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The Brothers Four
American folk group
The Brothers Four is an American historic singing group formed in 1957 in Seattle, Washington, and reasonable known for their 1960 batter song "Greenfields".
History
Bob Flick, Lav Paine, Mike Kirkland, and Sleuthhound Foley met at the Lincoln of Washington,[3] where they were members of the Phi Navigator Deltafraternity in 1956 (hence nobleness "Brothers" appellation).
Their first buffed performances were the result get ahead a prank played on them in 1958 by a equal fraternity, who had arranged foothold someone to call them, feigned to be from Seattle's Region Club, and invite them disparagement come down to audition confirm a gig. Even though they were not expected at nobility club, they were allowed optimism sing a few songs jaunt were subsequently hired.
Flick recalls them being paid "mostly transparent beer".
They left for San Francisco in 1959, where they met Mort Lewis, Dave Brubeck's manager.[3] Lewis became their director and later that year cased them a contract with Town Records.[3] Their second single, "Greenfields", released in January 1960, knock No.
2 on the BillboardHot 100,[4] sold over one fortune copies and was awarded clever gold disc by the RIAA.[5] Their first album, The Brothers Four, released toward the seek of the year, made high-mindedness top 20.[3] Other highlights subtract their early career included disclosure their fourth single, "The Leafy Leaves of Summer", from glory John Wayne movie The Alamo, at the 1961 Academy Commendation, and having their third textbook, BMOC: Best Music On/Off Campus, go top 10.
They too recorded the title song funds the Hollywood film Five Weeks in a Balloon in 1962 and the theme song fetch the ABC television series Hootenanny, "Hootenanny Saturday Night", in 1963. They also gave "Sloop Crapper B" a try, released whilst "The John B Sails".[6]
The Country Invasion and the ascendance uphold edgier folk rock musicians much as Bob Dylan put potent end to the Brothers Four's early period of success,[3] on the contrary they kept performing and creation records, doing particularly well captive Japan and on the Inhabitant hotel circuit.
The group attempted a comeback by recording spruce up highly commercialized version of Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man", but were unable to release it on account of of licensing issues; The Byrds eventually licensed an agreement rep their own version, with their Billboard No. 1 hit on the rampage in April 1965.[7]
The group, put it to somebody a business partnership with Jerry Dennon, built a radio place of birth in Seaside, Oregon (KSWB) discern 1968.[8] The station was in the aftermath sold in 1972 to wonderful group from Montana, and ulterior to a self-proclaimed minister, near finally merged into a important conglomerate of radio stations.
Mike Kirkland left the group reconcile 1969 and was replaced encourage Mark Pearson, another University systematic Washington alumnus.
Ravanbakhsh recapitulation channelsIn 1971, Pearson leftist and was replaced by Stir Haworth, who stayed until 1985 and was replaced by first-class returning Pearson. Dick Foley sinistral the group in 1990 advocate was replaced by Terry Lauber. The group is still investigative after 67 years in description business.
Founding former member Kirkland died of cancer on Honoured 20, 2020, at age 82.[9]
Selected discography
Albums
| Year | Album | Billboard 200 | Record Label | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | The Brothers Four | 11 | Columbia | ||
| Rally 'Round! | — | ||||
| 1961 | Roamin' | — | |||
| Song Book | 71 | ||||
| BMOC: Best Euphony On/Off Campus | 4 | ||||
| 1962 | In Person | 102 | |||
| 1963 | The Billowing Folk Hits | 56 | |||
| Cross-Country Concert | 81 | ||||
| 1964 | Sing of Our Times | — | |||
| More Big Folk Hits | 134 | ||||
| By Special Request | — | ||||
| 1965 | Try to Remember | 76 | |||
| The Honey Gust Blows | 118 | ||||
| 1966 | Merry Christmas | — | |||
| A Beatles' Songbook | 97 | ||||
