Their senior year, the Quintet has a single number one with their version of haunted the African American spiritual “Michael, row the Boat Ashore,” which became a hit on both sides of the Atlantic in 1961.
Even though the Group has a significant impact on the folk scene in the early 1960s-turning “Big Rock Candy Mountain” and “All my trials” became the standard folk-Highwaymen disbanded in 1964, when Bob Burnett and two other members decided to attend graduate school.
Burnett, playing the tenor guitar became a lawyer, died Wednesday at his home in East Providence, Ri, his family says he has a brain tumor. He was 71.