The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #135033 Message #3076882
Posted By: Don Firth
17-Jan-11 - 11:35 PM
Thread Name: First Folk Song You Sang in Public
Subject: RE: First Folk Song You Sang in Public
High Barbaree.
First heard sung by Walt Robertson, learned it from The Burl Ives Song Book.
On the performance stage at the Hec Edmondson Pavilion at the University of Washington during a citywide hobby fair. On stage with Walt Robertson and Bob Nelson.
Spring of 1953.
23.
I'll be 80 in June.
Yup. Still sing it.
Don Firth