1941 JOSH WHITE Negro Rights JIM CROW SONG Army Uncle Sam Says Southern Exposure

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A series of great Folk, Hillbilly and Cowboy recordings:

Black Blues Pioneer Joshua White is best known for his Progressive and anti-segregation political songs was a cherished performer at the NY Café Society :

Joshua White sings Jim Crow songs on the Keynote record album Southern Exposure, recorded in 1941 great Blues/ Boogie w Guitar

Here in two JIM CROW SONGS in the US ARMY NAVY AIRFORCE


A Southern Exposure 
B Uncle Sam Says 


Manufactured By – Keynote Recordings, Inc.
Distributed By – Keynote Recordings, Inc.
Credits
Cover – Frye (2)
Vocals [Sung By] – Joshua White*
Written-By – White*, Cuney*

issued at the beginning of WWII by the commie friendly KEYNOTE label 10" electric 78 rpm record

Condition:

EXCELLENT MINUS/ VG++ only minor wear but very  scuffed, plays E- very quiet lightest hiss

A GREAT COPY

Uncle Sam Says 
Well, airplanes flyin' 'cross the land and sea
Everybody flyin' but a Negro like me
Uncle Sam says, "Your place is on the ground
When I fly my airplanes, don't want no Negro 'round"

[Verse 2]
The same thing for the Navy when ships goes to sea
All they got is a mess boy's job for me
Uncle Sam says, "Keep on your apron, son
You know I ain't gonna let you shoot my big Navy gun"

[Verse 3]
Got my long gov'ment letters, my time to go
When I got to the Army, found the same old Jim Crow
Uncle Sam says, "Two camps for black and white"
But when trouble starts, we'll all be in that same big fight

[Verse 4]
If you ask me, I think democracy is fine
I mean democracy without the color line
Uncle Sam says, "We'll live the American Way"
Let's get together and kill Jim Crow today



Joshua Daniel White (February 11, 1914–-September 5, 1969),[1] best known as Josh White, was a legendary American singer, guitarist, songwriter, actor, and civil rights activist. Today, he is widely remembered for his powerful and highly sensual stage presence, while some still remember that he almost single-handedly introduced Negro folk, blues, and gospel music to a world audience in the 1940s.

Few, however, are aware that White had suffered the most severe oppression growing up in the Jim Crow South, and despite these hardships would become in the 1920s and 1930s the youngest star of the "race records" era, with a prolific output of recordings in genres including Piedmont blues, country blues, gospel, and social protest songs, and billed in concert as "The Sensation of the South." In 1931, White moved to New York and within a decade his fame had spread widely, and his repertoire expanded to include urban blues, jazz, Tin Pan Alley, cabaret, folk songs from around the world, and hard-hitting political protest songs. When acquiring this broader audience he believed it was vitally important to improve his singing diction so that his story songs could be understood by the world masses, a fact that has dismayed some folk and blues purists who felt he should have stayed true to his roots as the rural country blues artist from South Carolina. His presentation and performance also became more polished and crafted for the main stage, and he soon was in demand as an actor on radio, Broadway, and film. However, his pioneering guitar playing never altered or diminished, while some would even argue it broadened with the expansion of his musical repertoire.

White also would become the closest African American friend and confidant to the president of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt. Ironically, however, White's anti-segregationist and international human rights political stance presented in many of his recordings and in his speeches at rallies resulted in the Right-Wing McCarthyites incorrectly assuming that he must have been a Communist.