Little known '60s Folk Singers

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: GUEST,John Braheny
Date: 21 Feb 10 - 01:21 AM

My name just popped up from this site onto my Google Alert list. Thanks to Ed Hargadine for the mention re Seattle's Pamir House where we'd sit around the pot bellied stove in endless jams. What a cool discovery! Having played throughout the 60s on the Omaha, Minneapolis, Chicago Seattle,Vancouver BC and Boston/Cambridge folk scenes I have a long list of very good but little-known to better-known folksingers that I've had the pleasure of performing with and knowing. I'll list them by scene though most of them played throughout the U.S.as I did. Omaha '62: Mike McCarthy, Ted Anderson, Maxine Sellers, Clark Moffet, Daryl Seagraves, Ray Phoenix, Mike Brewer (before Brewer and Shipley) Bob Grossman, Len Chandler (also prominent in the NY G Village scene. We became biz partners in 71 for 25 years) We played The 3rd Man, The Jolly Coachman, Crooked Ear and several other clubs. Minneapolis 62-63:Jeff Espina, Judy Larson, John Koerner, Dave Ray, Tony Glover, Billy Golfus/John Gravelin, John Kolstad. Played the Scholar in Dinkeytown and the Triangle. Seattle 63: the previously mentioned Pamir House where I met "Barefoot"John Hendricks, John Browne, Davey Coffin (influential player - I still have some early tapes) Robbie Basho (he did pass), Billy Roberts (Wrote "Hey Joe")and Walt Barbee(Is anyone in touch with Walt?) I also met Peter Elbling (later of the Times Square Two), newly arrived from the UK (We're still friends)and Carol Crist. Steve Lalor and Lynne Hughes(later in the 60s). Also played a club called the Queequeg(sp) in the U district. Vancouver BC 63: Played many times at the Bunkhouse and at the Secret in Victoria with Brent Titcomb, David Wiffen, (both later with 3's A Crowd)Jon York, and many others I met there including Bruce Langhorne (we're still friends) The Chicago scene was rich. I played at Mother Blues, The Fickle Pickle (Mike Bloomfield was managing), the Unicorn with Johnny Brown, Bob Gibson, George McKelvey. Boston/Cambridge:65-66 (I think) I played clubs on Charles street - Sword and Stone, Turks Head (Also played their other club in Wellfleet), Mark Spoestra, Peter Childs, Taj Mahal, Chris Smither, Paul Arnoldi and Debbie Green(who I met much later). Never played Club 47 but enjoyed many great performances there. I'm sure I've forgotten as many as I remember. Someone should do a book about all the performers and other equally fascinating characters from that era. For me it was life-changing. Thank you all for jogging my sometimes hazy 60s mmemories. Reach me at [e-mail] or join me on Faceook.

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Feb 10 - 10:51 PM

Hi,

I met Seraffyn Mork at Phillips Andover in MA in probably 1961, and was so impressed by him I decided to take up folk music as a result. I was probably one of the few DJs that gave his album serious airplay.

Would **love** to somehow get a copy of his album, and would seriously consider putting up a simple website to share his music, if anyone wishes to do so - I have a small PC based audio studio at home.

Steve Curcuru
[e-mail]
[e-mail]

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: GUEST,Mishacatty
Date: 25 Jan 10 - 02:22 PM

Anyone remember a duo called Art & Paul? Did the greatest rendition of "All the Pretty Little Horses" I've ever heard.

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: Mark Ross
Date: 23 Jan 10 - 01:46 PM

Don you're right, it's Joe Frasier, but he is in California. Down by LA I think.

Mark Ross

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: GUEST,Don Meixner
Date: 23 Jan 10 - 12:59 AM

Mark I think your memory is off just a bit. The Vicar (Joe Frazier) is a Mudcatter and Mike Kobluk is out in the West Coast but I'm not sure where.

Don

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: Mark Ross
Date: 22 Jan 10 - 10:44 PM

Mike Fraser from the Mitchell Trio is a minister in California. Mary Smith(if she's the same Mary Smith I knew in the Village in the '70's)I don't know where she is now, last time I saw her was 30-some years ago and she was tending bar at an Italian restaurant on Houston St. called ARTUROS's. We occassionally sang duets together at the Thursday night Bluegrass jam there. Erik Frandsen might know if she is till around somewhere.

