One of the first bands to craft a distinctly American sound in response to the British Invasion was The Beach Boys ; while not a folk rock band themselves, they directly influenced the genre, and at the height of the folk rock boom in 1966 had a hit with a cover of the 1920s West Indian folk song " Sloop John B ", which they had learned from The Kingston Trio, who, in turn, had learned it from The Weavers.

The song selections on the first album reflected the repertoire that the musicians had been working on for two years — re-imagined traditional songs inspired by The Weavers like " Santy Anno " and " Bay of Mexico ," calypso-flavored tunes reminiscent of the hugely popular Harry Belafonte recordings of the time such as " Banua " and " Sloop John B ", and a mix of both foreign language and contemporary songwriter numbers, including Terry Gilkyson's " Fast Freight " and " Scotch and Soda ", whose authorship remains unknown as of 2011.

During the period from the 1940s through the 1960s, sparked by the American folk music revival, young performers inspired by traditional folk music and groups like the Almanac Singers and The Weavers began writing and performing their own original material and creating their own musical arrangements.

A number of performers influenced by traditional music, like Josh White, Burl Ives, and The Weavers, enjoyed considerable commercial success in the 1940s, leading to a broader commercial revival in the late 1950s through the mid 1960s with performers like The Kingston Trio, Joan Baez, and Peter, Paul and Mary selling millions of record albums.

Scottish traditional group The Tannahill Weavers

A traditional sea-shanty " The Eddystone Light " chronicles a fictional encounter between the lighthouse keeper and a mermaid, and has been recorded by The Seekers, the Weavers, and Peter Paul and Mary

This market expanded enormously during the 1950s thanks to the so-called " folk boom " of the 1950s and early 1960s, in which artists and groups like Pete Seeger, The New Lost City Ramblers and The Weavers explored the traditional songs and sounds of American folk music and reinterpreted them for a mass audience.

The song was in a traditional Zulu choral style, which soon came to the attention of American musicologist Alan Lomax, who brought to the song to folk singer Pete Seeger, then of The Weavers.

The Tannahill Weavers are a popular band who performs traditional Scottish music.

" On Top of Old Smoky " is a traditional folk song and a well-known ballad of the United States which, as recorded by The Weavers, reached the pop music charts in 1951.

As a teenager, McLean became interested in folk music, particularly the Weavers ' 1955 recording At Carnegie Hall.

By age 16 he had bought his first guitar ( a Harmony acoustic archtop with a sunburst finish ) and begun making contacts in the music business, becoming friends with folk singer Erik Darling, a latter-day member of the Weavers.

The American folk music revival became a phenomenon in the United States in the 1950s to mid-1960s with the initial success of the Weavers who popularized the genre.

Her true professional career began at that 1959 Newport Folk Festival ; following that appearance, she recorded her first album for Vanguard, Joan Baez ( 1960 ), produced by Fred Hellerman of The Weavers, who produced many albums by folk artists.

Kantner has cited folk groups like The Kingston Trio and The Weavers as strong early influences.

* The Weavers: Wasn't that the Time: Documentary about the blacklisted folk group, " The Weavers ," and the events leading up to their triumphant return to Carnegie Hall.

The Weavers ' mainstream popularity set the stage for the folk revival of the 1950s and early 1960s and also served to bridge the gap between folk, popular music, and topical song.

Among his best known musical performances were " The Welly Boot Song ", a parody of the Scottish folk song " The Wark O ' The Weavers ," which became his theme song for several years ; " In the Brownies ", a parody of the hit Village People song " In the Navy " ( for which Connolly filmed a music video ); " Two Little Boys in Blue ", a tongue-in-cheek indictment of police brutality done to the tune of Rolf Harris ' " Two Little Boys "; and the ballad " I Wish I Was in Glasgow ," which Connolly would later perform in duet with Malcolm McDowell on a guest appearance on the 1990s American sitcom Pearl ( which starred Rhea Perlman ).

One folk / blues / occasional jazz group, The Rooftop Singers, led by Erik Darling, formerly of The Weavers and an associate of Pete Seeger, recorded an old song " Walk Right In " which featured a strong opening " hook " played on the 12 string guitar.

It was covered internationally by many 1950s pop and folk revival artists, including The Weavers, Jimmy Dorsey, Yma Sumac, Miriam Makeba, and The Kingston Trio.

Frank Hamilton, a folk singer from California who was a member of People's Songs and later The Weavers, picked up Seeger's version.

The late 1940s and the early 1950s saw the beginning of popular folk music with groups like The Weavers.

By the late 1950s, a revival of Appalachian folk music was taking place across the country, and bands like The Weavers were paving the way for future mainstream stars like Bob Dylan and Joan Baez.

Originally they sang folk music in the style of The Weavers, but eventually changed to a harmonizing style of the type known as barbershop harmony or close harmony.

The Weavers were an American folk music quartet based in the Greenwich Village area of New York City.

The Weavers ' successful concerts and hit recordings helped introduce to new audiences such folk revival standards as " On Top of Old Smoky " ( with guest vocalist Terry Gilkyson ), " Follow the Drinking Gourd ", " Kisses Sweeter than Wine ", " The Wreck of the John B " ( aka " Sloop John B "), " Rock Island Line ", " The Midnight Special ", " Pay Me My Money Down ", and " Darling Corey ".

