.. /\ .. ________________________________________________/ \________ .. \ ____________________ \_______ \______ \_ \_/ /__ :: \_______ \_ / / / / / / / \ _ \_ :: \ / / / / / / / / / \ / / ...::.... \ ______/___/ /___/_________/_________// \/______\ ::.:: :: \/ \__/ ______ /____________\sCr! :: / _ / ssr mpeg-3 .. ________________/ //_________________________ :: \ ____________ ___________ _________ / :: \_______ \_/ / ___/____/ __/____/ /___ .. \ / / / \ / \ / / / :: \ ______/_____/__________/__________/________/ :: \/ __ __________ ________________________ _ _ _ _ __________ \\ \\________//--------\\____________________________ _ _ _ _ ____// .. :: release info. :: :: artist......> va :: title.......> singers and songwriters the folk years - yesterday's gone :: genre.......> folk :: rip.date....> 01.29.2003 :: street.date.> 2002 :: source......> cdda :: quality.....> 192kbps - full stereo :: encoder.....> lame 3.92 :: playtime....> 86:38 min :: __ __________ ________________________ _ _ _ _ __________ \\ \\________//--------\\____________________________ _ _ _ _ ____// .. :: release notes. :: :: Yesterday's Gone :: The late '50s and early '60s were a time of momentous :: transition for American folk music. On the heels of the :: initial folk revival, which had served as a touchstone :: for a generation of radicals resisting the blandishments :: of antiseptic postwar America, came new, more commercial :: sounds. Whereas folkies had once been in exclusive thrall :: to rediscovered "traditional" singers such as Leadbelly :: and Clarence Ashley, popular entertainers were now :: scoring actual hits with folk songs (e.g. A Little Bitty :: Tear by big, bearded Burl Ives and Banana Boat (Day-O) by :: the silky-voiced Harry Belafonte). Hardcore coffeehouse :: purists grimaced at the inauthenticity of such offerings, :: but pop consumers lapped them up. :: :: Simultaneously, a school of neatly groomed, politically :: neutral vocal groups was ushering itself into the frame. :: Foremost among these was the Kingston Trio, all smiles :: and striped shirts, singing smooth versions of vintage :: murder ballad Tom Dooley and Woody Guthrie's anthemlike :: This Land Is Your Land. :: :: "We liked authentic-sounding stuff," the Trio's Dave :: Guard later reminisced. "We wanted to do some songs from :: the Spanish Civil War because they were very ballsy, but :: our manager said, 'If you do that it'll bring all sorts :: of people around here.' We said, 'What do you mean?' He :: said, 'Don't even worry about it.' Politically we didn't :: know what was going on." :: :: Tom Dooley, an irresistible campfire sing-along of a :: song, was the first No. 1 record for this new strain of :: folk and led to the formation of numerous other trios and :: quartets. The Journeymen, consisting of John Phillips, :: Scott McKenzie and banjo player Dick Weissman, were at :: the epicenter of the Greenwich Village folk scene in New :: York. Hedy West's 500 Miles, which the trio recorded in :: 1963, is the kind of hoot song they might have sung by :: the fountain in Washington Square. :: :: The Limeliters--Lou Gottlieb, Alex Hassilev and Glenn :: Yarbrough--were another trio who combined folk roots with :: mellifluous hootenanny harmonies. Their live 1960 version :: of the standard There's a Meetin' Here Tonight is a :: potent example of their smooth pop style. When Yarbrough :: went solo, future Byrd Jim (a.k.a. Roger) McGuinn was :: drafted to play guitar and banjo in his place. McGuinn :: also served a stint in the Chad Mitchell Trio, heard here :: on its version of the timeless Lizzie Borden. :: :: In 1963, the Rooftop Singers' Walk Right In one-upped Tom :: Dooley by holding on to the No. 1 spot on the pop charts :: for two consecutive weeks. Conceivably a veiled homage to :: recreational marijuana use, this effortlessly hip song :: was co-written by Erik Darling, who had left the :: venerable Weavers to form the Rooftop Singers with :: guitarist Bill Svanoe and singer Lynne Taylor. Walk Right :: In was based on an old song from the '20s by Gus Cannon & :: His Jug Stompers. :: :: The year that Walk Right In hit the top, the folk climate :: was changing irreversibly. Bob Dylan was shaking the :: Village scene to its core, while Peter, Paul and Mary :: were scoring big with such songs as Dylan's mighty :: Blowin' in the Wind. By 1965, the folk pop of the :: Kingston Trio and the Rooftop Singers had morphed into :: folk rock, with the Byrds plugging in Dylan's Mr. :: Tambourine Man, sometime surfers the Turtles customizing :: his It Ain't Me Babe, and emerging pop siren Cher :: covering his All I Really Want to Do. Jug-band musician :: John Sebastian