The Weavers - Greatest Hits

Artist: The Weavers
Label: Vanguard Records
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 015707151627
EAN: 0015707151627
ASIN: B000000EBD

Release Date: 1990-10-25

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Tracks:

when the saints go marching in
kisses sweeter than wine
tzena, tzena, tzena
last night i had the strangest dream
wimoweh
on top of old smokey
follow the drinking gourd
sixteen tons
guantanamera
wreck of the john b
rock island line
around the world
goodnight irene
erie canal
wild goose grasses in tarrytown
this land is your land
house of the rising sun
aunt rhodie
gotta travel on
michael row the boat ashore
old riley
brother can you spare a dime
if i had a hammer
darling corey
so long it's been good to know you

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Customer Reviews:

Mark Torres Travel Tips For Aztlan KPFK 90.7FM Los Angeles .......2007-02-27

This release is an essential purchase for those who enjoy folk music or are excavating the folk music tradition. The Weavers were one of the first groups to attain commercial success when their version of Leadbelly's Goodnight Irene was a number 1 single in America for 7 weeks in 1950...!!!
Their success began a folk music resurgence that would eventually bring us the likes of Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Peter Paul and Mary, Judy Collins, Buffie St. Marie, Phil Ochs, The Kingston Trio and countless others

All this from a group that was hounded by HUAC, blacklisters and boycotters and was eventually forced to concede any dream they might have had to make a living from their music. They didn't even release or perform their beautifully happy and hopeful song If I Had A Hammer because of the relentless pressure on them. Of course all was forgotten when Pete Paul and Mary made a hit of If I had a Hammer a decade later.

The weakest part of this release is the lack of liner notes to tell their story and put their accomplishments in perspective... The music is wonderful.

Still the old magic.......2007-02-18

I would have given this review 5 stars because the Weavers are the Weavers and these are such wonderful songs. My only disappointment is that I'm afraid I've grown accustomed to the big sound of modern recordings and I wish there were some way they could boost the sound of this one. I suppose several tracks is too much to ask for, but it sounds a bit two-dimensional.

not good folk.......2002-03-31

maybe good for weaver fans, but frankly i think of the weavers as sellouts to pop music. if you want good lee hays or pete seeger, listen to the almanac singers, where they at least have woody guthrie.

very enjoyable.......2001-02-24

If you don't mind that most of the recordings are live, this is as good a collection of Weavers' tunes as you can find. The sound quality and volume are a bit uneven, but the playing and singing are uniformly excellent and the song selection is like the greatest hits of a generation. The Weavers' harmonizing obviously heavily influenced Peter Paul and Mary, and is endlessly entertaining. Unlike some of the other reviewers, I thought the version of Goodnight Irene was quite good, even if the sound quality isn't perfect.

They and their music have sunk deep into my soul........2000-12-27

Most fans would reckon this to be as good a memento of The Weavers as could be devised. A series of twelve items from their various Carnegie Hall concerts has been synthesised, firstly, to provide uninterrupted listening, then comes six items selected from their studio recordings, and then finally comes a further blending of six more Carnegie Hall performances. 64 minutes in all.

As a music teacher in an Australian school, at the time of The Weavers' vogue, I made good use of many of their recordings. I recall that "Follow the Drinking Gourd" was voted highly. Otherwise, The Weavers vogue seemed to me to be over and gone fairly quickly here in Australia.

North American fans might find this Australian perspective of interest. I of course have continued to listen to them for all of forty years. They and their music have sunk deep into my soul by now - which is probably what they are all about. Powerful in all respects is the contributions of their one female singer, Ronnie Gilbert. If her singing in "Michael Row the Boat Ashore" is not powerful, then I don't know what is.

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