The Folk Music Reunion

[Music] and now together for the first time ever the greatest stars of folk music in the folk music reunion with your hosts the Kingston Trio starring the brothers for the fire sign theater the limeliters Tom Paxton John Sebastian Mary Travers Lenya Pro and special guest Judy Collins and here they are the Kingston Trio [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] little takes where it lands to sing over it's all they take Superman [Music] got myself a brand-new house five miles out of town got myself a new car $30 town got the suit campaign to repay really fine it's my baby and I love her over time it takes a man to save over its own but it takes over it man it's a single it's all it takes to parade I didn't sing every song but I won't be very long I've been away on the business trip traveling Oh I got again they don't even sue prettiest gal in town since my mind a word hey the time I'm going I'll be on the night so about Barry [Music] Bobby's in the living room holding hands with Sue George's at that old front door and he's bound to come on through I'm here in the closet oh come out of the closet be very long it takes very sound it takes a married man to sing over it song to singable it's over [Music] [Applause] thank you very much good to be here with you but some of our old friends here too we feel kind of a home tonight because behind us this looks like a lot of places that we played hungry I had San Francisco mother Blues at Chicago's Storyville and Boston bitter end in New York I do a lot of brick walls I look out there to see so many faces that people who like folk music and we're here to tell you that folk music is alive and well it's a little bit older now Bob folk musics come a long way though so you hear a lot of new things tonight too so one with the line matters is going to enjoy the brothers for the Krays are not too well fire science theater Tom Paxton John Sebastian lovely mary travers the sensuous Glenn Yarborough and ours special guests beautiful Judy comic meanie country music enthusiasts how many of you to the very core of your being despised country music how many are from Burbank and did not understand the question feel free to sing along it's good therapy [Music] [Music] [Music] let's all read it again time nearly six early life my Gail myth pixel I understand when I was a little baby my mother's dead Hey Travel where you barely grow to be a man sing what must be done again sing but but be stopped [Music] gave a damn about agreed mr. Kalin start to get tired [Music] Hey [Music] none of the type of good man of travel has this data sound the only ones who ever get football [Music] No biofeedback dollars spent it back to the tears for Elena - can't I understand football boy really fix it I understand [Music] in fact mr. kair follow when anti-panic the guitar b.o.b fix it i understand the jail visit i attack again [Music] goodbye Billy Dixon I understand [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] throughout history there have been many songs written about the eternal triangle next one tells the story of a sheriff named Grayson a beautiful woman and a condemned man named tom dooley when the Sun rises tomorrow Tom Dooley must hang [Music] hang down your head Tom Dooley hang down [Music] I started with my knife and now your head Tom Dooley hang down your head class sing along hang down your head Tom Dooley move all your power to divert the spider Pavel Grachev a happy and the big through praise our opinion Tennessee and now your head touch Dooley I know you and I will hang down your head Tom to the boy about this tire recognized very happy download bathily wide street hang down your head Tom Dooley hang down [Music] your head Dulli Wow hang down your head hang [Music] [Applause] our next guest is a very classy lady who started out in folk music she's taken folk music and giving it a very own sound she's a top composer and she has earned her PhD in musicology besides that boy can she sing please welcome our very special guest Judy Collins [Applause] [Music] thank you [Applause] I'm so glad you're here and we're here and I'd like to sing you a new song by Q Prestwick there are nights made out of magic magic nights when dreams come true nights like that can fall to anybody [Music] one of those times one of those times of my eyes starting tonight this world is gonna be trusting me we're gonna be falling don't adjust you it's gonna be one of those [Music] so kill the lights and light the candle and turn your favorite station all sometime tonight no matter what they're playing they're gonna be playing our song ah [Music] we're gonna [Music] there's gonna be just we're gonna be falling darling just you [Music] it's gonna be [Music] one of those nights of man midnight blue [Music] there's gonna be just too [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you know I've always thought that songs that are about things that people feel deeply our songs that last forever [Music] father was a singing man [Music] to do [Music] from where he came [Music] to return to Ireland was his dream drink around to island boys my mom again drink around to Jesus Christ to die [Music] Irishman [Music] I guess he left his dreams to after he I sang my father's soul so I came [Music] today [Music] lately I've been wondering [Music] trigger on two [Music] again drink around to Jesus Christ to die [Music] Irish I think you're fortunate [Music] did not come true I know that it would break your heart to