Sing Hallelujah/Sweet Water Rolling/Funk/Blue Mountain Lake/Tamborito/Uncle Benny’s Celebration/Wake Up Dunia/Die Gedanken Sind Frei/To Everything There Is A Season/Reedy River/Those Were The Days/The Minstrel Boy
Folk Matinee contains a diverse selection of songs from the folk group The Limeliters. The inclusion of Those Were The Days is of interest as this would become a massive hit for Mary Hopkin in 1968. (US:21)
“It was nice to hear the song Funk again after such a long time. There were other songs that were also good on this album.”
“The Limeliters have always been on of my favourite recording and performing acts. The choice of material, even in languages other than English, is exciting, thoughtful, and fun. The chemistry of Lou, Alex and Glenn has rarely been equalled.”
“It's not their best, but this studio album does have its moments. As their career progressed, The Limeliters' repertoire got more and more eclectic. They were all interested in many types of musical styles, and did what they could to introduce a variety on all of their albums (they even sing in German on this album).”
“A couple of gems stand out on this album: most notably, the jaunty, nonsensical Funk and Pete Seeger's musical adaptation of the words from the Book of Ecclesiastes, which appears under the title To Everything There Is A Season.”
“Includes one of the first English versions of the Russian folk song Darogoy Dalyonu sung as an adaptation called Those Were The Days. It would later become a big hit for Mary Hopkin in 1968.”
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