The Sam Hinton Website - Press Release

Press Release

Mac Guffin Communications
366 California Avenue, Suite 7, Palo Alto, California, 94306
(650) 494-1941

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 4, 2003

CONTACT: Adam Miller (650) 494-1941
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Golden Apple Design launches www.SamHinton.org
New Website Devoted to the Career of Folksinger and Author Sam Hinton

On January 31, Golden Apple Design of Amsterdam launched a new website,
www.samhinton.org, devoted to the career of folksinger, folklorist,
aquariologist, educator and author Sam Hinton. Hinton, 86, a longtime
resident of La Jolla, California, is one of the most respected folksingers
in the world and has recorded some 12 albums.

The website was designed by Danny Cooper, owner of Golden Apple Design, and
husband of Sam Hinton's grand-daughter, Katrina Hinton-Cooper.
"Surprisingly, there was very little on the web about Sam's long career."
said Cooper. "Here's a guy who has done everything: from touring in
Vaudeville in the 1930's with the Major Bowes, to being Director of the
Aquarium-Museum at the University of California Scripp's Institution of
Oceanography, to recording and releasing CD's in the 21st century! And to
top it all off, he is also the kindest, most generous and good-natured man
anyone could hope to meet."

www.samhinton.org contains vintage photos, biographical information and a
discography of Hinton's recordings, as well as information on how to order
those albums that are still in print. Cooper explains "I want to include
absolutely everything I can that relates to Sam's career. Every day we
receive letters from people who have just visited the site and they all
pretty much say the same thing: that Sam has had a profound positive effect
on their lives."

Over the past six decades, Hinton has performed school assemblies for over 2
million students across Southern California. He has recorded some 200 songs.
Hinton's historic 1947 recordings for the Library of Congress have been
reissued by Bear Family Records in Germany.

Hinton's first commercial recording "Old Man Atom" (1950) has been reissued
as part of the folk music collection Folk Song America by the Smithsonian
Institution. His early recordings (1950-1957, for Decca, ABC, and Bowmar)
are long out of print. Hinton's four albums originally recorded for
Folkways (1961-1967) are still available from Smithsonian/Folkways Records
(two are of children's songs).

A one hour demonstration DVD "Sam Hinton's Amazing Diatonic Harmonicas,"
featuring Hinton's unique guitar and harmonica techniques will be released
by Mel Bay Publications in 2004.

Hinton's latest recording project, a three CD set of solo harmonica
performances recorded between 1937 and 2002, will be released next year.

Cooper invites fans and friends to contribute photographs, stories,
drawings, and songs. Send submissions to webmaster@samhinton.org

(For a JPEG photo of Sam Hinton, send email request to: pfigen@keyway.net )