Re: Richard Farina/Carolyn Hester

[music <music...>]

I'm not sure on what basis Trudi avers what follows, but:  1) Joan Baez was
not Jewish, and 2) Joan did not learn Donna Donna from Carolyn Hester--at
least, not from anything I was told.   I think I know exactly whence she
learned it--specifically, from Tony Saletan in the Boston area.

I'm not sure on what basis Trudi writes that Joan lifted a lot from Carolyn
Hester, either--or even how Trudi knows that they had much contact at all,
though that may be so.  (But is it--or was it?)  Joan did lift a lot from
Debbie Green, but that's a who she to those not familiar with the Cambridge
folk revival scene.

Also, Joan's father was a scientist, but I'm quite sure he never won a
Nobel Prize.

--Robert Cohen (who met him--though I didn't ask him ...)


 -------- Original Message --------
   Subject: Re: Richard Farina/Carolyn Hester
   From: "Trudi Goodman" <goobietheg (at) hotmail(dot)com>
   Date: Mon, May 5, 2003 3:45 pm
   To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>

   Joan Baez's dad was Mexicano.  However, Baez is sometimes a Sephard
   name. There was a Nobel Winning Scientist with that last name, who was
   Jewish..and also Sephard and Latino.As for Farina...he learned La Rosa
   from Carolyn Hester...the same place by the way that Joanie learned
   Donna Donna from. As a matter of fact, Joan lifted alot of material
   wholecloth from Carolyn Hester...especially the Childe Harold ballads.
   So I'd thank Carolyn Hester for being so charitable.Trudi



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