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Oscar Brand
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Oscar Brand (February 7, 1920 – September 30, 2016) was a Canadian-born American folk singer-songwriter and author. In his career, spanning 70 years, he composed at least 300 songs and released nearly 100 albums, among them Canadian and American patriotic songs. Brand's music runs the gamut from novelty songs to serious social commentary and spans a number of genres. He also wrote a number of short stories. Brand was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada to Isidore Brand, a Romanian-born flooring contractor, and his wife Beatrice. In 1921, the family moved to New York City. As a young man, Oscar lived in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn and graduated from Brooklyn College in 1942. In his long career he played alongside such legends of folk music as Lead Belly, Woody Guthrie, Josh White, Jean Ritchie, The Weavers and Pete Seeger. He wrote various books on the folk song and folk song collections including The Ballad Mongers: Rise of the American Folk Song, Songs Of '76: A Folksinger's History Of The Revolution and Bawdy Songs & Backroom Ballads, the latter comprising four volumes. Brand is well known for having composed catchy, themed, folk songs, including the eponymous theme to his initially CTV and then CBC television show "Let's Sing Out" and the Canadian patriotic song "Something to Sing About" (actual title: "This Land of Ours"), which is one of Canada's national songs. He collaborated on a number of musicals, most notably The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N (a mus
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Presidential Campaign Songs, 1789-1996
Pie In the Sky
Tell It to the Marines
Cough! Army Songs Out of the Barracks Bag
Election Songs of the United States
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Oscar Brand and Jean Ritchie
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Four Albums Of Military Song: The Wild Blue Yonder / Every Inch A Sailor / Tell It To The M
Bawdy Sea Shanties
Out of the Blue
Bawdy Songs and Backroom Ballads, Vol. 3
Bawdy Sea Chanties
Military Songs