This is the post where Doomie talks about Curt Boettcher

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?