PASSING THROUGH
Created on 01/02/2024Latest update on 01/02/2024
Artist: Dick Blakeslee
Author: Dick Blakeslee
Label: home-cut disc/Bear Family
Year: 1948
English teacher from Chicago who'd sent his own composition to People's Songs in New Yolrk, where Pete Seeger picked it up on the spot. Released on Bear Family box set Songs For Political Action ('96).
Covers:
- 1956:
Pete Seeger [on Love Songs For Friends And Foes and in '58 with Sonny Terry]
- 1963:
Highwaymen [on Hootenanny With The Highwaymen]
- 1965:
- 1973:
Leonard Cohen [on Live Songs as Passing Thru]
