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hwp In the news tonight...
...the music world mourns the death
of folk music icon Irving Steinbloom...
...an instrumental figure
in guiding folk music...
...from its humble beginnings in the 1950s
to its zenith in popularity in the 1960s.
Steinbloom managed the careers
of such million-selling folk groups as...
...The Main Street Singers,
The Folksmen...
...and the sweethearts
of the folk music scene, Mitch and Mickey.
Their music was the voice of a generation.
It carried a message of peace and freedom...
...and young people got behind
the message in a big way.
Steinbloom is survived
by his wife and three children.
What do you say, Mitch? Its up to you.
Are you going to be with us?
Yes, we do. We have all three Folksmen.
Of course, Alan, of course.
He was the first to--
We cant imagine doing this without you.
Its as simple as that.
We cannot conceive of doing this--
It seemed that the only fitting tribute
to this fantastic human being--
And I have to tell you,
my dad was really an amazing character.
And the only fitting tribute we could
come up with was a memorial to my dad...
...that would be a concert
that would be performed...
...by all of the fabulous groups
and people that he used to represent.
Its gonna be very fast. Its gonna be in
two weeks. And it had to be in Town Hall...
...because where else could we have
such an event? It had to be Town Hall.
And they had a hole in the schedule.
But its a very sudden hole...
...and weve got two weeks
to put together this very complicated event.
But Im pretty organized myself.
Ive always been a very organized person.
When I was 12, I formed the J.C.P.L.,
the Jewish Childrens Polo League.
We rode Shetland ponies instead of horses.
It was funny, my mom used to say:
"Well, if he has to fall,
he shouldnt fall from so very high."
She was very protective.
You could say overly protective.
I just like to think she cared about me.
Which she did, a lot.
And I was a member of the chess team.
And whenever we had chess tournaments,
I had to wear a protective helmet.
I had to wear a football helmet.
Now, who knows what she was thinking?
Maybe she thought
we might have fallen...
...and impaled our heads on a pointy
bishop or something, I dont know.
Now they dont allow no frowns inside
Leave them by the door
-Theres apple brandy by the keg
-And sawdust on the floor
So if youve got a hankering
Ill tell you where to go
Just look for the busted neon sign
That flashes
Ea-a-oes
Well, theres a puppy in the parlor
And a skillet on the stove
Hello, Mr. Stranger Man
-Who is that?
-Who are any of us?
No!
Ill take some of that.
-Mr. Palter has an altar, I see.
-Yeah. The Palter Porch.
-I knew you looked familiar.
-Just a little.
I think I used to work with your kids.
A couple of young guys....
Mark and I met at
the University of Vermont in about 61 ?
Late 61 .
We were both interested in folk music,
and there was a big folk music scene...
...as there were on many colleges.
We formed The Twobadours.
-Two. T-W-O.
-Badours.
Because there were two of us.
That was the reasoning behind the name.
-Mark was a bass, really, a bass singer.
-I sang way down here.
And I was a tenor singer up there.
And so we had no lead....
No glue. No middle, no....
Vocalist. We went to New York
to see what was happening in the biz.
-We were playing at a place....
-The Folk Place.
At The Folk Place, which was a wonderful
club at the time and we ran into--
It was the flash point.
It really was.
Everyone-- It was Like a big magnet,
everyone went there.
-He was singing, he was backing people up--
-I thought I was a guitar player at the time.
If you have enough vibrato on those blue
Fender guitars, you sound Like a surf king.
I was drawn to the folk music as well
and I wound up down at The Folk Place...
...and met these two guys.
I could play the guitar. I could sing right
in the middle there, mostly sang for myself.
-Not a bad-looking gent, to boot.
-No, thats true. That didnt hurt.
We ended up getting together
and it just kind of....
-It clicked.
-It clicked.
And Mr. Irving Steinbloom came down
and he signed us to Folk Town...
-...which was the label to be on.
-Terrific Label.
Later on we were
kind of moved down the food chain...
...to the Folk Tone Label
which was a subsidiary.
It was a decent Label,
they just didnt have the distribution.
-They didnt have any distribution.
-No distribution at all.
And the covers were printed
in two colors instead of four...
...which I noticed was a problem.
And they had no hole
in the center of the record--
No, you had to provide it yourself.
So the people complained
that youd get this vinyl, in those days...
-...and its up to you to center it.
-It would teeter crazily on the spindle.
And that was, of course, we had
no control over that aspect of it.
They were still good records.
Good product.
If you punched a hole in them,
youd have a good time.
Its scary but its true
So do what the Good Book tells you to
I guess it was in about 1958
in Greenwich Village.
My partner Chu
