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The Weavers: Goodnight Irene, 1949-1953 (4-CD & 1-DVD Deluxe Box Set)

4-CD/1 DVD box (LP-size) with 48-page hardcover book, 106 tracks. Playing time approx. 290 mns.

With its 1950 recording of Goodnight Irene, the Weavers brought folk music to the 'American Hit Parade.' The public immediately responded to the song's catchy melody and Gordon Jenkins' lush arrangement. But the quartet's dynamic, passionate vocals was what really made the record stand apart from everything else in pop music. No one could escape the song or its popular flip side,
Tzena, Tzena, Tzena. Juke boxes and radio stations kept both songs in constant rotation, and record sales snowballed into the millions. During the next eighteen months the Weavers dominated the charts with such folk anthems as So Long (It's Been Good To Know Yuh), The Roving Kind, On Top Of Old Smokeyand Kisses Sweeter Than Wine. Suddenly, the creamy 1940s harmonies of the Pied Pipers, Six Hits and a Miss, the Merry Macs and the Modernaires seemed dated. Pop music would be different in the 1950s, and the Weavers were among the first artists to signal this new era.

No one was more surprised by this rush of success than the Weavers themselves: Ronnie Gilbert, Lee Hays, Fred Hellerman and Pete Seeger. Emerging from the embers of the postwar People's Songs movement, the group polished its sound and repertoire at New York hootenannies, union halls and political rallies. An extended booking at the Village Vanguard in early 1950 led to a friendship with arranger Gordon Jenkins, who convinced skeptical Decca Records executives to sign the quartet. But the Weavers' fortunes ultimately fell as quickly as they rose. Under the guise of patriotism, rightwing zealots gleefully exposed its leftist political affiliations. Through fear and intimidation, organizations like the American Legion pressured promoters, bookers and media executives to boycott the group. Airplay disappeared and jobs dwindled, yet Seeger, Hays, Gilbert and Hellerman persevered until they disbanded in 1953. However, the public's affection for the group never waned. A barely advertised Christmas Eve 1955 reunion at Carnegie Hall was an immediate sellout, and those who attended viewed their participation as a statement against rightwing hysteria.

A half-century after the release of Goodnight Irene, the Weavers remain one of the most beloved acts in American popular music. The group's saga has spurred dissertations and documentaries from historians and filmmakers. But ironically, those early records that helped shape the contemporary folk music revival have remained largely uncataloged and virtually impossible to find.

This 5-Disc Bear Family collection surveys the first five years of the Weavers' recording career, starting with the Charter and Hootenanny sessions from 1949, along with 16 previously unreleased audition acetates and WNYC airchecks. The complete Decca recordings and Snader soundtracks are included; the Deccas digitally transferred from the original session reels. The rare 10inch 'We Wish You A Merry Christmas' LP has been expanded with two previously unreleased carols. The last Disc contains the Weavers' uncredited appearances on two documentaries, a children's record and soundtrack recordings; Fred Hellerman's and Ronnie Gilbert's solo records; Gordon Jenkins' 1955 attempt to recreate the Weavers' sound with Hays, Hellerman and Sally Kaminsky; and a 1950 radio interview with Charles Buddy Rogers. Disc 5 is a DVD (NTSC format) containing the Weavers' Snader telescriptions, newly transferred from original 16mm prints.

But the Weavers' fortunes ultimately fell as quickly as they rose. Under the guise of patriotism, rightwing zealots gleefully exposed its leftist political affiliations. Through fear and intimidation, organizations like the American Legion pressured promoters, bookers and media executives to boycott the group. Airplay disappeared and jobs dwindled, yet Seeger, Hays, Gilbert and Hellerman persevered until they disbanded in 1953. However, the public's affection for the group never waned. A barely advertised Christmas Eve 1955 reunion at Carnegie Hall was an immediate sellout, and those who attended viewed their participation as a statement against rightwing hysteria.


