Glenn Yarbrough

b. 12 January 1930, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. Yarbrough was best known as lead vocalist of the '60s folk group the Limeliters. He also recorded numerous albums and scored a Top 20 single under his own name in 1965. Yarbrough sang in church as a child and became a folk singer in the mid-50s. He was discovered in Chicago and performed on the national folk circuit, eventually starting his own coffeehouse, the Limelite, in Colorado Springs, Colorado, with partner Alex Hassilev. Along with Lou Gottlieb, the two formed the Limeliters, who became very successful in the early '60s, placing 10 albums on the US top charts between 1961 and 1964. Yarbrough left the Limeliters in 1964 and recorded the theme song from the film BABY THE RAIN MUST FALL, which reached US number 12 in 1965. Yarbrough eventually had 10 chart solo albums by the end of the '60s but only one further chart single. On three of his albums, THE LONELY THINGS, Each of Us and GLENN YARBROUGH SINGS THE ROD MCKUEN SONGBOOK, the poet Rod McKuen wrote the lyrics. Yarbrough continued to record throughout the '70s and '80s, without repeating his commercial success of the '60s. In the late '80s Yarbrough re-formed the Limeliters with new members.