another 'what happened' to 60's folk

Subject: another 'what happenned' to 60's folk
From: mrmoe
Date: 19 May 07 - 08:42 AM

A few 60's folk artists that I would like to find (again) are Mike Fairbanks, Janet Klimoski (later Janet Blair), Bill Madison, Mike Valen.....any information appreciated.....anyone to add to this list?

Subject: RE: another 'what happenned' to 60's folk
From: GUEST,Peter Green
Date: 19 May 07 - 08:45 AM

I am still looking for Jack and Maggie King

Subject: RE: another 'what happenned' to 60's folk
From: Deckman
Date: 19 May 07 - 09:45 AM

I am looking for Mike Reedy, he's probably in the medical field. I met him in Seattle in the late fifties. Bob Nelson

Subject: RE: another 'what happenned' to 60's folk
From: Ythanside
Date: 19 May 07 - 09:59 AM

I'm looking for my mind. I'm sure I put it down someplace during the sixties. If I could just remember which pub it was in,........

Subject: RE: another 'what happenned' to 60's folk
From: Deckman
Date: 19 May 07 - 10:17 AM

"Y" ... I just got a brief glimpse of it, but it dissapeared again! Oh ... there it is again. OH MY GAWD ... WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?

Subject: RE: another 'what happenned' to 60's folk
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 19 May 07 - 12:21 PM

Bill Madison left snowy New Hampshire some time ago for sunnier Florida with a new bride and is still making music.

Linn

Subject: RE: another 'what happened' to 60's folk
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 19 May 07 - 03:36 PM

To answer some of this question (800 pages worth) check out Clay Eals' just released new biography called "Steve Goodman--FACING THE MUSIC." I'm 100 pages into my copy and I can't put it down.
Just a beautifully done totality.

Art

Subject: RE: another 'what happened' to 60's folk
From: Ythanside
Date: 19 May 07 - 04:48 PM

I dunno, Deckman, I dunno what possessed me, man. There was this band playing some happenin' keyboard stuff, and these mixed-up liquid colours were flowing up and down the walls, it was all kinda way out, y'know, then I think I was crawling over the ceiling when.....

Subject: RE: another 'what happened' to 60's folk
From: Peace
Date: 19 May 07 - 09:45 PM

YOU are one messed up dude. I was there, man, and you just think you crawled across the ceiling. Like, it was the WALL, man, the WALL.

Subject: RE: another 'what happened' to 60's folk
From: Ythanside
Date: 19 May 07 - 11:41 PM

Peace, man, Peace.   Be cool..., gimme time to.., like..., straighten out..., y'know?   Yeah..., I remember now, it was.., it was..., like..., love an' floatin' an..., like REAL...,y'know? Just..., REAL. The WALL??.... Naw, man..., naw...that place din't have..., like...., WALLS....., naw. Just..., like..., a CEILIN', man..., y'know?      No Walls, man..., just..., like..., a great huge....., CEILIN'......, hangin' there. It was..., like..., AWSOME., man..., just.., AWSOME............    Peace, man.....

Subject: RE: another 'what happened' to 60's folk
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 20 May 07 - 12:21 AM

It was a grand time when some people actually acted like they had common sense.

Many of us knew enough, when faced with an insane war and demented leaders, not to go!

Art

Subject: RE: another 'what happened' to 60's folk
From: Ythanside
Date: 20 May 07 - 08:09 AM

Can't disagree with you on that, Art, but it seems that insane wars and demented leaders, like the poor, are always with us.
When will they ever learn?