Mark Ross

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: GUEST,DaveC, guest
Date: 22 Jan 10 - 03:05 PM

Someone on this thread asked the whereabouts of Mary Smith, from Flint, MI. Funny thing, I've been thinking about her recently. When I lived in Flint, I was in a trio, and she and I were friends from church (true!) she was the first to get a Martin guitar, and knew all the Ewan McColl, Buffy Ste. Marie songs etc.... very talented. We ran into each other over the subsequent foggy late 60's, and I saw her at the Bull Pub at University of Minnesota, Duluth campus, and she was apparently living in NYC..and mysterious about her life to that point. She had been very talented, with a striking Judy Collings-esque voice. With a name like hers, I would imagine near impossible to find. I also ran into Eric Anderson in Milt Okun's office in '68, and haven't heard from him since. How about Bob(?)Boyce, of Denver, Boyce & Johnson (I last saw him in Duluth in '69), about the time John Deutchendorf (aka John Denver hit it big as a solo). Lastly, there is John Fraser (chad Mitchell trio)again, lost track of him in '69. Memory lane is dusty.

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Nov 09 - 04:43 PM

I'm searching for information on a little known group of gospel singers called the Mole Hill (or Molehill) singers. In the 1950s and early 1963s they were popular on late night country/religious radio.

They did a really great version of "Home of the Soul" (If for the prize we have striven, After our labors are o're ...).

The only Mole Hill I can find is somewhere in Tennessee, but no web sources on this group. If anyone has any information on them, kindly contact:

Jay Edwards
[e-mail]
Louisiana State University

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: GUEST,ivemann
Date: 25 Nov 09 - 05:46 AM

Does anyone remember The Talismen? Originally out of Rider University in Lawrenceville,NJ during the 60's? Recorded for Prestege Records.

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: voyager
Date: 18 Nov 09 - 01:26 PM

Some comments and a question...

Thanks to BK Lick for this amazing 'canonical list'

IMHO - Kotke and Fahey would not be on a 'f***-singers' list.
I remember Kotke's quote about 'geese farts on a muggy day'
I have absolutely no recollection of Fahey Singing (Mudcat help me out)

Question -
If this thread were 'Well Known Folk Singers of the 60's' whould the list be longer (or shorter)?

Cheers
voyager

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: GUEST,Ed Hargadine
Date: 18 Nov 09 - 04:41 AM

In the preceding post I also wanted to mention Earl Benson, who performed at Cafe Espresso in Portland, but I had some trouble remembering his name. A very inspirational performer with a lot of enthusiasm, as well as a well-regarded songwriter. Earl passed away early in 2008, as I understand things.

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: GUEST,Ed Hargadine
Date: 17 Nov 09 - 03:20 PM

For those of you who remember Seattle's Pamir house, I'll admit having known Andy Aldrich, Mike Atwood, Robbie Basho, Paul Bassett, Laurel Bliss, Bryan Bowers, Rolf Cahn, Don Firth, Gene Jaleski, Paul Gillingham, John Hendricks, John Hughes, Lynne Hughes, Doc Knutson, Steve Lalor, Mike Leib, Eejim Manning, Sue Molin, Barney Munger, Jerry Murray, The Turkey Pluckers, Nancy Quensé, Billy Roberts, Walt Robertson, Alice Stuart, John Timmons, Larry Vanover, Jim Wilhelm,
Vivian Williams, Carol Crist, Sue Molin, Don MacAllister, Jef Jaisun, and Davey Coffin. John Timmons was the only one among tem who didn't play music. I don't remember Robbie Basho or Larry Vanover doing much singing, --- which may not mean they didn't --- but the rest of them did sing.

Some other names that will most likely be of interest to those who remember the Pamir House: Mike Noone, John Braheny, John Browne, Heather Hammond, Ron Ginther, Ferd Ginther, Bill Sheldon, Dallas Williams, Ed Hargadine, Barry Hall, Lulu Harshman, Mariide Widman,
Bill Gunther (A.k.a. Lee Traveler,) David Hutsell, Mike Murphy,
Nick Ogilvie, Mukilteo Trio, Phil Williams, and Myron Johnson. I'm sure there were many more, but for now that's all my memory will retrieve. These folks all sang at the Pamir House at one time or another, and as this was forty years in the past, I'm pretty sure I'm remebering mostly the ones who came back many times and did a pretty good job.

