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Motherless Child: PP&M

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  2. Birgit's avatar Birgit Says:

    October 25, 2015 at 4:14 pm

    Just back from a 6 hour chorus rehearsal where we also sang a PPM song. The Ballad of Springhill originally by Peggy Seeger but our 4-part arrangement is close to the trio version. Great song and appropriate for the mining region where I live. For a change not in barbershop style and we basses sing the melody 🙂 I love it.
    Unbelievable how many people hadn’t ever heard of this trio.

    • katry's avatar katry Says:

      October 25, 2015 at 5:15 pm

      Birgit,
      I wonder how often PPM are played anywhere today. They were the reason I fell in love with folk music and began to go back to earlier singers like The Weavers. It is still my favorite genre.

      My Ghanaian students, now in their 60’s, sing Madame Ryan’s song and have since I left. Leaving on a Jet Plane was on the PPM cassette I had with me. That was the most remarkable thing when I first returned to Ghana.


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