A goof. Eric Darling, Frank Hamilton, and aware that there was a third, but unable to immediately come up with Bernie Krause, somehow I managed to replace him with John Stewart.

I'm not saying that the Weavers, as a musical group, were not as good after Seeger left. I heard them when they first got started, and I have an umpteen CD boxed set of reissued Weavers records, so I've heard them in all of their incarnations. What I am saying is that Seeger's voice and style were so distinctive, even in that powerful group, that the sound just wasn't the same. Good? Not as good? Matter of taste, I guess. I have no quibble with their continuing to call themselves The Weavers. However, when the entire personnel of a small group changes, I just don't see how you can say it's the same group. That was my point with the Peter Paul and Mary example. Extreme, as I said, but I think the point holds.

I know how PP & M came into existence, and I also know that earlier, as a member of Grossman's manufactured trio starting with Gibson and Camp, Judy Henske was considered at one point. Now there would have been one helluva sound!

At this rate, as long as they're still a draw, a nominal "Kingston Trio" could still be in existence a few thousand years from now, touring colonies in this arm of the galaxy. Business is business. . . .

Don Firth