Come to find out the female singer in the Weavers is Ronnie Gilbert not Melvina Reynolds. Thanks Naomi Baltuck for the correction.
Now for another mystery: is Wimoweh, as sung here by the Weavers, the root song of The Lion Sleeps Tonight? Be the first to tell me and win “Historian Of The Week” award. (Does any knows how to make badges?)
Here’s a very Not-Disney, old school harmony version of The Lion Sleeps Tonight. Cute kid alert at the end,
FYI the “jungle” at the top is a garden at the Target parking lot, it is part of a Creek Restoration project. So it seems Melvina Reynolds heartfelt singing 60 years ago is still having an effect. See yesterday’s post for the words to her song God Bless the Grass.
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I don’t know about the evolution of the music, but I do love the street corner a cappella singers. Thanks for the interlude.
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I keep watching them over and over. And I watched the PBS special of Annie Oakley last night and thought of you. She actually made all her cloths beside being a sharp shooter, wow!
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Beautiful pictures Carol. And just loved listening to the Weavers again. They were so great, down home people!!!
Neal
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Down home???You know Pete Seeger was accused of being communist during the McCarthy days.
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Gee, I had forgotten about that. Gee!! I think he claimed he wasn’t though????
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To me that will always be a jazz version a Scottish band played, when you could barely move to dance and we were young and carefree so jumped wildly up and down instead.
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Great image! I remember young and carefree, too. Oh a Scottish band playing a Jazzy Wimowah, that is a very fine memory indeed! Where were you?
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