Folk Singers who Have Died

Subject: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Guest - Lindy
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 02:10 AM

I'm trying to come up with a list of well known or fairly well known folk singers that I can think of who have passed away. For the purpose of this thread I am only looking for artists who were primarily involved with folk or considered a folk singer although they may have played other music during their career.

1). Sandy Denny
2). Tim Hart
3). Jim Croce
4). Kate Wolf
5). Mary Travers (of Peter, Paul & Mary)
6). Stan Rogers
7). Mimi Farina-Baez (Joan Baez's younger sister)
8). John Denver
9). Dan Fogelberg
10).Odetta
11).Kate McGarrigle
12).Eva Cassidy
13).John Martyn
14).John Stewart
15).Harry Chapin

These are 15 names that came to mind right away but I know there are more folkies that have left us.

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: open mike
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 02:25 AM

yes, many, many...just search here for OBIT and you will find some...
far too many, actually...but the heavenly choir has lots of members...
Utah Phillips, Mike Seeger, John Hartford, Jim Ringer,

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: beeliner
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 02:32 AM

Townes vanZandt.

Dave Guard and Nick Reynolds.

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: catspaw49
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 02:39 AM

Sandy Paton
Rick Fielding

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: open mike
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 02:51 AM

Barry Finn

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Adam Smith
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 02:57 AM

Barry White
Freddie Mercury
Elizabeth Cronin
Woody Guthrie

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Little Robyn
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 03:04 AM

You missed Mimi Baez's husband - Richard Farina.
This year, people I have counted as friends:
Alistair Hulett - Scotland
Theresa Tooley - England
Joan Prior - Wellington NZ
Jim Delahunty - Wellington NZ

All folkies, all sadly missed.
Robyn in NZ

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Erich
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 03:13 AM

Yes, and Derroll Adams
Alex Campbell
Luke Kelly
Ronnie Drew
Isaac Guillory
Gerry Lockran
Roy Williamson
Lal Waterson
Clancy Brothers
Tommy Makem

and and and ...

What a great session they might have up there

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 03:43 AM

Lest we forget, Elmer P Bleaty.

Dave H

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Shimrod
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 04:30 AM

So, Freddie Mercury was a folk singer, was he? Yes, of course he was - just like Joan Sutherland who died the other day ...

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Fran
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 04:54 AM

Fred Wedlock
Joe Scurfield

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Dennis the Elder
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 04:57 AM

Keith Marsden.
Next year will be the 20th Aniversary of his death and still sadly missed

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 04:57 AM

Ewan MacColl, Bert Lloyd, Burl Ives...

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Silas
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 05:14 AM

Vic Baker, Tony Rose, Johnny Collins, Tony Capstick, Fred Jordan, Ewan McColl.

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Silas
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 05:14 AM

Lal Waterson

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: kendall
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 05:17 AM

Leadbelly
John Jacob Niles
Carl Sandburg
Margaret MacArthur

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: scouse
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 05:18 AM

Not forgetting....
Iain MacIntosh
the great Hamish Imlach.

As Aye,

Phil

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: kendall
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 05:18 AM

Malvina Reynolds

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Silas
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 05:20 AM

Hamsh Henderson

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Adam Smith
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 05:20 AM

Pete Seegar
Johnny Cash
Norman Wisdom
Seamus Ennis
Shep
Robert Maxwell
Marcus Garvey
John Strachan

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Amos
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 05:26 AM

How far back do we want to seek, here?


A

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Silas
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 05:33 AM

Peter Sellars, Kenneth Williams

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 05:41 AM

What is Mr Smith doing killing off Pete Seeger [note spelling], please?

Amos's question is of course a most pertinent one. Dealing only with people I have met, let's take as an example Harry Cox. If he wasn't dead, he would be 125 years old. Peter Bellamy, on the other hand, would only be 66, Sandy Denny 63, &c. But Alex Campbell 85. So where did OP envisage the parameters being set?

Has Isla Cameron been mentioned? Or Dominic Behan?

~Michael~

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: TheSnail
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 05:47 AM

One or two of these already mentioned.

