[Magdalen] RIP Fred Hellerman, 89.

[Marion Thompson]

The earliest songs I remember are "I'm looking over a four-leaf clover" 
and "Mairzy doats and dozy doats".

Marion, a pilgrim


On 9/3/2016 11:26 AM, Jay Weigel wrote:
> 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.
>>> .
>>>
>>>