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"Goodnight, Irene" or "Irene, Goodnight," is a 20th-century American folk standard, written in 3 4 time, first recorded by American blues musician Huddie 'Lead Belly' Ledbetter in 1933. A version recorded by The Weavers was a #1 hit in 1950. Pete Seeger of The Weavers has characterized it as Lead Belly's "theme song." [1]
After hearing Pete Seeger performing Tzena, [1] with The Weavers as backing, Gordon Jenkins made an arrangement of the song for the Weavers with English lyrics. [2] The Jenkins/Weavers version, released by Decca Records under catalog number 27077, was one side of a two-sided hit, reaching No. 2 on the Billboard magazine charts in 1950 while the ...
"Goodnight, Irene" sold one million copies in 1950. [7] (Pete Seeger later wrote that total sales were about two million records. [8] [9]) In keeping with the style of the time, these and other early Weavers' releases had violins and orchestration added behind the group. For example, on their hit, Lonesome Traveler which Lee Hays wrote, they ...
The Weavers' first big hit, the flipside of Lead Belly's "Good Night Irene", and a top seller in its own right, was in Hebrew ("Tzena, Tzena, Tzena") and they, and later Joan Baez, who was of Mexican descent, occasionally included Spanish-language material in their repertoires, as well as songs from Africa, India, and elsewhere.
Peter Seeger (May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014) was an American folk singer-songwriter, musician and social activist. He was a fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, and had a string of hit records in the early 1950s as a member of The Weavers, notably their recording of Lead Belly's "Goodnight, Irene," which topped the charts for 14 weeks in 1950.
"He Is Coming to Us Dead" [e] (1899) [9] Also notable is Davis's "Irene, Good Night" (1886), which entered the folk song repertoire, albeit significantly altered, as " Goodnight, Irene " in Negro Folk Songs as Sung by Lead Belly (1936).
Gilbert was born in Brooklyn, New York City [1] and considered herself a native New Yorker her whole life. [2] Her parents were Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. [3] Her mother, Sarah, came from Warsaw, Poland [4] and was a dressmaker and trade unionist, and her father, Charles Gilbert, came from Ukraine and was a factory worker.
"Goodnight Irene" "Governor O.K. Allen" [15] "Governor Pat Neff" "Green Corn" "Grey Goose" "Gwine Dig a Hole to Put Devil In" "The Hindenburg Disaster" (parts 1 & 2) "Ha Ha This A-Way" "Ham an' Eggs" "He Never Said a Mumblin' Word" [1] (trad.) "Heaeh Mountain Stomp" "Hitler Song" "House of The Rising Sun" "How Long, How Long Blues" (with Sonny ...