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THE TRUNK Porch Bulk was one of the large folk music ensembles which were popular through the first half of the ’60s. Combined with the Serendipity Performers, they were regarded as competitors and imitators of the brand new Christy Minstrels, however they got a closer romantic relationship towards the second …

Diminutive, Brooklyn-born Ellen Whalen was been trained in music humor and light opera before she entered the field of folk music. She became a member of the trunk Porch Bulk in 1965. She was frequently described jokingly as “Wailin’ Ellen.”