Shows
Broadside Balladeer SoundCloudCome Unity"Come Unity" is a recording of the Crazy Planet Band from a Newark, DE "Community Day" back in the time when there was a popular local movement to preserve some of the most beloved of Main Street places: The State Theater and The DeLuxe Luncheonette. The Copyright on my old paper copy of the lyrics says Sept 7, 1989. This was the only time this song was ever performed.
I have fond memories of the State Theater from when I was a kid. But also from the era when Dave Bartholomew and Barry Solon introduced more international cinema offerings to the mix...
2018-07-1805 min
Broadside Balladeer SoundCloudComin' ThroughA poetic springtime love song written by Vic Sadot and released on a small home-made CD called "Songs of the Seasons" . The accompaniment is Clem Bown on a bamboo flute that he himself made, and Roberta Greenspan on violin. This recording was made by Jim Godwin, Host of "Greener Pastures" Radio Show on WXDR (now WVUD, the Voice of the University of Delaware). What a great friend Jim Godwin was to me and to so many others in the DE music community!
2018-04-0104 min
Broadside Balladeer SoundCloudThe Rugged Hills of LandenbergThe Rugged Hills of Landenberg was inspired by a poem by C. Edwin Smith from a 1936 news clipping that Eleanor Lafferty Sadot kept as a bookmark from her childhood days. (Lyrics below!) She shared the poem with her grown children when she found it still being used as a bookmark after all those years. In the poem Edwin Smith was dying and his last wish was to live long enough to see Landenberg in the autumn one last time. According to the legend as told by Eleanor Sadot he did live to enjoy the autumn and had the pleasure of...
2017-08-2305 min
Broadside Balladeer SoundCloudLocked on the LabelsI recall writing this song in a sudden flow of lyrics. This song must have been written around 1973 when I first started writing lyrics to three chord folk ballads. The ideas seem relevant to the deliberately confusing and manipulative contexts of today. Vic
Locked on the Labels
By Vic Sadot
The fields are afire! The clouds are ablaze!
With colors full-flowing through the key-hole I gaze
I sing for the sunset, the death of the day
When truth is held trouble to seek and to say
And the door is locked on the labels we use
I’m bored with ap...
2017-04-2705 min
Broadside Balladeer SoundCloudThe Spirit of the TreesThis song came from attending East Bay Area events and from studying the websites of key activist environmental groups, such as the Hills Conservation Network, East Bay Pesticide Alert, The Tree Spirit Project, Save the East Bay Hills, and the Coalition to Defend East Bay Forests. Scroll down for lyrics!
NOTE: There will be a gathering on Aug 28 from 2 - 4 pm at Redwood Gardens to hear Jack Gescheit of Tree Spirit Project. That's Jack to the left in the photo. He will speak on Sunday 8/28/16 at the Redwood Gardens Community Room, 2951 Derby St, Berkeley, CA 94705. http://treespiritproject.com
I will...
2016-08-2803 min
Broadside Balladeer SoundCloudLori - FrenchLori by Joe Sadot
French Translation by Vic Sadot
Vic Sadot - vocals, guitar; Eric Golub - violin, ukulele
Lori, Lori
Tu m’envoi le soleil
Tu m’envoi le soleil
Quand les vents si froids soufflent
Quand les vents si froids soufflent
Tu fais grandir l'amour
Lori, Lori
Tu m’envoi la lumière
La lumière de la lune
Quand la fleuve si froid coule
Quand la fleuve si froid coule
Tu fais grandir l'amour
intermède musical
Lori, Lori
Tu m’envoi l’arc en ciel
Tu m’envoi l’arc en ciel
Quand mes couleurs coulent pas
Quand mes cou...
2016-04-2203 min
Broadside Balladeer SoundCloudVotes On PaperI sang this song last night at the Berkeley Fellowship Monthly Open Mic, Ray Korona's Votes on Paper. See lyrics by Ray Korona below. Learn it and sing it to your friends. Votes on Paper is a clever and sensible little song about a bigger problem than the occasional "voter fraud" by a voter. We're talking about "election theft" or "vote theft" also known as "fixing the election" or "flipping the numbers". At the start that's folksinger Nancy Schimmel saying from the audience that she saw a bumper sticker that said "Who did your voting machine vote for?" I mention...
2016-04-0904 min
Broadside Balladeer SoundCloudLoriThe song was written by Joe Sadot in 1974 in Columbus, Ohio. The song was taught to Vic Sadot not long after that time. Joe died in 1978 of an aneurism. This song was recently recorded in Berkeley, CA by Vic Sadot and Eric Golub for Vic's next album to be released. Lyrics follow! There is also a French version posted as "Lori - French". They are different takes with Vic Sadot on vocals and guitar and Eric Golub on viola and ukulele. Released on 12-06-16 on "Truth Troubadour" by Vic Sadot is Available for Preview Listening & Purchases at CD Baby...
2016-04-0603 min
Broadside Balladeer SoundCloudDouce France"Douce France" is a parody by Vic Sadot of the song written in 1943 by Charles Trenet in France during the Nazi occupation, Vichy collaboration, and the French Resistance. It was not recorded until 1947 after the Liberation from the Occupation. This is a parody, but not a mocking one. It expresses a love and preference for a liberated and free France over one led by corruption and fascism. See French Lyrics & Translation in English below:
Douce France (2015 Parodie De Chales Trenet 1947) Par Vic Sadot
Douce France est une chanson écrite par Charles Trenet en 1943, composée avec Léo Chauliac, enregistrée en...
2015-12-3103 min
Broadside Balladeer SoundCloudThe Ballad of Pat TillmanThe song was released on 9/11/11 on a CD titled "9/11 Truth & Justice Songs" by Vic Sadot at CD Baby. https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/vicsadot3
To learn this song or to play along on the chords, use these progressions:
Verse: GGDD / CCGG / GGDD / CCGG
Chorus: DDCC / EmEmB7B7 / CCGG / DDEmEm
Bridge: CCGG/ DDB7B7/ CCGG/ DDEmEm
This is a free 128 kbps mp3 being posted in honor of Pat Tillman's Nov 6 birthday. He would have been 41 this year. (RIP 11-06-1976 - 4-22-2004)Please share it! See "Download" under "More".
The song was written by Vic Sadot after reading the Editor...
2011-09-0905 min