JOAN BAEZ 1955-1956 HIGH SCHOOL CHOIR LP Redlands Calif
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Description
Redlands High School A Cappella Choir and Triple Trio -- Benefit For Muscular Dystrophy 1955-56 LP
Wilbur H. Schowalter, Conductor
Ardis Irvin, Accompanist
Original 1955 or 1956 US mono custom pressing issued by Century Record Co. (Burbank CA) (catalog # NONE, Western Electric Recording, red color vinyl, matrix # V-5976). Just the LP in a plain brown sleeve, no cover (this album almost certain was never issued with a cover.)This incredibly rare high school LP from 1955-1956 is the first record Joan Baez ever sang on, a custom-pressed recording of her high school choir in Redlands, California, during the 1955-56 school year. This record was most likely never available commercially, pressed in a limited edition with one copy going to each student.
There are no individual student credits listed, so Joan Baez's name is not printed on here, but she attended Redlands High School in 1955-56 (it was her last year there) and she sang in the choir. In her memoir she explains that she sang alto, soprano and even tenor in the choir. So although it does not explicitly say so, she must be one of the voices heard on this album.
In Joan's autobiography And A Voice To Sing With -- A Memoir, she writes about her days at Redlands High School and singing in the choir: "It was the sense of isolation, of being 'different', that initially led me to develop my voice. I was in the school choir and sang - alto, second soprano, soprano, and even tenor, depending on what was most needed. Mine was a plain, little girl's voice, sweet and true, but stringy as cheap cotton thread, and as thin and straight as the blue line on a piece of binder paper." (The full memoir can be read here: http://www.american-buddha.com/lit.voicesingwith1.htm )
Previously the first recorded appearance of Joan Baez was thought to be the 1959 Folksingers 'round Harvard Square custom pressing on Veritas Records. This much rarer high school album predates that record by 3 to 4 years.
Here is an mp3 of a song from this LP: "Lullay My Jesu"
CONDITION: / Vinyl VG to VG+ vinyl is in decent shape, with some light surface scratching and surface scuffing but no major scratches -- it plays decently with light surface noise you would expect with a 56-year-old custom pressing. Graded conservatively using Goldmine standards [G / G+ / VG / VG+ / NM / ]grade only used if record is brand new.
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