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The time of posting should have put it at the top. Additionally, there was a response that is no longer present. Did you do some magic?
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THis was not up here...... it was down below until I put something under it, then it popped to the top. No, it isn't due to not refreshing my browser...... this is odd.
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But the parody is great. 
Modified by Joe at Mon, Apr 10, 2006, 17:13:35
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The Weavers were the first to perform it regularly, I think. Lopez didn't sing it until the 60s.
Modified by Joe at Mon, Apr 10, 2006, 17:33:06
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Not that it really matters
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So, we saw Trini Lopez on TV, singing Seeger's song, but Seeger wasn't allowed on TV until the Smothers Brothers put their careers on the line and violated the blacklist from the McCarthy days. He was blacklisted for union organizing and war-protest singing. That's why we didn't see Seeger singing it on TV and why people think Trini Lopez wrote the song. Ironic, no?
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Joe, after reading all the hammer stuff again, I found this and it made me almost split my side with laughter. I guess I needed some comic relief.In reality, though, it was the Jagdeo and Rich Neale parts that had me laughing the hardest. We need more Larkin! I know he's a busy guy, but that talent just needs to be resurrected...... fo all our sakes
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Weren't they the ones that made the song a hit first time around? Lopez's version was later, if my old memory is working today. 
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That's correct. Peter, Paul, and Mary were the first to make the song a hit. Kabir
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But, the upbeat Trini version works with this classic Larkin piece. Especially true of the Jagdeo and Neale parts...... think about it.
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Much as I admire Pete Seeger, I think Trini Lopez made that song his own. Bearing in mind it was 1963, I think the song may have been influential in its way, with that hint of a 'Tex-Mex' sound that came after with people like Mike Sahm (remember Sir Douglas Quintet?) and Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs ('Woolly Bully!') through to Los Lobos. I love those hybrid, 'Americana' styles you get in the States, where rock, folk, blues, latin etc. get blended together... Anyway, it looks like Trini's still going strong at 69, even if he couldn't wait until Johnny Cash was cold in his grave before pinching his image...? http://www.trinilopez.com/ See what I mean?
Modified by Nigel at Tue, Apr 11, 2006, 11:57:38
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I'm soooooooo confused! I have to admit, tho, it was Trini's voice I hear singing the Larkin version..... that is the one that came to mind and it worked
Modified by NAR at Tue, Apr 11, 2006, 12:47:36
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I can't believe you'd talk Tex-Mex and leave out Freddy Fender though you win back the lost points for Los Lobos
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And I've loved that kind of stuff since I was about nine years old. Please tell me everything you know about Freddy Fender. Gotta go, BBC radio 2 is playing Tom Waits...
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