Limeliters Hootenanny First Episode, April 6, 1963

[louisa1832]

Could you post The Limeliters version of "Joe Magarac"? I haven't heard it since I was about six, but would love to hear it again. Thank you!

[garymichael1950]

My 24 year old daughter likes the stuff most people her age like. But mention the Limeliters and she can do every song and every bit they ever did! Nobody sings a song like Glenn Yarbrough!

[COOPEVETS]

Lord, whatever happened to great harmony, acoustic accompaniment, and groups that had fun, singing fun songs. It is hard to become a dinosaur!

[houserehab]

Lou, Alex and Glenn were a wonderful threesome, as were Bob, Nick and Dave (of the Kingston Trio), and Peter, Paul and Mary, and the Chad Mitchell Trio, and later when Chad left (and was replaced by John Denver). All of these were great trios, and we were lucky to have had them. So glad that we have youtube to call them back from days gone by!

[greenhawk46]

@houserehab amen 

[dourotter]

Listen to the first lead voice on "The Last Day of July." That's not one of the Limeliters; it's Bob Gibson. He and Bob Camp did a great version of this song recorded at The Gate of Horn in Chicago. (I mean in no way to belittle the Limeliters nor the magnificent tenor voice of Glenn Yarbrough.)

[Mongo1940]

Limeliters-Best Folk Trio of all time. I think they were better with Glen than without him although the replacement was pretty good. Saw them perform once in Detroit in 1960. Great show. Their version of "Those were the days" is the best recording ever. Too bad it isn't on YouTube. Great group, great singers, great entertainers. Those were the days.

[traxter42]

This was always the last resort song to wake us up. The smell of coffee, woodsmoke and bacon usually worked.

[barbeep]

Thank you, thank you! I grew up with the Hootenanny on TV. Love this trip down memory lane!

[Fretkillr]

Have some Madira, M' Deara.

[fromthesidelines]

The audio is definitely superior to the kinescope of the show that exists; unfortunately, "HOOTENANNY" was never preserved on videotape.

[sharpclay]

Many Thanks from Florida!

[dorndon]

It hopefully has been changed, but when the Coke Museum opened in downtown Atlanta a few years ago, the jingle was played as part of an exhibit on Coke ads.

Unfortunatelhy, they credited the Kington Trio as the artists.

[VealParmigiana]

Very good video. I like Glenn Yarborough's singing a lot.

[jozfpat]

Good video. Does anyone have Glen singing Daisy a Day

[thirty6min]

Glenn Yarborough, the original lead of the Limeliters was one of the best male vocalist of all times, on par with Sinatra, Crosby and Priestley.

[unclebobunclebob]

Oh please

[greenhawk46]

I agree-let the naysayers have their say-but the voice is the evidence!!

slan,

Jim

[unclebobunclebob]

@thirty6min Priestly?

[thirty6min]

@unclebobunclebob Sorry, my fat fingers typed wrong. It was Elvis Presly, the king that I meant.

Elvis was a great vocalist in his older days when he stopped catoring to the teenie boppers.

[SilvaMindVideo]

Thanks for this. What a treasure to find these old Limeliters songs I've never heard before. What a thrill you must have provided to Stephany Yarbrough! The 'Liters were and still are the best.

[greenhawk46]

loved the show, had all the Limelighter's albums-usually half the songs were a waste, but the other half were gems-Glenn Yarborough could sing!

[Jusfriend]

Wow, does this bring back memories! I was (and still am) a big Limeliters fan, so I really got a kick out of watching (and listening) to this one. Thank you SO much for posting this!

[StephanyLYarbrough]

Thanks! Stephany Yarbrough daughter of glenn

[vincentfromia]

wow! That's cool! What a clear clean tenor voice!

[pencpa]

I had a wonderful album where your Dad sang with a woman singer- but lost both the record and the name.

He was a wonderful singer.

Question- I think the Limelighters were the successors to The Gateway Sincers. Loui Gottlieb was with them- was your father?

[stardrive9]

@pencpa

My father was not with The Gateway Singers and I think you are thinking of the album with my father and Marilyn Child...hope that helps...

[pencpa]

@stardrive9

Thanks Stephany. That is exactly the album I was thinking of. I got it when I was single during the folk music era and played over. After I married, my kids loved to play with the albums, and I really don't know what happened to it.

I think the song that started "Some love to dance, some love to play" was on that album, and may have later been recorded by the Limelighters as a lead in to "There's a meeting here tonight".

[steveinbelgium]

I remember Hootenanny. This is classic stuff. Thanks for posting. The audio is still very good considering it was on tape all those years.