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Do you have some inside information about the Peace Corps? Send it to jpcoyne@cnr.edu | ![]() ![]() |
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David Schickele's Peace Corps Film also in this issue | You Cant Break My Window Mister David Schickeles Music by Tom Hebert (Nigeria 196264) |
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"A Closer Look" |
AT A MID-80s PEACE CORPS REUNION in Washington, D.C., I met up with David again after some 20-odd years. I hadn’t seen him since a Free Biafra/Committee of Returned Volunteers meeting in 1969. He mentioned his music. Like everyone else I knew, I had seen and used his film Give Me A Riddle, so I was interested. A week later he sent me a 45 RPM with Jack on the A side. In 1986, Jack helped me transition my career back to freelance consulting as I wore out the little 45 playing it every morning, steeling myself for the lone life ahead. A piece of Jack :
Jack is true as the day is long so say your prayers if you must do Beyond that 45, one of my life treasures is a 1987 cassette of Volume Four (of five), entitled Everything. The songs on it all have complex orchestrations with multiple tracks, David on leads with harmony vocals, reeds, drums of all kinds, pedal steel guitars, cello, harmonica, etc. Professionally recorded. But, as you can tell from Jack above, how tuneful they are! And some really, really swing, hosannas sing, in a mighty big way. I whistle them when I am out riding my Spanish pony. Accessible. . . . the place just made me feel at home so |
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