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  • Interpret: The Weavers

  • Album titlle: Goodnight Irene, 1949-1953 (4-CD & 1-DVD Deluxe Box Set)

  • Genre Country

  • Label Bear Family Records

  • Edition 2 Deluxe Edition
  • Artikelart Box set

  • EAN: 4000127159304

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Weavers, The - Goodnight Irene, 1949-1953 (4-CD & 1-DVD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 1
01Wasn't That A TimeThe Weavers
02Dig My GraveThe Weavers
03Freight Train BluesThe Weavers
04Love Song BluesThe Weavers
05The Hammer SongThe Weavers
06No Irish Need ApplyThe Weavers
07The Hammer SongThe Weavers
08Banks Of MarbleThe Weavers
09When The Saints Go Marching InThe Weavers
10Rock Island LineThe Weavers
11Lonesome TravelerThe Weavers
12I Don't Want To Get AdjustedThe Weavers
13Wasn't That A TimeThe Weavers
14The Johnson BoysThe Weavers
15Goodnight IreneThe Weavers
16Lousy DimeThe Weavers
17Every Night When The Sun Goes DownThe Weavers
18Talking BluesThe Weavers
19East Virginia BluesThe Weavers
20Love Song BluesThe Weavers
21Tzena, Tzena, TzenaThe Weavers
22El Quinto RegimentoThe Weavers
23WimowehThe Weavers
24Around The WorldThe Weavers
25THE OSCAR BRAND SHOWS:The Weavers
26Poor Howard's Dead And GoneThe Weavers
27Dig My GraveThe Weavers
28Love Song BluesThe Weavers
29Washington Square BluesThe Weavers
30Freight Train BluesThe Weavers
31The Johnson BoysThe Weavers
32Lousy DimeThe Weavers
33The FireshipThe Weavers
Weavers, The - Goodnight Irene, 1949-1953 (4-CD & 1-DVD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 2
01Around The WorldThe Weavers
02Tzena, Tzena, Tzena (hebrew)The Weavers
03Tzena, Tzena, TzenaThe Weavers
04Goodnight IreneThe Weavers
05Lonesome TravelerThe Weavers
06So Long (It's Been Good To Know Yuh)The Weavers
07The Wreck Of The John B.The Weavers
08Midnight SpecialThe Weavers
09The Roving KindThe Weavers
10Follow The Drinking GourdThe Weavers
11Trouble In MindThe Weavers
12Along The Colorado TrailThe Weavers
13Suliram (Indonesian Lullaby)The Weavers
14Hush Little BabyThe Weavers
15I Know Where I'm GoingThe Weavers
16Across The Wide Missouri (& TERRY GILKYSON)The Weavers
17On Top Of Old Smoky (& TERRY GILKYSON)The Weavers
18The Frozen LoggerThe Weavers
19Follow The Drinking GourdThe Weavers
20Darling CoreyThe Weavers
21Greensleeves (instrumental)The Weavers
22Easy Rider BluesThe Weavers
23Along The Colorado TrailThe Weavers
24Greensleeves (instrumental)The Weavers
25When The Saints Go Marching InThe Weavers
26Run Home To Ma-MaThe Weavers
27Quilting BeeThe Weavers
28Kisses Sweeter Than WineThe Weavers
29Jig Along HomeThe Weavers
30Join Into The GameThe Weavers
Weavers, The - Goodnight Irene, 1949-1953 (4-CD & 1-DVD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 3
01Old Paint (Ride Around Little Dogies)The Weavers
02WimowehThe Weavers
03Midnight SpecialThe Weavers
04The Gandy Dancer's BallThe Weavers
05Around The CornerThe Weavers
06Hard, Ain't It HardThe Weavers
07Bay Of MexicoThe Weavers
08True LoveThe Weavers
09ClementineThe Weavers
10Down In The ValleyThe Weavers
11Rock Island LineThe Weavers
12BenoniThe Weavers
13Taking It EasyThe Weavers
14SylvieThe Weavers
15We Wish You A Merry ChristmasThe Weavers
16Burgundian CarolThe Weavers
17God Rest Ye Merry GentlemenThe Weavers
18Go Tell It On The MountainThe Weavers
19Twelve Days Of ChristmasThe Weavers
20Lulloo LullayThe Weavers
21It's Almost DayThe Weavers
22One For The Little Bitty BabyThe Weavers
23Poor Little JesusThe Weavers
24The Seven Blessings Of MaryThe Weavers
25Joy To The WorldThe Weavers
26Masters In This HallThe Weavers
27Goodnight IreneThe Weavers
28The Roving KindThe Weavers
29Tzena, Tzena, TzenaThe Weavers
30Around The WorldThe Weavers
31So Long (It's Been Good To Know Yuh)The Weavers
Weavers, The - Goodnight Irene, 1949-1953 (4-CD & 1-DVD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 4
01The Trenton Six (parts 1&2)The Weavers
02The Peekskill Story (parts 1&2)The Weavers
03A Train To The Zoo (parts 1&2)The Weavers
04New York CityThe Weavers
05We Shall Not Be MovedThe Weavers
06Old Man Atom (FRED HELLERMAN)The Weavers
07Pity The Downtrodden Landlord (F. HELLERMAN)The Weavers
08Bela Bimba (RONNIE GILBERT)The Weavers
09Calla, Calla (RONNIE GILBERT)The Weavers
10Flamenco (RONNIE GILBERT)The Weavers
11Just One More Chance (RONNIE GILBERT)The Weavers
12Goodnight, Sweet Dreams(LEE HAYS & HELLERMAN)The Weavers
13BUDDY ROGERS SHOW:The Weavers
14November 24, 1950 InterviewThe Weavers
Weavers, The - Goodnight Irene, 1949-1953 (4-CD & 1-DVD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 5
01Goodnight IreneThe Weavers
02The Roving KindThe Weavers
03Tzena, Tzena, TzenaThe Weavers
04Around The WorldThe Weavers
05So Long (It's Been Good To Know Yuh)The Weavers
The Weavers Carnegie Hall, New York City Carnegie Hall, New York's premier concert... more
"The Weavers"

