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Free Speech Carols (Berkeley Free Speech Movement)   “Free Speech Carols” is a 7” 45-rpm vinyl disc, released after the 1964 arrests at Sproul Plaza but in time for Christmas vacation to raise money for their defense fund.
Record has small scuffs on side two that may affect playability; the sleeve and insert are very good.
Cireco Music FSM-1
Free Speech Carols Track List (7:59):
      Oskie Dolls   (Joe LaPenta)       We Three Deans   (Barry Jablon)       U.C. Administration   (Ken Sanderson)       Hail to IBM  (K. Sanderson)       It Belongs to the University   (J. LaPenta)       Silent Night    (B. Jablon)       Call Out the Deans   (B. Jablon)       Masters of Sproul Hall   (Dustin Miller)       God Rest Ye Free Speech     (K. Sanderson)       Come All Ye Mindless   (B. Jablon)       Joy to U.C.   (D. Miller)
Produced by Dustin Mark Miller (in the style that marked the FSM throughout: he recognized needs and took the tasks on, learning what he needed to know – recording, editing, management -- to carry them through, with the help of his friends). Stevie Lipney designed the covers, Burton White of KPFA taught him to edit, Duard Hastings and Lee Felsenstein and Julie Blake helped technically; and the great music critic Ralph Gleason connected him to the generosity of Max Weiss of Fantasy Records for studio time.

The Free Speech Carols:
The Free Speech Defense Fund issued the text of the Free Speech Carols as a songsheet in December 1964 to accompany the record Joy to UC .
The Free Speech Five Plus Four (Susan Chesney, Stevie Lipney, Lee Felsenstein, Leba Hurvitz, Barry Jablon, Joe La Penta, Dan Paik, Dustin Miller, and Dave Mandel, with guitar by Barry Jablon and Dave Mandel) recorded the 45 rpm record at Fantasy Records. Dustin Mark Miller describes their intent on the cover of the record:
In the spirit of farce, and of Christmas, these songs were written and sung. We of the FSM are serious, but we hope we are still able to laugh at ourselves, as well as those who would restrict our Constitutional freedoms.
Background:
In 1964 The Berkeley campus spontaneously erupted when the university administration tried to curtail political speech in Sproul Plaza at the main entrance to the campus. The Free Speech Movement was born.
After weeks of negotiation and rallies the students turned to civil disobedience to oppose the power structure that was intent on neutralizing them as a political force. The students staged a sit-in in Sproul Hall, the administration building. Eight hundred were arrested, an unprecedented event on a college campus. The impact of that action was felt on campuses around the country, setting the tone for a generation. 
creditseleased July 1, 1981 All music by Storm Bugs, sleeve design by Yann Farcy of L'invitation au Suicide.


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