In the 1940s and 1950s Woody Guthrie, and Pete Seeger, along with Lee Hays and other members of The Weavers performed their mostly topical works ( Seeger performed solo and as part of the Weavers ) to an ever growing wider audience.

But the Weavers felt it was worth it to get their songs before the public.

Category: The Weavers songs

Paxton's songs have been recorded by Pete Seeger and The Weavers, Judy Collins, Sandy Denny, Joan Baez, Doc Watson, Harry Belafonte, Peter, Paul and Mary, Marianne Faithfull, The Kingston Trio, The Chad Mitchell Trio, John Denver, Dolly Parton and Porter Wagoner, Willie Nelson, Flatt & Scruggs, The Move, The Fireballs, and many others ( see covers ).

Pete Seeger picked up on a few of Tom Paxton's songs in 1963, including " Ramblin ' Boy " ( which Seeger performed at The Weavers reunion concert at Carnegie Hall ) and " What Did You Learn in School Today?

Most of the songs featured only Baez ' vocals and guitar, with a second guitar ( played by Fred Hellerman, of The Weavers ), added to some songs.

Category: The Weavers songs

Category: The Weavers songs

The Weavers ' enormous success inspired many other artists to release their own versions of the song, many of which were themselves commercially successful.

The New Lost City Ramblers refused to " sanitize " these southern sounds as did other folk groups of the time, such as the Weavers or Kingston Trio.

The Weavers scored a US Top 20 hit with their studio version, and had further success with a live version of the song included on their influential 1957 live album, recorded at Carnegie Hall, which led to it being covered by The Kingston Trio in 1959.

The SNL sketch, entitled " The Folksmen Reunion ," had a similar satirical intent, targeting the renewed interest in American folk music following then-recent reunions of such artists as Peter, Paul & Mary ( 1978 ), The Weavers ( 1980 ), and The Kingston Trio ( 1981 ).

The largest single ethnic group is people of Bangladeshi descent, which constitute 41 per cent of the area's population, every year since 1999 the Baishakhi Mela is celebrated in Weavers Field, Bethnal Green which celebrates the Bengali New Year.

The group reformed in 1955, releasing the influential The Weavers at Carnegie Hall album in 1957, before disbanding for a second time in 1964, although Seeger had left the group in 1958.

For example, Bruce Springsteen's " Pay Me My Money Down " derives from the interpretation by the Folk group The Weavers, who in turn found it among the collected shanties once traditionally performed by residents of the Georgia Sea Islands.

The Dream Weavers was an American popular music, vocal group, famous in the 1950s, formed at the University of Florida by Gene Adkinson ( baritone and ukelele ) and Wade Buff ( lead vocals ).

The announcer of the show, Chuck Murdock, thought of running a contest on the show to name the group, and the contest winner stated that because the song they wrote was dreamy, they were weavers of dreams, thus " The Dream Weavers.

The new group took its name from a play by Gerhart Hauptmann, Die Weber ( The Weavers 1892 ), a powerful play depicting the uprising of the Silesian weavers in 1844, containing the lines, " I'll stand it no more, come what may ".

Frank Hamilton, who replaced Darling, stayed with the group nine months, giving his notice just before the Weavers celebrated the group's 15th anniversary with two nights of concerts at Carnegie Hall in March 1963.

The new singing group, appearing for a while in 1949 under the rubric, " The Nameless Quartet ", changed their name to The Weavers and went on to achieve great renown.

In Nomine was, with Steve Jackson himself giving permission, briefly an online interactive fiction role-playing game within the World Weavers role-playing game group.

Elli wrote ' The Riot ' and other books in Stillwater prison and was a member of the Ink Weavers writing group there.

After starting high school in 1963, Holly Near began singing with the Freedom Singers, a folk group modeled on The Weavers.

* The Weavers, a folk music group formed in 1947 by Ronnie Gilbert, Lee Hays, Fred Hellerman and Pete Seeger

Seeger recorded a version of the song with his noted folk group The Weavers in 1952, retitling it " Wimoweh " ( an inaccurate transliteration of the song's original Zulu refrain, " uyimbube ").

Inspired by the folk music group The Weavers, in the ' 50s, he formed The Tunetellers, which evolved into The Tarriers with actor / singer Alan Arkin.

Put in charge of Decca ’ s subsidiary label Coral, he expanded his musical scope, producing hits for country singer Red Foley, the left-leaning folk group The Weavers, Peggy Lee, The Ink Spots, and Sammy Davis Jr.

Jack, Merle, Loaf and their companions Googie and Bitz travel back in time to Vered II, homeworld of tree-dwelling computer genius Selenity Dreeb, a member of a group of computer fanatics called the Weavers.

The Dream Weavers, a singing group including writers Adkinson and Buff, recorded the biggest version of the song for Decca Records ( catalog number 29683 ), which charted in November 1955, reaching # 7 on the Billboard charts in the United States and # 1 in the United Kingdom.

The Knitters ' name is a play on the name of the folk group The Weavers.