[Magdalen] RIP Fred Hellerman, 89.

[Jay Weigel]

One of the earliest songs I remember on the radio is "Tzena, Tzena, Tzena".
I didn't know it was The Weavers until much later.

On Sat, Sep 3, 2016 at 10:48 AM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I cast my mind back a long, long way, to age perhaps + or minus 9 years
> old (was born in 1938) when I was at boarding school in the Eastern
> Townships of Quebec.  My best friend, Helen Weissman, and I used to sing
> Goodnight Irene.  What I can't figure out is how or where I ever could have
> heard it enough to learn it, likewise the Anniversary Song.
>
> As I remember Helen's story, she was Polish and Jewish and somehow ended
> up in Stockholm after her parents had been killed. She was in the care of
> her uncle, Irving Kalb, who was a toy manufacturer and lived at 45 Falmouth
> St. in Brooklyn, New York. How on earth he came to send her to St. Helen's,
> a little Anglican boarding school in rural Quebec, I can't imagine.
>
> Marion, a pilgrim
>
>
>   On 9/2/2016 9:54 PM, M J _Mike_ Logsdon wrote:
>
>> Member of The Weavers.  God rest the soul of yet another Great One.
>>
>> *****
>>
>> Fred Hellerman, member of Weavers folk group, dies at 89
>> >From Associated Press
>> September 02, 2016 7:54 PM EST
>>
>> WESTON, Conn. (AP) — Fred Hellerman, a founding member of the influential
>> folk music quartet the Weavers, has died. He was 89.
>>
>> Hellerman died Thursday at his home in Weston, Connecticut, after a
>> lengthy illness, his son, Caleb Hellerman, said Friday.
>>
>> The Weavers were formed in the late 1940s by Hellerman along with Pete
>> Seeger, Lee Hays and Ronnie Gilbert. They helped to popularize folk music
>> in the United States with recordings including "Goodnight Irene" and "On
>> Top of Old Smoky." The group disbanded after they were black-listed by
>> anti-Communists in the early 1950s, but performed again into the 1960s and
>> then at a reunion concert at Carnegie Hall in 1980.
>>
>> Hellerman also produced Arlo Guthire's 1967 record, "Alice's Restaurant,"
>> and worked with several artists over his career as a composer, arranger and
>> songwriter.
>>
>> Hellerman was born in Brooklyn, New York, and his first displayed his
>> love for music by collaborating on stage plays in the Yiddish theater, his
>> son said. He learned to play guitar while serving in the U.S. Coast Guard
>> and teamed up with the other musicians while living in New York City's
>> Greenwich Village.
>>
>> He moved to Weston in 1969, installing a recording studio in the home
>> that would often be visited by Seeger and other artists.
>> .
>>
>>
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