The Long March
1967 · Broadside BR 452 · USA
- Artist
- William Styron
- Title
- The Long March
- Release
- The Original Read-In for Peace in Vietnam
- Year
- 1967
- Label
- Broadside # BR 452
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Songwriter
- William Styron
- Genre
- Spoken Word · Spoken Word
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Lyrics
English: One thing was certain. They were in for a blow. Already there would be signals up and down the coast.
Notes
Broadside Records BR 452, also numbered Folkways Records FL 9752; "Recorded at Town Hall, New York", "Produced by the Committee of the Professions", "Chairman of the Evening: Stanley Kauffmann", "Edited by Rosalind Wells and Louis Menashe"; © 1967 by Broadside Records, 701 Seventh Ave., New York 10036; cover design by Ronald Clyne; "Recorded at Town Hall by John Sadler". The plain text-only front cover is matched by a black back with a white spine panel listing all 29 participants, and "Descriptive notes are inside pocket". The eight-page booklet gives the running order (Side One: Dr. Oscar Sachs, Stanley Kauffmann, Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, Alan Dugan, Alfred Kazin, Susan Sontag, Galway Kinnell, Viveca Lindfors, Denise Levertov, William Gibson, Jules Feiffer, Louis Untermeyer, William Styron, Maureen Stapleton; Side Two: Tony Randall, Hortense Calisher, Robert Lowell, Lenore Marshall…
About the artist
American novelist, born 11 June 1925 in Newport News, Virginia; died 1 November 2006 on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. [Source: Wikipedia]
Themes
From the release The Original Read-In for Peace in Vietnam