''At Carnegie Hall'' (1957) is the second
album
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by
The Weavers
The Weavers were an American folk music quartet based in the Greenwich Village area of New York City originally consisting of Lee Hays, Pete Seeger, Ronnie Gilbert, and Fred Hellerman. Founded in 1948, the group sang traditional folk songs fr ...
. The concert was
recorded live at
Carnegie Hall in
New York City
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on
Christmas Eve 1955. At the time the concert was a comeback for the group following the inclusion of the group on the
entertainment industry blacklist. The album peaked at number 24 on the
Billboard Top 200
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in 1961.
This album represents the first half of that landmark Carnegie Hall concert. A recording of the concert's second half was also released as an album, entitled ''The Weavers on Tour'' (1957, rereleased 1970).
''The Weavers on Tour" at AllMusic
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Track listing
# " Darling Corey" (Traditional, arranged by Gilbert, Hays, Hellerman) — 1:58
# " Kisses Sweeter than Wine" (traditional, arranged by Gilbert, Hays, Hellerman) — 3:14
# " Pay Me My Money Down" (Parrish) — 2:36
# "Greensleeves
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" (Traditional) — 2:39
# "Rock Island Line
"Rock Island Line" is an American folk song. Ostensibly about the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, it appeared as a folk song as early as 1929. The first recorded performance of "Rock Island Line" was by inmates of the Arkansas Cummins ...
" ( Lead Belly) — 2:19
# "Around the World" (Gilbert, Hays, Hellerman) — 2:37
# " Wimoweh" (Solomon Linda
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, arranged by Gilbert, Hays, Hellerman) — 1:46
# "Venga Jaleo" (Brooks) — 2:09
# "Suliram (I'll Be There)" (Campbell, Engvick) — 2:05
# "Shalom Chaverim" (Gilbert, Hays, Hellerman) — 2:02
# "Lonesome Traveler" (Hays) — 1:59
# " I Know Where I'm Going" (Traditional, arranged by Gilbert, Hays, Hellerman) — 1:51
# "Woody's Rag/900 Miles" (Woody Guthrie
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) — 1:34
# "Sixteen Tons
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" ( Merle Travis) — 2:03
# "Follow the Drinking Gourd" (Gilbert, Hays, Hellerman ...) — 2:09
# "When the Saints Go Marching In
"When the Saints Go Marching In", often referred to as simply "The Saints", is a traditional black spiritual. It originated as a Christian hymn and is often played by jazz bands. This song was famously recorded on May 13, 1938, by Louis Armstron ...
" (Traditional) 2:15
# "I've Got a Home in That Rock" (Gilbert, Hays, Hellerman) — 1:48
# "Hush Little Baby
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" (Campbell) — 1:03
# "Go Where I Send Thee (One for the Little Bitty Baby)" (Traditional, arranged by Gilbert, Hays, Hellerman) — 2:35
# "Goodnight, Irene
"Goodnight, Irene" or "Irene, Goodnight," is a 20th-century American folk standard, written in time, first recorded by American blues musician Huddie 'Lead Belly' Ledbetter in 1933. A version recorded by the Weavers was a #1 hit in 1950.
The ...
" (Lead Belly, Lomax) — 4:02
Charts
Personnel
The Weavers
* Ronnie Gilbert
Ruth Alice "Ronnie" Gilbert (September 7, 1926 – June 6, 2015), was an American folk singer, songwriter, actress and political activist. She was one of the original members of the music quartet the Weavers, as a contralto with Pete Seeger, Le ...
- vocals (Alto)
* Lee Hays - vocals (Bass), arrangements
* Fred Hellerman
Fred Hellerman (May 13, 1927 – September 1, 2016) was an American folk singer, guitarist, producer, and songwriter. Hellerman was an original member of the seminal American folk group The Weavers, together with Pete Seeger, Lee Hays, and Ronn ...
- vocals (Baritone), guitar
* Pete Seeger
Peter Seeger (May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014) was an American folk singer and social activist. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, Seeger also had a string of hit records during the early 1950s as a member of the Weavers, notably ...
- vocals (Tenor), arrangements, banjo
Other
* Nancy Toff - Liner Notes
Releases
References
The Weavers albums
Albums recorded at Carnegie Hall
1957 live albums
Vanguard Records live albums
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