Whatever happened to..?????

Subject: RE: Whatever happened to..?????
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Feb 12 - 02:19 AM

I'd love to know about Leo, too. We were conscientious objectors working at the Methodist Children's Home Society when we got to be good friends for a while -- I got swept away and we just lost touch. I want to say he and Rich had a band Society's Child? Is that right? He was a truly fine man...

Subject: RE: Whatever happened to..?????
From: Mary Katherine
Date: 30 Jul 10 - 09:11 PM

TJ, I don't know where Paul Potash is but his longtime singing partner in both Art & Paul and the Christys, Art Podell, was a guest on my radio show last week - I'll ask him and let you know!

Subject: RE: Whatever happened to..?????
From: DonMeixner
Date: 30 Jul 10 - 01:08 PM

Beer, that was in 1998 that i aked that question. Bruce and I have spoken manytimes since. And it is a damned shame I don't get to see him round these parts lately.

Don

Subject: RE: Whatever happened to..?????
From: Duke
Date: 30 Jul 10 - 09:51 AM

Any information on David Wiffen? He had started to play again a few years ago. I saw him at festival of friends but have heard nothing since.

Subject: RE: Whatever happened to..?????
From: sharyn
Date: 30 Jul 10 - 02:38 AM

And, while I'm at it, I'll bring up the "Blue Rubies," who did a dynamite cover of "When You Were Mine" on a compilation recording and then dropped out of sight. Anybody know them?

Subject: RE: Whatever happened to..?????
From: sharyn
Date: 30 Jul 10 - 02:37 AM

Did anyone here know the San Francisco singer called Victoria? There's very little information about her -- mostly bad reviews -- but I loved parts of her "Secret of the Bloom" album and would like to know more about her.

Subject: RE: Whatever happened to..?????
From: Beer
Date: 29 Jul 10 - 07:32 AM

Don M... Were you serious about the location of Bruce Murdoch?
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Subject: RE: Whatever happened to..?????
From: mousethief
Date: 29 Jul 10 - 03:49 AM

Anybody know what happened to mudcatter Áine? She used to do the song challenges back in the diapered years of the last decade, but hasn't posted since 2007. I hope she's okay.

Subject: RE: Whatever happened to..?????
From: Duke
Date: 23 Mar 10 - 11:22 AM

Anyone know of Kit Snow from California?

Subject: RE: Whatever happened to..?????
From: GUEST,Marco Paolo McNeill
Date: 23 Mar 10 - 10:31 AM

If you wanna see informations on Paul McNeill,

www.paulmcneill.ch

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Subject: RE: Whatever Happened to ................
From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego
Date: 09 Apr 09 - 03:47 PM

Bob "Marty" Martin (Fresno, CA - BobTomLee Trio - Viet Nam Vet - 1960's)
Pete Jacobs (San Diego -LA - early 1960's)
Paul Potash (Art & Paul and New Christy Minstrels)
Ed Rush (Who, with the late George Cromarty, gave us the immortal "Plastic Jesus")

One former itinerant west coast minstrel of the early 1960's, Hadley Batchelder III, is a retired Law School Dean. Some of us actually go straight...

Subject: RE: Whatever Happened to ................
From: Wesley S
Date: 08 Apr 09 - 03:51 PM

"What ever happed to Hedge and Donna"?

Subject: RE: Whatever happened to..?????
From: GUEST,Jim Martin
Date: 25 Apr 07 - 10:01 PM

Which reminds me, my old thread "Does anyone know what happened to Norman Sinclair"

Subject: RE: Whatever happened to..?????
From: Loretta Simonet
Date: 27 Dec 98 - 08:33 PM

Thanks for the info on Fraser & DeBolt, Bill. It's great to know they're still both playing music...Loretta S

Subject: RE: Fraser & DeBolt
From: Bill Cameron
Date: 27 Dec 98 - 07:58 PM

Daisy DeBolt was indeed half of Fraser and DeBolt. She has been performing with her own band for quite a few years now. The voice is still recognizable, but her own style is very different--kind of feminist accordion-totin bohemian earth-mother thing. As F& D were, she' a definite one-of-a-kind artist.

