Malvina Reynolds

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Little Boxes 00:00 Tools
What Have They Done To The Rain? 00:00 Tools
It Isn't Nice 00:00 Tools
Little Red Hen 00:00 Tools
The World's Gone Beautiful 00:00 Tools
The New Restaurant 00:00 Tools
God Bless The Grass 00:00 Tools
What's Goin' On Down There 00:00 Tools
I Don't Mind Failing 04:39 Tools
Magic Penny 00:00 Tools
Dialectic 00:00 Tools
Quiet 00:00 Tools
Bury Me in My Overalls 00:00 Tools
There's a Bottom Below 00:00 Tools
Battle of Maxton Field 00:00 Tools
Boraxo 00:00 Tools
On the Rim of the World 00:00 Tools
Bitter Rain 00:00 Tools
The Bloody Neat 00:00 Tools
The Money Crop 00:00 Tools
The Little Mouse 00:00 Tools
This World 00:00 Tools
Look at the Sunny Side 00:00 Tools
The Devil's Baptizin' 00:00 Tools
Singing Jesus 00:00 Tools
The Judge Said 00:00 Tools
Little Boxes (WEEDS theme song) 00:00 Tools
From Way Up Here 00:00 Tools
The Albatross 00:00 Tools
Rosie Jane 00:00 Tools
Love Is Something 00:00 Tools
Mario's Duck 00:00 Tools
We Hate to See Them Go 00:00 Tools
Skagit Valley Forever 00:00 Tools
Little Boxes Intro 00:00 Tools
Carolina Cotton Mill Song 00:00 Tools
Let it Be 00:00 Tools
Morningtown Ride 00:00 Tools
No Hole in My Head 00:00 Tools
Daddy's in the Jail 00:00 Tools
The Faucets Are Dripping 00:00 Tools
There'll Come a Time 00:00 Tools
Turn Around 00:00 Tools
Little Boxes - Live 00:00 Tools
Love Is Something (The Magic Penny) 00:00 Tools
D.D.T. 00:00 Tools
Little Boxes (Album Version) 02:10 Tools
The Desert 00:00 Tools
The Judge Said (Intro) 00:00 Tools
The Day the Freeway Froze 00:00 Tools
The Pied Piper 00:00 Tools
somewhere between 00:00 Tools
Intro Little Boxes 00:00 Tools
Don't Talk to Me of Love 00:00 Tools
I Live In a City 00:00 Tools
you'll be a man 00:00 Tools
Money Blues 00:00 Tools
Faucets Are Dripping 00:00 Tools
Mommy's Girl 00:00 Tools
Work With Wallace 00:00 Tools
Oh Doctor! 00:00 Tools
Spoken Introduction To Little Boxes 00:00 Tools
no room 00:00 Tools
Sing Along 00:00 Tools
The Delinquent 00:00 Tools
The Miracle 00:00 Tools
The Little Land 00:00 Tools
Little Boxes (WEEDS THEME) 00:00 Tools
the little red hen 00:00 Tools
green shadows 00:00 Tools
Little Boxes (Weeds Theme Song) Full Version with Lyrics 00:00 Tools
Spoken Introduction To The Judge Said 00:00 Tools
Plutonium - previously unreleased 00:00 Tools
The Rand Hymn - previously unreleased 00:00 Tools
Little Boxes (OST Weeds) 00:00 Tools
Alcatraz (Pelican Island) - only issued previously on 45 00:00 Tools
Intro The Judge Said 00:00 Tools
Like The Miller Grinds The Wheat - only issued previously on 45 00:00 Tools
Little Boxes (Weeds OST) 00:00 Tools
Cement Octopus - only issued previously on 45 00:00 Tools
Tungsten - only issued previously on 45 00:00 Tools
Battle Of Maxton 00:00 Tools
Buying The Package - previously unreleased 00:00 Tools
The Albatross - only issued previously on 45 00:00 Tools
Overtime - previously unreleased 00:00 Tools
The Devils Baptizin 00:00 Tools
Nancy Newman - previously unreleased 00:00 Tools
Little Boxes (Live) 00:00 Tools
It Isn't Nice - Alt - only issued previously on 45 00:00 Tools
Plutonium 00:00 Tools
Uneasy Dreams 00:00 Tools
Tungsten 00:00 Tools
Little Boxes (45 Version) 00:00 Tools
Malvina Reynolds - Little Boxes (WEEDS theme song) 00:00 Tools
The Rand Hymn 00:00 Tools
Plutonium (previously unreleased) 00:00 Tools
Cement Octopus 00:00 Tools
There'll Come A Time - Alt - previously unreleased 00:00 Tools
Buying The Package 00:00 Tools
Patchwork of Dreams 00:00 Tools
Like The Miller Grinds The Wheat 00:00 Tools
Cement Octopus (only issued previously on 45) 00:00 Tools
