Tom Glazer

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WNYC archives id: 92537
Municipal archives id: RG 90.32

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George Hicks interviews syphilis patients
Drew Pearson expounds on syphilis facts
Tom Glazer sings syphilis jingles
Adam Clayton Powell delivers a syphilis ...

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"That Ignorant, Ignorant Cowboy": A commercially-released song about a man who got syphilis but didn't realize it and thus never got cured.

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"Crossroads Ballad" is a story, told mostly in song, of Jim Stark, a World War II veteran who returned from the war, got a job, ...

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"A Story of Our Town" is about a woman (Marge) who leaves her husband (Jim) because of his drinking. Marge goes to see her mother ...

"A Story of Our Town", featuring Tom Glazer, is about a woman (Marge) who leaves her husband (Jim) because of his drinking. It includes the song "Ignorant cowboy". In the story,...

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Hosted by George Ward. Tom Glazer sings American folk songs:

Sixteen come Sunday
Mo Mary (On the hillside by the sheiling)
Duncan and Brady
I ...