The Weavers

Carnegie Hall, New York City

Carnegie Hall, New York's premier concert venue, was filled to capacity on Christmas Eve, 1955. The occasion was the Weavers' first holiday concert in three years. Frankly, no one really expected to see them again. Starting in 1950, the folk group started a Gotham holiday tradition with its popular December concerts at Town Hall. But the Weavers quietly disbanded after its 1952 concert, partially because of internal pressures but primarily as victims of an unrelenting blacklist. "We took a sabbatical," bass singer Lee Hays later explained. "Then it turned into a Mondical and a Tuesdical."

But those years were creatively fallow, and some band members were virtually destitute. By 1955 banjo player and tenor lead Pete Seeger had built a small, loyal following through college appearances and steady-selling Folkways albums. But as Christmas bleakly approached, Seeger faced an uncertain future. In August he faced a hostile panel from the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Unlike other "unfriendly" witnesses who testified before HUAC, Seeger refused to invoke the Fifth Amendment when the committee prodded him about his political philosophies and connections to the American Communist Party. When he refused to answer questions that he felt were highly improper, the panel held the 36-year-old musician in contempt. Costly legal challenges and the likelihood of prison loomed ahead. College bookings Seeger counted on were cancelled after the press reported his testimony; the few jobs he was offered barely covered expenses.

Nor was Hays faring much better. Looking all of 60 years old but actually only 41, he scraped by as a free-lance writer, penning finely crafted stories for 'Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine,' pseudonymous pulp for men's magazines and commercial jingles for radio. Like Seeger, Hays also was subpoenaed before that HUAC panel that August. And like Seeger, he was an "unfriendly" witness, but dodged potentially incriminating questions by invoking Fifth Amendment privileges.

Twenty-eight-year-old baritone singer/guitarist Fred Hellerman still earned a living through music, but not as an on-stage performer. Besides teaching guitar, he produced and arranged recordings for folk labels that were emerging around New York City 

By comparison, 29-year-old Ronnie Gilbert was doing considerably better than her former partners, but from a continent away. Married to a dentist, she now lived in California, devoting much of her time to raising her young daughter. Still, Gilbert often thought about singing again to appreciative audiences.

Harold Leventhal, then serving as Seeger's manager and mentor, felt the time was ripe to get the Weavers together again – if anything, to redirect its members away from the creative lethargy that marked the past three years. He also knew how contentious each of them could be. Making a few calls, he learned Town Hall was unavailable, but Carnegie Hall had Christmas Eve open. Clearly, it was an expensive gamble, but Leventhal secured the space for the evening. Knowing it would be difficult for the Weavers to refuse him, he told each member that the other three agreed to this one-night-only reunion. "Harold didn't know whether anyone would remember the Weavers, or whether anybody would show up," Hellerman told Mary Katherine Aldin in 1993."But he felt something had to be done."

When a small display ad promoting the concert appeared in a New York newspaper, tickets sold out almost immediately and hundreds of others were turned away. Attending the show was an act of defiance against the bigots and rightwing zealots who unrelentingly harassed the group earlier in the decade.

The audience's highly charged, emotional response to the Weavers' first appearance on stage took the group by surprise. After unhappily ending its career playing second-rate clubs like Duffy's Stardust Room on the outskirts of Cleveland, the Weavers triumphantly reemerged in America's leading concert hall. After the holiday, promoters from across the country called Leventhal, inquiring about the group's availability.

