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Weavers
Wasn't That a Time
Genres: Folk, Pop

Track Listings (21) - Disc #1
1. Goodnight Irene - The Weavers, Leadbelly
2. Tzena, Tzena, Tzena - The Weavers, Grossman, Julius
3. Kisses Sweeter Than Wine - The Weavers, Gilbert, Ronnie
4. Wimoweh - The Weavers, Gilbert, Ronnie
5. On Top of Old Smokey - The Weavers, Traditional
6. So Long (It's Been Good to Know Yuh) - The Weavers, Guthrie, Woody
7. Wreck of the John B - The Weavers, Hays, Lee
8. The Midnight Special - The Weavers, Gilbert, Ronnie
9. Darling Corey - The Weavers, Gilbert, Ronnie
10. Pay Me My Money Down - The Weavers, Parrish, Lydia
11. Follow the Drinking Gourd - The Weavers, Gilbert, Ronnie
12. Rock Island Line - The Weavers, Leadbelly
13. Around the World - The Weavers, Gilbert, Ronnie
14. Venga Jaleo - The Weavers, Brooks
15. I've Got a Home in That Rock - The Weavers, Gilbert, Ronnie
16. Shalom Chaverim - The Weavers, Gilbert, Ronnie
17. Lonesome Traveler - The Weavers, Hays, Lee
18. I Know Where I'm Going - The Weavers, Gilbert, Ronnie
19. Go Where I Send Thee (One for the Little Bitty Baby) - The Weavers, Gilbert, Ronnie
20. Sixteen Tons - The Weavers, Travis, Merle
21. Twelve Gates to the City - The Weavers, Darling, Erik
Track Listings (21) - Disc #2
1. I Never Will Marry - The Weavers, Hellerman, Fred
2. Sinner Man - The Weavers, Darling, Erik
3. House of the Rising Sun - The Weavers, Lomax, Alan
4. The Keeper - The Weavers, Gilbert, Ronnie
5. You Made Me a Pallet on the Floor - The Weavers, Darling, Erik
6. Kumbaya - The Weavers, Darling, Erik
7. Si Me Quieres Escribir - The Weavers, Gilbert, Ronnie
8. State of Arkansas - The Weavers, Gilbert, Ronnie
9. Eddystone Light - The Weavers, Gilbert, Ronnie
10. This Land Is Your Land - The Weavers, Guthrie, Woody
11. Aunt Rhodie - The Weavers, Gilbert, Ronnie
12. Aweigh, Santy Ano - The Weavers, Gilbert, Ronnie
13. Wild Goose Grasses - The Weavers, Allison, John [2]
14. Erie Canal - The Weavers, Gilbert, Ronnie
15. Greenland Whale Fisheries - The Weavers, Hellerman, Fred
16. Tina - The Weavers, Roberts, Marion
17. Old Riley (In Dem Long Hot Summer Days) - The Weavers, Leadbelly
18. Almost Done (On a Monday) - The Weavers, Hellerman, Fred
19. You Old Fool - The Weavers, Gilbert, Ronnie
20. Po' Howard (Howards' Dead and Gone) - The Weavers, Leadbelly
21. When the Stars Begin to Fall - The Weavers, Darling, Erik
Track Listings (23) - Disc #3
1. We're All Dodgin' - The Weavers, Darling, Erik
2. Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? - The Weavers, Gorney, Jay
3. Jackhammer John - The Weavers, Guthrie, Woody
4. A Walkin' and a Talkin' - The Weavers, Gilbert, Ronnie
5. Rally 'Round the Flag - The Weavers, Root, George F.
6. Que Bonita Bandera - The Weavers, Darling, Erik
7. Fight On - The Weavers, Darling, Erik
8. Wasn't That a Time - The Weavers, Hays, Lee
9. Get Along Little Dogies - The Weavers, Darling, Erik
10. True Religion - The Weavers, Darling, Erik
11. Which Side Are You On? - The Weavers, Reece, Florence
12. Bye, Baby, Bye - The Weavers, Darling, Erik
13. On My Journey - The Weavers, Darling, Erik
14. Born in East Virginia - The Weavers, Darling, Erik
15. Run, Come See Jerusalem - The Weavers, Blind Blake [1]
16. Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream - The Weavers, McCurdy, Ed
17. Marching to Pretoria - The Weavers, Marais
18. Stewball - The Weavers, Darling, Erik
19. Recordando Que Mañana (Remembering Tomorrow) - The Weavers, Darling, Erik
20. Below the Gallows Tree - The Weavers, Darling, Erik
21. Good Old Bowling Green - The Weavers, Darling, Erik
22. Buttermilk Hill - The Weavers, Gilbert, Ronnie
23. New Jerusalem - The Weavers, Darling, Erik
Track Listings (22) - Disc #4
1. When the Saints Go Marching In - The Weavers, Traditional
2. The Banks of Marble - The Weavers, Rice, Les
3. Woke up This Morning - The Weavers, Zellner, Bob
4. Ramblin' Boy - The Weavers, Paxton, Tom
5. Poor Liza - The Weavers, Seven, Tom
6. Train Time - The Weavers, Darling, Erik
7. Wimoweh - The Weavers, Gilbert, Ronnie
8. San Francisco Bay Blues - The Weavers, Fuller, Jesse
9. Guantanamera - The Weavers, Fernandez, Joseito
10. If I Had a Hammer - The Weavers, Hays, Lee
11. Come Away Melinda - The Weavers, Hellerman, Fred
12. Study War No More - The Weavers, Gilbert, Ronnie
13. Sinner Man - The Weavers, Darling, Erik
14. I'm Standing Outside of Your Shelter - The Weavers, Silverstein, Shel
15. Yerakine - The Weavers, Gilbert, Ronnie
16. Get Up, Get Out - The Weavers, McGinn, Matt
17. La Volette - The Weavers, Kevess, Arthur
18. Miner's Life - The Weavers, Gilbert, Ronnie
19. Roll on, Columbia - The Weavers, Guthrie, Woody
20. Rock Island Line - The Weavers, Leadbelly
21. Around the World - The Weavers, Gilbert, Ronnie
22. Goodnight Irene - The Weavers, Leadbelly

