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I Hear America Singing - Edwin Tomlin's Top 15 Folk Bands
He lists the bands in chronological order, so it starts with The Weavers (Pete Seeger, Lee Hays, Ronnie Gilbert, and Fred Hellerman) who topped the charts for 13 week in 1950 with a two-sided hit and set the standard for most of the groups that followed. …