But the group had not yet decided on a name. The owner had just had a group with three long names strung together and was not about to put "Yarbrough, Hassilev, and Gottlieb" up on the marquee. After a short period of perfecting their act, they set off for the " hungry i" in San Francisco, which at the time was the California nerve center for the mushrooming contemporary folk movement. They went to Aspen, Colorado, to work at a club called "The Limelite," which Yarbrough and Hassilev had purchased after singing there during the previous ski season. Journalist John Puccio wrote: "They had the uncanny knack of making three voices sound like six.and thanks to their velvet harmonies making a trio sound like a choir." Gottlieb originally suggested that the three of them work together to arrange some material for the Kingston Trio, but they discovered their voices blended well and decided to try to get work on the folk circuit. Later when he was working as an arranger for the Kingston Trio, Gottlieb was in the audience one night when Alex Hassilev and Glenn Yarbrough appeared on stage to sing a duet together at the Cosmo Alley Coffee Shop in Hollywood. Gottlieb performed with the Gateway Singers in the mid-1950s but moved to California to complete his PhD in musicology. Gottlieb died in 1996 (age 72), Yarbrough died in 2016 (age 86), and Hassilev (born 1932), the last founding member, who had remained active in the group, retired in 2006, leaving the group to carry on without any of the original members. On a regular basis a continuation of The Limeliters group is still active and performing. The group was active from 1959 until 1965, and then after a hiatus of sixteen years, Yarbrough, Hassilev, and Gottlieb reunited and began performing again as The Limeliters in reunion tours. The Limeliters are an American folk music group, formed in July 1959 by Lou Gottlieb (bass violin/bass), Alex Hassilev (banjo/baritone), and Glenn Yarbrough (guitar/tenor).
There were another ten records in this binder, but given (a) their relatively later vintage than the ones in other binders and (b) their kind of “generic pop music, or covers of pop music” vibe, I’m going to guess that this set was owned by someone who basically siphoned pop music into their house as a way to entertain family and kids.Elektra, RCA Victor, Warner Bros., Stax, Essex, GNP, Folk Era, Brass Dolphin, West Knoll, Taragon/BMG 101 Strings had a trademark sound, focusing on melody with a laid-back ambiance most often featuring strings… The 101 Strings orchestra included 124 string instruments, and was conducted by Wilhelm Stephan… In the 24 years of their existence, 101 Strings sold over 50,000,000 records worldwide. Oh man, this is the kind of record I would have found in my mom’s stash as a kid.ġ01 Strings Orchestra was a brand for a highly successful easy listening symphonic music organization, with a discography exceeding 150 albums and a creative lifetime of around 30 years beginning in 1957. The song is also uninteresting, but the idea that there was once a magazine called “Marxism Today” fascinates me more. The song “Harry Pollitt” on the album, the lyrics of which lampoon the former leader of the Communist Party of Great Britain, was heavily criticised in Marxism Today (the official journal of that party) as “sickening” and “full of the vilest insults”. To be honest, this music bores me, but the story behind one song is interesting. The Slightly Fabulous Limeliters is a live album by the trio when it was made up of Lou Gottlieb, Alex Hassilev, and Glenn Yarbrough, released in 1961.
The Limeliters is a folk band that, through many changes in membership, still tours.
You can tell by the copyright dates, sure, but you can also tell because they are lighter - actually pressed on vinyl instead of on shellac. For decades, records were pressed on “a resin secreted by the female lac bug on trees in the forests of India and Thailand processed and sold as dry flakes and dissolved in alcohol to make liquid shellac.” Shellac records are brittle and heavy. Vinyl records are lighter and flex. Now, another folio, binder, of cool stuff albums, most of these a lot newer than the other ones. In addition to finding awesome old records and books, you should know, if you have kids: “All children, from birth to high school graduation, may pick out a book for free, each time they visit our store.” They are well-worth a visit. Once more through the trove of treasure from Gabriel’s Books in Lakeside.
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