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  The modern folk music "boom" that exploded in 1958 with the commercial success of the Kingston Trio prompted Columbia to seek its own clean-cut, stripe-shirted folk singing male crew. The company's prayers were answered when The Brothers Four emerged from the University of Washington's Phi Gamma Delta frat house and scored a #2 pop chart hit with this, their debut single. Not as politically aware as their peers, their vocal harmonies were nevertheless pure and true, and they were always a rousing high point of ABC's early '60s Saturday night traveling folk music variety series, Hootenanny.

(T. Gilkyson/R. Dehr/F. Miller); Mike Kirkland, banjo, vocal; John Paine, guitar, vocal; Bob Flick, bass, vocal, Dick Foley, drums, vocal; Rec. New York, July 28, 1959. From The Brothers Four, Columbia CS 8197 (XSM 48303); Originally Released 1959