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Tag: Izzy Young

Remembering “The Day The Music Died” With a No. 1 Hit

“American Pie” is perhaps one of the most compelling, beloved, and cryptic songs in the American songbook.  Written by Don McLean in 1970, the song sprang from the Folk Music movement in Greenwich Village.  Izzy Young, well known to musicians and music aficionados around the world, whose Greenwich Village shop, the Folklore Center, was the […]

    Explore the South Village’s History

    As you likely know by now, the South Village was designated an official New York City historic district by the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) at the end of December. Part of the landmarks process is the publication of a landmark designation report for the neighborhood by the LPC, which acts as an outline of the […]

    Happy 70th Birthday to the One & Only Bob Dylan!

    On May 24, 1941 a baby named Robert Allen Zimmerman was born in Duluth, Minnesota.  Twenty years later, going by Bob Dylan in homage to one of his influences Dylan Thomas, he arrived in Greenwich Village in hopes of meeting his hero Woodie Guthrie.  Within four months Bob Dylan had booked his first professional gig […]