Unfortunately, Juliet didn't record herself singing all that much.  She meant to — she bought the tape recorder and the tapes to do it — but she ran out of time.  However, there is one tape. Juliet made a cassette for Abby to listen to at bedtime when Juliet was away in the hospital.  Here are a few songs from that tape: 
Juliet Sings!

When I met Juliet back in 1984, one of her fantasies was to become a rock & roll star.  (Another fantasy was to marry Bruce Springsteen... but that's another story.)  When she died, she had the words and guitar music to hundreds of songs that she had gathered over the years.  She used to sing entire sets of songs for her mother's high school classes.  She sang in coffee houses when she went to Barnard.  And she sang for friends and family, on holidays or just for fun.  I found these two set lists that Juliet wrote when she was in the hospital.  One is a list of the songs she would have sung if performing back in her Barnard days.  The other is a list of songs she would have sung if she were performing as an adult in her 30's:

Two "set" lists: 1981 and 1996


One can only imagine that Juliet would have had Abby singing union protest songs long before now if she had lived long enough. Here is a video shot when Abby was only a couple of months old and Juliet was introducing her to The Beatles. (Interestingly enough, at age 7, Abby asked me to get her the Beatles 1 CD.)
Abby Meets The Beatles, 1994


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