Word: odetta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tonight with Belafonte (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). One hour of songs by Harry Belafonte and Fellow Folk Singer Odetta...
...This country can support only two folksingers at a time, and right now those two are Pete Seeger and Odetta," a Harvard senior said sometime ago, giving up plans to make a living with a guitar and banjo and heading off to the Law School...
...Seeger has a major failing, it is not his voice, but a restricted repertory, a failing common to most American folksingers, including Odetta, Woody Guthrie, and even Leadbelly. Seeger is fine with any hard-driving, rhythmic and fast-moving song, but he seems confined by any lyric more tender than The Wreck of the 97. This is a pity, because it means he must be either cut off from a great body of relatively sedate folk songs, or perform them somewhat below the level of their potential. Seeger generally choses to attempt them, but he is a complete success only...
...advertisements for "Odette," Britain's latest spy-thriller, claim that it is "more exciting because it's true." We are told at the beginning of the film that it tells the true story of Odetta Churchill and her activities in the British espionage service. The movie carries the endorsement of Mrs. Churchill and Colonel Maurice Buckmaster, her wartime commander. All this would indicate an exciting and unusual documentary on English espionage, but this is unfortunately not the case. Whether or not the story is based on fact makes little difference in the end. Nothing particularly original is added...