Pack Up Your Sorrows
The song most identified with the duo, track two of Celebrations for a Grey Day, covered by Judy Collins, Joan Baez, Johnny Cash and Peter, Paul and Mary.
Mimi & Richard Farina, from Celebrations for a Grey Day (1965)
Wikipedia credits "Pack Up Your Sorrows" to Richard Farina and Pauline Marden. The duo's recording is track two of Celebrations for a Grey Day (Vanguard, April 1965), 2:56. A blog calls it the song most strongly identified with them, and Wikipedia names it with "Birmingham Sunday" among their best-known songs; Toppermost calls it an upbeat folk tune later covered by Johnny Cash and Peter, Paul and Mary. It is also the title track of the 1999 compilation Pack Up Your Sorrows: Best of the Vanguard Years, and the Farinas performed it on Rainbow Quest, with a clip linked from the blog Light on Dark Water.
Joan Baez released it as a single in 1966, according to Wikipedia as relayed in a search summary, and Judy Collins's version is said to be the best known by one fan page. Richard Barone recorded it in 2016 for Sorrows and Promises: Greenwich Village in the 1960s. Clawhammer banjo tablature is available online. We found no words from the Farinas on what it means, and no chart history, setlist.fm count or samples. We could not tell which recording our upload is.
Covers and versions
- Joan Baez (1966) Released as a single, per Wikipedia as relayed in a search summary.
- Judy Collins Said by one fan page to be the best-known version.
- Richard Barone (2016) On Sorrows and Promises: Greenwich Village in the 1960s.
Sources
- Richard Farina, Wikipedia
- Farina, Richard and Mimi, Toppermost
- Richard and Mimi Farina, Pack Up Your Sorrows, Light on Dark Water (2010-10-16)