Folk Matinee - Liner Notes - The Limeliters
Folk Matinee - The Limeliters
Liner Notes by Neeely Plumb (LPM/LSP-2547) Few, if any, other artists are such a conditioned reflex in the record market place that they would dare to pose back-to-camera for an album cover. But in the case of the Limeliters, their hundred-odd concerts a year (and their many extended engagements between tours) have created a recognizable image of the very way they stand - front or back. If they have a visual image, and they do, then certainly they have a sound image of ten times that magnitude - something on the order of three megatunes, as these blasts are measured. Music reviewers and critics in all parts of the world seem to agree unanimously that these three - Alex Hassilv, Lou Gottlieb and Glenn Yarbrough - are possessed of a curious synthesis of vocal paradox that goes off like an octet when they strike the most (otherwise) banal triad.* To their visual and sound images, the Limeliters add the most elusive factor of all: the quality of thoroughly convincing (often hilarious) interpretation and performance in any song they sing. it should be added here that the latter is as far from mere happenstance as interplanetary travel is from the horse-drawn streetcar. The selection of a new piece of material by the group, or the rearrangment of an old one, involves a three-way emotional trauma which endures from the first run-through until the final and finished version. This can take from three days to three months; it can involve rewriting that which has been rewritten; it can end in a flat and final rejection of the song or the arrangement - or both. But if and when a song gets into their acte or on one of their recordings, rest assured that it has withstood the ravages of three excruciatingly selective individuals whose musical tastes and convictions somehow have intersected at a common point. When the point is in focus, it answers the question, "Could that be why I like the Limeliters? - Nellly Plumb * The undersigned would like to explain that this is not his normal manner of spaking. this is Gottlieb's manner of speaking; and he, the undersigned, merely got carried away. |
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Side 1:
Sing Hallelujah, Sweet Water Rolling, Funk, Blue Mountain Lake, Tamborito, Uncle Benny's Celebration.
Side 2:
Wake Up, Dunia;; Die Gedanken Sind Frei; To everything There is a season (Turn! Turn! Turn!); Reedy River, Those Were the Days; The Minstrel Boy.
Sing Hallelujah, Sweet Water Rolling, Funk, Blue Mountain Lake, Tamborito, Uncle Benny's Celebration.
Side 2:
Wake Up, Dunia;; Die Gedanken Sind Frei; To everything There is a season (Turn! Turn! Turn!); Reedy River, Those Were the Days; The Minstrel Boy.
Recorded at Webster Hall, New York City. Produced by Neely Plumb. Recording Engineer: Mickey Crofford. Mastering: Dick Gardner. Other RCA Vistor albums by the Limeliters you will enjoy:
Tonight: in Person * The Slightly Fabulous Limeliters * Sing Out! * Through Children's Eyes
Copyright 1962, Radio Corporation of America * Printed in U.S.A.
Tonight: in Person * The Slightly Fabulous Limeliters * Sing Out! * Through Children's Eyes
Copyright 1962, Radio Corporation of America * Printed in U.S.A.
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