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The Weavers were an American folk music quartet based in the Greenwich Village area of New York City originally consisting of Lee Hays, Pete Seeger, Ronnie Gilbert, and Fred Hellerman. Founded in 1948, the group sang traditional folk songs from around the world, as well as blues, gospel music, children's songs, labor songs, and American ballads.
AllMusic's Bruce Eder praises this compilation as a close cross-section of PP&M's eclectic sound, nicely highlighting the group's evolution during the prior decade [2] from the acoustic folk sound that helped popularize several early Dylan compositions, to their later use of electric guitar and drums on hits like "Too Much of Nothing ...
BMOC: Best Music On/Off Campus: 4 1962 In Person: 102 1963 The Big Folk Hits: 56 Cross-Country Concert: 81 1964 Sing of Our Times — More Big Folk Hits: 134 By Special Request — 1965 Try to Remember: 76 The Honey Wind Blows: 118 1966 Merry Christmas — A Beatles' Songbook: 97 1967 A New World's Record — 1969 Let's Get Together — 1970 ...
EMI Music: Charles Fisher: 3.41 Can We Learn to Get Along: 1976: Bruce Woodley – – Can't Make Up My Mind: 1967: Judith Durham: David Reilly – Seekers Seen in Green: Columbia Records, EMI Music: Keith Grant/The Seekers: 2:18 The Carnival Is Over: 1965 – – Tom Springfield (melody from a Russian folk song) Carry Me: 2022: Bruce Woodley ...
Australian music historian Ian McFarlane described their style as "concentrated on a bright, uptempo sound, although they were too pop to be considered strictly folk and too folk to be rock". [1] In 1967, [2] they were named as joint "Australians of the Year" – the only group thus honoured. In July 1968, Durham left to pursue a solo career ...
The Lovin' Spoonful is an American folk-rock band formed in Greenwich Village, New York City, in 1964.The band were among the most popular groups in the United States for a short period in the mid-1960s and their music and image influenced many of the contemporary rock acts of their era.
Sissel's musical style runs the gamut from pop recordings and traditional folk songs, to classical vocals and operatic arias. She possesses a "crystalline" voice [2] and wide vocal range, sweeping down from mezzo-soprano notes, in arias such as Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix from Saint-Saëns's opera Samson et Dalila, to the F natural above ...
Folk Songs for Young People: Grammy Award for Best Album for Children [24] Nonesuch and Other Folk Tunes [25] Champlain Valley Songs: 1960 [26] Song and Play Time with Pete Seeger [27] Songs of the Civil War [28] Indian Summer [29] Story Songs: April 1961: Columbia [30] Songs of Memphis Slim and Willie Dixon: May 1961: Folkways [31] American ...