On the one hand, it's hard to knock Decca and the Gordon Jenkins arrangements because they got the Weavers out there on radio and juke boxes. The Weavers' performances on those records managed to cut through the slick and commercial format and the "real" was audibly there. But to my mind, the live Vanguard records were far better.

When Lee Hays saw the photos on the Decca album covers, (CLICKY), he commented, "We look like three stuffed dummies and a Barbie doll!"

Don Firth