Little known '60s Folk Singers

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: Dave Sutherland
Date: 23 Jan 22 - 03:44 PM

Sorry to report but RoyH (Burl) Roy Harris died in 2016.
The Haverim are featured on the complete series of Hullabaloo DVD which was released a couple of years ago.

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: GUEST,John from "Elsie`s Band"
Date: 22 Jan 22 - 10:42 AM

I haven`t any recordings but I do remember we booked The Haverim at "The Railway Tavern", Catford, SE London circa 1965/6.

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: GUEST,anon xx
Date: 21 Jan 22 - 01:04 PM

@royH

i don’t know if you’re still interested, but i actually do know what happened to the haverim boys (well one of them) - martin shoben is my grandad. if anyone has any old videos of his performances i’d be eternally grateful - i’m looking for one for his 85th birthday…he recently found a copy of a gig he did in ‘63 and was so happy so i’m looking for another if anyoen has any information?

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: The Sandman
Date: 13 Oct 19 - 05:36 PM

PETE AND MARION GREY.Anybody remember them

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: PHJim
Date: 11 Oct 19 - 07:06 PM

I apologise for not reading all of the thread.

Some of the folkies I saw in Hamilton coffee houses and Mariposa in the early sixties were:
Al Cromwell,
Judith Orban,
Malka & Joso,
David Rea,
Eric Hoard, (Both David and Eric backed up Ian & Sylvia)
               (David backed up everyone)
Josh White Jr.,
Big John McManaman, (of the York County Boys)
Merrick Jarrett,
Terry Whelan (although his singing partner, Gord Lightfoot became
               quite famous, Terry is still relatively unknown.)

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: Stringsinger
Date: 09 Oct 19 - 11:43 AM

Derroll and Jack made many appearances in Europe. I knew Derroll, a kind, generous man, encouraging and no nonsense. His expression onstage was often, "Cut the shit, Jack!"

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 07 Oct 19 - 03:09 PM

I saw Derroll Adams in Liverpool when he was fundraising for a very ill Woodie Guthrie back home - he made a couple of albums of Woodie's songs for Topic
There'd one of the best interpretations of 'The Whore's Lament I've ever heard by Hally Wood somewhere on our shelves
Guy Carawan did a very early Topic Record with Peggy Seeger
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: Stringsinger
Date: 07 Oct 19 - 02:24 PM

Brother John Sellers
Al Grierson
Bob Gibson
Ernie Lieberman
Betty Sanders
David Sears
Martha Schlamme
Derroll Adams
Michael Saul
Art Rosenburg
Woody Wachtel
K.C. Douglas
Hally Wood
Bess Lomax Hawes
Billy Faier
Sonja Savig
Rick Ruskin
Bob Atcher
George and Jerry Armstrong
Peter and Isabel Gardiner
Sam Kennedy
Al Meyers
John Herald
Valucha Buffington
Ginny Clemens
Effie Siegerman
Tommy Geraci
Pat Foster
Fleming Brown
Bob Carey
Walter Raim
Jerry Silverman
Millard Lampell
Ethel Raim
Jack and Jan Tangerman
Molly Scott
Sis and Gordon Cunningham
Cisco Houston
Osborne Smith
Laura Duncan
Rosalie Sorrels
Faith Petric
Stu Ramsey
Paul Clayton
Rich Dehr and Frank Miller
Marcia Berman
Terry Gilkyson
Terea Lee
Katie Lee
Glenn Ohrlin
Gail Gardner
Granpa Jones
Brother Oswald
Stringbean
George Pegram
Guy Carawan
Boomer Castleman
Lowell George
Andy Stewart
Frank Robinson
Philip and Pam Boulding
Stan Rogers
Archie Fisher
Schlomo Carbach
David Amram
Michael Jonathan
Lorraine Hammond
Ellen and Irene Kossoy
John Carbo
Milt Okin
Rick Lee
Bill Croft


Somebody will surely know about at least three of these folkies.

