Comments on: Little Songs on Big Subjects

By: Steve Cotler

Steve Cotler — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:57:25 +0000

You are absolutely correct in your remembrance. I have the MP3.

By: James Young

James Young — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 04:18:54 +0000

I’m pretty sure the line goes, “you can get good milk from a brown skin cow”

By: eleanor friedman

eleanor friedman — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 22:00:04 +0000

I’m so glad people remember them. I sang them all when they were published in People’s Songs (remember that?).

By: Judith Weiss

Judith Weiss — Sun, 01 May 2011 06:02:04 +0000

I was singing songs from the album tonight and found this website. My brother and I got it from a record club as the monthly offering. My mother took it to my third grade class in 1948, foreshadowing Brotherhood Week. I may have been the only Jewish student in the school. I recall being mortified. I think the song with the line, “You get white milk from a brown skinned cow; the color of your skin doesn’t matter no how,” would be seen as politically incorrect today, though well-meaning. I am happy to know I can hear it again some sixty plus years later.

By: Steve Cotler

Steve Cotler — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 20:13:52 +0000

The entire album is online and downloadable. I posted the link here:
http://stevecotler.com/tales/2011/01/15/little-songs-on-big-subjects-download/

By: Kitty Wells

Kitty Wells — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 07:52:23 +0000

Two years ago you wrote that you had the 78 record of Little Songs on Big Subjects, and that you may be putting them on CD. Those songs were such an important part of my growing up and I’ve been searching for copies or, at least, the words for years.

Did you ever digitize the album?

My husband and I plan to travel to Austin for the first time at the end of April, but, of course, I’m happy to pay for shipping and whatever you want for the copy.

Kitty Wells (sorry, not THE Kitty Wells)

By: Norman Bar

Norman Bar — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 09:38:30 +0000

LITTLE SONGS ON BIG SUBJECTS.

Hello,

You may have found this already but you might like to go to a site I have just found. I know nothing about it. Actually I think I have the records somewhere in the loft.

http://tbmod.bandcamp.com/download?enc=mp3-320&id=1482909096&ts=1295056541.3935256841&tsig=a9bbce93c17a85fc8cddea47b141798e&type=album

By: Steve Cotler

Steve Cotler — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 19:34:15 +0000

If you want a copy, go to this comment:

http://stevecotler.com/tales/2009/03/08/little-songs-on-big-subjects/comment-page-1/#comment-1509

By: Linda

Linda — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 19:22:28 +0000

I loved these songs as a child and have looked for them periodically over the years. My dad was a civil rights activist in the 60′s, so these songs were my first introduction in the 50′s to the importance and value of all kinds of people.

By: Steve Cotler

Steve Cotler — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 04:06:07 +0000

The words to the last verse are:

As the peach pit said to the apple core,
“The color of our skins doesn’t matter anymore.”
Ho-ho-ho, can’t you see?
The color of your skin doesn’t matter to me.