formed the electric group the Lovin' :: Spoonful, whose breezy Daydream was one of a string of :: hits for the band in the mid-'60s. :: :: By the middle of the decade, Los Angeles had become the :: fulcrum of American pop. The city was a hotbed of hits by :: relative folk veterans like the Mamas and the Papas, :: whose soaring Monday, Monday--the follow-up to their :: era-defining California Dreamin'--displayed the harmonic :: chops they had honed in groups like the Journeymen and :: the Big Three. Bob Lind's 1966 smash Elusive Butterfly, :: an amalgam of Colorado folk and Phil Spector orch-pop, :: was another L.A. classic of the period, even though Lind :: himself had originally dismissed it. "We recorded four :: things at that time," he recalled, "and they asked me :: what I thought we should release as the first single. I :: said, 'Among these four, I don't care which one you put :: out, so long as you don't put out Elusive Butterfly.'" :: :: Folk's impact on L.A. pop turned up in some unlikely :: places. An odd-man-out track on the magnificent Pet :: Sounds, the Beach Boys' version of maritime staple Sloop :: John B showed that the campfire sing-along side of the :: surf kings was alive and well. Glen Campbell, who had :: played on Pet Sounds, had a modest hit with country-folk :: songwriter John Hartford's plangent Gentle on My Mind. :: Shortly thereafter, local prodigy Harry Nilsson dipped :: into the songbook of tragic folk enigma Fred Neil and :: came up with a pining rendition of Everybody's Talkin', :: featured in the film Midnight Cowboy. :: :: Down south, meanwhile--and let's not forget that the :: South was where most American folk music was rooted--the :: sultry, husky-voiced Bobbie Gentry scored huge with her :: mythopoeic Ode to Billie Joe, that mesmerizing short :: story of a song about the Tallahatchie Bridge. (While :: Gentry wasn't a folk singer per se, Ode to Billie Joe had :: no trouble fitting into the genre.) Other women played a :: more central role in the folk revival. Newport priestess :: Joan Baez appears here on her lovely 1965 rendition of :: There But for Fortune, a Phil Ochs song of deep social :: empathy. When Judy Collins recorded Someday Soon in 1969, :: she had long established herself as a key interpreter of :: songs by such contemporary writers as Dylan, Tom Paxton :: and Joni Mitchell. Her treatment of this Ian Tyson song :: is as affecting as her take on Leonard Cohen's Suzanne. :: :: When Chad and Jeremy recorded Yesterday's Gone in 1964, :: they provided a virtual elegy for the whole folk revival :: era. With the assassination of JFK the previous year, the :: worthy ideals of Pete Seeger and friends had begun to :: seem effete. :: :: "When Kennedy was killed," said John Phillips, "I was on :: a tour called Hootenanny U.S.A. with Judy Collins, Glenn :: Yarbrough and others. After that happened, we just lost :: our innocence. Everyone did." :: :: Yesterday was gone. Tomorrow was here. :: :: __ __________ ________________________ _ _ _ _ __________ \\ \\________//--------\\____________________________ _ _ _ _ ____// .. :: track listing. :: :: cd1 :: :: 01. chad and jeremy - yesterday's gone :: 02. cher - all i really want to do :: 03. glen campbell - gentle on my mind :: 04. gordon lightfoot - for lovin' me :: 05. harry belafonte - banana boat (day-o) :: 06. terry gilkyson andthe easy riders - marianne :: 07. the beach boys - sloop john b :: 08. the byrds - mr. tambourine man :: 09. the kingston trio - this land is your land :: 10. the kingston trio - tijuana jail :: 11. the limeliters - there's a meetin' here tonight :: 12. the lovin' spoonful - daydream :: 13. the rooftop singers - walk right in :: 14. the seekers - i'll never find another you :: 15. trini lopez - if i had a hammer :: :: cd2 :: :: 01. the journeymen - 500 miles :: 02. burl ives - a little bitty tear :: 03. bob lind - elusive butterfly :: 04. harry nisson - everybody's talkin' :: 05. the band - i shall be released :: 06. the turtles - it ain't me babe :: 07. the chad mitchell trio - lizzie borden :: 08. the mamas and papas. - monday, monday :: 09. the smothers brothers - my old man :: 10. bobby gentry - ode to billie joe :: 11. the kingston trio - rasberries, strawberries :: 12. judy collins - someday soon :: 13. the irish rovers - the unicorn :: 14. joan baez - there but for fortune :: 15. the kingston trio - tom dooley :: __ __________ ________________________ _ _ _ _ __________ \\ \\________//--------\\____________________________ _ _ _ _ ____// .. :: Group News :: :: We Are Currently Looking for Affils with 35mbit+ sites to affil :: With. 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