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 07 Oct 19 - 08:13 AM

Wonder if anybody knows what became of Manchester's Maria Louden She was a very promising member of out workshop in the 1960s but we lost touch when I moved too London
One of the best women singers I remember from those days was Terry Griffiths, who residented at The Pack Horse with Terry Whelan, Harry Boardman, Tom Gilfellon, et al
Last time I saw her was at Terry's funeral
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 07 Oct 19 - 05:43 AM

Great thread. Americans were so animated back in 2007. Must be the influence of Trump.

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: GUEST,HiLo
Date: 06 Oct 19 - 06:11 PM

Whatever happened to the band Malcolm’s Interview ? I have one album, we’re there others.

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: GUEST,Rick11
Date: 06 Oct 19 - 03:25 PM

How about The Talismen on Prestige Records - Album “Folkswingers Extraordinaire” (7406)? Based out of New Jersey from 1962 to 1968. Single “Off To The Sea” hit the pop charts in Billboard.

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: Felipa
Date: 02 Jul 16 - 07:08 AM

Mark Ross, if you want to catch up with Lisa Null, I see she is one of the organisers of this year's Getaway

I remember Bill Vanaver gigs at Cornell U., Ithaca, NY; got an lp, learned some songs from it. It's mentioned in this thread he had a heart attack 10 years ago, so it's good to know that Bill and Livia are still running the Vanaver Caravan http://vanavercaravan.org/

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: Thomas Stern
Date: 23 Apr 16 - 10:45 AM

Anyone have further information about Laura Weber ??

I see 2 LP's: Folk Guitar-beginner; More Folk Guitar-intermediate
privately issued
Were there others ??

one post mentions 4 books - what were they ???

I see this one:
Laura Weber and Virginia Duncan
A Series of Beginning Lessons in Folk Guitar, (Folk Guitar with Laura Weber) Produced by KQED San Francisco, 1965

an obituary from November 1995 from SFGate...
Laura Weber, a music teacher whose folk guitar lessons were a mainstay of public television for many years in the 1960s and '70s, died of cancer Sunday at Kaiser Hospital in San Francisco. She was 70.

Mrs. Weber's two TV series both were produced at KQED in San Francisco. Her first was Time for Music, a children's series that was aired for six years. Her second, Folk Guitar with Laura Weber, was at one time carried by 52 TV stations across the country.

A native of New York City who attended the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, she was a private teacher in San Francisco and was on the music faculty at San Francisco State University.

Survivors include a sister, Eleanor Meyer of Hayward; a daughter, Valerie Cartwright of Sunland; and two grandchildren.

A memorial service will be held at 4 p.m. December 4, at Knuth Hall at the S.F. State College of Creative Arts.

Donations can be sent to the SFSU Foundation/Laura Weber Fund, c/o the Music Department, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco 94132.


There is another performer LAURA WEBER-CASH, a fiddler and singer.
It may be this performer who is credited as 'Laura Weber' on a CMH CD of Civil War Songs, and a couple of Larry Perkins CD's ?????????????

Thomas.

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: GUEST, DTM
Date: 29 May 15 - 07:50 AM

I used to be a big fan of the late Tim Rose until I discovered the scuzzy way he shafted Bonnie Dobson out of her due credit for 'Morning Dew'. Shameful from a man who initially planned on becoming a priest.

Some people, huh.

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: GUEST,Don Day
Date: 29 May 15 - 07:12 AM

Does anyone miss Ellis Holiday? No, I didn't think so.


Don

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: GUEST,#
Date: 27 May 15 - 08:06 PM

I think the spelling is Mike Slosson.

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: GUEST,Julian S.
Date: 27 May 15 - 07:40 PM

Mike Slossen (sp?) is on the list, and I've wondered what happened to him. I believe he was out of Texas, where he played at one time with Jerry Jeff Walker, before Bojangles made a star of Jerry Jeff. Mike was on the road for several years, and then got drafted during the Vietnam War. He went AWOL and decided to move to Sweden. The night before he left I was with him at a Reverend Gary Davis gig in a church in Greenwich Village. Maybe Judson Memorial. The year was about 1968. Any updates would be welcome.

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: GUEST,Sharmagne
Date: 01 May 14 - 01:13 AM

Arkie and Cool Beans.

I met Jamie at the Troubadour in L.A. at the Elton John concert.

