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Buffy Sainte-Marie, OC (born Beverly Sainte-Marie, February 20, 1941) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, composer, visual artist, educator, pacifist, and social activist. Throughout her career in all of these areas, her work has focused on issues of indigenous peoples of the Americas. Her singing and writing repertoire also includes subjects of love, war, religion, and mysticism.
In 1997, she founded the Cradleboard Teaching Project, an educational curriculum devoted to better understanding Native Americans. She has won recognition and many awards and honours for both her music and her work in education and social activism.
Sainte-Marie played piano and guitar, self-taught, in her childhood and teen years. In college some of her songs, "Ananias", the Indian lament, "Now That the Buffalo's Gone" and "Mayoo Sto Hoon" (in Hindi) were already in her repertoire.
Sainte-Marie claimed in a 2008 interview at the National Museum of the American Indian that she had been black listed by American radio stations and that she, along with Native Americans and other native people in the Red Power movements, were put out of business in the 1970s.
In a 1999 interview at Diné College with a staff writer with the Indian Country Today, Sainte-Marie said "I found out 10 years later, in the 1980s, that President Lyndon B. Johnson had been writing letters on White House stationery praising radio stations for suppressing my music" and "In the 1970s, not only was the protest movement put out of business, but the Native American movement was attacked."
As a result of this blacklisting led by (among others) Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, and Nashville disc jockey Ralph Emery (following the release of I'm Gonna Be a Country Girl Again), Sainte-Marie said "I was put out of business in the United States".
"Up Where We Belong" is a song from the 1982 film An Officer and a Gentleman. Written by Jack Nitzsche and Buffy Sainte-Marie, with lyrics by Will Jennings, it was performed by Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes.
Buffy Sainte-Marie retired from record-making between 1976 and 1992, though she kept her hand in as a songwriter, notably co-writing the Oscar-winning number one 1982 hit "Up Where We Belong." She returned to recording with 1992's Coincidence and Likely Stories, and four years later she presented an album called Up Where We Belong, consisting of "songs that people most often ask to hear at my concerts," most of them re-recordings of songs from her Vanguard Records albums of the 1960s and ‘70s. There is a simple arrangement of "Up Where We Belong" (the first time its songwriter had recorded it) with an acoustic guitar and what is probably a synthesizer aping strings, birds, and other gentle sounds. "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee," a strident song about injustices to Native Americans in the manner of her early material, and folksinger Cliff Eberhardt's gentle "Goodnight" are repeated (in the same recordings) from Coincidence and Likely Stories. Sainte-Marie re-creates some of her other big songwriting successes, such as "Until It's Time for You to Go" (covered, she notes gratefully, by Barbra Streisand, the Boston Pops, and many others) and "Universal Soldier" (a hit for Donovan). "Now That the Buffalo's Gone" was perhaps the most striking of those early political songs for Native Americans, and it sadly remained relevant in 1996. Some of the other songs may be less familiar to those who are not ardent Sainte-Marie fans. Some of those fans may have decried her decision to remake their old favorites. But this album brought together the highlights of the career of an important songwriter who scored hits in three decades, material otherwise unavailable on one disc. - William Ruhlmann
This listing is for a rare CD title - a USED / OPENED CD, in excellent overall condition, PRESSED and ISSUED by EMI Music of a highly collectible title, featuring -
Buffy Sainte-Marie
CD Title -
Up Where We Belong
Track Listing -
1. Darling Don't Cry - 3:15
2. Up Where We Belong - 4:30
3. Piney Wood Hills - 3:33
4. Cripple Creek - 2:37
5. God Is Alive/Magic Is Afoot - 4:33
6. Until It's Time For You To Go - 3:03
7. Universal Soldier - 2:29
8. Goodnight - 3:48
9. Dance Me Around - 3:47
10. He's An Indian Cowboy In The Rodeo - 2:19
11. Now That The Buffalo's Gone - 2:44
12. Soldier Blue - 3:43
13. Eagle Man/Changing Woman - 3:16
14. Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee - 5:12
15. Starwalker - 3:03
Performers on this CD include -
• Buffy Sainte-Marie
This CD is from the EMI series of CDs.
The CD, JEWEL CASE AND INSERTS are all in excellent overall condition! The CD does have a few light marks on the reflective side of the disc, nothing serious. We play tested the disc in our audio system and it performed perfectly.
This CD is an audiophile quality pressing (any collector of fine MFSL, half speeds, direct to discs, Japanese/UK pressings etc., can attest to the difference a quality pressing can make to an audio system).
Do not let this rarity slip
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