see the things we do if you could see the moon [Music] good to see the way we would bring you shame figure out [Music] drink around to Jesus Christ to die [Music] Irishman drink around to Orlan boys I'm home again big around - Jesus Christ - died [Music] Irish [Music] [Applause] [Music] the real plus and doing a show like this is getting the chance to work with people we've never worked with before and given the roads that we've been on year in and year out this is the first time and pleasure that we've had to work with John Sebastian but I guarantee you we're gonna be seeing more of him he's a dear friend please enjoy the talents John Sebastian now I feel a debt of gratitude tonight to some people who couldn't be here and one of them is somebody who taught me how to finger pick and that's Mississippi John Hurt [Applause] did you ever take a trip baby on the movie line I said a halo there mama ain't your Lord a Papa talking about the mobile line well that's a road to ride to ease your truck and mine I woke up this morning baby bout a quarter maybe about a quarter to quarter before I woke up this morning maybe about a quarter to fall back she was laying on the coolant for [Music] did you ever wake up and find yo baby find your baby your baby was gone did you ever wake up and find your baby gone well that's shorts and on it as another meu kick it in y'all stop [Music] did you ever wake up with the bullfrogs on your mind I see a hand loading mama but from John your mind well that's show sign hon it is bullfrogs on your my head [Music] [Applause] this is sort of my answer to the folk ballad and it's dedicated to all you ladies [Music] [Applause] she's a lady and that chance to meet her in my scuttling days she's a lady hypnotized me there that day I came to play in my usual way Hey floating along with the whimsical twinkling in her strange green eyes linger with me she said yes [Music] she's a lady give her time for she's allowed to change her mind she's a lady happy to say she once was mine only some time I remember old time and when she says can you guess its address you won't believe would you come zip me up and but not my sleeve Oh lady lady of [Music] I remember days that felt like it was raining Daisy [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] I'd like to introduce some gentlemen three gentlemen actually who really put folk music on the map with all the accoutrements and hit records I must admit that I I always kind of wished that there was a fourth member see I've had some group experience and so I wish that they were the Kingston for oh but they're the Kingston Trio ladies and gentlemen even gonna do it in a new key Dukie group recorded two hundred and seventy five songs in the key of G so we figured if we're gonna do a new tune we would get a new key it's in the key of F oh boy let's yellow in your color chart if you want to learn it the same like we did the Sun we've got it really been enjoy singing a lot the last few months and our audiences seem to enjoy it's entitled looking for the sunshine living on rain [Music] all of my life it's been the same I found a pot of gold just rusty chain I dealt a winning hand in a losing game for the sunshine living on me hello sir my baby - son son ele will have had some hard time what can I say [Applause] [Music] all of my life my life it's been the same in this way I found a cutter full a bottle just a rusty chain rusty chain built in hand [Music] [Applause] sunshine [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh yes I clearly can't remember she was young so very tender line by me close beside me she was turning every to me [Music] [Music] with the same oh just a rusty chain you [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] before we get to having solid interviews Georgia Grove right here Carolina Georgia the product at the Nashville school where he's been a producer director engineers singer picker he's written jingles for 15 years jingles never wrote back I to my left of my old buddy Roger gamble who grew up exposing himself to music and a little about the Church of the mountains of North Carolina yeah I did my first exposure was in a little Baptist Church but I had to get out of it they had 10 commandments and that's a little rough on me so I I found a church had two commandments and they do the best you can here's the song it's a new song that we hope you like it'll probably be the musical vehicle that will thrust us once more into the financial line white and we're gonna make a lot of money off the tune we think and when we do we're gonna retire again it's called the first time you did it hell I can't remember the last time I did choreography by the Marquis de Sun [Music] the first time it happened I'm glad wasn't a car that was owned by my bad person it is one of those times where the front seat requires and you hung your feet over the - shoot him I remember it well I do first-time firstime when did it happen I remember the first type all right she was loose as an old goose in flight it was all very strange but I can't mention her name she's here with her husband tonight [Music] the first time the first time it hasn't happened yet I know that you last when I say the first time I did it my way I carried a purse and did things in Reverse but I know that I'll lick it someday I'm just kidding first time I remember it well I [Music] who mended in heaven [Music] the first time now let me see was with the girl who is bigger than me I took something down there