The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #75751   Message #1335426
Posted By: PoppaGator
22-Nov-04 - 01:19 PM
Thread Name: Best Rock versions of traditional songs
Subject: RE: Best Rock versions of traditional songs
Good one, MG -- that's a great exaample from The Tokens, perhaps the very first "folk-rock" record. I'm surprised no one had mentioned it earlier -- disappointed in myself for not coming up with it.

I didn't know "Wimoweh" WAS a folk song until years after that rock/pop recording hit, when I heard Pete Seeger perform. Had he recorded it as a members of the Weavers? That would have been well before my time.