Allan Fraser is heard from much less at least in Ontario. But he was in Ottawa a couple of years ago and I heard a live radio show that he did with his current spouse (of 15 years) and musical partner. Together they sound eerily like the old Fraser and DeBolt, and unlike Daisy they still do that old material. I think they also still live in the Eastern Townships of Quebec...

Bill Temporarily in Vermont

Subject: RE: Whatever happened to..?????
From: Mike Billo
Date: 26 Dec 98 - 10:11 PM

Many thanks to Roger in Baltimore. Not only did that answer my question about Kweskin, it provided a wealth of information about Mel Lyman. Thanks

Subject: RE: Whatever happened to..?????
From: Barry Finn
Date: 26 Dec 98 - 09:33 PM

Harpgirl, say hi from the guy that gave him "Wild Rippling Waters" back in the 70's when he was in & around Boston. Barry

Subject: RE: Whatever happened to..?????
From: harpgirl
Date: 26 Dec 98 - 09:02 PM

Oh thank you Allan. I will E-Mail him to ask him what he is doing in music these days. He has some good albums out of his fantastic dulcimer playing...harpgirl

Subject: RE: Whatever happened to..?????
From: Allan S.
Date: 26 Dec 98 - 04:18 PM

ATTENTION HARP GIRL Will someone see that she gets this message I looked up the person that she was looking for as follows. Leo Kretzner 418 Lewis St. Vermillion, SD 57069-3201 Phone [phone] All this information is avalable on the net. I use Yahoo then click on People Find If they have a phone or e-mail you can find it there. Allan S.

Subject: RE: Whatever happened to..?????
From: Roger in Baltimore
Date: 26 Dec 98 - 09:00 AM

Mike Billo,

There was a recent thread on Jim Kweskin. CLICK HERE for the low down.

Roger in Baltimore

Subject: RE: Whatever happened to..?????
From: Art Thieme
Date: 25 Dec 98 - 02:30 PM

Doc Stanley who was in Chicago in the early 60's. Did a dynamite fingerpicked version of "Deep Elem Blues" on his old regularly fretted and low strung Dobro? Doc, last I heard you were incarcerated...

Fred Geis--last heard that you were rooming with Richard Harding, the 60s % 70's owner of Poor Richard's in Chicago. Fred was originally from Sacramento. Wrote "Goin' Home" (made a hit by Kinston Trio--was #1 for a week before it was noticed that the tune was taken from an aria in Gounod's FAUST. Also wrote "Lament For Brendan Behan" that was recorded by the Clancy's & Tommy Makem---and many others.

Fred Neil---in Florida---great voice.

Ron Buffington--in Chicago in the mid & early 60's. Was first guitar player for Bonny Koloc there.

Tom Meisenheimer---played banjo in Chicago in 60s.

Roger Luzwick---artist (painter) and guitar picker in Chicago in early 60s.

Mark Dorinson---At the University of Chicago in the early 60s---picked grand guitar.

Mike Slosson---in Chicago with Roger & Tom. Hung at the Erectheon coffeehouse on Sedgwick St. in Old Town.

Lorraine Blue---owner of MOOTHER BLUES--an early folk club where George Carlin & Bill Cosby opened for folksingers in the mid 60s.

Sarah Stewart a waitress at the No Exit (Chicago) in the 60s---from Spooner, Wisconsin originally. We shared the same Birthday...

...and so many waitresses ALL OVER---Where are ya now? Especially that great gal who was a waitress at THE FICKLE PICKLE COFFEEHOUSE in Chi. on Rush Street who said, one sad day, "Boy, would I like to ball a Beatle!" I knew, then, that particular incarnation of the folk scene was OVER. After that, it seemed the drummers got all the dates. The drummers even infiltrated the Grand Ole Opry after that!