Buying The Package (previously unreleased) 00:00 Tools
Alcatraz (Pelican Island) (only issued previously on 45) 00:00 Tools
The Rand Hymn (previously unreleased) 00:00 Tools
Like The Miller Grinds The Wheat (only issued previously on 45) 00:00 Tools
the world in their poket 00:00 Tools
Overtime 00:00 Tools
The Albatross (only issued previously on 45) 00:00 Tools
Malvina Reynolds - Little Boxes 00:00 Tools
Alcatraz (Pelican Island) 00:00 Tools
Las Casistas Del Barrio Alto (little Boxes) 00:00 Tools
Malvina's Blues 00:00 Tools
Overtime (previously unreleased) 00:00 Tools
Love Is Something (Magic Penny) 00:00 Tools
The Magic Penny 00:00 Tools
Tungsten (only issued previously on 45) 00:00 Tools
It Isn't Nice (Alt - only issued previously on 45) 00:00 Tools
Judge Said, The (Intro) 00:00 Tools
It Isn It Nice 00:00 Tools
Malvina's Introduction (Live) 00:00 Tools
The Little Mouse (Live) 00:00 Tools
So Sick-I lived Through (live) 00:00 Tools
If You Love Me (Live) 00:00 Tools
There'll Come A Time (Alt - previously unreleased) 00:00 Tools
Artichokes 00:00 Tools
I Lived Through This Day (Live) 00:00 Tools
Wheels 00:00 Tools
Johnny Built A House 00:00 Tools
Little Boxes (Full Studio Version) 00:00 Tools
If Peacetime Came (Live) 00:00 Tools
The Money Crop-Let Them Eat Cake (live) 00:00 Tools
The World in Their Pocket (Live) 00:00 Tools
Nancy Newman (previously unreleased) 00:00 Tools
If You Love Me 00:00 Tools
You Can't Make a Turtle Come Out 00:00 Tools
Don't Bother Me 00:00 Tools
One Shoe 00:00 Tools
Rabbits Dance 00:00 Tools
Let Them Eat Cake (Live) 00:00 Tools
Mail Man Blues (live) 00:00 Tools
Hello, Ladybug 00:00 Tools
Little Boxes (Achtabahn Remix) 00:00 Tools
The Pets 00:00 Tools
Magical Food 00:00 Tools
Malvina Reads Victor?s Version 00:00 Tools
Little Boxes - Malvina Reynolds 00:00 Tools
David 00:00 Tools
Little Boxes (Spoken Introduction) 00:00 Tools
Weeds Soundtrack - 01 - Malvina Reynolds - Little Boxes 00:00 Tools
Malvina Reads Victor's Version 00:00 Tools
Funny Bug Basin 00:00 Tools
Place to Be 00:00 Tools
Alcatraz 00:00 Tools
Let Us Come In 00:00 Tools
I Went A-Gathering 00:00 Tools
The Whale 00:00 Tools
Don't Push Me 00:00 Tools
Weeds 00:00 Tools
Nancy Neuman 00:00 Tools
Little Birds 00:00 Tools
Says the Bee 00:00 Tools
Sweet Stuff 00:00 Tools
It's Up To You 00:00 Tools
I've Got A Song 00:00 Tools
Never Touch A Singing Bird 00:00 Tools
What Time is It? 00:00 Tools
Black Horse 00:00 Tools
The Lambeth Children 00:00 Tools
Kennebunkport 00:00 Tools
My Street 00:00 Tools
Malvina Reads Victors Version 00:00 Tools
Turn Me Loose 00:00 Tools
There'Come A Time (Alt) 00:00 Tools
the world in their pocket 00:00 Tools
Malvinas introduction (live) 00:00 Tools
Magical Song 00:00 Tools
The Judge Said (Spoken Introduction) 00:00 Tools
Little Boxes (Original) 00:00 Tools
There'll Come A Time (Alt) 00:00 Tools
Malvina Reynolds - Little Boxes (WEE 00:00 Tools
Weeds Intro 00:00 Tools
Little Boxes(ost. weeds/косяки) 00:00 Tools
Nancy Newman 00:00 Tools
Rand Hymn 00:00 Tools
Little Boxes (Original theme) 00:00 Tools
Little Boxes (Weeds Soundtrack) 00:00 Tools
Let Them Eat Cake 00:00 Tools
Little Boxes [Album Version] 00:00 Tools
Little Box 00:00 Tools
It Isn't Nice (Alt) 00:00 Tools
Las Casitas del Barrio Alto 00:00 Tools
Like The Miller Grinds The Wheat (only issued previously on 00:00 Tools
I Don't Mind Falling 00:00 Tools
BSO Weeds-Little boxes 00:00 Tools
It Isn't Nice (Alternate Version) 00:00 Tools
There'll Come a Time (Alternate Version) 00:00 Tools
What's Goin' on Down There? 00:00 Tools
If Peacetime Came 00:00 Tools
