The Just IV

From the back of their only LP on the Liberty label:

The Just IV was born in late December, 1962. Folk music's gain was the academic world's loss, because the birth of the group required Cincinnati's Ellen Haven and Milwaukee's Rod David, Jr. to leave Evanston's Northwestern University. Ellen was a sophomore in the pre-nursing program, Hod a junior in the school of theatre.

The decided what they wanted to do musically was more important to them than the immediate completion of their studies. They joined Jim Jourdain, a New York-born musician who had been recently discharged from the Navy and who was working in Chicago as a folk single (singer??); together they began to call themselves "We Three."

Ellie, Jim, and Hod had been together for only a month or so when they met Sean O'Brien at a hootenanny at The Rising Moon in Chicago. Sean, who had had a varied career as a jazz bassist, radio announcer, actor, and writer of music, was somewhat cynical of being asked to hear "another college group." This time what he heard surprised and delighted him. "They had a gutsy sound and made no attempt at lullabying. The believed!" Sean had some advice to offer the young trio about their arrangements, and hours later the We Three had become The Just IV.

Since then, to the delight of all who have heard them, they have raised their voice in song from New England to Florida; from British Columbia to California.