An interesting treatment of the 1962 Gil Turner wedding can be found in the EDLIS Café
https://www.edlis.org/cafe at: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=oa.890354801003053
and also mirrored at: https://plus.google.com/114972365014876681245/posts/eDzyjTKucZu
“When Gil Turner got married to Lori (Lorrie / Lorry) Singer in 1962, there were many musicians present, and some photographs by Joe Alper captured the event.
“Gil Turner (born Gilbert Strunk; May 6, 1933 – September 23, 1974) was a folk song writer, performer, actor, founding member of The New World Singers (with Delores Dixon, Happy Traum and Bob Cohen), political activist, became MC at Gerde’s Folk City in 1961, and was a lay Baptist preacher.
Turner had given up the church after he had met Pete Seeger. He had a degree in Political Science and an interest in the power of music as well as activism.
Gil Turner was instrumental in rounding up songs for the Broadside magazine. As well as his role in Bob Dylan’s career, this included him featuring songs by Phil Ochs, Mark Spoelstra, Bonnie Dobson and Len Chandler.”
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From Wikipedia:
“… on April 16, 1962, Dylan showed up at Gerde’s at a hootennany Turner was hosting. He had just written a new song called “Blowin’ in the Wind” and wanted Turner to hear it. After listening to Dylan play the song in the club’s basement, Turner had Dylan show him the chords. When he went up upstairs for his next set, Turner sang the song from Dylan’s rough manuscript. It was the first performance of what went on to become the greatest folk song of the 1960s”
“Before the end of 1961, he [Bob Dylan] was talking about marriage… planning the ceremony in detail. One winter night at the White Horse, he told Suze and me how it would go: ‘We’ll get Reverend Gary Davis… to perform the ceremony. Naw, he can just sing the ceremony. And we’ll have all the singers there.'”
Shelton, Robert. No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan. New York: Morrow, 1986. 9780688050450
https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/423801575
[many reprints and publishers]
Cambridge: Da Capo, 2003.
London: Omnibus Press, 2011, page 101.
“I was married by Rev. Gary Davis. Dylan was there. Paxton. Van Ronk. And they all sang ‘Just A Closer Walk With Thee…'” — Wavy Gravy
Woliver, Robbie. Hoot!: a twenty-five-year history of the Greenwich Village music scene. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1986, 9780312109950, pages 45-46.
“Irwin Silber (1925–2010) was a socialist, editor, publisher, and political activist. Irwin Silber was the co-founder, and editor of Sing Out! magazine from 1951 to 1967. He was known for his writing on American folk music and musicians until he left Sing Out! His creation of Oak Publications was responsible for a large portion of the folk music material available in print during the growth of the revival.”
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“The bearded sitter looks like Theodore Bikel, but enough to be him?
And would he have had a beard in 1962?”
https://s15.postimg.org/5todcq763/Theodore_Bikel_1972_B.jpg
“Bikel, Theodore. Folksongs and Footnotes; An International Songbook. Cleveland : World Publishing, 1962. [3rd printing edition]”
https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35550008
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“Dylan (Chronicles, p64): “I showed up at Camilla’s with my part-time girlfriend, Delores Dixon, the girl singer from The New World Singers, a group I was pretty close with. Delores was from Alabama, an ex-reporter and an ex-dancer.”
Wearing same dress and necklace:”
“Mark Lane is on the far left!
Mark Lane was then the Harlem CORE (Congress Of Racial Equality) attorney.
In 1961 Mark Lane was arrested as a Freedom Rider in Jackson, Mississippi, with Percy Sutton. Both men not only represented Harlem CORE but many of the Freedom Riders, as well. He was the attorney for the very first arrests of Harlem CORE members in the 1963 City Hall protests.
“In the 1968 presidential election, Lane ran for vice-president on the Freedom and Peace Party ticket with Dick Gregory. He also wrote ‘Murder In Memphis’ with Gregory about the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. Lane represented James Earl Ray, King’s assassin, before the House Select Committee on Assassinations inquiry in 1978. Lane also represented Jim Jones’ Peoples Temple and was one of the witnesses who survived the Jonestown killings.He is considered one of the leading authors on the John F. Kennedy assassination.”
“In 1970, Lane involved himself in several war crime inquiries being conducted primarily by antiwar organizations such as the Citizens Commission of Inquiry (CCI) and the Vietnam Veterans Against the War.”
“1961 arrest photo for Harlem CORE’s attorney Mark Lane as Freedom Rider.”
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Re the possibility of the bearded man in the photos being Theodore Bikel. If you compare the right ear of the bearded one in the photos, with the right ear of the definite Theodore Bikel on the cover of the songbook, there appears to be a difference in the shape and contour of said ear. That’s my tuppence worth.
Good luck
Lee
Dave Von Ronk
The wedding photo also shows the birthmark on the his cheek so distinctive of Theodore Bikel.
What about the birth mark on the cheek that’s so distinctive of Bikel?