 Carnegie Hall concert launched a new, highly rewarding phase of the Weavers' career, augmented by a series of popular albums on Vanguard. From LPs to eight-track cartridges to cassettes to compact discs, these recordings basically remained in print for forty years. However, the earlier Decca singles that made the group's national reputation have only been sporadically available.

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Tracklist
Weavers, The - Goodnight Irene, 1949-1953 (4-CD & 1-DVD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 1
01 Wasn't That A Time
02 Dig My Grave
03 Freight Train Blues
04 Love Song Blues
05 The Hammer Song
06 No Irish Need Apply
07 The Hammer Song
08 Banks Of Marble
09 When The Saints Go Marching In
10 Rock Island Line
11 Lonesome Traveler
12 I Don't Want To Get Adjusted
13 Wasn't That A Time
14 The Johnson Boys
15 Goodnight Irene
16 Lousy Dime
17 Every Night When The Sun Goes Down
18 Talking Blues
19 East Virginia Blues
20 Love Song Blues
21 Tzena, Tzena, Tzena
22 El Quinto Regimento
23 Wimoweh
24 Around The World
25 THE OSCAR BRAND SHOWS:
26 Poor Howard's Dead And Gone
27 Dig My Grave
28 Love Song Blues
29 Washington Square Blues
30 Freight Train Blues
31 The Johnson Boys
32 Lousy Dime
33 The Fireship
Weavers, The - Goodnight Irene, 1949-1953 (4-CD & 1-DVD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 2
01 Around The World
02 Tzena, Tzena, Tzena (hebrew)
03 Tzena, Tzena, Tzena
04 Goodnight Irene
05 Lonesome Traveler
06 So Long (It's Been Good To Know Yuh)
07 The Wreck Of The John B.
08 Midnight Special
09 The Roving Kind
10 Follow The Drinking Gourd
11 Trouble In Mind
12 Along The Colorado Trail
13 Suliram (Indonesian Lullaby)
14 Hush Little Baby
15 I Know Where I'm Going
16 Across The Wide Missouri (& TERRY GILKYSON)
17 On Top Of Old Smoky (& TERRY GILKYSON)
18 The Frozen Logger
19 Follow The Drinking Gourd
20 Darling Corey
21 Greensleeves (instrumental)
22 Easy Rider Blues
23 Along The Colorado Trail
24 Greensleeves (instrumental)
25 When The Saints Go Marching In
26 Run Home To Ma-Ma
27 Quilting Bee
28 Kisses Sweeter Than Wine
29 Jig Along Home
30 Join Into The Game
Weavers, The - Goodnight Irene, 1949-1953 (4-CD & 1-DVD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 3
01 Old Paint (Ride Around Little Dogies)
02 Wimoweh
03 Midnight Special
04 The Gandy Dancer's Ball
05 Around The Corner
06 Hard, Ain't It Hard
07 Bay Of Mexico
08 True Love
09 Clementine
10 Down In The Valley
11 Rock Island Line
12 Benoni
13 Taking It Easy
14 Sylvie
15 We Wish You A Merry Christmas
16 Burgundian Carol
17 God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
18 Go Tell It On The Mountain
19 Twelve Days Of Christmas
20 Lulloo Lullay
21 It's Almost Day
22 One For The Little Bitty Baby
23 Poor Little Jesus
24 The Seven Blessings Of Mary
25 Joy To The World
26 Masters In This Hall
27 Goodnight Irene
28 The Roving Kind
29 Tzena, Tzena, Tzena
30 Around The World
31 So Long (It's Been Good To Know Yuh)
Weavers, The - Goodnight Irene, 1949-1953 (4-CD & 1-DVD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 4
01 The Trenton Six (parts 1&2)
02 The Peekskill Story (parts 1&2)
03 A Train To The Zoo (parts 1&2)
04 New York City
05 We Shall Not Be Moved
06 Old Man Atom (FRED HELLERMAN)
07 Pity The Downtrodden Landlord (F. HELLERMAN)
08 Bela Bimba (RONNIE GILBERT)
09 Calla, Calla (RONNIE GILBERT)
10 Flamenco (RONNIE GILBERT)
11 Just One More Chance (RONNIE GILBERT)
12 Goodnight, Sweet Dreams(LEE HAYS & HELLERMAN)
13 BUDDY ROGERS SHOW:
14 November 24, 1950 Interview
Weavers, The - Goodnight Irene, 1949-1953 (4-CD & 1-DVD Deluxe Box Set) Box set 5
01 Goodnight Irene
02 The Roving Kind
03 Tzena, Tzena, Tzena
04 Around The World
05 So Long (It's Been Good To Know Yuh)