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The folk music revival was postponed
by almost 10 years by the witch hunt.
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I mean, when US Army publishes
pamphlets on how to spot a communist...
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that have lines in them like,
"He will sometimes play the guitar"...
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that kind of thing had a very...
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repressive and suppressive effect.
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The song Goodnight Irene
was all over the country.
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You couldn't escape that song...
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in the United States of America,
in the summer of 1950.
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Right then, the very moment that Irene
was at the top of the Top 40...
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a bunch of blacklisters
probably said to themselves:
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"How did we let these commie
so-and-so's slip through our fingers?"
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They started out to see that we were
blacklisted, and about two years later...
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instead of singing in the Waldorf-Astoria,
or Ciro's in Hollywood...
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we were singing in Daffy's Bar and Grill
on the outskirts of Cleveland...
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and decided to take a sabbatical.
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Lee says, it turned
into a Mond-ical and a Tuesd-ical.
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By the time McCarthy,
I think, started to wane...
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the folk music thing started to come up.
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I say it's in the interest of every human
being in the United States of America...
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to get some good senators
out of Mississippi for a change.
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And you can do it,
and you will do it soon, I know.
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I got him to go with
Pete and Theodore Bikel...
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as they were both going down to the South.