From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!cornell!gil
Newsgroups: net.movies
Title: Wasn't That a Time - the Weavers movie
Article-I.D.: cornell.3791
Posted: Tue Nov 30 13:54:46 1982
Received: Thu Dec  2 01:50:15 1982

I recently saw in Boston, "Wasn't That a Time," a documentary made about
the Weavers about a year and a half to two years ago. It was written by
Lee Hayes, oldest member of the Weavers, and documented events from the
time he hosted a reunion in the summer of 1980 through till their final
reunion concert at Carnegie Hall at Christmas 1980.

For those who don't know, the Weavers were a folk group which first got
together around 1947. The members with Hayes, Ronnie Gilbert, Pete Seeger,
and Fred Hallerman (sp?). I myself was not really familiar with them,
although like many of us, I was familiar with a lot of their music.
In addition to documenting the events described above, the movie also
presents a lot of the Weavers' history and includes interviews with many
musicians whom the Weavers influenced, including Arlo Guthrie, Mary Travers,
Holly Near and Don McLean.

I enjoyed the movie and the music very much and would recommend it to
any Weavers fans out there and anyone else who is interested in learning
about the roots of a lot of 60's folk music.

Unfortunately, the movie is not easy to find. I first found out about it
when it was playing in New York in spring 1981, but I was in Ithaca at
the time. It was playing in Northampton, Mass. when I passed through there
a month or so later. My first real chance to see it was a week and a half
ago in Boston.