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Agree a tiny grain landing in the belly of the belly of the monster. And time is telling only how long it takes as its beauty and its character. It holds in the green a tiny grain of sand heap of different one looks like beat the chamber is that it. You are going to
love and just like you just don't love you. If you say just what you heard. Pearl thank you. We are we are and we are the one
who in time is telling only how long it takes as our duty on our captors will hold in Peril a great. Attorney. No doubt. Will the. Parents at the age of 21 in a family of a friend. I was the youngest
bit of choice was left to me but to move to a foreign land or mourn the passing of this wandering around in this country 19 25 16 hour day. Just to try and stay alive when I thought I was doing five and I lost everything in the crash of 29. Been long been was montre. I'd wander from city to city that was a World War.
Lonely was my life. I decide to live longer roam dream reach home. Lost my precious 5 1965 without her love and strange high five. And as for my daughter she's gone to sleep with a red haired man and I lost my youngest in the car in the letters said he
to protect democracy. But why do it all is still a mystery to me. As for my oldest son HUME There is as all his money to the end that sells. Sit in this park to think about most things. I sit in this bar stare to hear more of this wondering. It's just been.
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Run America. My my. My mother. Mm. A. Really early.
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Get someone to love me here. No one there. Yeah. They don't do that.
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to hit. Oh. Just.
Finished your beat and then. You just. Said you just live. We have movement. We can decide to make the move. To lead.
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where I plan to meet with him on the bed.
Title
A Grain of Sand: Music for the Struggle by Asians in America by Yellow Pearl
Contributing Organization
WYSO (Yellow Springs, Ohio)
AAPB ID
cpb-aacip/27-s756d5px19
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Episode Description
The album, A Grain of Sand: Music for the Struggle by Asians in America, by the group, Yellow Pearl, was recorded by Paredon Records in 1973. Yellow Pearl performed folksongs, political ballads and protest songs at community venues, rallies and colleges across America. Members of the group were: Chris Kando Iijima (1948-2005) was an Asian American folksinger, educator and legal scholar. Joanna Nobuko Miyamoto Charlie Chin. Songs included on the album were: "Yellow Pearl", "Wandering Chinaman", "Imperialism is Another Word For Hunger", "Something About Me Today", "Jonathan Jackson", "We Are The Children", "Warriors of the Rainbow", "The Foolish Old Man Who Removed the Mountains", "War Of The Flea", "Divide And Conquer", "Free The Land".
Program Description
This item is part of the Asian Americans section of the AAPI special collection.
Asset type
Program
Topics
Music
Subjects
folk music; Asian Americans; MUSIC
Media type
Sound
Duration
00:37:46
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Writer: WYSO FM 91.3 Public Radio
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WYSO-FM (WYSO Public Radio)
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WYSO-FM (WYSO Public Radio)
Identifier: M 387 (WYSO)
Format: 1/4 inch audio tape
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Duration: 0:37:44
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Chicago: “A Grain of Sand: Music for the Struggle by Asians in America by Yellow Pearl,” WYSO, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed March 28, 2024, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-27-s756d5px19.
MLA: “A Grain of Sand: Music for the Struggle by Asians in America by Yellow Pearl.” WYSO, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. March 28, 2024. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-27-s756d5px19>.
APA: A Grain of Sand: Music for the Struggle by Asians in America by Yellow Pearl. Boston, MA: WYSO, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-27-s756d5px19