Joe Glazer - Welcome to America: Songs of American Immigrants - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Joe Glazer's musical efforts on behalf of workers and union struggles earned him the nickname InchLabor's Troubadour.Inch in 1970, he founded Collector Records, primarily to produce records supportive of the struggles of working men and women. In this 1981 recording before a live audience, Joe commemorates the centennial of the beginning of the mass migration of Jews from Russia to America. Combining narration and song (in Yiddish and English), he tells the story of these immigrants' experience in America, with an emphasis on the plight and struggles of immigrant workers. The songs range from Yiddish folk songs to union anthems to InchMene, Mene, TekelInch from the hit union musical of 1937, Pins and Needles. The liner notes provide information about each of the soundtracks.

Sung by labor educator Joe Glazer, this album features songs by union organizer Joe Hill. Although these songs are rooted in their time, their messages are still relevant today, and this collection is valuable to scholars and fans of labor music alike. Album Tracks 1. Joe Hill 2. We Will Sing One Song 3. Scissor Bill 4. Mr. Block 5. The Rebel Girl 6. The Preacher and the Slave (InchPie in the SkyInch) 7. There Is Power in a Union 8. Casey Jones (The Union Scab) 9. The Tramp 10. Joe Hill's Last Will

In this album's liner notes Sol Stetin, former president of the Textile Worker Union of America and co-founder of the American Labor Museum, writes Joe Glazer knows the feelings and aspirations of the textile workers. He has marched on their picket lines and sung in their union halls. With the songs and stories on this record, he reminds US of the unquenchable spirit and courage of the textile workers and their struggle to build a union which will give them a real voice on the job. Album Tracks 1. Let Them Wear Their Watches Fine 2. Factory Girl 3. Babies in the Mill 4. Weave Room Blues 5. On the Picket Line 6. We Live in the Company House 7. We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder 8. We Are Building a Strong Union 9. Hard Times in the Mill 10. Cotton Mill Colic 11. Shine on Me 12. I Ain't No Stranger Now 13. Humblin' Back 14. Give Me That Textile Workers Union 15. The Mill Was Made of Marble 16. Solidarity Forever