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: Whatever happened to..?????
From: harpgirl
Date: 25 Dec 98 - 11:15 AM

what has become of Leo Kretzner? I heard he was teaching at University of South Dakota. He was my dulcimer teacher in Ann Arbor in the 70's. I was hopeless. harpgirl

Subject: RE: Whatever happened to..?????
From: Bill Sables
Date: 25 Dec 98 - 09:20 AM

Whatever happened to Barry Skinner He used to come from Coventry England and played guitar and banjo in the 60s and 70s. I heard he had gone to somewhere in Wales I would like to contact him again Cheers Bill

Subject: RE: Whatever happened to..?????
From: Bill Sables
Date: 25 Dec 98 - 09:20 AM

Whatever happened to Barry Skinner He used to come from Coventry England and played guitar and banjo in the 60s and 70s. I heard he had gone to somewhere in Wales I would like to contact him again Cheers Bill

Subject: RE: Whatever happened to..?????
From: Mike Billo
Date: 24 Dec 98 - 10:23 PM

What is Jim Kweskin doing nowadays?

Subject: RE: Whatever happened to..?????
From: Limner
Date: 24 Dec 98 - 07:54 PM

Not exactly folk, but he used to play in the same upstate New York circuit in the early 70's -- Whatever became of LEW LONDON ? Originaly he was with a bluegrass band called Bottle Hill, playing awesome guitar, mandolin, and dobro; later he teamed up with a bass player and played light swing on an f-hole guitar.

Subject: RE: Whatever happened to..?????
From: Loretta Simonet
Date: 24 Dec 98 - 06:23 PM

Does anyone know whatever became of a Canadian folk duo, Fraser and DeBolt? I heard one of their albums in the late seventies. Beautiful stuff. I've seen "Daisy DeBolt" in the Dirty Linen tour schedules, and her gigs were in Canada...could this be the same woman? Fraser and DeBolt were a man and woman...

Subject: RE: Whatever happened to..?????
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Dec 98 - 05:10 PM

there was a girl named 'Ellen' who left Chicago about 1962 the head for New Mexico, I believe...she stopped in Wichita, Kansas for awhile and taught us a number of songs, including a very sad old gospel song called "Bring My Savior to me".....I've always wondered...

also in Kansas in the '60s was Roland Appleton..had one bad eye and played frailed banjo and raised Siberian huskies...he knew half of more songs than anyone I ever heard...

smae place. same general era...Gene Vermillion..short..red hair, round faced..played 12-string and blues...

none of the folks seem to have become well known, but the power of the WWW being what it is....*shrug*

Subject: RE: Whatever happened to..?????
From: Allan S.
Date: 24 Dec 98 - 01:37 PM

Just for the fun of it I looked up Mark Spoelstra with Yahoo under people search THere are 5 M. or Mark Spoelstra listed in the USA in CA. there is one at 1448 W.Alpine Ave. Stockton, CA. 95204-2926 4 others in IA OR MI Hope this is the one you are looking for

Subject: RE: Whatever happened to..?????
From: allan.S
Date: 24 Dec 98 - 01:23 PM

As long as we are in the "What became of mode" Searchong for anyone who sang at the Yale Hoots 1954-1973 Searching for MAXINE ABRAMOWITZ in NYC area

Subject: RE: Whatever happened to..?????
From: Benson
Date: 24 Dec 98 - 01:11 PM

Dear Allan in Australia,

If it were indeed the "Johnny you hardly knew".....Then I am sorry to say....he did not come marching home...As you see..... He was missing an arm and a leg.....

And as to whether or not they will "all be gay"....I am not sure....but I have been informed that he "looked so queer"......I have no inclination as to the implication that was intended.....

Subject: RE: Whatever happened to..?????
From: karen k
Date: 24 Dec 98 - 10:03 AM

How about Mark Spoelstra? He played in Connecticut in the 60's. Last I knew he was working in the Watts area in L.A. as a conscienious objector during Vietnam. I know he wrote a couple of songs about his experiences in Watts.

