[Magdalen] RIP Fred Hellerman, 89.

[Lynn Ronkainen]

I have memories of many of the WW2- era songs from the age of 3 because my 
mom sung them to me - not the Hellerman 'school' but they've lived on when I 
sung them to my kids in the 70s and 80s: The Wiffinpoof Song, The White 
Cliffs of Dover, South of the Border, The Tennessee Waltz, Barkley Square, 
The Isle of Capri, You are my Sunshine. I have vivid memories at age three, 
singing the Wiffinpoof song in the car driving across town (Detroit suburbs) 
and when we would get to the 'glasses raised on high' lyric I would take off 
my new glasses and lift them up as far as my little arms could stretch... 
(not knowing yet what a 'toast' with alcohol was at that tender age).

Lynn



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From: "Marion Thompson" <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2016 10:37 AM
To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] RIP Fred Hellerman, 89.

> 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.
>>>> .
>>>>
>>>>
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