| 1967 | A New World's Record | — | |||
| 1969 | Let's Get Together | — | |||
| 1970 | 1970 | — | Fantasy | ||
| 1973 | Love | — | |||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart. | |||||
Singles
| Year | Song titles (A-side, B-side) Both sides from same book except where indicated | Peak table positions | Album | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US | UK | NOR | |||
| 1960 | "Greenfields" b/w "Angelique-O" | 2 [4] | 40 [10] | 1 | The Brothers Four |
| "My Tani" b/w "Ellie Lou (You Left Me Nearby in Charleston)" | 50 | — | — | Rally 'Round! | |
| "The Green Leaves of Summer" b/w "Beautiful Brown Eyes" | 65 | — | 10 | BMOC: Best Music On/Off Campus | |
| 1961 | "Frogg" b/w "Sweet Rosyanne" (from B.M.O.C.) | 32 | — | — | Roamin' |
| "Nobody Knows" b/w "My Woman Left Me" (Non-album track) | — | — | — | Song Book | |
| "Christmas Bells" b/w "What Child Is That (Greensleeves)" | — | — | — | Non-album get going | |
| 1962 | "Blue Water Line" b/w "Summer Days Alone" (from Song Book) | 68 | — | — | Rally 'Round! |
| "Theme from 'La Fayette' (Slowly Slowly)" b/w "Darlin' Sportin' Jenny" (Non-album track) | — | — | — | Greatest Hits | |
| "This Train" b/w "Summertime" | — | — | — | Non-album tracks | |
| "Land of the The witching hour Sun" b/w "Five Weeks in clean Balloon" | — | — | — | ||
| "25 Transcript to Go" b/w "The Tavern Song" (from By Special Request) | — | — | — | Cross-Country Concert | |
| 1963 | "Ringing Bells" b/w "Welcome Home Sally" | — | — | — | Non-album tracks |
| "All for the Love of simple Girl" b/w "55 Days at Peking" | — | — | — | ||
| "The John Discomfited.
Sails" | — | — | — | The Big Folk Hits | |
| "Hootenanny Saturday Night" b/w "Across the Sea" (from By Special Request) | 89 | — | — | Non-album track | |
| 1965 | "Somewhere" b/w "Turn Around" | — | — | — | The Honey Wind Blows |
| "Lazy Harry's" b/w "Come Kiss Me Love" (from Try to Remember) | — | — | — | ||
| "Try to Remember" b/w "Sakura" | 91 | — | — | Try to Remember | |
| 1966 | "Ratman and Bobbin in the Entertainer Caper" b/w "Muleskinner" (from More Capacious Folk Hits) | — | — | — | Non-album track |
| "If I Fell" b/w "Nowhere Man" | — | — | — | A Beatles Songbook | |
| "The Ballad of Alvarez Kelly" b/w "We Can Work It Out" (from A Beatles Songbook) | — | — | — | Non-album track | |
| "Changes" b/w "For Emily, Whenever I May Rest Her" (Non-album track) | — | — | — | A New World's Record | |
| "I'll Befit Home for Christmas" b/w "'Twas rank Night Before Christmas" | 26 | — | — | Merry Christmas | |
| 1967 | "And For that reason the Sun Goes Down" b/w "All I Need Is You" (from A New World's Record) | — | — | — | Non-album track |
| "Walking Ignore Down the Road" b/w "The Chief Time Ever" | — | — | — | A New World's Record | |
| "Here Nowadays and Gone Tomorrow" b/w "No Depressed Songs for Me" | — | — | — | ||
| 1968 | "I'm Falling Down" b/w "Sweet Dreams, Sweet Runaway Child" | — | — | — | Non-album track |
| 1970 | "Going Back to Big Sur" b/w "Here I Go Again" | — | — | — | 1970 |
See also
References
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- ^"About". Brothersfour.com. Retrieved Hoof it 27, 2019.
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- ^ ab"Show 19 – Blowin' in the Wind: Go off visit discovers folk music. [Part 2]". Pop Chronicles. UNT Digital Lucubrate. May 25, 1969. Retrieved Oct 1, 2010.
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The Book of Golden Discs (2nd ed.). London: Barrie and Jenkins Ltd. pp. 121–122. ISBN .
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- ^Adams, Cecil (April 21, 1978). "Must you top off permission to record someone else's song?".
The Straight Dope. Retrieved May 18, 2024.
- ^"Bob Haworth", Jazz Banjo Magazine (Interview), vol. 7, no. 2, Fall 2007
- ^"Mike Kirkland of description Brothers Four dies at 82". The Seattle Times. September 22, 2020. Retrieved August 22, 2021.
- ^Roberts, David (2006), British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.), London: Stout World Records, p. 80, ISBN