#limeliters

The Limeliters released a single called "Red Roses and White Wine," but I'm not sure that's what this is supposed to be

Wow … I get into the mode of playing a series by a single artist or group for a week or more, and then when it’s done and wrapped up, I’m not sure what to do next with my music posts!  In that sense, a series makes it easier.  So, tonight I went in search of something I haven’t played in a while, but that was well-received last time I did play it, and this is what I came up with.  One thing I…

Tonight I went looking for a song I haven’t played in the last two years, and this was the first one to cross my radar!  So … Folk singer/activist Pete Seeger wrote this one in the late 1950s, though it was not recorded until 1962 by the Limeliters, and didn’t become a hit until 1965 when The Byrds brought it out of folk circles with their electrified version.  In the interim, it was recorded by…

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Folk singer/activist Pete Seeger wrote this one in the late 1950s, though it was not recorded until 1962 by the Limeliters, and didn’t become a hit until 1965 when The Byrds brought it out of folk circles with their electrified version.  In the interim, it was recorded by Seeger himself in 1962 on his album The Bitter And The Sweet.

According to Seeger …

“I got a letter from my publisher, and he…

The Limeliters - “Take My True Love by the Hand”