dICK FARINA

[Greg Montalbano]

On Mon, 03 Jun 1996 09:53 EST you said:
>I bought a Sandy Denny retrospective last night and noticed one of the
>songs she sings, "The Quiet Joy of Brotherhood" was written by Dick
>Farina. Was he a songwriter too?  Or should I ask is this the same Farina
>so discussed on these pages?
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>Richard Romeo
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>Coordinator of Cooperating Collections
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>The Foundation Center
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Yes, he was a songwriter before he was a novelist.
Back in the days of "folk rock", RICHARD AND MIMI FARINA were modestly
successful with several songs, including "Pack Up Your Sorrows" and
"Hard Loving Loser".  Mimi, by the way, is Joan Baez' sister, and the
organizer of all those (somewhat) annual "Bread and Roses" benefit concerts
out here in Northern California.
The Farinas, the Baezs, and TRP & his then-paramour were a semi-famous local
clique in the mid-sixties.