I do know for sure that Mike Atwood, John Hendricks, Don MacAllister and Walt Robertson have passed away, and I seem to recall hearing the same about Nick Ogilvie and Robbie Basho, though I'm not certain of either. Otherwise, so far as I know, the rest are still living.

We sure had a lot of fun back then. :-)

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: BK Lick
Date: 29 Oct 09 - 10:02 PM

Two names that belong here are George McKelvey and Joel Cory who performed together
in the 60's as The Outsiders. See this thread for info about each.

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: Mark Ross
Date: 26 Oct 09 - 09:45 PM

Bodie lives in Nevada City CA these days, working as a finish carpenter.
built his own house.

Mark Ross

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: GUEST,Max
Date: 26 Oct 09 - 08:01 PM

How about Bodie Wagner, I ran into him in the mid 70's in Montreal hitching a ride on Utah Phillips and Rosalie Sorrel's coatails. He was kind of a latter day Woody Guthrie with serious attitude. Sang hobo and road songs. I still have a piece of vinyl of his from Philo. Max

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: GUEST,christopher robin
Date: 24 Oct 09 - 10:35 PM

re: Earl Bensen...

ty someone for reminding me of his name..back from the old cafe espresso/gotham city and the folksingers/trieste days.

talented and funny he was indeed.

Now...
does anyone remember "The Great-Butter-Plane"...plus Ravi! ??

later

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: GUEST,Jef Jaisun
Date: 22 Oct 09 - 12:41 PM

Yow! And all I was looking for was a link for Heidi Barton! Three hours later...

Some names left off the list: Barry Olivier, Ragtime Erik Fingerpick (sorry, man, but that was your handle before the flatpick got involved), Stan Rogers, Campbell Coe (yep, he did more than just fix instruments), Carol Crist, Sue Molin, Mike Wilhelm, Don MacAllister, Rick Shubb, Sol Feldthouse. Lynne Hughes with an 'e' in her first name. #224 -- same as Davey Coffin of pH Factor?

It's been 16 years since Country Joe organized the Berkelely Renaissance folk scare reunion at the Veteran's Hall. Time for a follow-up, while enough of us are still around to get there.

--- Jef

P.S. Oh yeah, that. It'll be 40 years old on Nov. 14.
www.eljefe.net/fnnafaq.html

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: Suffet
Date: 12 Oct 09 - 01:54 PM

Greetings once agin,

Did you notice that this thread will turn 5 years old next month? Who would have thought?

Anyway, I just put a video on YouTube of me performing this past March at what had been the old Interlude coffee house in Kew Gardens, New York. The place is now called the Bliss Gourmet Cafe and the big menu chalkboard is new, but otherwise it's pretty much as it was 45 years ago when Michael Cooney lived upstairs.

Please click here to see and listen.

--- Steve

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: GUEST,Marc S. Silber
Date: 20 Sep 09 - 05:51 AM

HELLO,
    I am here in Berkeley California, and still making music and still selling and repairing fretted instruments. www.marcsilbermusic.com

    I have just completed my CD # 5 and will have the graphics done soon and it will show up with th others on my website.

    Nice post by Erik Frandsen about Steve Mann who we lost last week after a long illness. I will attend a musical wake tomorrow in his honor, here in Berkeley where he liveed for about the last 12 years.

      peace without bombs, marc s. silber

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: Suffet
Date: 16 Sep 09 - 11:40 AM

Greetings:

I attended the annual folk musicians' reunion in New York City's Washington Square Park this past Sunday, Sept. 13, and had the pleasure and honor of jamming and singing with some of the great figures from the old days. Among them were David Bromberg, John Cohen, Eric Weissberg, Mick Vandow, Hal Wylie, Kenny Kosek, Gene Tambour, and Roger Sprung. I also noticed Marshall Brickman and Danny Kalb among those present, but neither was playing any music when I saw them.

The only surprise was how overwhelmingly male it all was. What happened to all the women folk musicians from days gone by? This past Sunday they were few and far between.

--- Steve

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: GUEST,Erik Frandsen
Date: 15 Sep 09 - 08:06 PM

Steve Mann died in San Francisco on September 8th, 2009 after
suffering a stroke some months earlier...he had so little peace
in this world, let's hope he finds some in the next.

