In 1958 I was 16 years old and hearing the Kingston trio changed my life. I got my dad to buy me a guitar and I never put it down. Three years later I was hired to perform at Disneyland playing guitar and banjo. That lasted five years and then two more in Europe with a rock band. I don't know of a major singer-songwriter from the 60s and 70s who was not inspired by the Kingston Trio. Thank you Bob for enriching my life and the lives of others enormously. It is a debt we could never repay.
I was in a trio in the USAF in the early 1960's. Our set list was almost completely Kingston Trio. This was pre-Vietnam and I still listen to them and play their songs. Thanks, guys. God bless you and rest in peace.
How our world has changed since these three folk singers held us in thrall. Too bad so many today couldn't have experienced music with a story, unoffensive, no cursing or denigrating others. Bob Shane, Dave Guard and Nick Reynolds entertained us like no other. I am very grateful for that time and those three guys.
In 1968 I was working as a bellhop in Vancouver at their hotel when they invited me to join them for breakfast. It was really enjoyable listening to them tell stories. Great guys!
As a child of the '60's, I totally LOVED these guys. Met them once in Kansas City...I was probably 13-14 years old. I started crying and couldn't stop. I got to go back in their dressing room and meet them. A kind jesture by big stars to a crying young girl. Thanks guys.
It is too sad. I grew up in San Mateo; down from Stanford; they'd go bye to San Gregorio Beach; practice, we'd sing with them; then later they lived in Saucilito -I'd see them once in awhile. The passing is too hard. They suddenly looked older than their years and the gleam was gone, just the echoes of such amazing music; nobody could play it better and make more people happier than these guys. See you up there!
I first heard the Kingston Trio in the early '60s. The "At Large" album (my big sisters record) was the first album I was able to put on the record player by myself, I was born in '57. I must have played it at least a few hundred times and never got sick of it. To this day it remains one of my favorite albums, and groups! I just learned of the 2008 deaths less than an hour ago, there is something missing in the world now, Rest in Peace gentlemen. You'll be missed... "Bandit"... :(
I was at Menlo College in 1953-55 with Nick and Bob (Dave Guard was at nearby Stanford). I thought they would never amount to anything because they spent most evenings at Mama Garcia's on Alpine Road, drinking beer and singing. It wasn't until around 1960 when I saw a friend's Kingston Trio album and there were - my friends!
You are so right Thomas. The Trio was so big in the late 50's and 60's and we fell in love with them. I grabbed Nick Reynolds at intermission at one concert and shook his hand. It seemed to unnerve him. The girl I was with pissed me off because she kept saying out loud how sexy Dave Guard was. It's so sad to hear that Bob Shane is in "bad shape". Those were good times. The Kingston Trio hit us like a cannon. We knew the words to all their songs and sang them loudly at parties. Thanks Kingston Trio for being such a big part of our lives in those fun times.
As a boy my brothers and I used to put on one the the Trio's albums in our living room, pick up our tennis racquets, and imitate Bob, John, and Nick to our parents delight. I never saw my Dad laugh so hard. Thanks you three guys for being such an enjoyable and integral part of my boyhood.
My friend bought a new truck and one of their CDs happened to be in inside the CD player. We both listened to it. Im 22 and i absolutely love these guys! My favorite song is Coplas!!
I listened to the K Trio all during high school. PPM as well. I graduated in '65, went into the service, stationed in CA, where I could find records I'd never knew existed. I bought a good Gibson guitar, learned to play some songs from these records, met other fellows like myself, played in a club on base now and then. Folk music came with me to college a few years later. Went to a K Trio tribute reunion a couple years ago, where the boys were all different members, but the songs were the same. Brought back good memories. I am old now, with health issues and meds too numerous to mention. I try to play a decent mandolin as a hobby, but mostly old fiddle tunes.
Congratulations, Bob Shane on making it to 81, which, BTW is just a number! Keeping active is what it is all about. (And good genes!) Stay well. You'll always be in our hearts and a big part of our youth!
