No, Don, not end of debate as you have completely missed the point. The Weavers at carnegie Hall did not sell anywhere near a million records causing virtually every record label to find a competing group. It had no hit singles and probably very little airplay due to the short amount of time since their McCarthy era blacklisting. It had virtually no impact on sales of guitars by Martin, Gibson, Harmony, Kay, and shortly after, a whole group of Japanese imports. There were virtually no college concerts of folk music before the Kingston Trio's first album. That is because it influenced and reached so many more people. So, it was the power of radio. So what.

I am not saying that the Weavers were not important. They were. but your snobbish biasness toward them continues to have you miss the point that they, in the long run, due to the much smaller audience that they appealled to compared to the boomer generation, that ALBUM was not as influential to the years after The Kingston trio's first album sold more than a million copies exposing the greatest amount of individuals ever to folk music.

So go back to the drawing board, and go read another Archie comic book. The oldie stations today are not playing Goodnight Irene or On Top of Old Smokie, but they still do play Tom Dooley because it ushered in the folk music era for oh so many.