Riedel Brothers - Help Me Find My Way b/w Estevan's Old North Star Mine

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Side 1

		Track Name	Length
	1	Help Me Find My Way

Side 2

		Track Name	Length
	1	Estevan's Old North Star Mine	03:36

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The Riedel Brothers were Emil, Herman, Rudolph and Fred and were a popular German Folk group who sang together from the 1930's. They were originally from the Portage La Prairie District of Manitoba, but they moved with their parents to Weyburn, Saskatchewan to be farmers. The boys returned to Winnipeg in 1946 and operated a family sawmill enterprise in eastern Manitoba for a number of years.

The quartet also cut 3 German folk and Love folk albums on the Point label, and other German folk albums on the MCA Coral and Regis labels.

The ballad on the flip side is about the short-lived North Star Mine in Estevan, Saskatchewan which commenced production in 1955. After mining coal, moss silver and filliform silver, it was closed three years later in 1958. Both tunes on this single were written by Frances Meckler.
-Robert Williston

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