and I put it somewhere into someplace I never did see [Music] leisure song ripped out for the unknown and poked at the time we've called Peter Paul and Mary where have all the flowers gone [Music] [Applause] where have all the flowers gone long time ago where have all the flowers gone young girls picked em everyone went will they [Music] where have all the young girls gone long time past see where have all the young girls called long time ago where have all the young girls called Gandhian made everyone when [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] long time wherever gone [Music] when will they ever [Music] where have all the soldiers gone where have all the soldiers gone long time [Applause] [Music] soldiers gone crazy on will when [Applause] [Music] we have all the great arts gone long time I see we have all the graveyard smog long time [Music] where have all the graveyards pawn multiplied with us everyone [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] this lady we truly love we gotta get her right back [Applause] [Music] she's before food like with him anytime [Music] ladies and gentlemen know each other [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] there's something so very special about the folk tradition because increase it really creates a wonderful sense of community not only for the singers themselves but obviously for the audience as well because that's really what folk music is about it's about loving [Music] first of all I would like to say a word or two I know he won't be thinking this applies to you but it's true and it all your life you have had to sing your soul alone not believing anybody but you're wrong and you know [Music] now on the meaning is do [Music] around see what [Music] I would like to thank you for the word or to fall in in the moments when I'm needed but it's see me through and you did [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] sometimes in television they say my dearest friend or my good friend and it's nonsense because they never met each other in their lives this is not the case my dear friend mr. Tom Paxton [Applause] [Music] [Applause] part of that community feeling that I was talking about needs your participation so you're going to sing this song with us and you will I know some of you know it from before and others of you have undoubtedly learned it in camp if you miss the train you will know you can hear the whistle blow hundred miles [Music] [Music] you can hear the whistle oh my [Music] Lord our one Lord I too Oh Lord I'm far from my miles I'm 500 miles [Music] [Music] this [Music] No you can [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] well they have a lot of relations though I I saw dick Foley checking in same time I was the yesterday afternoon to the hotel and he had his 19 year old niece with you just 12 nice this week must be a big family ladies and gentlemen the brothers for yes we're the ones who did all those green songs this is great it's nice to see all of you here and from dick and Bob and John and myself it's great to see all the other people on the show this has been a fabulous experience for us and what's the night of folk music without a song about a train right [Music] let the Midnight Special [Music] satellite Albany let the Midnight Special satellite all read that The Midnight Special it's Chartres ever-lovin light on me whether you wake up in the morning hear the ping dawn-marie and March it to the table you see the same damn thing ain't no food upon the table there ain't no butter in the pan but if you say a thing about it you'll get in trouble with a man at the Midnight Special The Midnight Special [Music] to let the Midnight Special shiner ever-lovin army now if you ever go to use boy you better walk right I think you've been Lord you better not fight for the sheriff will arrest any then if you start complaining you'll pay attention pound let the Midnight Special [Music] shine a light on me let the Midnight Special satellite Aldi the midnight shiner ever-lovin my own let the midnight midnight [Music] let the Midnight Special shine a light on me like nice [Music] let the midnight stash [Music] [Music] [Applause] someone once called compacts and direct this in direct descent of Woody Guthrie he's a humorist he's a storyteller a songwriter and a lovely man please say hello to Tom Paxton [Applause] [Music] well I get the feeling that we have a real community feeling here tonight and we probably feel the same way about a lot of things for example I know that you probably get the same thrill I do once a year in paying my taxes and you know seeing that money get down there to Washington and and I know that you seldom get the feeling that the government's being frivolous with the money that you send them and I seldom get that feeling too but I would like to document one aberrant moment the goal is arising out of sight and the dollar is a sorry shape tonight what the dollar used to get us now won't get ahead of let us know the economic forecast isn't right but amidst the clouds a spot of shining grey I begin to glimpse a new and better way I've devised plan of action worked it down to the last fraction and I'm going into action here today I am changing my name to Chrysler I am going down to Washington DC I will tell some powder what did it for Iacocca would be perfectly acceptable to me I am changing my name the Chrysler I am leaving for that great receiving line and when their hands million granddad I'll be standing with my