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Glenn Yarbrough
12+ albums
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Glenn Robertson Yarbrough (January 12, 1930 – August 11, 2016) was an American folk singer. He was the lead singer with the Limeliters from 1959 to 1963. He also had a prolific solo career, recording on various labels. Yarbrough was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and grew up in New York City. After leaving high school, he attended St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, where he roomed with Jac Holzman and began performing after he and Holzman attended a concert by Woody Guthrie. During the Korean War he served in the United States Army as a codebreaker before joining the entertainment corps. After military service, he moved to South Dakota, helped organize square dances, and started appearing on local television shows. By the mid-1950s, he started performing in clubs in Chicago, where he met club owner Albert Grossman and performers including Odetta and Shel Silverstein. One of Elektra Records' first artists, he was one of the first singers to record the traditional "The House of the Rising Sun." Yarbrough moved to Aspen, Colorado, and ran a club, the Limelite, and formed a folk group with Alex Hassilev and Louis Gottlieb. They released their first album, Limeliters, on Holzman's Elektra label in 1960.[1] He left the Limeliters for a solo career in the mid-1960s. His most popular single, and the one for which he is most well-known today is "Baby the Rain Must Fall" (the theme tune from the film of the same name), which entered the Cashbox chart on March 27, 1965 and rea
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Baby The Rain Must Fall
4,0572Baby The Rain Must Fall - from the Columbia film "Baby The Rain Must Fall"
1,6723The World I Used To Know
1,5334The Tailor and the Mouse
1,2115The Greatest Adventure
9876Dark As A Dungeon
8067The Honey Wind Blows
7888Misty Mountains Cold
7099Down, Down to Goblin Town
69310In the Valley, Ha! Ha!
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