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Digital Library Kingston Trio History and Nick Reynolds Interview, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Kingston_Trio&oldid=1142013294, 195767 (original lineups; continues to the present with different members), Most Number 1 Albums: 5 for a Number 10 ranking, Most Weeks Charting a Number 1 Album: 46 for a Number 5 ranking, Most Weeks Charting an Album: 1,262 for a Number 10 ranking, Most Top Ten Albums: 14 for a Number 9 ranking, Most Consecutive Number 1 Albums: 4, tied for a Number 4 ranking, Most Consecutive Top 40 Albums: 17, tied for a Number 6 ranking, Most Total Weeks Albums Charted in One Year: 348 in 1961 for a Number 3 ranking; 284 in 1960 for a Number 6 ranking, Most Weeks Charting An Album by Decade, 196069: 1089 for a Number 4 ranking, Most Weeks With a Number 1 Album in a Calendar Year: 22 in 1960, tied for a Number 4 ranking; 18 in 1959, tied for a Number 7 ranking, Most Consecutive Weeks at Number 1 Chart Position: 15, tied for a Number 8 ranking, This page was last edited on 28 February 2023, at 01:55. Defendants included Kingston Trio performers George Grove, William Zorn and Richard Dougherty, as well as Nikki Gary, who books concerts. They encouraged young songwriters including Hoyt Axton ("Greenback Dollar"), Rod McKuen ("Ally Ally Oxen Free", "The World I Used to Know") and Billy Edd Wheeler ("Reverend Mr Black"). Wednesday's suit is the latest spat among Trio members to spill over into the legal system. He also noted that they "so changed the course of popular music that their impact is largely felt to this day. [58] Since 1976, the various troupes owned by Shane have performed and recorded simply as the Kingston Trio. Kingston Trio In the summer of 1957, comedian Phyllis Diller was forced at the last minute to cancel a weeklong booking at San Francisco's Purple Onion nightclub. Click here to contact Ryan. In her memoir And A Voice To Sing With, singer and activist Joan Baez recalled that "Traveling across the country with my mother and sisters, we heard the commercial songs of the budding folk boom for the first time, the Kingston Trio's 'Tom Dooley' and 'Scotch and Soda.' The statement added that the group has not issued any specific guidance for members pertaining to birth certificates, or medical records, but encourages its members to follow the law. When Werber persuaded the club's owner to give the untested Trio a chance, Guard sent out five hundred postcards to everyone that the three musicians knew in the Bay Area[19] and Werber plastered the city with handbills announcing the engagement. I began to feel sorty sick. "[94], Among the many other artists who cite the Kingston Trio as a formative influence in their musical careers are comedian, actor, and banjo player Steve Martin,[95][96] Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac,[97] singer-songwriter Paul Simon,[98] Timothy B. Schmit[99][100] of The Eagles, pioneering folk-rock artist Gram Parsons,[101] Stephen Stills and David Crosby of Crosby, Stills, and Nash,[102] The Beach Boys' Al Jardine,[103] Big Brother and the Holding Company founding member Peter Albin,[104] Denny Doherty of The Mamas and the Papas,[105] banjo master Tony Trischka,[106] pop groups ABBA[107] and The Bee Gees,[108] Jefferson Airplane founding members Marty Balin[109] and Paul Kantner,[110] Buffalo Springfield founding member Richie Furay,[111] Byrds co-founder Gene Clark,[112] roots musician and master mandolin player David Grisman,[113] singer-songwriters Tom Paxton,[87]Harry Chapin,[114] Jimmy Buffett,[115] Tim Buckley,[116] Steve Goodman,[117] Steve Gillette,[118] Michael Smith[119] (composer of "The Dutchman"), and Shawn Colvin,[120] folk-rock group We Five co-founder Jerry Burgan,[121] folk and rock musician Jerry Yester,[122] rock photographer and Modern Folk Quartet musician Henry Diltz,[123] and progressive jazz vocal group Manhattan Transfer. [6] Supported by the testimony of Anne and Frank Warner, Frank Proffitt was eventually acknowledged by the courts as the preserver of the original version of the song, and the Kingston Trio were ordered to pay royalties to him for their uncredited use of it. The Kingston Group argued that it is parents prerogative to file birth records for their children how they choose within the bounds of the law. We never called ourselves folksingers We did folk-oriented material, but we did it amid all kinds of other stuff. Crow T. Robot, motivated by one actor's resemblance to Thomas Dewey, sang a version beginning "Hang down your head, Tom Dewey. [83] The slower, harmonized Trio version of the Dooley song and other traditional numbers struck Proffitt as a betrayal of "the strange mysterious workings which has made Tom Dooly [sic] live"[84] In 2006, folk traditionalist and influential banjo master Billy Faier remarked: "I hear and see very little respect for the folk genre" in their music and described the Trio's repertoire as "a mishmash of twisted arrangements that not only obscure the true beauty of the folk songs from which they derive, but give them a meaning they never had. In 1866, Laura Foster was murdered. The lawsuit claims that Utah state officials went so far as to track down a man named Kyle Grant for the purposes of collecting child support payments, but they concluded he was not Amanda Rae Grants father. [42], Following a meeting with attorneys on May 10, 1961, intended to resolve the dispute,[44] Dave Guard resigned from the Kingston Trio, though pledging to fulfill group commitments through November of that year. Col. James Grayson was actually a Tennessee politician who had hired Dula on his farm when the young man fled North Carolina under suspicion and was using a false name. A lawsuit has been filed against the Kingston polygamist family by ten former members who allege the group and its leaders engage in sexual and physical abuse, commit fraud, and profit from unpaid . Kingston Trio : US folk group formed in 