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The Gateway Singers were an American folk music group who achieved national prominence in the US in the late 1950s.[1] The group was included in the Smithsonian's Folk Song America compilation.[2] The group is best known for their song "Puttin' on the Style", which was later used in a beer commercial and sold one million copies.[3]

Gateway Singers member Lou Gottlieb left the band,[4] obtained his PhD in musicology from the University of California and then formed The Limeliters. Travis Edmonson left the Gateway Singers to form the duo Bud & Travis with Bud Dashiell.[3]

The group split in 1961, however, three of the members Milt Chapman, Betty Mann, and Jerry Walter, continued performing as the Gateway Trio[4] until, after releasing albums for Capitol Records, the trio broke up.[5]

The Ed Sullivan Show reportedly cancelled an appearance by Gateway Singers, after executives from the CBS television network objected to showing a mixed-race group.[6]

Discography

  • Puttin' on the Style
  • Gateway Singers at the hungry i
  • Gateway Singers in Hi Fi
  • Wagons West
  • Gateway Singers on the Lot
  • Down in the valley
  • Live at Stanford 1957

References

  1. ^ "The Gateway Singers in Hi Fi". Travisedmonson.com. Retrieved 3 September 2021.
  2. ^ "Folk Song America Vol 1 @ARTISTdirect". Archived from the original on 2017-04-04. Retrieved 2012-02-17.
  3. ^ a b Cohen, Ronald D. (2002). Rainbow quest : the folk music revival and American society, 1940 - 1970 (cop.2002. ed.). Amherst [u.a.]: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. pp. 95. ISBN 978-1-55849-348-3.
  4. ^ a b Colin Larkin, ed. (1992). The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music (First ed.). Guinness Publishing. p. 948. ISBN 0-85112-939-0.
  5. ^ "The Gateway Singers Biography by AllMusic". ALLMUSIC. Retrieved 31 October 2020.
  6. ^ Simpson, Janice C. (30 July 2010). "Hugh Hefner: Civil Rights Activist?". Theroot.com. Retrieved 3 September 2021.
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