John England
Walter Pardon
Harry Cox
Sam Larner
Paddy Tunney
James 'Brasser' Copper
Jim Copper
Bob Copper
Run Copper
Cyril Poacher
Phoebe Smith
Bob Hart
Oscar Woods
Harry Cox
Bob Roberts
George Spicer
Ron Spicer
Scan Tester
George Gelton
Cyril Phillips
Rabbidy Baxter
Harry Upton
George Maynard
Mary Ann Haynes
Louie Fuller
Queen Caroline Hughes
Jumbo Brightwell
Phil Tanner
Belle Stewart
Lizzie Higgins
Jeannie Robertson

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Adam Smith
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 05:59 AM

Pete Seeger (note spelling) is still alive, but my mate Pete Seegar died a few years ago. We had a big funeral, at which Mary Mcalpine sang 'My Love Is Like A Red Red Nose'.

It was profoundly moving.

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 06:01 AM

Royston Wood
Jon Rennard

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Adam Smith
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 06:26 AM

Hugh Jarse
Doc Watson
Mike Hunt
Libba Cotton

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 06:34 AM

No, I haven't. Sorry. Don't know where above blankety-blank space came from...

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 06:37 AM

Ciaran Bourke {The Dubliners}
Bob Lynch
Adrienne Johnston
Roy Williamson {The Corries}
Kathleen Largey {The Flying Cloumn}
Eamonn Largey {The Flying Cloumn}
Derek McCormack {Barleycorn}

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Warwick Slade
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 06:43 AM

Steve Benbow
Colin Scot
Jimmy McKinley

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 06:49 AM

Robin Hall

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 07:05 AM

Some more sad losses:
Derek Moffat (of the McCalmans, just now calling it a day)
Tony Cuffe (Jock Tamson's Bairns)
Davy Steele (quite a few Scottish bands)
Liz Cruickshank, Edinburgh
Anselm Noffke (of Germany's Liederjan, who are celebrating 35 years on 24 October, with one founder member still with them)

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 07:05 AM

Has Cyril Tawney been listed yet?

~M~

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: SPB-Cooperator
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 07:16 AM

Stan Hugill

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Andy Jackson
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 07:20 AM

There are so many friends we have all lost over the years, some "famous" some just part of our lives.

Siwsann George

Vicki Williams

Brian Ingham

We are all richer for having known them.

Andy

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Roger F.
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 07:32 AM

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Roger F.
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 07:33 AM

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Roger F.
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 07:35 AM

Roger Nicholson (dulcimer player & guitarist)

apologise for the previous blanks, but each time I went to type something in the thread closed!

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Tug the Cox
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 07:36 AM

Guest Adam Smith listed 'Shep'. To whom do you refer?

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 07:44 AM

David


{Well it is a stupid thread!}

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Adam Smith
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 07:50 AM

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Tug the Cox
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 07:36 AM

Guest Adam Smith listed 'Shep'. To whom do you refer?
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I refer to Shep, of course.

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 07:51 AM

Will Kemp, Shax's clown who did the 9·days·wonder dance from London to Norwich in 1600. Mrs Knipp, the actress whom Pepys recorded in his Diary having heard singing Barbara Allen on 2 Jan 1666 ......

~Michael~

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: alanabit
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 08:43 AM

I will soon think of many more, but Johnny Collins and Don Partridge come to mind immediately. To me, both were the heart and soul of folk music in very different ways. I am sure Tony Rose must have been mentioned by someone, although I missed it. Bill Price also comes to mind.

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Larry The Radio Guy
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 11:28 AM

Mickey Newbury
Tom Paley

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Suegorgeous
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 11:39 AM

umm, what is the point of this thread? (genuinely want to know!)

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Suegorgeous
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 11:41 AM

...which of course raises another question... do threads need a point? :)

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Erich
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 11:44 AM

OK, so Tony Rose and Bill Price are there already
more:
Tony Capstick
Martin Winsor
Redd Sullivan
Dominic Behan
Phil Ochs


I guess my vinyl collection is a great cemetery...

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: GUEST,Elwyn Maxon
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 11:47 AM

Cisco Huston
Grant Rogers
Millard Lampell
Bob Gibson
Hamilton Camp

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 11:49 AM

"do threads need a point?"

Only if you don't have a needle.

Subject: RE: Folk Singers who Have Died
From: The Sandman
Date: 17 Oct 10 - 11:50 AM

tom paley is still alive.