the weavers 1951

Ever since the breakout of the first single as a hit, the members had expected that somewhere down the line their past political affiliations would be thrown back in their faces. Don breaks down "Hotel California" and other songs he wrote as a member of the Eagles. The Weavers were an American folk music quartet based in the Greenwich Village area of New York City. Their six months at the Vanguard changed the group's fate. Another key factor, even if the political and business climate had been more favorable, was

In November of 1980, a pair of reunion concerts at Carnegie Hall became the final appearance of the original quartet and the focal point of the film Wasn't That a Time, a documentary that chronicled the Weavers' history.

Cut just before the group left the Vanguard in June of 1950, the two songs caught everyone by surprise with their sudden success. In 1951 the #71 song in the charts was Kisses Sweeter Than Wine by The Weavers. Their presentation and popularity, coupled with the visibility of the Vanguard, soon led to reviews in newspapers and trade journals, and these were almost all positive. Fate took a hand when the group, as a last-ditch effort to keep going, auditioned for a spot performing for the Christmas week of 1949 at the Village Vanguard, a New York club owned by Max Gordon, which was most closely associated with jazz.

In 1955, however,

The result is a body of songs several hundred strong that has stood the test of time. Bob Dylan's four handwritten pages containing the original draft of "Like a Rolling Stone" fetched over $2m at Sothebys New York in June 2014 setting a price record for a popular music manuscript. It was from the Village Vanguard shows that the group first hooked up with Bernie Krause By the end of 1952, the group had called it quits. Albums include The Weavers at Carnegie Hall, Goodnight Irene / Tzena, Tzena, Tzena, and Kisses Sweeter Than Wine / When the Saints Go Marching In. Folksinging by then had become something of an "art," an elitist, academic activity attuned to scholars, but the Weavers came off completely the opposite of this -- guileless and honest, literally four hay seeds without any experience of playing in clubs. Decca no longer wanted to record them because it was difficult, if not impossible, to get their records into the stores, and it was no longer possible to get their music played on the radio.

The song is about giving up glitz for the simple life - not exactly Elton's M.O.The original voice of Snap!, this story is filled with angry drag queens, video impersonators and Chaka Khan.The writer of "Rainy Night in Georgia" and "Polk Salad Annie" explains how he cooks up his Louisiana swamp rock. The first result of their Decca contract was a collection of Christmas songs issued on a 10" LP, which didn't attract much attention. However, their origins, the level of their success, the forces that cut the group's future off in its prime, and the allure that keeps their music selling are all difficult to explain -- as, indeed, none of this was all that easy to explain at the time.