1957. [4] There are several earlier known recordings, notably one that Grayson and Whitter made in 1929, approximately 10 years before Proffitt cut his own recording. They were spotted by Dave Brubeck's . [51] The group followed this strategy successfully, and on June 17, 1967, the Kingston Trio ceased to be an actively performing band. Then they came out with 'This time tomorrow, reckon where I'll be/If it hadn't a' been for Grayson/I'd a been in Tennessee.' Tim Gorelangton and Mike have been performing for nearly 50 years and are the only of the three to have recorded a song with Nick Reynolds. Nick Reynolds, another of the originals, re-joined from 1988 to 1999. [126], The guitar manufacturer C.F. This pioneering and long-running folk/pop quartet was formed in 1957 by University of Washington fraternity brothers Bob Flick (upright bass, vocals), Mike Kirkland (guitar, banjo, vocals), John Paine (guitar, vocals) and Richard Foley (guitar, vocals). 22. They were the greatest of the bands to emerge after the McCarthy-era blacklisting of folk musicians and breathed new air into the genre."[89]. Even though their style was polished and collegiate, I liked most of their stuff anyway. [25] Stewart began rehearsing and recording with the group nearly immediately, commencing public appearances with the Trio in September 1961. "[4] A series of scathing articles appeared over several years in Sing Out! The Kingston Trio's version of "Tom Dooley" focused more on moody Appalachian atmospherics than on the graphic details of the love quadrangle found in the original, but that trade-off, combined. Capitol Records,[65] Decca Records,[66] Collector's Choice Music,[67] and Folk Era Records[68] have released and continue to release compilations of older albums as well as previously unreleased tapes of both studio and live recordings from the Kingston Trio's first ten years. ', "Show 18 Blowin' in the Wind: Pop discovers folk music. Cost: $35-$55 Call: 449-2787 Locey's picks If I had a. [29] By 1961, the group had sold more than eight million records,[30] earning in excess of US$25 million for Capitol,[31] roughly US$230 million in 2021 dollars. At times, the Order has members forge and fabricate documents, often against their will, to further [their] self-interests, the lawsuit alleges. The Kingston Trio may have debuted on the folk music scene in the 1950s, but an iteration of the band is still touring and a dispute over who exactly should be in that group has sparked a lawsuit. Natale. "[92] Without the production facilities of Capitol, however, and the expertise of Voyle Gilmore and engineer Pete Abbott, the Decca releases lacked the aural brilliance of the Capitol albums,[9] and none of the four sold especially well. Cloudflare Ray ID: 7a1543d6d872c289 [26] "Tom Dooley" also spurred the debut album to a number 1 position on the charts and helped the band earn a second gold record for the LP, which remained charted on Billboard's weekly reports for 195 weeks.[27]. Woodward added, Its a big responsibility. Their first album released in 1958 contained their first gold record, 124 US [Capitol 5132] written by Ed McCurdy. Disbanded in 1967. By early 1961 a rift developed and deepened between Guard on one side and Shane and Reynolds on the other. The conduct of Defendants (and others), which is entirely inconsistent with the collaborative and positive spirit of the sixty-year history of The Kingston Trio, must be dealt with now, before it is too late, and the value of the Kingston Trio name is diluted beyond repair.. 1:40. He was 42 years old and lived in Roswell, Ga.. The allegations facing the Kingston Group come after the state of Utah effectively decriminalized polygamy between consenting adults in 2020, making plural marriage an infraction similar in gravity to a speeding ticket. The Kingston Group said the concept of bleeding the beast is abhorrent and was never a tenet of its organization. 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The three began performing at campus and neighborhood hangouts, sometimes as a trio but with an aggregation of friends that could swell its ranks to as many as six or seven, according to Reynolds. When I became one of the leading practitioners of 'pure folk,' I still loved them"[93] Arthel "Doc" Watson of North Carolina, one of the most respected and influential musicians performing traditional music, remarked, "Ill tell you who pointed all our noses in the right direction, even the traditional performers. 144.76.68.173 Following the 1985 death of Roger Gambill, Kingston Trio personnel changed several times, though Shane and Grove remained constants. Sixty years after "Tom Dooley" shot to the top of the charts, the Trio performs bringing back all the great memories and making new ones with concert performances in 2023. Already a subscriber? Instead of being listed on her birth certificate, Grant says the document listed a fictitious father called Kyle Grant. theUnforgettablesTv. [7] Dula's enigmatic statement on the gallows that he had not harmed Foster but still deserved his punishment led to press speculation that Melton was the actual killer and that Dula simply covered for her. Many renditions of the song have been recorded, most notably: Other artists that have recorded versions of the song include Paul Clayton, Line Renaud, Bing Crosby, Jack Narz, Steve Earle, the Grateful Dead, and Doc Watson. "[79], Frank Proffitt, the Appalachian musician whose version of "Tom Dooley" the Trio rearranged, watched their performance of his song on a television show and wrote in reaction, "They clowned and hipswung. She accuses Kingston Jr of physically overpowering and raping her to try to get her pregnant. [57], In 1976, Bill Zorn left the New Kingston Trio to work as a solo performer and record producer in London. "Tom Dooley" is the name of a season 5 episode of Ally McBeal, in which John Cage sings a version of the song with his Mexican band. 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