CD Details

All Artists: Weavers
Title: Wasn't That a Time
Members Wishing: 3
Total Copies: 0
Label: Vanguard Records
Release Date: 9/18/1993
Album Type: Box set
Genres: Folk, Pop
Style: Traditional Folk
Number of Discs: 4
SwapaCD Credits: 4
Other Editions: Wasn't That a Time: The Best of
UPC: 015707475020

Synopsis

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It's richly ironic that Pete Seeger threatened to ax the wires when Bob Dylan went electric at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. Dylan, after all, was doing the same thing Seeger had done 15 years earlier with the Weavers: lending contemporary pop arrangements to folk music. Back in 1950, going pop didn't mean plugging in electric guitars but adding big-band charts by Frank Sinatra's future arranger Gordon Jenkins. And it worked. The quartet took songs by a black Louisiana convict, a Dust Bowl socialist, and an anonymous Zulu troubador and turned them into pop hits between 1950 and 1952. The Weavers' four-CD box set, Wasn't That a Time, begins with eight of those early 78s for Decca Records and then offers 79 more songs from their later recordings for Vanguard. Weavers' songs like "Wimoweh," "If I Had a Hammer," "Guantanamera," and "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine" have been recorded by everyone from R.E.M. to Aretha Franklin. If only for their historical impact, the songs on this box set are important. --Geoffrey Himes

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CD Reviews

You can't go wrong with this set!

Rick Forrester | Hoboken, NJ USA | 10/06/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This 4 CD set covers the gamut of the Weavers career, and contains versions of just about all the hit songs that are associated with them. While disk 3 that features Erik Darling in place of Pete Seeger is a bit weaker, if you want a smattering of all phases of their career, this is the definitely the set to get. The booklet that comes with this set contains recent interviews with the (surviving) Weavers, and is also worthwhile.If you already know that you like (or love) the Weavers, than I would say Go for It!"

Another solid collection of the best of the Weavers

Lawrance M. Bernabo | The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota | 08/03/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Little did I know when I was growing up listening to the Smothers Brothers do their versions of "Tzena Tzena," "Michael Row the Boat Ashore," and "Marching to Pretoria" that the boys were doing songs they had learned from the Weavers. Now I know that even if you ignored the folk music revival you have probably heard songs the Weavers were doing in the 1950s, albeit by different names. You might not recognize "Wimoweh," but you have heard a version of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight," while "Wreck of the John B." is probably more familiar as "Sloop John B." But it is folk artists such as Peter, Paul & Mary that have kept alive a lot of the songs the Weavers made popular (e.g., "If I Had a Hammer").

The Weavers were Pete Seeger, tenor and banjo; Ronnie Gilbert, alto; Lee Hays, baritone and bass; and Fred Hellerman, baritone and guitar. "Wasn't That a Time: The Best of the Weavers" is one of several solid collections of the songs this seminal folk group made popular. This 22-track collection should not be confused with the larger box set also entitled "Wasn't That a Time." Still, this has the core songs that are on anybody's short list of Weavers songs, which would be the ones mentioned above plus "On the Top of Old Smokey," "Goodnight Irene," "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine," "The Midnight Special," "Rock Island Line," "Lonesome Traveler," and "When the Saints Go Marching In." Really, the only song that I can say is missing that would be on my list is "Follow the Drinking Gourd," but that is not enough to quibble and if that song is high up on your list keep looking because it is out there to be found.

The other part of the equation is that this collection offers some other songs by the Weavers that do not pop up as often, such as "Around The Corner (Beneath The Berry Tree)," "Old Paint (Ride Around Little Dogies)," and "Along the Colorado Trail," all of which serve to remind you how subversive this group was and why they were denounced as Communist sympathizers (I find it interesting that the Weavers were also denounced by the left for being sellouts at the same time they were being viewed with suspicion by the right because of their politics). Unfortunately, if you are hoping to hear what all the fuss was about in terms of the political controversy, forget about it. For that you probably have to check out the solo recordings of Seeger, who would continue to be political thorn in the side of the system for some time to come."