Subject: RE: another 'what happened' to 60's folk
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 20 May 07 - 08:14 AM

Peter Green, I have an address for Jack and Margaret King in London N3, but I have no idea if they would still be there as it's a long time since I got the card from Jack.
Giok

Subject: RE: another 'what happened' to 60's folk
From: Deckman
Date: 20 May 07 - 08:42 AM

And ... I'm still wondering what happened to "KIRBY GREENWOOD" of the Seattle area. I lost track of him in the mid 70's. Bob

Subject: RE: another 'what happened' to 60's folk
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 20 May 07 - 08:48 AM

I went to me wee book from the days when I ran a club in Kew, and looked at the names in there. Some of whom sank without trace, some are still around, and a few have gone to their maker.
John Pearse, Mike Absolom, Don Partridge, Terry Gould, Terry Masterson, Jack King, Lisa Turner[d], The Coal Creeks, Mike Ritman, Terry Mundy, Steve Benbow [d], Alan Young, The Beggermen, Roger Evans [d], Ron Geesin, Dennis O'Brien, Cliff Aungier [d].
On 3ed January 1968 I paid Noel Murphy 8 Guineas for an evening at the club, 14th Feb 1968 Hedy West £20, and 28th Feb Derek Brimstone £10.
For the Times they are a Changing ♫♪
Giok

"When you're pretty sure of what the future holds, looking back is all you have!"

Subject: RE: another 'what happened' to 60's folk
From: artbrooks
Date: 20 May 07 - 09:55 AM

Giok, is/was that the same Beggermen that Mudcatter Seamus Kennedy was part of?

Subject: RE: another 'what happened' to 60's folk
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 20 May 07 - 11:09 AM

Giok

I googled on "Don Partridge" because I thought he'd been getting about on the music scene relatively recently, and found this on Wikipedia:

"By 2004, veteran Irish DJ Terry Wogan was musing about Partridge's existence on his daily breakfast BBC Radio 2 programme. The belated revival of interest in Partridge's work was given a further boost by the inclusion of his song "Breakfast on Pluto", in the soundtrack to the 2005 film, Breakfast on Pluto.

In the same year Partridge undertook a UK tour as support for the indie pop / trip hop duo, known as Lemon Jelly. Reviews of their performances on 11 and 16 March 2005 at the Brixton Academy, London."

Kitty

Subject: RE: another 'what happened' to 60's folk
From: GUEST,Peter Green
Date: 21 May 07 - 10:08 AM

Many thanks 'Giok'that rings a bell. I think I know how to follow up that one.

Subject: RE: another 'what happened' to 60's folk
From: Moleskin Joe
Date: 22 May 07 - 09:14 AM

Does anyone know anything about Murray Young, who was about in the early Sixties?

Subject: RE: another 'what happened' to 60's folk
From: Grimmy
Date: 22 May 07 - 10:29 AM

Giok - Mike Absolom is alive and well and living in Ireland (see his website). I saw him loads of times during the 70s - (remember Hector the Dope Sniffing Hound and WPC Sadie Stick?) - what a good laugh.

Subject: RE: another 'what happened' to 60's folk
From: redsnapper
Date: 22 May 07 - 10:34 AM

Giok,

If it is the Ron Geesin who plays jazz banjo and piano and is married to Frances Geesin then I met him a few weeks ago and have an address.

RS

Subject: RE: another 'what happened' to 60's folk
From: GUEST,Graham Bradshaw
Date: 23 May 07 - 06:46 AM

'Giok wrote'-
On 3ed January 1968 I paid Noel Murphy 8 Guineas for an evening at the club, 14th Feb 1968 Hedy West £20, and 28th Feb Derek Brimstone £10.
For the Times they are a Changing ♫♪

That's interesting. In 1967, I was one of the residents at the Surbiton club, and Derek Sarjeant started taking me round on some of his gigs. I would get up and do a couple of songs as part of Derek's set. I did this at the Hole in the Wall in Chichester, and in the interval they asked if they could book me in my own right. "How much do you charge?" they said. "How much do I charge?" I asked Derek. "How much do you earn a week in your job?" he replied. "Eight quid", says I. "Well, that's what you charge for a gig then" he retorted.
So first ever paid gig, and I got a week's wage. That was the formula back then. Translate that to today's values, and you'll see that artists' fees have not really kept pace.