hand I guess sir I'll get mine when my creditors come screaming for their dog I'll be proud to tell them all they can go they won't have to scream and holler they'll be paid to the last dollar where the endless streams of money seem to flow I'll be glad to tell them all what they must do it's a matter of a simple form or two it's not just from you narration it's a liberal education aren't you kind of glad that I'm in debt to you and I'm changing my name to Chrysler I am going down to Washington DC I will tell some power broker what you did for Iacocca would be perfectly acceptable to me I am changing my name to Chrysler I am leaving for that great receiving line and when there have you standing with my hand yes sir I'll guide mine since the first amphibian crawled out of the slime we've been struggling in an unrelenting climb we were hardly up and walking before money started talking and it's said that failure is an awful crime it's been that way a millennium or two now it seems there is a different point of view if you're a corporate Titanic and your failure is gigantic down in Congress there's a safety net view so I'm changing my name the Chrysler I am going down Washington DC I will tell some power broker how what you did for Iacocca would be perfectly acceptable to me I am changing my name the Christ's life I am leaving for that great receiving line and when they hand the million grand out of his standing with my hand yes sir I'll gas or when they hand a million grant out I'll be standing with my hand I guess sir I'll get [Applause] [Music] an evening of folk music would be incomplete without paying a tribute to one of the greatest groups of all time the weavers there are so many songs that they recorded over the years good night Irene on top of old smokey I followed the drinking gourd lonesome traveler just to name a few and tonight some very special friends are going to pay tribute to that great group with a song called kisses sweeter than wine song that Jimmy Rogers turned into a big hit in the 1950s so I'm gonna go join Mary Travers Alex has left and Tom Paxton for a tribute to the weavers [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] and why [Music] I was a young lad and never been kissed I got to thinking it was for just what I had missed so I got me again the kiss didn't there no oh I kissed her again [Music] ask her to Lavvy be my sweet one and we would be happy for the rest like a natural event Oh Lord I gave in my hands [Music] our body our and so did my wife working hand in hand to make a good life with corn in the fields and weed and abandon all order was the father is [Music] our children Lina mousse just Allah or and they all had sweetheart a knocking at the door they I was HOH Lord the grandmother of eight [Music] he says we're all and ready to go we get in what happened a long time ago drop but hold on we do it again [Music] kisses sweeter than one [Music] [Applause] reduce to use my dear friend for many years a guy who's going to sing for you a song that you'll remember and you'll enjoy Bob Shane has had the privilege of working with me for nine years now here he is my dear friend Bob sure [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] scotch and Soda button your eyes baby - I feel me oh my [Music] do I feel hi [Music] dry martini geol-chi Oh dispel he cut me in oh my do I feel high [Music] people love believe they'll think that I'm just pranking but I could feel Ray I do still be all the way all I need what have you smiled the sunshine of Judith I told me oh my - I had feet higher than a kite can fly give me love it whoo baby I feel high [Music] right now we'd like to introduce to you the winners of the 1968 most promising lounge lizard award now the Firestein theaters fabulous six shoes oh hey Reagan [Music] looking good you're looking good and it's never too late to chop some oh hey Reagan they are not too gray your night you pray and it's never too late [Music] to blow us away [Music] [Applause] [Music] yes like my brother's ass running why did we vote for you because you had the face on television we could trust the face with the look of real wood the face that looks out and be from the newspaper that I've been sleeping under every day on that park bench waiting for General Motors to open again oh I know you're dancing around like a Hollywood puppet but it's hard on you too I hear your wife does know many of them designer gowns on her back and that you could only raise a quarter of a million dollars to put that gold rim Tupperware on your table the six shoes got one thing to tell you honey ins is the same thing that our wives say to us each and every night because Ronnie a woman needs love and then Nancy thinks about it too when she rolls over in bed honey bats in great big old b-movies tongs I'll bet you pump something big red sleeves fingers that little gun and says keep it up keep it up keep it up get down keep it up keep it up break [Music] so great and it's never too late [Music] to blow us away hey Ronnie we've come to that do or die time and we know you're gonna keep both of your options open you're gonna do it [Music] dippity-doo it and red dyes the one thing for sure it's gonna be a hairy 4-year Ronnie [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] once again Judi column [Music] [Applause] [Music] isn't it rich are we appear me here at last on the ground where are the clowns [Music] isn't it [Music] you approve one who keeps staring around who can't move but where are the