>>>Remember the Limelighters? Before Glen Yarbrough went off on his own they were really something special. Disappointed that Youtube doesn't seem to have any of the the pre 76 stuff. Would love to see them do "The John Birch Society" or some of their other early stuff.
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>>I sure do remember them. Agree completely about the Glen Yarborough comment.
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>>Just to nitpick, however, I'm pretty sure "The John Birch Society" (why did the chicken cross the road? to get from the left to the right) was done by the Chad Mitchell Trio - another group that suffered when the lead left (even if they had, if memory serves, an adequate replacement in John Denver).
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>My god, of course you're right - and that is not a nitpick it is major as the CMT was another of my great favorites (in that post I almost mentioned "Rum by Gum" in the songs I liked.) They were both better, for me, than Kingston Trio. Used to cover all their stuff in my folky guitar player days. I guess that fact that I can remember folky guitar player days shows why my memory is failing <g>
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>But Limelighters and CMT were, of course, very different.
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>Pleased to find that Youtube does have some CMT - including the John Birch Society
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG6taS9R1KM>
>( My college was in Licking County, OH - home district of John Ashbrook - chairman of the HUAC and the JBS had a billboard about a mile from campus that said "Save our Republic - Impeach Earl Warren")
That spirit is enjoying a renaissance, isn't it? Except there aren't many liberal judges left to complain about....
