Alfred Kazin

A Walker in the City

1967 · Broadside BR 452 · USA

A Walker in the City – Alfred Kazin (Sleeve (front))

Artist
Alfred Kazin
Title
A Walker in the City
Release
The Original Read-In for Peace in Vietnam
Year
1967
Label
Broadside # BR 452
Format
LP · Album
Language
English
Country
USA
Songwriter
Alfred Kazin
Genre
Spoken Word · Speech
Primary theme
Peace, Protest & Anti-War

Lyrics

English: All along the block children are sleeping on the fire escapes.

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 writer and critic, born 5 June 1915 in Brooklyn, New York; died 5 June 1998 in New York City. [Source: Wikipedia]

Themes

Anti-War

From the release The Original Read-In for Peace in Vietnam

In collections

Peace, Protest, & Anti-War Songs [War Years]