He wrote the song "Late Night Countess" about me. We began a correspondence and I went to visit him in Nottingham, NH just before he sold his farm around 1973. I have not seen him since.

Please let me know if you ever find him. He used to be listed in the phone directory under General George Custer.

~S~

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: GUEST,Vashbul
Date: 23 Apr 14 - 01:40 AM

Here is a link to an interview and performance from the last day of 1959, on WBZ/Boston. Billy Faier and Seraffyn the Wandering Minstrel play, sing and talk about folk music. They were in town to play at the Ballad Room in Copley Square with Joan Baez.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B02qyukZ6WQwRFpJUG9UQVpBR1k/edit?usp=sharing

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: BK Lick
Date: 07 Apr 14 - 01:26 AM

Stringsinger asked "Does anyone have any knowledge about Pat Foster?"
On Oct. 10, 2010 his son posted this (click and wait patiently for a long scroll )
and the following two posts from Art Thieme and Don Firth also have some information.

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: Stringsinger
Date: 11 Feb 14 - 02:40 PM

Did anyone mention my old friend John Cohen from the New Lost City Ramblers?

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: Stringsinger
Date: 11 Feb 14 - 02:34 PM

Does anyone have any knowledge about Pat Foster?

The above is quite a comprehensive list. Wow!

I'll tell you about someone who you don't know, who in my opinion is one of the best
folksingers around today. His name is Chick Marston and he was a former fisherman from Gloucester, Mass. He plays a good guitar, lots of blues and ballads and is modest. He's married to a lady who sings very well named Ellen Ford, an alto who can belt out a tune with the best of them.

Barbara Barrow and Micheal Smith deserve to be mentioned. His song, "The Dutchman" is a classic.

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: GUEST,Dave Hard
Date: 10 Feb 14 - 03:35 PM

Who was the guy who played 12string guitar on late night PBS in the 80's? He sang satirical songs ala Marc Russell (who preceded him).

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: GUEST
Date: 31 Dec 13 - 12:38 PM

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Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: GUEST,PAUL LEEE ARNOLDI
Date: 31 Dec 13 - 12:00 PM

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Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: GUEST,Carol Ragusa
Date: 03 Dec 13 - 12:26 PM

Responding to a question about the Washburn house on Root st in flint, mi. These were my grandparents.

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: GUEST,mightbetomt
Date: 26 Nov 13 - 03:46 PM

Anybody know what happened to Michael Fairbanks, a guitarist/folksinger from Maine in the 70s/80s?

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: Suffet
Date: 08 Nov 13 - 11:05 PM

Once again, here is some totally shameless self promotion on behalf of two little known '60s folk singers!

My singing partner Anne Price and I will be performing at the Peoples' Voice Cafe (Community Church, 40 East 35th Street, New York City) on Saturday, November 23, 2013, beginning at 8:00 PM. Both she and I had digital albums released this year, and this concert celebrates both. Please follow this Facebook link for more information.

--- Steve Suffet

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: GUEST,Rick Heilbrunn
Date: 26 Jan 13 - 03:05 PM

I happened across these threads while doing some research on my father's old coffee house, The Interlude Cafe. My father was the Max Heilbrunn that was mentioned by Steve Suffet in a post about the Interlude. Name was close but it was almost 50 years ago.

I would love to know more about the Interlude from anyone out there is cyberspace. Steve- your memory is amazing.

As I am sure most know, the Kitty Genovese murder was pretty much the end of that incarnation of the Interlude. I am pleased to see that the old roots are still soaked in coffee. I actually have a few of the dishes that my Dad used in the store. Unfortunately he died in 1974 but he would have been touched by the memories of his beloved Interlude.

Any information will be great appreciated.

Rick Heilbrunn

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 18 Jan 13 - 10:11 AM

I haven't seen this film so I don't know if any little known singers were included, but this is a new thread:

Greenwich Village: Music that Defined a Generation.

Reviews are posted in the other thread.

SRS

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: GUEST,www.ciscohouston.com
Date: 17 Jan 13 - 05:23 PM

Hey Art--

I would love to hear those Cisco tracks. Can that be arranged?????

Jim Clark

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: Suffet
Date: 11 Jan 13 - 09:10 PM

We can add to the list television actor Pernell Roberts in his pre-Bonanza days. Click here to hear the title track of his 1963 folk song LP, Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies.

