Glenn Yarbrough
(born January 12, 1930) is an American folk singer. He was the lead singer with The Limeliters between 1959 and 1963, and had a prolific solo career, recording on various labels.
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Biography
Glenn was born in
Milwaukee,
Wisconsin and attended
St. John's College in
Annapolis,
Maryland.
In 1957 he was one of the first singers to
record the
traditional "
The House of the Rising Sun" for
Elektra Records. Among other career highlights, Yarbrough provided vocals for the
Rankin/Bass animated versions of
The Hobbit
(1977) and
The Return of the King
(1980), singing songs such as "
The Road Goes Ever On" and "Frodo of the Nine Fingers". He also sang the title song in the holiday classic,
The Christmas That Almost Wasn't
(1966). Glenn Yarbrough's major hit on single records was Elmer Bernstein's "Baby The Rain Must Fall" which reached #12 pop, #2 easy listening in 1965, and according to Chartmasters of Covington, Louisiana was one of the top 100 songs of 1965.
Yarborough recorded the
theme tune from the 1965
film,
Baby, The Rain Must Fall
, which reached #12 on the
Billboard Hot 100 chart that same year.
Glenn Yarbrough is also an accomplished sailor who has owned and lived aboard 3 different sailboats(Not 10)
"Armorel" all teak and still in operation, "Jubilee" which Glenn helped build, taking 3 years, and the "Brass Dolphin" a Chinese junk design, and has "almost" sailed around the world.(Not 5 times)
Everything but the Indian Ocean.
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Discography
Solo Albums
- 1951 Follow the Drinking Gourd/The Reaper's Ghost
- 1957 Come Sit By My Side
- 1957 Glenn Yarbrough a.k.a. Here We Go Baby
- 1958 Marilyn Child and Glenn Yarbrough Sing Folk Songs
- 1964 Time To Move On
- 1964 One More Round
- 1965 Come Share My Life
- 1965 Baby The Rain Must Fall
- 1965 It's Gonna Be Fine
- 1966 The Lonely Things
- 1966 Live at the Hungry i
- 1967 For Emily Wherever I May Find Her
- 1967 Honey and Wine
- 1968 The Bitter and the Sweet
- 1968 Let The World Go By
- 1968 We Survived The Madness
- 1968 Each of Us Alone
- 1969 Somehow Someway
- 1969 Glenn Yarbrough Sings the Rod McKuen Songbook
- 1969 Yarbrough Country
- 1970 Let Me Choose Life
- 1970 Jubilee
- 1970 The Best of Glenn Yarbrough
- 1971 Bend Down and Touch me
- 1971 Glenn Yarbrough and The Havenstock RIver Band
- 1974 Kaleidoscope: Glenn Yarbrough Sings Rod McKuen
- 1974 My Sweet Lady
- 1977 The Hobbit: Original Soundtrack
- 1977 Easy Now
- 1978 Live at The Troubadour
- 1981 Just a Little Love
- 1983 Stay With Me
- 1983 Most Loved Songs
- 1985 Sentimental Favorites/Treasury of Love Songs
- 1987 Love for Life
- 1987 Divine Love
- 1991 I Could Have Been a Sailor
- 1992 Holiday Harbor
- 1992 Christmas With Glenn Yarbrough
- 1993 Dreamland
- 1993 On My Butt (CD single)
- 1994 I Think of You
- 1994 Family Portrait -Holly and Glenn Yarbrough
- 1994 Forgotten Carols
- 1995 Chantyman
- 1995 Live sat Harrah's Reno
- 1996 Annie Get Your Gun with Holly Yarbrough
- 2004 Old Fashioned Love Story
- 2005 Heaven Help Us!
- Recently found San Francisco set I and II
With The Limeliters
- 1960 The Limeliters
- 1960 Tonight: In Person
- 1961 The Slightly Fabulous Limeliters
- 1962 Sing Out!
- 1962 Through Children's Eyes
- 1962 Folk Matinee
- 1962 Our Men in San Francisco
- 1963 Makin' A Joyful Noise
- 1963 Fourteen 14K Folk Songs
- 1964 The Best of The Limeliters
- 1964 The London Concert
- 1968 Time To Gather Seeds
- 1974 The Limeliters Reunion Volume One
- 1974 The Limeliters Reunion Volume Two
- 1976 Glenn Yarbrough and The Limeliters Chicago tape I (released early 2000's)
- 1976 Glenn Yarbrough and The Limeliters Chicago tape II (released in the early 2000's)
- 1977 Pure Gold
- 1991 Joy Across The Land Glenn Yarbrough and The Limeliters
- 1976 Recently Found- Glenn Yarbrough and
- The Limeliters Chicago Tapes I and II