This is the post where Doomie talks about Curt Boettcher

Shall we revive this?

Really, we should.

How about now?

The Usher Beyond the Shadow of a Doubt record is as good as I'd hoped.

for a second i thought this thread title meant you were doomie. but you weren't doomie. where did doomie go?

I have no idea. Doomie and I posted on this thread furiously for a bit. Then he invited me to come to England – to celebrate soft pop or something, I can't remember.

Then I never heard from him again.

Did he work for Rev-Ola or something? I seem to recall he was wired in to this scene in some way.

it's all a blur...

Also, this is a pretty nice piece on Beyond a Shadow of a Doubt by the guy who collaborated on these tracks (very elaborate demos, really) with Usher:

http://www.scrammagazine.com/beyond-a-shadow-of-usher

dang, I thought I'd never see footage of Curt Boettcher, but here you go:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfPROGveElU

(from the 1965 folk boom cash-in flick Once Upon a Coffeehouse. there's another cliphere and there's a live Goldebriars performance here)

the first Goldebriars album is standard coffeehouse/summercamp folk with obvious debts to Bob Gibson and Peter Paul Paul & Mary, but Curt's vocal arrangements were pretty advanced even at that early stage -- cuts like Railroad Boy and Voyager's Lament anticipate The Mamas & The Papas and The Free Design more than anything else I've heard from 1964, though I'm not sure how many people actually heard the record at the time. their second album is more of a folk-pop effort, but it pales in comparison to the similarly styled Ballroom material on the Magic Time box set. iirc Curt claimed that The Goldebriars were the first ever folk-rock band, but that was probably just puffery. has anyone heard their archival third album?