--- Steve

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: GUEST,999
Date: 13 Nov 12 - 06:50 PM

"if anyone can help me find and have this magical voice back in my life I'd be ever grateful."

I might be able to do that. How does one get in touch with you?

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: bobad
Date: 13 Nov 12 - 06:36 PM

You can download the album with that song on it here http://playitagainmax.blogspot.ca/2009/06/seraffyn-of-love-of-war-of-many-things.html.

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: BK Lick
Date: 13 Nov 12 - 06:26 PM

Here's a good discography
and here are a couple recordings I like:
Donovan
Judy Collins

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Nov 12 - 01:00 PM

I owned and loved the Serafyn record, which disappeared in the early 60's while I was vagabonding through Europe... along with two or three other albums my folks blamed for my dropping out of suburbia and academia. I've never gone back, now live bouncing among Cape Cod, St John and Connemara... " through hollow land and hilly land"...always wishing I could hear just once more Serafyn's SONG OF THE WANDERING AENGUS

if anyone can help me find and have this magical voice back in my life I'd be ever grateful.

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: GUEST,Marc S. Silber
Date: 10 May 12 - 03:58 AM

Yes, Bruno Wolf was originally a guy named David Simon from Great Neck, Long Island. I knew him first in the Village through a girl named Wendy Shore and through Perry Lederman, both of whom I knew at the Univ. of Michigan in Ann Arbor. David was a rather comical guy and bright and played guitar a little I think and had a harmonica.

He later got into health foods and was selling these from a push cart and maybe even had a restaurant in the East Village.

Then he was in Jim Kweskin's Jug Band where he sang and played harmonica. After that I do not know what happened to him although he was already talking about Scientology.

It seems the surviving members of Kweskin's Jug Band would know more about David Simon. I am still friends with Jim, Geoff, and Maria and will ask them. I will be performing in a FESTIVAL over Memorial Day celebrating he Fiftieth Anniversary of the DENVER FOLKLORE CENTER and will see Jim and Geoff there.
I am just finishing my CD # 7 by the way
Keep on Singing,
Marc S. Silber (www.marcsilbermusic.com)

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: iancarterb
Date: 22 Mar 12 - 08:32 AM

GUEST Dave Hard asked, about 5 posts back, from August 2011, about a singer of The Agnostic Hymn. I believe that would be MIKE NEUN, whom I met at a sing about 20 years ago in Suquamish WA here in the Pacific Northwest. He was working as a comedian, including his own songs and pretty good 12 string chops, on cruise ships. I'm glad to be reminded of him, and if I can find one of the tapes or CDs I bought from him I'll be pleased to hear them again. Very funny and very nice guy.
    Carter

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Mar 12 - 12:41 AM

does anybody remember a group called "we?" or something like that - two guys and a girl - she had an incredible voice - one or two albums, then she died, group disappeared - i think they did a version of len chandler's keep on keepin on

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: JohnSc
Date: 10 Feb 12 - 11:17 PM

Add Tia Blake, who recorded a beautiful album in Paris in 1971. She was from Columbus, GA. Here music appears on YouTube and Spotify

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: balladeer
Date: 06 Nov 11 - 10:29 AM

I don't think Bonnie Dobson qualifies as "little known" ... there were a handful of household names and then there were the Bob Gibsons, Len Chandlers and Bonnie Dobsons, who were known to everyone who travelled in 1960's North American and British folk circles.

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: BK Lick
Date: 02 Nov 11 - 10:00 PM

As oldhippie posted up above this 1993 interview had her at the "Philosophy Department at the Berwick College of the University Of London" but I think that should be Birkbeck College -- you could try sending an enquiry to: [e-mail]. There's also a nice biography here.

—BK

Subject: Bonnie Dobson was born November 13
From: Abby Sale
Date: 02 Nov 11 - 08:29 AM

Bonnie Dobson may have been little known and did retire from folk song many years back...BUT, I believe she was a fine singer and fairly influential among those that did know her.

Her records are on CD now and still good.

Please PM or e-mail me if you have her (London, perhaps) e-mail or other contact. I'd like to send her a card.

