"The Creative Person" ft. Phil Ochs, Pete Seeger, Tom Paxton, Buffy Sainte-Marie, and more (1965) 

Phil wasn't only a genius, but a downright good-looking guy!

Buffy St. Marie..so young here and talking about what she can teach the younger generation..and wow, what a powerful song.

Phil was so brilliant at that time.

Phil Ochs… what a genius

LOVE this!!! love every one of these artists. i remember watching it when it was on WNET channel 13 (which would become PBS) in nyc . for anyone curious about the very last singer...it's eric andersen. he's not only gorgeous, but a much too underrated songwriter and talent. he still tours occasionally in small clubs. highly recommend his "today is the highway" and all of his other albums.

Amazing footage! I've never seen Phil so young i n any footage! He seemed much more serious back then.

"Sooner or later, each generation has to pick up the ball and carry it themselves" Buffy's interview is especially prescient today, what a wonderful find!

Thank you for this!! This is some incredibly rare footage; I love that they filmed Phil's songs in their entirety, mostly uninterrupted (his interview is amazing as well). I'm glad that they included plenty of Sainte-Marie and Paxton as well! The little clip of "Ain't That News" at the end was the icing on the cake (it's the title track to one of my favorite folk albums from '65).

Awesome! Timely arrival…..I hope this makes the rounds and reminds some Americans who we can be. Who some of us were……..the real patriots. Tears…….sadness….for what we’ve lost. American conscience, wherefore art thou?

Phil Ochs was funny and very intelligent. He out did Dylan in every way except he didn’t create a facade personality. His artistic prowess exceeded what people will never hear. He was too intent on being topical and true to himself than writing commercial junk. Was he capable- more than people will ever know

Wow,on the very day this was originally broadcast,LBJ ordered the major troop escalation in Vietnam (7-28-65)

Thank you so much, Tori! I have not seen this before..it features all my favorite folk-singers. Interesting how Phil played 'Links on the Chain' with a capo and sang it in a lower key - probably easier on his voice.

holy shit good find

Fabulous recording!

This is wonderful. It would be great if it was restored.

Thank you, Tori!

Great video. Interesting seeing The Beatles poster behind Phils interview. Youth revolution just beginning. WTF happened!

Thank you for posting this. We all can learn so much sitting at the feet of our elders. 15 years after these interviews and performances, a group of similarly inclined folkies started a moving venue called the Stone Soup Coffeehouse. It was 1980 and, just as now, wars were raging or imminently so and concern was high over civil rights, environmental issues and all of the very same topics brought up in the songs and stories shared by the artists in this film. We were inspired by Pete Seeger's exhortations to support topical artists by gathering in our living rooms or back yards or wherever to share songs and stories about the issues of the current times, those of the past and those we hope for in the future. This clip is very much like an early Stone Soup gathering with the exception of the cigarette smoking. We wanted to create a safe space to bring our children and to be accessible to all and that starts with breathing cleaner air. Over forty years have passed since a humble start in our living rooms and Stone Soup Coffeehouse has found various "permanent homes" in churches and community centers and has gone through a few other significant changes still existing as a folk music venue. Many young people who came to our concerts have gone on to make their own music in their own fashions and many of the artists that have been featured in our small venue have gone on to be big stars (well, relatively so - we are talking folk music ;-) ) Here's to supporting local music, topical artists and all of the voices from our elders to our children that can still call us into gathering for the sharing of songs and the nurturance of Hope. For all of those champions dead and gone who left us here to carry on - keep your eyes on the prize and hold on.

Thank you

Many thanks from Brazil !

Thank you for this!

I was in the Gaslight and the other folk music venues back then. Miss Phil, still adore Bob.

Thank you so much for posting this!

Where can I get my hands on this film? Outstanding, thank you for posting 🙏

Thank you for posting.

Kinda amazing that they did this without even mentioning Bob Dylan.

Looks like Ellen Naomi Cohen applauding at the end of "I Ain't Marching Anymore"; later to be known as Mama Cass.

Oh yes!

Looks like the first time anyone had heard the classic I Ain’t Marching Anymore

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here in the audience are the folks who booed Dylan

At "any more" at the end of the 1st verse and chorus of 8 regular bars he comes in after only a 1/2 a bar( 2 beats ) with the 2 nd verse . Genius as such singers are this unpredictable shortening of phrase lengths seems to prevail (now in 2024 ) and for the likes of a classically trained musician wanting to play along is a bit of putting. Same applies to u signalled and lengthened phrases in the same genre of solo folk singing .

Awww Phil....wtf happened, man?

Wssnt she not really Native American?

Does anyone know which dam is that, when Buffy sings?

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😴 Bill Cosby at 23:46.

They"re all smoking a lot 😮