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: GUEST,Mark Burks
Date: 08 Sep 09 - 11:04 PM

Peter, I would love to hear more of his music, if there is any way that could be possible. I cherish his one Columbia album, and all of the stories I have heard of him. I was only four when he died, and never got to know him.

--Another kin of Seraffyn. (I am his aunt Alice's grandson. BTW, Alice, tho concieved in Denmark was born in Chicago. Some traveling family, no?) [e-mail]

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: balladeer
Date: 29 Jul 09 - 01:00 AM

R.I.P Sandy Paton.
Hello David Jones
Anna, I was Hoot's first editor.

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: GUEST,Ian
Date: 08 Jul 09 - 08:04 PM

There was a query here a couple of years ago about a very good young Geordie guitarist at the Hanging Lamp FC in Richmond in the late Sixties. Trainee teacher, it said. Frank McSomething, it said. The answer is Connell. As in Frank McConnell. Very very good. And a nice man, too. He was one of the people behind the club, which was associated with the very early careers of John Martyn, Al Stewart, Ralph McTell, John James, Gryphon, Davey Johnstone and many more.

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: BK Lick
Date: 09 Jun 09 - 06:42 PM

Here's a link to the May 2009 issue of the Seattle community newspaper
in which the article appears: clicky here.

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Jun 09 - 11:17 AM

Another try re Elizabeth Knight. I gave a link to a pdf, but it hasn't come through:

http://www.newspiritjournal.com/Issues/May09/May091.pdf

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: GUEST,Elizabeth Knight
Date: 09 Jun 09 - 11:13 AM

Someone asked about her. See for what she's doing now. (Libby Kresky, 86, retired professor of Russian, living on Bainbridge Island, Washington State; into 'astrology, counselling and past life regression.' Singing in the choir, not playing guitar.) The pdf is only the first page of an article, but the focus is not on music, to put it mildly!

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers--Mel Lyman's ex
From: GUEST,Felicia
Date: 08 May 09 - 01:54 AM

Hi,
In 1967 I was in a household with a young woman who had fled Mel Lyman, named Nina, with short dark hair. I seem to recall she had been married to either Mel or someone in the Kweskin Jug Band.

Anyone out there know Nina? Felicia

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: DannyC
Date: 21 Apr 09 - 06:59 PM

Lovely weekend ...   must've sung a hundred songs... McGrath spinning yarns of hopping off his square-rigged brig in Liverpool - thirsty - and finding the pubs closed for holy hour... then finding a place called "The Chains Locker" (sp?) and having some fellow named Hugill inquiring about the sailing ship from whence he had just disembarked... etc. etc.

I hadn't had a song with Jimmy in 23 years, and we launched 'em like we'd never missed a beat... Jim McGrath - 1962

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: seligmanson
Date: 21 Apr 09 - 02:36 PM

Here are some names I'd like to hear about from my time on the London folk-scene of the 60's. Redd Sullivan, a big physical performer with expressive hands and a loud, rich voice beautifully-suited to the music-hall songs he sang (I learned 'I Don't Know No-One What Don't Want No Nine-Inch Nails' from him); John Foreman, also a performer of music-hall songs, an authority in his field, just as effective as Redd, though less demonstrative; and Jack King, who ran the folk-club at Cecil Sharp House (yes, people, there was one once, before the EFDSS decided that selling things should take priority over the actual performing of music); he was, along with his wife (I remember her name as being Jean, but I may be wrong; if so, I apologise), a good performer, a fine organiser, and a warm and witty MC: he made that club one of the best in the country, and even now I remember it with an affection I have for no other club, not the Singer's Club, not Bunjie's, not the Troubador, not the Fox in Islington, not the London Folk Centre, all great clubs in their way, but none as straightforwardly enjoyable as Jack King's. Is there any-one out there who can give me news of the King family, and of Paul Thompson, the other resident there? Come to think of it, who else remembers Karl Dallas's London Folk Centre, a wonderfully worth-while experiment which in its short life produced some great events and provoked some superb performances (and I met my first girl-friend there. Hello Rosemary).

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: Tug the Cox
Date: 18 Apr 09 - 01:21 PM

Anyone remember 'Arky's Toast' , a three piece male harmony group. I think they were policemen by day.London area. What was the actual Toast ftom which they took their name?

