When Folk Music Mattered: The Seekers “I’ll Never Find Another You”
Found this great old Youtube video of the Seekers performing the lovely tune “I’ll Never Find Another You.” Remember when you could understand the lyrics in pop music? Let’s drink a toast to the days when folk music mattered and welcomed in Greenwich Village. Frankly, I know we’ll never find another Washington Square Park.
People — and places — are not replaceable, and thirty years after recording “I Know I’ll Never Find Another You,” The Seekers performed it live and for a bunch of white-haired folk, their live rendition deserves credit, even if the music doesn’t have that same youthful bounce. What a great group, and what a great song!
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A remarkable time capsule showing the Vilage, including our beloved Washington Square Park, back in 1960. This video was narrated by noted humorist, writer, and radio performer Jean Shepherd, who was soon to become a major voice of the counterculture.
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Barak Obama came to the park in September of 2007 and delivered a stirring speech to hundreds. While it was great to see our President-elect there, I wonder if he was even aware that this beloved historic park was soon to be destroyed and completely redesigned spending unnecessarily millions, in a time of economic hardship for the city, for a redesign ‘the people’ clearly did not want.
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