Subject: RE: another 'what happened' to 60's folk
From: GUEST,Jack King
Date: 07 Jul 10 - 05:31 AM

Margaret & I are still alive & kicking and living in Deepest Suffolk Mag has just celebrated her 80th birthday & I will catch her up next March.We left folk music in the middle 70s(some say we never joined)Mag gave up to nurse her sick mother in 1970 & I soldiersd on foer a few years th elast proffesional work I did was as a minstrel at the Gore hotel along side such as Hylda Symm Barrie Beattie & Dave Ward.Still got the old00018 though

Subject: RE: another 'what happened' to 60's folk
From: Kevin Sheils
Date: 07 Jul 10 - 05:43 AM

Great to hear from you and Margaret, Jack.

Finding the Cellar at CSH in my teen years changed so many things. And I'm still at it.

That last line up of yours brought some memories. There's a thread called something like Folk Clubs London 60s/70s. I'll try to copy your note there.

Subject: RE: another 'what happened' to 60's folk
From: GUEST,Allan S.
Date: 07 Jul 10 - 07:04 PM

Margaret wagner NYC and Hoots at yale
Anne bird/byrd NYC and Hoots at new Haven- Yale last known to be in Calif??
Arther Argo Scotland
Any one from the old Yale hoots 1953 on
Any one from U-Conn. 1951 folk song club/outimg club to 1960

Subject: RE: another 'what happened' to 60's folk
From: GUEST,Peter Green
Date: 08 Jul 10 - 04:59 AM

It's great to hear that Jack and Maggie are still around after our great times in the Isles of Scilly. I have tried to find them for several years as seen in this thread.
Love to hear from you both [e-mail]

I remember the Gore and those tight pants. Still got them?

Subject: RE: another 'what happened' to 60's folk
From: oldhippie
Date: 08 Jul 10 - 08:32 AM

What about Martha Burns?

Subject: RE: another 'what happened' to 60's folk
From: GUEST,sinky
Date: 08 Jul 10 - 10:34 AM

What happened to Spoonnose Mctaggert,the wandering balladeer,he used to play the chainsaw with a spanner while gargling a tune with brandy.Last seen drinking large jugs of parraffin by the river tees near Yarm,but his tunes will live on in the memories of all the inmates of durhan nick.

Subject: RE: another 'what happened' to 60's folk
From: GUEST,Guest weelittledrummer
Date: 08 Jul 10 - 08:33 PM

Going to have dinner with Derek Brimstone tomorrow.

Subject: RE:Remember Melanie Safka
From: GUEST,phillip.subkow
Date: 04 Apr 18 - 10:00 AM

Melanie first came to this country in 1970 for the Isle of Wight Festival. I first went to a Melanie Concert in 2008 at the Wolverhampton Civic Hall, Brilliant Concert!
Next time I went to a Melanie Covert was a year later at Manchester, Yet! another Brilliant Concert, Her Son, Beau took a photo of Me with my Arm around Melanie! Some of her songs, were, Ruby Tuesday; Peace Will Come; Look What They've Done to My Song Ma, just to mention a few!
Melanie is Now 71 Years of Age, and still tours in America, but Not the Country Anymore! Shame!
As anyone else ever met Melanie Safka?

Regards
Phil Subkow

Subject: RE: another 'what happened' to 60's folk
From: GUEST,phillip.subkow
Date: 04 Apr 18 - 10:28 AM

What Happened to Melanie Safka?

Melanie started in the late sixties as an American Folk Singer!
she didn't come to this Country until 1970 at the Isle of Wight Festival
Anyone remember?

Phil Subkow

Subject: RE: another 'what happened' to 60's folk
From: Jeri
Date: 04 Apr 18 - 11:26 AM

She's active. Her website is http://www.melaniesafka.com/home