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: DannyC
Date: 18 Apr 09 - 11:03 AM

Jim McGrath (mentioned in Aug, 2006 of this thread) is here in KY The Bluegrass for a visit. (Okay, we're gonna back a few horses, like the old days... What of it?) His travelling companion was kind enough to show me a couple of performing pics from a place called "The Hunt Cup" in Newport, RI (USA) in 1962.

She's got a couple of nice shots of him fresh our of the American Navy singing and accompanying himself on guitar (one with a sporty madras jacket). He states that the $8.00 per night earnings from the gig comprised a nice upgrade from the $44 every-two-weeks that The Navy had been paying... not to mention a few drinks and the attention of some fine and lovely company.

He's #845 in the complilation put together by BK Lick.

1962.... Damn... That's getting to be a little while ago, isn't it?

Sing-song tonight -- a few quiet tunes -- a glass or two -- here's to a half-century ago.

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: GUEST,Erik Frandsen
Date: 14 Apr 09 - 02:19 AM

Well golly...people just keep passin'-on all the time now, don't they?...yeah, they do...Mike McQueen, owner of Mary-Margaret McDog and other comedy canines...Citizen Kafka (Richie Shulberg), leader of the Wretched Refuse String Band, Citizen Kafka and his Orchestra and other fine musical organizations...Jesus H. Christ on a Rubber Crutch, it's just Not Fair, Goddammit!!!...well, of course it is, isn't it?...way of the world and all that...God Bless 'em All!

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: C. Ham
Date: 11 Mar 09 - 05:16 PM

Artie Traum just died in 2008.

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: Michael S
Date: 11 Mar 09 - 12:35 PM

Guest, Virginia, up above, asked about Children of Paradise. The original version of this band included the well-known Traum Brothers who, individually and together, have made quite a few recordings. Artie died a few years ago. Happy is alive and well and remains a significant player in the folk community. Many here know his business, Homespun music instruction.

Marc Silber can be found here. I don't know if the contact info is current.

The final member was Eric Kaz, who has achieved a fair amount of commercial songwriting success.

Michael Scully
Austin

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: GUEST,Diane Gold
Date: 11 Mar 09 - 11:57 AM

The Interlude was much more than a place for folk music. It was a corner of bohemia in an otherwise very conservative part of a very conservative borough. The Interlude was a place where you went to drink espresso coffee, play chess, read European newspapers, hear poetry readings, and discuss radical ideas in politics, literature, art, religion, psychology, etc. And it was one of the few places anywhere that an interracial couple would feel welcome and not subject to a million staring eyes.

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: Mark Ross
Date: 11 Mar 09 - 09:51 AM

We were probably at the same show.

Mark Ross

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: Suffet
Date: 11 Mar 09 - 07:25 AM

Mark,

Yes, you are right. He was still David Cohen when I saw him at the Interlude around the same time, maybe 1964 or 1965.

--- Steve

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: Mark Ross
Date: 10 Mar 09 - 09:11 PM

I remember going to the Interlude in the '60's, '65 maybe, to hear
Jesse Colin Young and David Blue, although I think he was still working as David Cohen back then.

Mark Ross

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: Suffet
Date: 10 Mar 09 - 08:31 PM

This video shows me as the opening performer at the Kew Gardens Music Festival this past Saturday, right after the MC does the welcoming. I hope you enjoy my brief history of the Interlude Cafe.

--- Steve

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: Suffet
Date: 08 Mar 09 - 12:13 AM

Greetings:

Today was a homecoming of sorts. I was the opening performer in the first annual Kew Gardens Music Festival, held in what was once known as the Interlude. See my posting from January 6, 2007, for an explanation of the role the Interlude played in the New York folk scene of the 1960s.

Anyway, the place is now called the Bliss Gourmet Cafe, but the interior is pretty much as it was back then, but with a slightly larger counter and a much larger variety of food served. The small stage is gone, but the performances take place from the same southwest corner of the room where it once stood. The bathroom is entirely unchanged.

The house was packed to capacity, which means about 50 patrons. But that came as no surprise, since admission was free. Most of the audience was there to hear their favorite local songwriters, but instead of doing any of my own songs, I sang instead three that I regularly performed at the Interlude from 1963 to 1965: Woody Guthrie's Hard Traveling, the traditional Worried Man Blues, and Jesse Fuller's San Francisco Bay Blues.

