“Three Songs by Leadbelly,” the only surviving performance film of Leadbelly, shot in 1945:
(This is the latest in a weekly series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Wednesday.)
Archives for January 13, 2010
TT: Almanac
“Words make you think thoughts. Music makes you feel a feeling. But a song makes you feel a thought.”
E.Y. “Yip” Harburg (quoted in Harold Meyerson and Ernie Harburg, Who Put the Rainbow in The Wizard of Oz?: Yip Harburg, Lyricist)