Description
Jon Gailmor – Gonna Die With A Smile If It Kills Me – Vinyl Record
Jon Gailmor is a folk singer-songwriter known for his contributions to the Vermont music scene.. A political and environmental awareness lies at the root of the songs by Vermont-based singer-songwriter Jon Gailmor. However, his best tunes are aimed at the younger members of his audience.
The host of a children’s music radio show, Just Kiddin, broadcast by WDEV in Vermont since 1979, Gailmor has sung witty tunes about circus animals (“Jumbo the Elephant”), dogs who pursue an education (“Randy and Ned Go to School”), the joys of sandboxes (“Dirt!”), the suburbanizing of America (“Edifice Complex”) and international brotherhood (“Letters”).
Gailmor spent his early years in Ossining, New York, moved with his family to a suburb of Philadelphia at the age of four and Connecticut at the age of 14. Much of his political consciousness was inherited from his father, William Gailmor, a reporter for The Daily News and PM magazine and a radio talk show host who was blacklisted during the McCarthy era.
The folk music of Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie and Josh White was heard regularly in the Gailmor home; Gailmor’s sister, Wendy Newton, also went on to found and manage the Green Linnet record label.
Fretless Records 1980 FR143
Track Listing
Gonna Die With a Smile If It Kills Me
Randy and Ned Go to School
Prayer to the Serifos Sun
Ae Fond Kiss
Gotta Have a Hook
Rooty Toot Toot for the Moon
Woody
Maiden of Eden
Just Kidding
Last Sun
Jumbo the Elephant
Long Ago Lady
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