Mordecai Bauman (1912–2007) and the Manhattan Chorus, conducted by Elie Siegmeister (1909–1991)
Russell T. Limbach (1904–1971), artist
“We Shall Not Be Moved” / “On the Picket Line”
Timely Records, Inc., 1937
Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
“We Shall Not Be Moved” / “On the Picket Line”
In 1935 Leo Waldman, an insurance salesman, founded the Timely Records label and launched it with two three-record albums. The first album contained Communist songs and the second, labor songs. All the recordings featured the singing of the renowned baritone Mordecai Bauman, along with notably detailed label illustrations. The artwork for “We Shall Not Be Moved” by the lithographer Russell T. Limbach is among the most elaborate of these, and it demonstrates the capacity of sound recordings to disseminate visual, as well as aural, art. Only a small number of the albums were distributed, making this record relatively rare, and the Library is the only known institution to own a copy.
: Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, The New York Public Library…
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