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Connie r I p. Seems to B. A lovely person. 1:23

Not a memorable voice.

10 SECONDS AND I HAD ENOUGH

This is my family’s band. Thank you for posting!!!

I’ve watched Ken Curtis for so long on Gunsmoke he almost seems like an old friend. What a character he must have been.

This is awesome!

Amazing harmony. I love it!

The day gathered in to a single light. And the shadows rising from the brim of the night.

You have pictures of Molly Drake and other female folk singers mixed with pictures of Connie.

She also recorded for Thomas Edison. Her recordings of "You May Be Fast But You Won't Last", paired with "Big Hearted Bennie" are worth their weight in gold AND platinum.

A calm subtle yet driven personality who, as most genius' do, lived her life out to its natural end. Her sense of purpose exceeded her sense of acceptance. And now as all icons, lives in the minds and hearts of people like you and I.

Functional but a great great band with even greater memories! Molten mozzarella at Crazy Al's on Fridays, a surprise showing by Yank Rachell some nights, whether the Bird I or Bird II, this was the band that outlasted them all! A-ha!!

What are truthful sound it never goes away 👍💃💃👍💃👍

She left New York in 1960. I wonder if she had stayed a few more years and met Dave Van Ronk, Joan Baez, The Clancy Brothers, Joni and Dylan. What might have come her way. If only.

eh not much of a voice, her disappearance is interesting.

I became attentive to her by an article of German Süddeutsche Zeitung 05/08/2023. I listend in all her songs on youtube. a wonderful melancholic singer with a mystery in her curriculum vitae. Nice special songs interpreted with a wonderful sometimes childlike attitude. It‘s a pity that she disappeared one day…

Super interesting story and definitely a unique talent for the time period. To say she’s the first singer songwriter is simply inaccurate though. Woody Guthrie was writing brilliant songs back in the early to mid ‘30s, and was obviously the most influential writer of his era and well into the Bob Dylan era (who emulated Woody and wanted to be him). Doesn’t negate her talent, but Woody was the quintessential singer songwriter.

(These dance sequences are "Roll in the Hey" by Roger Diggle (0:00), "Saint Lawrence Jig" by Ralph Page (2:30), and "Punxsutawney Promenade" by Dan Pearl (10:47).)

Joe, Thanks for putting this song of Connie’s up. I just read the NYT article published today, 05.12.23 and learned of her talent. Sad she was not widely recognized, but besides being just slightly ahead of her time in popular music, it also seems she lacked the single minded focus and drive to apply herself to the task. Her brother described her as a polymath, and from the descriptions of her various jobs and talents, it seems so. There also seems a contradiction in descriptions of her being a loner, but that she enjoyed performing among friends. Perhaps she was a closeted person, and that held her back from leading a more public life. The few songs I just heard of hers are written from having had experience in relationships and life, not completely withdrawn from it. Perhaps her genius was also brushed by mental health issues, as she seemed eternally restless, even while ever moving ti new places in NYC. All questions we will never have complete answers to. All we have is the music she left behind for us to contemplate and enjoy, much as her close friends did while peacefully relaxing in someone’s living room.

Karen Dalton is in the first pic and thumbnail

I believe the woman at 1:32 is Molly Drake, mother of the brilliant songwriter, Nick Drake...Molly also wrote songs, but was a housewife and didn't pursue a musical career.

How beautiful. A true gem.

saw the NYT article. A Mt. Holyoke woman as well! Mt. Holyoke produced illustrious women.

Where did she go?

The woman at 1:17 and on the thumbnail is Karen Dalton not Connie Converse. You should change it as Connie is enough of an unknown figure and the confusion this creates isn't helping.The woman before that at 1:05 is Sibylle Baier I believe.

Cool find, Joe! These kids had some money! Rickenbacker, Hofner beatle bass, no Silvertones in sight!

Actually in the United States in the period this music was extant in the 19th and early 20th century, Barber shops were seen as musical places. A traveling musician new to a town would know the barber shop where the musicians were most appreciated and go there to find other musicians and opportunities for jobs. A musician trying to sell an instrument might put it on sale in a barbarshop. Bill Monroe, father of Bluegrass bought his famous 1920s Gibson mandolin in a Miami Barbershop in the late 1930s, as one example.

Love to know who is who,celia obviously, wonder which one is my uncle Ken,last time I saw him he was visiting my mum of whom is his sister in the 60s

the ken-tones my unv cle ken and his wife celia flower

I've loved this song for a while now but had never seen a photo of Connie before. Thanks so much for posting!

It's FUN dancing to Bob Wills!

Thanks guys, very nice. Sorry about the background noise.

She just doesn't sound like someone who never loved before . I think its wrong to assume she never had for lack of a known boyfriend in the picture . Had she a girlfriend in the 1950s and coming from a strict christian background we would have never known . That could be why she was so guarded and intensely private . Its no biggie today but in her day not so .

It's amazing that the little community in Eastern Tennessee turned out great banjo pickers: Will Keys and Jerry Keys. It was also home to Fiddlin' Charlie Bowman.

Came here after reading a fascinating "New York Times Magazine" article about Connie. This is really a great, touching song. I"m wondering why I never heard a cover? I would have loved the Everlys doing this.

She went to Portland and then to oklahoma. She married and had a son he usef to play with my older friend when they were kids. He also became a musician and had his own studio. I saw her a couple of times.

This is a fascinating and talented woman who seemed unconcerned or incapable of anything remotely show biz. She seems to have been a loner who couldn't connect, and she expressed that and a feeling of melancholy that is unshakeable when you listen to her. In a way she is more folk that the folkies of the '60s in that she was a self taught, an anachronism, a thing unto herself, - like many of the outsiders in the art world. She was singing her own personal tragedy and it was real. A great performer doing How Sad, How Lovely, someone like Peggy Lee, could have killed with it.

It's magnificent that this completely genuine

Such a lovely song. How sad she disappeared. She would have gone far🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽💔💔💔

I enjoy her music. It's sad that she did not reach a wide audience.

Hope ya noticed she was being interviewed by CBS News reporter/anchor Walter Cronkite in one of the pix in the video. Walter became the the concious of America during the 1960's, anchoring The CBS Evening News. So, she was not unheard of, just quickly forgotten. The music industry did not support work like hers during her time of creative offerings. It would be interesting to know what people thought of her work. Obviously, it didn't trip anyones' trigger that had money & power to promote her to the Big Show. But, she may well of had lots of exposure, but didn't catch on. Most folks today probably don't know of The Ed Sullivan Show. Thousands of people appeared on his tv show in the 1950's & 60's. And millions of people performed in local talent shows in their towns all around the world for hundreds of years. You know, like people entertained themselves and neighbors before recordings of professionals existed. Oh, an' radio, too.

Has some melancholy vibes from "over the rainbow".

There is just something utterly compelling about her voice...

Very beautiful. Parts of it remind me of Kurt Weill's "Speak Low"

Anything with Stan is worth a "like" and also sheer delight!

For a minute thought I was listening to Joan Baez. She was 10 years ahead of time

What wonderful footage!

I thought the pic was of Danica McKellar, lol.

That’s lovely for someone to play and sing in my kitchen, but I can’t imagine her selling many albums. To blame her rejections and lack of success on a male dominated industry is a cop out. There were many successful female singer songwriters in that era.

That's Karen