Biography
This self-contained folk quintet comprised Dave Fisher (1940, New Haven, Connecticut, USA), Steve Butts (b. 1940, New York, New York, USA), Chan Daniels (b. 1940, Buenos Aires, Brazil, d. 2 August 1975), Bobby Burnett (b. 1940, Mystic, Connecticut, USA) and Steve Trott (b. 1940, Mexico City, Mexico). The group recorded their self-titled album for United Artists Records in 1961 whilst still students at the Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, where they had first met. Their haunting version of an old slave song "Michael", arranged by Fisher, took them to the top on both sides of the Atlantic in 1961, despite a UK cover version by Lonnie Donegan. They followed their gold record with another 19th-century folk song "Cotton Fields". It too made the US Top 20 but it was to be their last major success. The group, whose repertoire included folk songs from around the world, sang in English, French, Spanish and Hebrew. For them, music was never much more than a...
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