Read-In for Peace Statement
1967 · Broadside BR 452 · USA
- Artist
- Alan Dugan
- Title
- Read-In for Peace Statement
- Release
- The Original Read-In for Peace in Vietnam
- Year
- 1967
- Label
- Broadside # BR 452
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Songwriter
- Alan Dugan
- Genre
- Spoken Word · Speech
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Lyrics
English: What do a few crimes matter in a good life?
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 poet, born 12 February 1923 in Brooklyn, New York; died 3 September 2003 in Massachusetts. [Source: Wikipedia]
Themes
From the release The Original Read-In for Peace in Vietnam