Jonathan, David & Elbert

 

Hangman

Jonathan, David & Elbert

3 New Guys With New Ideas About Singing

Produced by Jack Tracy

Music Coordinator: Peter MacMinn

Engineer: Dave Wiechman

Philips PHM 200-166

From the back cover: Our country's popular music has taken on a new character in the last few years. The great wave of rediscovered folk music has added to the amalgam of pop songs, rhythm and blues, country and western, and jazz, and has cast yet a new shading on the songs America sings.

Johnathan, David, and Elbert have grown up in this new era, and the songs they sing with such obvious enjoyment and skill are the new music of our times.

This is a new group, one recorded for the first time, but to say much more about hem than to tell you then are hung San Franciscans (Jon and David are brothers) who have grown up singing the songs of their generation would be unnecessary.

For it is the music they sing and write and play that is of importance here. From the vibrant Woke Up This Morning to the old English balled, Hangman, these are songs of freedom, of love, of working, of wondering, and of hope.

From Billboard - February 6, 1965: A well-produced debut of three new folk performers. The blend of their voices and their way of combining pop, rhythm and blues, and country oriented material makes for interesting listening. They have adapted most of the material they perform and display a warm, rich blend on "The Sweetest Wine" and "Judy's Song." Exciting arrangements and performances are heard in "Woke Up This Morning" and "Hangman." 

Woke Up This Morning

The Sweetest Wine

Yes, I See

Judy's Song

If I Were Free

Quantanamerra

Three Kids

Fare Thee Well

Go, Lassie, Go

Hey, Nellie, Nellie

Road Song

Hangman