A: According to many sources, “Michael, Row the Boat Ashore” is a spiritual that traces ... Elvis heard Martin’s song and asked his music publisher to find someone to rewrite the song ...

‘Michael, Row the Boat Ashore.'” And so began what is now a 60-year tradition of student performances at Chicago’s Old Town School of Folk Music, which had opened Dec. 1, 1957, and helped ...

to form the folk music group, The Highwaymen ... By the fall of 1961 the group had the No. 1 song in the country, “Michael, Row the Boat Ashore,” an African-American spiritual that was ...

Dave Fisher, the lead singer of the Highwaymen, the popular 1960s folk group whose hit song "Michael, Row the Boat Ashore" soared to the top of the music charts, has died. He was 69. Fisher died ...

Dave Fisher, founding member and lead singer of the 1960s folk group the Highwaymen, whose recording of the Civil War anti-slavery song “Michael, Row the Boat Ashore” became a surprise pop hit ...