Subject: Oct. 31 98 FOLK PLUS-final Reply-to: folkdj@catskill.net CC: folkdj@catskill.net Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.54) X-Mozilla-Status: 8001 WJFF is hydro-powered Public Radio from Jeffersonville, New York. On Thursday October 29th John Glenn headed off again to space. The night before, PBS aired a special calling him a hero. Garnet Rogers mentoned Phil Ochs as an early hero. Chuck Brodsky names Richie Allen in concerts; Steve Tilston names Tom Paine. All week I asked people to name their hero, most had trouble. Some, often school-aged children, cite famous people as heroes, and use that as the only qualifier to be deemed a hero. Here are some famouse people, heroes? Or just famous? First to the astronauts 1. Moxy Fruvous (Cut) You Will Go To the Moon (CD) You Will Go To the Moon - Bottom Line Records 2. Elton John Rocket Man Dick James Music Inc. (an old 45!) 3. Hugh Blumenfeld Shoot The Moon Rocket Science - Prime CD Peacekeepers 4. Don Henry - Beautiful Fool Wild In The Backyard - Sony Music Martin Luther King 5. James Keelaghan - Never Gonna Stop This Train Recent Future - Green Linnet More freedom fighters At "myhero.com" Michael Crighton sights a naturalist (George Schaller) as his hero. I have no song for Schaller, but Magpie has this for Carlson. 6. Magpie - Rachel (Carlson) Seed On The Prarie - Long Tail Records "we didn't want to listen" 7. Indigo Girls - Galileo Rites of Passage - Sony Music Ent. The church didn't want to listen to his truth either 8. Jennifer Warnes - Joan of Arc Famous Blue Raincoat - Private Music Inc. France's heroine, sainted in 1920 9. Hugh Blumenfeld - Mozart's Money Mozart's Money - prime cd "most of my heroes never made a lot of money and thats what I keep telling myself" 10. Ellis Paul - She Wasn't Listening Live from O.C.C.College's Mansion House On Vincent Van Gogh 11. Susan Werner - Vincent Time Between Trains - Bottom Line Records "they did not listen they did not know how" 12. Diane Ziegler - You Will Get Your Due Sting of the Honey Bee - Philo Many become famous after they have died. 13. Chenille Sisters - Is It True Albert? (Einstein) Mama, I want to Make Rythym Do Some not share the source of their fame? 14. Dick Gaughan - Thomas Muir of Huntershill Redwood Cathedral - Appleseed folkradical@aol.com "when you vote in an election when you freely voice your thought, don't take these things for granted for dearly were they bought" (It is election week) 15. Kim & Reggie Harris - No more Auction Block For Me Steal Away - Appleseed folkradical@aol.com Some express heroic qualities in everday survival. 16. Chenille Sisters - Hay Una Mujer At Home With the Chenille Sisters - Red House Rec. We know where Pinochet is, where are these women? 17. Steve Tilston & Maggie Boyle - Here's to Tom Paine All Under the Sun - Flying Fish "raise a glass to an unsung hero" Do we know just too much about people now to find someone with truly heroic qualities? Do we not know enough about people? 18. Modabo - Hold Tight Modabo - modabo@nbnet.nb.ca King Edward leaves a throne for the true love of Wallace Simpson. Heroic? Foolish? (Should Charles listen to this tune?) 19. Susan Graham White - Not Afraid To Fly Not Afraid to Fly - Blix St Records Amelia Earhardt 20. Anne Feeney - I Married A Hero Look To the Left - unionmaid@msn.com And who raises a glass for the family a hero leaves. Are they heroes. 21. John Gorka - Semper Fi Jack's Crows - High St. Records "My father met Eleanor Roosevelt" 22. Frank Tedesso - LBJ at the matinee Songs From Einstein's Violin - Imaginary Rd Records 23. Chuck Brodsky - Victor Jara Letters in the Dirt - Red House He defied the general's orders by not singing their refrain Teachers: 24. David Massengill - Rats and Bats and Spring Water Twilight The Taj Mahal - Plump Records 25. David Roth - Thank You Mr. Ryan Diggin Through My Closet - Folk Era On the influence a teacher can have. David's first LP was half an LP, with this singer on the other: 26. Josh Joffen - Crazy Horse Josh Joffen/David Roth - On the carving of the mountain in his image: It will "stand as a reminder to the spirit of a man" 27. Catie Curtis - Heroes Catie Curtis - Guardian "Heroes, I don't know any" ****************************************************** AND ANNOUNCING - The birth of the Angela's Cassette Chain Club. This show and others that follow will be given out at the shows of Christine Lavin to an audience member who will listen and pass it on. A web site is being created for the playlists and for people to sign in when they recieve the cassette. So the music will be heard wherever Christine is booked.. and further. Check out http://www.wjffradio/FolkPlus for more details ******************************************************************* Angela Page Host of "Folk Plus" on Public Radio WJFF 90.5 fm Saturdays 11 - 1pm, following Car Talk Hydro-powered, Volunteer run, Public Radio P.O.Box 797 Jeffersonville, New York 12748 914 482-4141 folkdj@catskill.net I prefer mailings to where I do the listening: 45 Dwyer Ave Liberty, New York 12754