- Audio CD (Sep 21 1999)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Smithsonian Folkways
- ASIN: B00000K53Q
- Other Editions: Audio CD | Audio Cassette
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #227,868 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| 1. Miss Sue Just Joined The Union | |||
| 2. Family Reunion/Skip To My Lou | |||
| 3. Mabel, Mabel, Mabel | |||
| 4. Union Train/Train's A Comin' | |||
| 5. Hallelujah, We Are Traveling | |||
| 6. Keep Your Hands On The Plow | |||
| 7. The Farmer Feeds us All (The Farmer Is The Man) | |||
| 8. Let My People Go | |||
| 9. Going Down The Road Feeling Bad | |||
| 10. In Unity There Is Strength/Stickin' To The Union | |||
| 11. What's Your Trade | |||
| 12. Hammer, Hammer, Hammer | |||
| 13. A Singer Of Folk Songs | |||
| 14. If I Had A Hammer | |||
| 15. Union Meeting | |||
| 16. Speak Right Up | |||
| 17. The Picket Line | |||
| 18. Step By Step | |||
| 19. Making Music Together | |||
| 20. One Mail Bait | |||
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Product Description
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As the title indicates, this 27 song collection finds Ella Jenkins and a Union of Friends Pulling Together to have fun, pick and sing, and educate young children on the concept of unions. Broadly defined by Jenkins in the handsome liner booklet, the union is everything from a marriage to a group of like-minded friends to a pack of teamsters or a nation of states. Unity and cooperation, at the heart of all that is unionized, forms the core of this get-together of Jenkins, musician Bucky Halker, and a gathering of adult and child members of her Chicago-based church family. Many numbers come from America's vast folk catalog, such as Pete Seeger's single contribution, "If I Had a Hammer." Likewise, several songs are common children's songs, such as "One Meat Ball" and "Skip to My Lou." Accompanied by simple acoustic guitar and harmonica, the whole gang holds forth with song, story, and rhyming games, the latter for which Jenkins is particularly known. Excellent class source material, A Union of Friends is joyful, spontaneous, and encourages singing and playing right along. --Paige La Grone
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4.0 out of 5 stars
A unique children's recording.,
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This review is from: Ella Jenkins and a Union of Fr (Audio CD)
Ms. Jenkins and the musicians who join her for this recording have done a fine job introducing labor music and history to children. Labor music and history seems to be lost on the modern age and it is important that children know of the battles waged to stop the economic exploitation of children and all workers. Jenkins softens this message in a way that is especially effective for kids. The meaning of union thus becomes transformed into something larger than labor unions. Union becomes the joining of all humans in the struggle for a better world! Ms. Jenkins is joined by some exceptional Chicago-based musicians, including songwriter and guitarist Bucky Halker. Halker's guitar and vocals can be heard throughout the recording.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
A unique children's recording.,
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This review is from: Ella Jenkins and a Union of Fr (Audio CD)
Ms. Jenkins and the musicians who join her for this recording have done a fine job introducing labor music and history to children. Labor music and history seems to be lost on the modern age and it is important that children know of the battles waged to stop the economic exploitation of children and all workers. Jenkins softens this message in a way that is especially effective for kids. The meaning of union thus becomes transformed into something larger than labor unions. Union becomes the joining of all humans in the struggle for a better world! Ms. Jenkins is joined by some exceptional Chicago-based musicians, including songwriter and guitarist Bucky Halker. Halker's guitar and vocals can be heard throughout the recording.
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