Des Lindberg & Dawn Silver - Folk On Trek 1967 LP banned version rare

Des and Dawn toured their show “Folk on Trek” South Africa and Rhodesia in a truck and caravan for three years before CBS recorded this live lunch hour concert on the stage of the Wits University Great Hall.

The album was released in September 1967, and immediately became a top seller. It was promptly banned by the South African Publications Control Board, on the grounds of obscenity because of dubious lyrics to the nursery rhyme, “Mary had a little lamb”, and the American spiritual, “Dese bones gonna rise again”.

Des and Dawn appealed against the banning in the Supreme Court in Johannesburg. The appeal was turned down by Mr Justice Ludorf, and all copies were ordered destroyed, including the masters. Ironically, Folk on Trek has never been unbanned.

This is one of the few surviving copies of the original banned version.

Condition: record and sleeve: VG

Folk On Trek LP ........ ALD 8056 1967 CBS
Side One:
1. This Land Is Your Land (W Guthrie); The Power And The Glory (P Ochs)
2. Buffalo Boy (Tradisioneel, Verwerk, D Lindberg)
3. Marching To Pretoria (Tradisioneel, Verwerk, D Lindberg)
4. Brandewyn Laat My Staan (Tradisioneel, Verwerk, D Lindberg); Bottle Of Wine (T Paxton)
5. I Have A Rabbit (P Eliran)
6. The Pill (T Hendra)
7. Dese Bones Gonna Rise Again (Tradisioneel, Verwerk, D Lindberg)
Side Two:
1. 3 Little Pigs (Tradisioneel, Verwerk, D Lindberg)
2. Kleinhuisie (D Lindberg)
3. Mommy I'd Like To Be (J Taylor)
4. Children's Hour (D Lindberg)
5. Gotta Travel On (Clayton) (2:31)
6. Hava Nagila (Tradisioneel, Verwerk, D Lindberg)
7. Kumbaya (Tradisioneel, Verwerk, D Lindberg); Ramblin' Boy (T Paxton)