Who is Connie Converse? Interview with Howard Fishman, Part 1 

Quite so! Thanks for watching! Are you a musician too?

Well, I think there WERE no singer-songwriters when she was starting out. That's what makes her special!

@@nextlevelpianoinstruction I'm referring to after she quit writing, herself. She certainly had the opportunity to hear all the singer-songwriters of the '60s and early '70s. After all, Malvina didn't really begin writing songs until 1960 or so, but I can hear parallels in their songwriting styles and approaches. It's to bad Malvina didn't get to hear Connie, too.

@@ice9snowflake187 It's a really interesting question! I'm unfamiliar with Mavina Reynolds. Should I check her out?

@@truermu She made a good number of recordings. Her material was often political or topical. She also wrote a bunch of children's' songs. Two of her most famous songs are "Little Boxes" (a 1963 hit song for Pete Seeger, and later a theme for the TV show "Weeds"), and "What Have They Done To The Rain", a hit in 1967 by the band "The Searchers". She began writing at about age 60 (in about 1960) , and she passed away in 1978. There's a bunch of her stuff on RU-vid.