Subject: RE: Whatever happened to..?????
From: Alan of Australia
Date: 24 Dec 98 - 04:20 AM

G'day,
Whatever happened to Johnny????

Although I hardly knew him, I heard that the enemy nearly slew him.

There was also a rumour that he played with a band called The Hurricanes about 40 years ago, well known in the Red River Valley.

Lost sight of him since, but I'm sure we'll all be gay when Johnny comes marching home.

Sorry (maybe),
Alan

Subject: RE: Whatever happened to..?????
From: Barbara
Date: 22 Dec 98 - 06:59 PM

Gosh, folks, I'm starting to wonder if Portland, OR is the Bermuda triangle of folksingers....I asked around, and so far, I have learned that Michael Greiner left here a number of years back to stay with his mother in Orchard Park, Washington state.
Will let you know if anyone has heard of the other folk.
Blessings,
Barbara

Subject: RE: Whatever happened to..?????
From: Liam's Brother
Date: 21 Dec 98 - 08:20 AM

What ever happened to Caesar Pacifici? Caesar is a whiz guitarist and can play in any style. He was in The Flying Cloud with Kathleen Collins, Tony DeMarco, Brian Brooks and myself back in the mid to late '70s. When I last heard from him, he was making more money at calligraphy than music, which is unfathomable given the way he could play. I understand he went to Portland, OR. Any Caesar sightings, anyone? Thanks.

Subject: RE: Whatever happened to..?????
From: Joe Offer
Date: 21 Dec 98 - 02:14 AM

Don, Click here for a thread on Hamish Imlach, who died a few years ago.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Whatever happened to..?????
From: DonMeixner
Date: 20 Dec 98 - 11:25 PM

I still wonder what happened to Paul McNeill from Great Britain, Bruce Murdock from Canada, Hamish Imlack from Great Britain, and about fifty or sixty other's who I've heard over the years who helped to shape my love of folkmusic. Also I'll take this opportunity to thank Sandy Paton and Art Thieme, The Golden Voice of the Dells and parts of the Upper Penninsula for being so good at what they do.

DonMeixner

Subject: RE: Whatever happened to..?????
From: schmuze
Date: 20 Dec 98 - 05:31 AM

Whatever happened to Michael Greiner, from Oregon, he plays dulcimer, guitar, sings, and I need to say some things to him.........and whatever happened to Ollie Boland from Co Clare???????? A mad banjo man. Originally from Dublin, bust last heard from in Ennis, could he be in the States now?? I've lost him. Thanks for any new on either of these guys.

Subject: RE: Whatever happened to..?????
From: Art Thieme
Date: 18 Dec 98 - 08:24 PM

Sandy, As I have tried to say, What goes around, comes around. Thanks for doing the same for me---and many others.

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: Whatever happened to..?????
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 18 Dec 98 - 05:57 PM

I'd be happy if someone out there has ever met, sung with, or known a fellow about my age (70) who played guitar and sang informally in Seattle about 48 years ago. His name was Warren Povey. He graduated from Dartmouth, then came to Seattle to study playwriting at the U. of Washington. We swapped a lot of songs back then in the inexpensive student apartments near the campus, although I was never a student. (I snuck in as a reader for blind students.) If you know him, please let me know how to get in touch with him. I owe him (among many others) for a good life in folk music. I'd like to say "thanks."

Sandy

Subject: Whatever happened to..?????
From: Benson
Date: 18 Dec 98 - 04:18 PM

I was wondering if there has ever been any threads on ...."Whatever happened to...?" I suppose it could get outa hand......Every area has it's favorite locals.....I am from S. Florida....lots of great talent went through there in the 60's........and I wonder about a bunch of people.....There was a thread on aol under "Baby boomers".....Someone asked about Fred Neil.....There never was an answer....I am still wondering.....