in the middle 1960s.

Strictly Personal Rating (to what extent I could enjoy this album)

9 out of 10

Track Listing

SIDE-A
A-1	1-31905	What's That I Hear (Phil Ochs)	1:58
A-2	1-31908	Holler (as adapted by Pete Seeger)	2:18
A-3	1-31909	Every Night When The Sun Goes Down (arranged and adapted by Ronnie Gilbert)	3:40
A-4	1-31907	Masters Of War (Bob Dylan)	4:15
A-5	1-31911	Boring Day (Fred Hellerman - Fran Minkoff)	3:24
SIDE-B
B-1	1-31902	Power And Glory (Phil Ochs)	2:07
B-2	1-31910	Long About Now (Fred Hellerman - Fran Minkoff)	2:40
B-3	1-31903	My Favorite Things (Richard Rodgers - Oscar Hammerstein II)	3:10
B-4	1-31912	Turn! Turn! Turn! (Pete Seeger)	2:45
B-5	1-31906	The Honey Wind Blows (Fred Hellerman - Fran Minkoff)	4:27

Personnel

Personnel/recorded date/master numbers confirmed with the Ruppli's discography.
(“The Mercury Labels - A Discography” by Ruppli and Novitsky, Greenwood Press, 1993)

Ronnie Gilbert (vo) with:
Sam Brown (g, arr, dir), Lou Misciagna (g), Ernie Calabria (g),
Eric Weissberg (banjo), Bill Lee (b), Maurice Monk (ds).
Recorded maybe in April 1964.

Produced by Al Gorgoni.
Engineer: Bill Schwartau.