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  • We Five - Where are they now?

    From [email protected]@21:1/5 to All on Sat Sep 15 21:29:19 2018
    Where is Beverly Bivens now?

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to All on Sun Sep 16 06:52:52 2018
    On Sat, 15 Sep 2018 21:29:19 -0700 (PDT), [email protected]
    wrote:

    Where is Beverly Bivens now?




    in 2013, she was living in "a warehouse district"
    between Berkeley and Richmond

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverly_Bivens

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to K. Crum on Thu Oct 18 17:43:42 2018
    On Friday, January 26, 1996 at 12:00:00 AM UTC-8, K. Crum wrote:
    [email protected] (RSandvik) wrote:
    One male member was Mikael Stewart, younger brother of John Stewart,
    K-Trio star. I, too, am curious about the members' whereabouts.

    The original group consisted of Mike Stewart, Pete Fullerton, Bob Jones, Jerry Burgan(responsible for most of the best arranging and guitar work)
    and the incredible Bev Bivens, who's range in vocals was equal to, if not better than Ronstadt, it my opinion!). This group produced two albums for A&M Records, "You were on my mind" (on of the best and earliest examples
    of folk-rock), and "Make Someone Happy", both circa 65-66. The group eventually did a third album for A&M records, "The Return of the We Five", however, Bev, Mike and Bob were replaced by Frank Denson and Jerry
    Burgan's wife, Debbie and Bob Garcia. I also possess a fourth album,
    demo, which the group produced in the early 70s which reunited the core three- Pete, Jerry and Debbie with Mike.

    I too would like to know what happened to these artist, particularly Bev Bivens. Needless to say, I was, and still am, a huge fan of the We Five's music--which was very eclectic, imaginative and warm. The harmonies and arrangements were always creative (check out their version of "My favorite things" from sound of music)...if anything, this group was one of the founders/creaters/purveyors of folk rock, in my opinion. I just wish that
    A&M records would re-release their music on CD format....

    By my listening there were some good takes and not so good takes. Much of the arranging was creative, as was the scope of their repertoire. (Be it noted that the Beatles included "Till There Was You" on one of their very early albums.)

    But the real sleeper in the two albums is "Small World", which they play in...wait for it...5/4 time. And it works! There must be other popular tunes in 5/4, but the only two I know of are this arrangement and "Take Five" by Brubeck & co. This one
    observation is the tipoff that we have some innovative and schooled musicians at work here.

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Fri Feb 14 20:06:26 2020
    On Monday, January 22, 1996 at 12:00:00 AM UTC-8, [email protected] wrote:
    We Five was a group in the 1960s? which sang a song called
    "You were on my mind" which I believe was written by either
    Ian or Sylvia Tyson. Sylvia also sings this song but her
    rendition is quite different from We Five's version.

    Can anyone tell me who the members of We Five were and
    what they are doing now?

    Thanks.


    Dave

    Pete Fullerton was the bass player. I taught his five children (all great kids) and worked with he and his wife Sue doing outreach in and around the San Francisco Bay Area. He once told me that after their version of "You Were On My Mind" hit the charts,
    they went on tour for 3 months and when they came back home discovered that their manager had spent all their money. What else is new ?

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  • From Still Bud@21:1/5 to All on Fri Feb 14 20:54:39 2020
    On Fri, 14 Feb 2020 20:06:26 -0800 (PST), [email protected]
    wrote:

    On Monday, January 22, 1996 at 12:00:00 AM UTC-8, [email protected] wrote:
    We Five was a group in the 1960s? which sang a song called
    "You were on my mind" which I believe was written by either
    Ian or Sylvia Tyson. Sylvia also sings this song but her
    rendition is quite different from We Five's version.

    Can anyone tell me who the members of We Five were and
    what they are doing now?

    Thanks.


    Dave

    Pete Fullerton was the bass player. I taught his five children (all great kids)
    and worked with he and his wife Sue doing outreach in and around the San Francisco
    Bay Area. He once told me that after their version of "You Were On My Mind" hit
    the charts, they went on tour for 3 months and when they came back home discovered
    that their manager had spent all their money. What else is new ?

    They went away because Beverly Bivens quit the group, and she WAS
    their sound. She not ONLY quit the group, she pretty much quit
    singing, until 2009, when she did a charity performance in San Fran..

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Five

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverly_Bivens

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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jun 2 17:14:07 2020
    I went to Ganesha HS in Pomona, and went to a concert at a swim club in or near Claremont, CA. The band was We Five. This was in 1962. Were they not performing as a band then?
    Thanks,
    Erik

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