Las Casitas del Barrio Alta (Little Boxes) 00:00 Tools
The World Is So Sick 00:00 Tools
I Lived Through This Day 00:00 Tools
Little boxes (Las casitas del Barrio Alto) 00:00 Tools
what's goin' on 00:00 Tools
Little Boxes(s1e01) 00:00 Tools
01 - Little Boxes 00:00 Tools
Vera Cruz-Style Harp 00:00 Tools
Oh, Doctor! 00:00 Tools
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Malvina Reynolds (August 23, 1900 – March 17, 1978) was an American folk/blues singer-songwriter and political activist, best known for her song-writing, particularly the songs "Little Boxes" and "Morningtown Ride." Malvina Milder was born in San Francisco to David and Abagail Milder, Jewish and socialist immigrants, who opposed involvement in World War I. She married William ("Bud") Reynolds, a carpenter and labor organizer, in 1934. They had one child, Nancy Reynolds Schimmel (a songwriter and performer in her own right), in 1935. Malvina had earned her Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in English from the University of California, Berkeley, and later earned a doctorate there, finishing her dissertation in 1938. Though she played violin in a dance band in her twenties, she began her songwriting career late in life. She was in her late 40s when she met Earl Robinson, Pete Seeger, and other folk singers and songwriters. She returned to school at UC Berkeley, where she studied music theory. She went on to write several popular songs, including "Little Boxes," recorded by Pete Seeger, Walk off the Earth and others, "What Have They Done to the Rain," recorded by The Searchers, The Seekers, Marianne Faithfull, Melanie Safka and Joan Baez (about nuclear fallout), "It Isn't Nice" (a civil rights anthem), "Turn Around" (about children growing up, later sung by Harry Belafonte), and "There's a Bottom Below" (about depression). Reynolds was also a noted composer of children's songs, including "Magic Penny" (a traditional London folk song during the 1940s) and "Morningtown Ride," a top five UK single (December 1966) recorded by The Seekers. Four collections of her music are available on compact disc. The Smithsonian Folkways label released Another County Heard From (Folkways 02524) and Ear to the Ground (Smithsonian Folkways 40124), and the Omni Recording Corporation in Australia issued Malvina Reynolds (Omni 112) and Malvina Reynolds Sings the Truth (Omni 114). A film biography, Love It Like a Fool, was made a few years before she died in 1978. Reynolds' most famous song, "Little Boxes" (made famous by Pete Seeger), has enjoyed renewed popularity by being featured in Showtime's TV series Weeds. "Little Boxes" was inspired visually by the houses of Daly City, California. Nancy Reynolds Schimmel, daughter of Malvina Reynolds, explained: "My mother and father were driving South from San Francisco through Daly City when my mom got the idea for the song. She asked my dad to take the wheel, and she wrote it on the way to the gathering in La Honda where she was going to sing for the Friends Committee on Legislation. When Time Magazine (I think, maybe Newsweek) wanted a photo of her pointing to the very place, she couldn't find those houses because so many more had been built around them that the hillsides were totally covered." In her later years, Malvina Reynolds contributed songs and material to PBS's Sesame Street, on which she made occasional appearances as a character called "Kate." In 1979, the Supersisters trading card set was produced and distributed; one of the cards featured Reynolds's name and picture. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.