clouds [Music] send in the cloud [Music] just when I'd start [Music] making my entrance again with my usual Flair sure of my line [Music] No is there [Music] don't you love farce my fault I feel I thought my dear but where are the clouds quick send in the clouds [Music] don't bother there he [Music] isn't it rich [Music] isn't it queer losing my time in the slate but where are the clouds there are to be clothes well maybe next [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] a lot of sellers in the corners and I think this occurs from other groups Pete Seeger was with the weavers John Sebastian the lovin spoonful and of course Mary from Peter Paul and Irving well our next guest was a member of one of the finest groups in folk music the limeliters he's been on his own for years some sort of social problem I guess will you welcome glutton Yarborough [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] see [Music] of the sky they are one they must speak but baby Ramos my baby the wind must blow wherever leads me baby I must go baby I'm a stone I do not love for soup I do not love her go my heart is mine to give away it never we'll be so but baby Ramos baby the wind must blow [Music] wherever my heart leads me baby I must [Music] baby I was told [Music] but who can ever I don't know what waits for me baby brainless hot baby the wind must flow wherever motley e-baby I must go baby [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] as some of you probably know I work I pelled around with a couple of guys named Lou Gottlieb and Alex hassel in four years [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] some come to dance some come to play some merely come to pass time away some come to laugh their voices do rain but as for me I see [Music] there's a meet tonight tonight I know you I'm glad you came [Music] prepare well [Music] by a friendly face there's a buffoon here tonight they separated order three dr. Mason fire by the detective [Music] I knew it by your friendly face [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] get my job back now that you've moved on to cosmic greatness we've found a younger man that is destined for equal achievement I've been out there taking notes Glen and well I think I'm ready [Laughter] [Music] yeah on me shine me just be all the love you can be a man shine [Music] [Applause] [Music] tonight tonight will be the best friend nothing in this world he apart tonight will the dreamers dream if we all need coming right for my heart [Music] then we'll always be lovers will always be the best of friends [Music] nice work to keep us apart [Music] with a dream [Music] coming up from the heart [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] just beyond [Music] [Applause] [Music] she came to me like morning to new day the kisses felt like sunshine after the rain she reached inside my solitude and touched me to go idiot Ava's my heart aflame the earth within a body Sun rose in arrives she was [Music] she passed injustice faster so she not me loves the wind disorders she gave me everything except tomorrow she needed freedom like a wild bird but in my heart I keep a candle burning and it guides again [Music] man [Music] she was [Music] she despises why [Music] the sores [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] we might not agree long it has a curious recording history it was originally recorded in the 1940s by the Dean of American ballad singers the immortal Woody Guthrie but very yes of course the song had a spotty sales record I mean it stinks then then our former colleague Glenn Yarborough made a vibrant warm and human version of the song in the 50s zero same song nothing happened until all the medina was recorded by the Kingston Trio and then oh yes we were ecstatic well it's hard ain't it hard ain't it hard we were just we got this right [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] out of this old town every child we're not you know lays where she kept out of one another's feet I tell you what you never will tell me [Music] well first time I saw my true love she was standing by the door and last time I saw her hearted smile she was being on that [Music] [Music] thank God [Music] [Music] damn place [Music] you never [Music] [Music] we sincerely enjoy saying I really busy tonight thank you and we feel that a gathering like this would be a little more complete if we included a song by a marvelous writer Harry Chapin we would now like to celebrate the joy he brought to all of us by singing sir all my life circles sunrise and sundown the moon arose through the night time till the daybreak comes over my lives are circled and I can't tell you why the seasons spinning around sunrise and [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] there's no straight lines make up my life all my rose happens there's no clear-cut beginnings and so far no data [Music] [Applause] [Music] my [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] thousand times I guess you've done the same but then we lose each other it's just like a children's game [Music] the [Music] [Applause] [Music] we've got a wonderful time for this the special kind of magic here today I want to thank you all great otters for making it happen [Music] Judy Collins red Yarborough [Music] my best buddy right [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music]

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Length: 88min 33sec (5313 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 04 2019