Every time I see the title of this thread in the list of threads, I think to myself, some day someone's going to want to search for this thread using the thread title, and they're not going to be able to remember Jerry's tongue-in-cheek way of spelling "American". Someone might want to have a clone change the spelling in the title just to help people who might want to find it in the future.

I know these guys aren't folk, but for vocal harmonies in North America, my favorites are The Starland Vocal Band. The McGiggle sisters come second.