Thanks.

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: GUEST,Don Wise
Date: 24 Aug 11 - 09:19 AM

Some of us who started out in the late 1960s have stayed unknown, not so much because of going into hibernation but rather through moving away from the UK. The hibernation came later with the realisation that the level of air pollution in the bars etc. was deleterious to my health. Of course, not belonging to the 'London scene' didn't necessarily help either. So now here I am, still outside the UK, with a lot of songs I've written over the years, most of which have never been sung in public, creeping out of hibernation- smoking has been banned in bars etc. and so singing in public is once again an interesting and enjoyable option.
Two years ago I discovered that Mr. Gladstone's Bag used to sing one of my songs(The Bakewell Witches).Pity I never got to hear their version.Coope,Boyes and Simpson have also recorded a song (The Uttoxeter Souling Song) which I exhumed from the archives and made a tune for- I wonder if they realise where/who the song comes from?

Too much blowing my own horn? Possibly, but at my age I don't feel like being particularly modest any more!

Who remembers The Garden Gnome Ceilidh Band (the UK original)??

Don

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: GUEST,Dave Hard
Date: 24 Aug 11 - 02:20 AM

Does anyone remember the guy who played 12-string guitar on PBS late at night. He started doing topical stuff when Mark Russell (piano) stopped doing his wonderful Tom Leher(sp.)-style songs. One of the unknown guy's songs was about religion "I don't know, I don't know, I haven't a clue which way you should go....." and I'd love to find the full lyrics.

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: GUEST,Dave Hard
Date: 24 Aug 11 - 01:31 AM

Hey Folkmusicgirl & Deljeanne (Adele Assante) Contact me on Facebook so I can get you copies of the music Adele and I did back when...I still play banjo and guitar solo and with two folk groups here in Boulder. Does anyone else remember playing the Tete-a-Tete and the Ballad Room? Or the open mics at the 47 with Bill Staines?

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: GUEST,Mimi Morissette
Date: 02 Jul 11 - 03:45 AM

1962-1963 Dinky Town Circa. I recently heard from Clark Moffitt AKA Clark Maffitt who is living in Martha's Vinyard where his daughter owns a restauarant. I was engaged to him in that era after I met him at the Scholar in Mpls. His rendition of The First Time made me fall instantly in love. I also remember having Maxine Sellers and Josh White Junior come to have dinner at my apartment where the landlord called my mother to have me evicted because of their racial differences. Don't know what happened to Peter Seagraves. I could use one of those 60s rent parties how so many of us survived in the early 60s. Hmmm I think I partially sold out from Beatnik to major land developer! I still am a Lass from The Low Country looking for my Lord of High Degree.

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: Don Firth
Date: 29 May 11 - 01:13 PM

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Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: NY Pinewoods
Date: 11 May 11 - 09:13 AM

Updated information!

Folk Music Society of New York, Inc.
(New York Pinewoods Folk Music Club)

presents

North American Urban Folk Music of the 1960s
A Celebration and Tribute
Saturday • October 22, 2011
1:00-10:00 PM
Doors open 12:30 PM

Performers:
Jeff Davis
Alix Dobkin
Jerry Epstein
Toby Fagenson
Luke Faust
Bev Grant and the Dissident Daughters
Charlie Ipcar
Pat Lamanna
Lisa Null
Anne Price
Jerry Rasmussen
Peter Stampfel
Happy Traum
Heather Wood

Schedule:
1:00-2:30 PM: The Great Folk Scare, an Overview of the 1960s
2:45-4:15 PM: Hoot in the Afternoon Round Robin – Part 1
4:30-6:00 PM: Hoot in the Afternoon Round Robin – Part 2
7:30-10:00 PM: Evening Concert

Hosted by:
Elisabeth Irwin High School – LREI
40 Charlton Street
New York, NY 10014
Between Varick Street and Sixth Avenue

All-event rates (afternoon and evening):
General admission: $40
FMSNY or LREI member: $30
Child or F/T student: $20

Afternoon only or evening concert only:
General admission: $25
FMSNY or LREI member: $20
Child or F/T student: $15

This event is now on Facebook. Please click here and log in if necessary.

More info at www.folkmusicny.org