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SPEAKER_00: Hello, from Wonder Media Network, I'm Jenny Kaplan, and this is Womanica.Historically, women have been told to make themselves smaller, to diminish themselves.Some have used that idea to their advantage, disappearing into new identities.For others, a disappearance was the end to their stories, but the beginning of a new chapter in their legacies.This month, we're talking about disappearing acts. Before Today's Womanikin packed up her car and drove into the sunset, she was a talented yet overlooked musician.Her 1950s recordings were some of the earliest in the singer-songwriter genre.But she was never credited for her contributions.Until a recent discovery put her on the map.Meet Connie Converse.
Elizabeth Eaton Converse was born on August 3, 1924, in New Hampshire. According to letters Elizabeth later wrote, her household was quite strict.Her mother was a pianist, and music was often played in the household, as long as it was classical or religious.Elizabeth did well in school and attended Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts on scholarship for two years, before dropping out. Elizabeth then moved to New York City to pursue a writing career.Greenwich Village became the home of her reinvention.She started going by the name Connie and took up drinking and smoking, much to the dismay of her family. But not all of her new hobbies were meant to annoy her parents.She also spent time painting, going on road trips, writing poetry, and teaching herself guitar.Soon, Connie graduated to writing songs.
And they had a sound that was all Connie's own, way ahead of their time.Her lyrics were emotional, witty, and personal.She was a singer-songwriter before the term was coined. Connie ended up writing about 40 songs during her time in New York, and eventually they cemented her legacy in the music world.In the 1950s, Greenwich Village was the epicenter for the beat movement.Artists, poets, and musicians gathered in coffee shops like Gaslight Café and Café Wa. Connie spent her time with fellow creatives and befriended folk singer Pete Seeger and cartoonist Gene Deitch.Gene became Connie's biggest supporter.He encouraged her to record her music.But there was one small problem.
Connie didn't have a record deal or even access to a studio.So the pair improvised.Using Gene's tape recorder, Connie recorded her songs in her kitchen or in front of a small audience of friends at Gene's homes. Despite her talents, Connie did not play typical gigs like her contemporaries, and she had trouble getting her songs in front of anyone in the music business.They didn't know what to do with her.Her sound was folksy and plaintive and raw.It was the 1950s. Nobody was performing newly written, introspective folk songs at the time.Connie did get the opportunity to play her songs on Walter Cronkite's CBS morning show, but the appearance didn't yield more opportunities.Dejected, Connie finally had enough.
In January of 1961, she left New York for good. That same month, a young singer named Bob Dylan moved to Greenwich Village.The folk scene exploded with a generation of singer-songwriters.Meanwhile, Connie was living a normal, quiet life in Michigan.For two years, she worked as a secretary.Eventually, she became a managing editor for the Journal of Conflict Resolution.But in 1972, Connie's career took a serious blow.The journal was acquired by Yale University.Connie was out of a job. She grew depressed and began drinking more.
Noticing the change in her personality, her friends pooled their money to send her to London to cheer her up.But it didn't make much of a difference. In letters to her family, Connie wrote, Human society fascinates me and awes me and fills me with grief and joy.I just can't find my place to plug into it.So let me go, please.And please accept my thanks for those happy times.In August of 1974, Connie packed up her Volkswagen Beetle and drove off.That was the last time anyone saw Connie Converse. Connie's music and name were largely forgotten.That is, until a filing cabinet Connie gave her brother was opened decades later.
The filing cabinet contained letters, poems, tape reels of oral histories, and all of her 1950s recordings.In 2009, a compilation album of Connie's recordings was released.People started calling her the female Bob Dylan, but Connie came first.She wrote in a voice that was purely hers and no one else's. All month, we're talking about disappearing acts.For more information, find us on Facebook and Instagram at Womanica Podcast.Special thanks to Liz Kaplan, my favorite sister and co-creator.As always, we're taking a break for the weekend.Talk to you on Monday.
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