Glenn Yarbrough
Glenn Yarbrough ( born January 12, 1930 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States) is an American singer and guitarist.
Life
Yarbroughs first recording was in 1951, the single "Follow the Drinking Gourd " / " The Reaper 's Ghost ". After he had already become known as a solo singer, he founded with Louis Gottlieb and Alex Hassilev 1959, the band The Limeliters, with which he was able to celebrate successes, especially in the early 1960s. Yarbrough was tenor singer and guitarist of the band.
After this time, he published again under his own name; He is best known for the title "Baby the Rain Must Fall " ( U.S. hit at No. 12, 1965).
Yarbrough was also in the original English versions of the produced by Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass animated films The Hobbit (1977) and "The Return of the King" (1980, both by JRR Tolkien ) to hear, among other things, he sang the songs "The Road Goes Ever On "and" Frodo of the Nine Fingers ".
He is also now (as of September 2006) nor with the floor Have River Band on tour in the USA.
In his spare time, Yarbrough is an avid sailor and has placed on the sea more than 65,000 nautical miles behind.