The Womenfolk

[Erin Ryan]

Has anyone ever heard of this group? From what I've been told, they were an
all-female folk group in the 1960's.

If you know who they are, and/or how I could obtain their albums, please e-mail me
at

er...@bu.edu.

Thanks.

[Dave Douglass]

I have an album of theirs. It's called "The Womenfolk" (their first and
maybe their only). I could tape it for you. E-mail me if you're
interested.

Dave

[Alan Officer]

Hi Erin,

I asked the same question recently, as you can read below! I've no idea
how you get hold of the stuff - I'm rather fond of my album in a strange
sort of way.

Alan Officer

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Hi all, I've just been given a 1964 album called "Never underestimate the
power of the Womenfolk". The said Womenfolk are "excitingly different
folk singers" and seem to favour red and white checked ankle length
dresses. They are pictured tying up a man in a tux on the cover and play
songs like "The best is yet to come", "One by one" and "Jika Jing". The
cover notes are amusing. As a sample, "at the age of twelve beautiful
blonde Babs gave up playing the trumpet. And a good thing, too. Can you
imagine a folk group made up of four guitars and a trumpet?" and so on.

Does anyone know anything about the Womenfolk, or indeed their power?
Were they in their day a seminal American folk outfit or is this just a
tacky mid sixties album which nobody remembers? Incidentally it sounds
ok in a sixties guitars and singing sort of a way

"They were never a major US folk act. I think they were just one of those
produced groups that jumped on the bandwagon back then.
-Wick"

"Alan, I have the 1965 album "The Womenfolk at the Hungry I". They were
around in the mid 60s, but could never compete with the big acts such as
Peter Paul & Mary."

"The Womenfolk had a hit, I think, with "Little Boxes," the Malvina
Reynolds song."

"I think that The Womenfolk were a pickup studio group that was slammed
together
to capitalize on the '60's so-called "folk" movement. Nice tight
five-part harmony,
though. I remember an anthology called "Man Oh Man, The Womenfolk" that
contained the first rendition of "Last Thing on My Mind" that I heard.
Seems around '66 or '67, maybe. "