A Night at Santa Rita
1969 · Flying Dutchman FDS-111 · USA
- Artist
- Rosko
- Title
- A Night at Santa Rita
- Release
- A Night at Santa Rita
- Year
- 1969
- Label
- Flying Dutchman # FDS-111
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Genre
- Spoken Word · Speech · Spoken Word
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Notes
A Night at Santa Rita ( Flying Dutchman # FDS-111), about the People's Park protest at the University of California in Berkeley in May 1969, from the perspective of the journalist Robert Scheer . Narrated by Rosko . Need to catalogue tracks. Part of Flying Dutchman series, along with Murder at Kent State University and Massacre at My Lai (1) (2) [From Justin A. Brummer notes from RYM]
About the artist
Spoken-word recordings written and produced by New York Post columnist Pete Hamill (born 24 June 1935, Brooklyn, New York; died 5 August 2020, Brooklyn), narrated by New York radio DJ William 'Rosko' Mercer, with jazz backing - including Massacre at My Lai (Flying Dutchman, 1969) and Murder at Kent State University (1970). [Source: Wikipedia; Discogs]