Those proved to be the right choices, since I got a more enthusiastic reception that I ever got in the old days. I wish to believe it's because it's because I've developed a modicum of musicianship and showmanship since then. On the other hand, maybe they were just applauding because this old gray haired man was making a bloody fool of himself on stage. The festival organizer, however gave me the thumbs up sign and wants me back for next year. So maybe I really have picked up a rick of two in the past 45 years.

--- Steve

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: BK Lick
Date: 05 Mar 09 - 04:31 AM

Sorry, that's not gonna do any good cuz Molly posted as a guest.
Howsomever, a Google search for "Molly Meisenheimer" turns up quite a
few hits like this one which have a contact link.
Also, you can find her on FaceBook here.

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: BK Lick
Date: 05 Mar 09 - 04:06 AM

Welcome Steven --

Here's the post from Molly about her Dad click me.
(Wait a bit for the page to scroll down to 30 Oct 08.)

Click the PM link next to her name to send her a private message.

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: Steven Noel Bolstad
Date: 05 Mar 09 - 12:11 AM

I just joined because I was Googling for my old friend Tom Meisenheimer.
It was difficult to find him on Google, but I did see the name Molly Meisenheimer.
I knew her as a baby - she's Tom's daughter.
She was posting a comment about her father and unknown 60's folksingers.
BINGO.
Still, I have not been able to find his name yet and there was no way to reach Molly to ask further.
The Mudcat Cafe looked pretty cool, so I joined.
I am not a player, but I am a listener so this all looks like fun and sourcing combined.

YET, Still I wish to connect to Tom. Can anyone help?

Steven Bolstad
[e-mail]

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: GUEST,Virginia
Date: 21 Feb 09 - 09:55 AM

What ever happened to The Children of Paradise? Hope they will all come together again.

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: GUEST
Date: 19 Feb 09 - 01:21 PM

Bill Destler, mentioned here earlier as Provost of U of Maryland, is now President of Rochester Institute of Technology. He will be appearing as the opening act this Saturday night for Sally Rogers and Howie Bursen in Rochester, NY for the Golden Link Folk Singing Society (www.goldenlink.org). A rare appearance indeed!

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: Leadbelly
Date: 12 Feb 09 - 01:23 PM

It's great to see that Howard Stith from NH (Poor Howard) successfully managed to have a come-back.
I met him in the '60s. That's why I'm happy he did it again! Go on like this, my dear friend!
Manfred

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers; Mike Fairbanks
From: GUEST,fredvainas
Date: 11 Feb 09 - 10:41 PM

Does anyone know the whereabouts of Mike Fairbanks? Last I knew, he was in western Mass., in the Springfield area. This was around 1970.

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: BK Lick
Date: 29 Jan 09 - 10:33 PM

As I wrote in that post,

"A year ago I posted a list of 585 names which had so far been mentioned in this thread. Repeating the effort,
I've now extracted the following list of 1,319 names. Probably quite a few of them don't really belong in the list,
but I think I've caught most of the ones that do."

By the way, on 14 Dec 08 I updated the compilation of "names mentioned in this thread" (not of singers) adding 107 names.

—BK

Subject: RE: Little known '60s Folk Singers
From: Don Firth
Date: 29 Jan 09 - 02:54 PM

BK Lick, your post of 18 Feb 08 - 03:49 a.m. is a monumental job, listing 1,319 names, presumably of "little known 60's folk singers," but a fair number of names that got caught in your net are not singers, they are people who were associated with folk music in one way or the other, such as John Timmons, who didn't sing, but ran a coffeehouse.

It would probably be a real chore to separate those folks from the singers. But I would say a lot of them deserve honorable mention for "services rendered"—such as Elmar Lanczos (pronounced "LAWN-shoss" – I'm probably one of the few people who knows how to spell his name) who, during the late 1950s and through the 1960s, threw his house open almost every weekend when singers wanted to get together in someone's living room for a song fest. Elmar couldn't sing for sour apples and he knew his limitations, but he enjoyed folk music, and he had a massive collection of folk records which many of us learned songs.

Elmar is gone now, but he's probably hosting a song fest in the Great Beyond.

Don Firth