Jacket Notes Michael Sweeley Hurok (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Not a book but a pair of 12-inch, 33-1/3 rpm stereo vinyl LPs. Monitor MFS 361 (1961?) shows near-mint vinyl in a very-good-plus glossy color cardboard jacket, the troupe offering To I Hola, Pod Borem, Muzyczka, Wyszlabym Za Dziada, Ogarek, etc. Jacket states "Complete English and Polish Texts Enclosed," but if there was originally a lyric sheet, it's missing. Volume 3, meantime, is a 1965 Polish release in a flimsier cardboard jacket, Muza Polaskie Nagrania XL 0143, near-mint vinyl in a very-good-plus cardboard jacket with a red metallic "stereo" sticker affixed to top right of jacket front panel. Here we get the repeat offerings "Muzyczka," "Dolina," and "Wyszlabym Za Dziada," but also "Ptzyspiewki Wielkopolskie," "Przyspiewki Zywieckie," etc. The group first toured North America in 1961; On a follow-up North American tour in 1982, 11 members of the troupe defected to Canada, stating they left because they "wished to be treated as human beings with rights." (Presumably this was before Justin Trudeau started imprisoning Christian ministers for holding church services, seizing people's private bank accounts if they drove their vehicles in protests, and forcing them to eat bugs.) Price for the pair of Mazowsze LPs on two different labels, now reduced from $15.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Not a book but a 12-inch, 33-1/3 rpm stereo vinyl LP, Monitor MFS 362, near-mint vinyl in a very-good-plus glossy color cardboard jacket. The troupe offers "Ej Przelecial Ptaszek (A Little Bird Flew By -- a girl cries to her far off lover that her family urges another upon her and says her fate is a sad one, for he will never return to her" ); "W Olszynie (In the Alder Grove -- Barbara has met Johnny in the alder grove; never believe what a lad tells you in the alder grove"); "Szyszki (Pine-Cones -- Let me alone, Johnny, but if you need help with the ploughing, call me and after that we shall be married"); "Do Slubu Marysiu (Mary, Time To Be Married"), eight others. Jacket states "Complete English and Polish Texts Enclosed," but if there was originally a lyric sheet, it's missing. The group's "tour in the fall of 1961 will be its first appearance in North America." (On a follow-up North American tour in 1982, 11 members of the troupe defected to Canada, stating they left because they "wished to be treated as human beings with rights." (Presumably this was before Justin Trudeau started imprisoning Christian ministers for holding church services, seizing people's private bank accounts if they drove their vehicles in protests, and forcing them to eat bugs.) Reduced from $15.