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...freshman class elected three representatives to the HCUA Wednesday: Michael E. Abram '66 of Thayer Hall and Hollywood, Fla.; Evan A. Davis '65 of Wigglesworth Hall and Riverside, Conn.; and Sanford J. Ungar '66 of Wigglesworth Hall and Kingston, Penn...
Other new officers include: Michael Cain '63-3, of Kingston, R.I. and Sidney Goldfarb '64, of Lowell House and Peabody, Pegasus; Mary V. Seager '64, of 124 Walker St. and Tecumseh. Mich., secretary; Phillip Hecksher '65, of Lionel Hall and New York City, treasurer; and David Swanson '64, of Adams House and Wauwatosa, Wis., business manager...
That was the only folk-account I ever read that was fair to everybody-even the Kingston Trio...
...straight sour mash. When purist critics seek an example of everything that is corrupt about folk singing, they always pick on the hapless Kingstons. First off, the trio has made as much as $30,000 a week, and this is unforgivably crude. Next, they smooth down, harmonize, and slicken the lyrics, embellishing the whole with gimcrack corn. But, carping aside, the Kingstons are accomplished entertainers, and many of their critics, Johnny-come-latelies to purity, forget that they probably would never have heard of folk music if they had not been first attracted by a heel-stomping ditty rendered...
...corn mash in the still and see the heat waves over the road. Proffitt makes his own fretless banjos, cutting down hardwoods and killing groundhogs to get his materials. Years ago, he sang a song called Tom Dula for a visiting folk scholar. It was later recorded by the Kingston Trio as Tom Dooley. If any one event touched off the present folk boom in popular music, that was it. The Kingstons have sold more than 2.6 million copies of the song and many other singers have recorded it, too. Proffitt's reward has been approximately zero dollars, zero...