WNEW Radio News ?A Child Again LP rare hippie runaway samples sixties acid psych

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Original issue - Looks like it's never been played (near Mint) SINGLE sided record.

RECORD ONLY - NO jacket or inserts. RARE!

WNEW Radio News And Public Affairs Department ?– A Child, Again Label: WNEW ?– GRC-10885
Format: Vinyl, LP, Single Sided, Limited Edition
Country: US
Released: 1968
Genre: Non-Music, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Education, Field Recording, Folk, Interview

From the Jan. 13, 1968 issue of Billboard magazine:

"NEW YORK — WNEW, easy listening station here, is pressing 1,000 albums of a interview documentary program — "A Child Again" — for distribution to other radio stations. The show, an interview with a 19-year-old runaway girl turned hippie, was produced by Steve Young of the station's news department and was broadcast twice over the station."

This recording has been heavily sampled by My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult and Meat Beat Manifesto, among others.

 A presentation of the WNEW Radio News and Public Affairs Department. Broadcast on WNEW's Sunday News Closeup on November 12, 1967; rebroadcast on November 26, 1967 Written and Produced by Steve Young. "There has been much criticism of the electronic media, Radio and Television, for their lack of response to the needs of the public. Part of the assault is justified. Occasionally, however, there appears on the scene a radio program of such outstanding quality, all which has gone before pales by comparison. So it was with WNEW's Sunday New Closeup entitled, "A Child, Again", a half-hour long documentary which was tantamount to eavesdropping on a soul. The concept was really quite simple. WNEW reporter Steve Young, who had read the Newsweek article keyed to the hippie movement early in the Fall of 1967, spent dozens of hours scouring New York's "East Village" for any trace of a girl named "Marcy", who played a major part in the published study. He found her and several friends shortly after they'd been evicted from their "Crash Pad", hippie jargon for a place to live. Young took the youthful dropouts to his home and there recorded a shattering interview with 19 year old Marcy, a document which amounted to an indictment of middle class society and a subliminal attack on the hippie movement itself. Perhaps the most telling feature of the program was Marcy's end of a conversation with her mother and father at their home in Michigan... It was not necessary to hear the other end of the conversation. Marcy's stream of consciousness utterances were enough; bitter, tormented, devastating in their confused, drug-fogged sincerity."