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- ↑ The Crimson review 1968
- ↑ "Thomas Philip Sankey's Obituary". Racine Journal Times. 5 September 2010. Retrieved 18 February 2018.
- ↑ Bill Morgan The Works of Allen Ginsberg, 1941-1994: A Descriptive Bibliography - Page 375 "G2 Guns of Trees. Directed and produced by Jonas Mekas. New York, NY. 1962. 75 min., black and ... Folksongs by Sarah and Caither Wiley and Tom Sankey."
- ↑ Stages; the fifty-year childhood of the American theatre Emory Lewis - 1969 "A more penetrating look confirms that he is a poet, a genuine troubadour of the young, a prodigiously versatile musician who plays an autoharp and guitar and who writes his own tunes and lyrics. The Golden Screw is another example of total ..." "Jesus Come Down" is a remarkably touching, subtle antiwar song; "The Beautiful People" is cante hondo, a lyric cry of lives wasted, of innocence lost. Between songs, Sankey and a small cast tell the sad and very American tale of the cheap ...
- ↑ Billboard - 29 avr. 1967 - Page 48 Vol. 79, n° 17 "A dynamic disk debut for Tom Sankey as he sings the songs wrote for and performed in ... This biting album builds from the simplicity of folk material, such as a plaintive "The Beautiful People," to a frenzy of folk- "
- ↑ Richard Lewine, Alfred Simon ...Songs of the theater - Page 35 - 1984 -"The Beautiful People Music and lyrics by Tom Sankey The Golden Screw (OB) 1967"
- ↑ Gerry Michael and The Bummers