The opening joke by Bob Shane... 'Perfect pitch' is when you can throw a banjo down an open mine shaft and not hit any of the accordions. Thanks for everything, Bob!
Please, Mr. Shane, let us have this. It's a well-played, professional, yet relaxed and comfortable video. Nobody is as young as they used to be. Some of us came to be Kingston Trio fans later in your career. I'll remember you more like this than in footage from the '50's and '60's; please don't make them take this one down.
thank you so much Kingston trio for all the wonderful memories and music, God bless you each and everyone. May your music and memories live on forever.
@ronaldbarrett3112 I couldn’t agree more! I play The Merry Minuet for my guests at my BnB in Mexico when we are discussing the state of the world now. 2017- 2024. The lyrics are as true as they were in the 1960s.
I grew up on their music- though they were well before my time. I remember being around eight years old and trying to introduce my friends to their music- it didn't go well, unfortunately. I was honestly perplexed that anyone could hear their music and not immediately realize it was the greatest thing ever.
+Nunna Yobidness same! my friends didnt like it either. and being that my grandpa gave me a cd of thier music, i loved it from day 1. being 19 now i still love it.
Yeah that happened to me too-it was ‘College Concert’ on one side of a cassette tape & ZZ Top or something on the other. My friend just didn’t get it...same thing happened to guys who bring dates to see Rush-Rush is mostly a guy thing. The KT was so full of joy & infectious. I didn’t understand how anyone could dislike it.
Belated Happy 82nd Birthday wishes to Bob Shane of the Kingston Trio.. Mr Shane, I wish you all the joy your music has brought others over many decades. You've always seemed to sing with genuine affection for the music, lending your performances a heartfelt quality. Thank you.
I started listening to the Kingston Trio in the late 50s. I got my mother to buy me a guitar and started to take lessons. Being somewhat attention deficit I soon quit and bought a couple of KT song books. I learned more from those books and listening to the KT then anything else. I watched them at the academy of music in Philadelphia in the mid 60s and then got drafted. They played Martin guitars and I had to have one. It wasn't until '69 when I got home from the military that I managed to buy a D-18 but by then things had changed a lot. John Stewart had gone off on his own and the KT went through a number of personnel changes. I still listen to their music- it takes me back to another time and great memories.
Dear Bob Shane, I will second the request not to take this video down! The Kingston Trio was the first group I listened to when I was 8. I'm now 58 and enjoy seeing the real KT in their later years. The Kingston Trio started my lifelong love of folk music. I never did get to see you live, but did attend a concert with a bunch of stand ins calling themselves the KT - I went primarily to hear your music sung live. Please keep this video up for those who have followed you throughout the years. :-)
@MrAmerican40 Hi from France,Thank for making me aware of the clarification.The song written by Denny Thompson was recorded 3 times by the Trio. 1-in 1959 for the album sessions AT LARGE (with Dave Guard) and published a single,as well as the stereo EP Tijuana Jail,later included on LP BEST OF,and THE FOLK ERA. 2- live in 66 (with John Stewart) for the 69 release of ONCE UPON A TIME - 3 -in 1981 and released in 1982 on the LP 25 YEARS NON-STOP with George Grove, Bob Shane and Roger Gambill.
Gentlemen: from the very beginning of my teen years, I listened to your music...The memories are staggering. The one that got me hooked, the first one I ever heard was Riding on the MTA...It seems like yesterday. from then on, Folk was my preferred musical choice...I saw you in Phoenix live, years ago at the Celebrity Theater. Thanks for the memories and putting a smile on this olde guy's face. Blessings and peace.
Our elementary school music teacher in the mid-sixties would have sing-alongs with their songs. My aunt had one of their albums and I’d listen to it when at her apartment.
Like all the great performers, they were one (or, in their case, three) of a kind. RIP, John Stewart, Nick Reynolds, Dave Guard, and Roger Gambill. Bob Shane, thanks for years of happy times and enjoy your retirement.
I was in forth grade when first listened to my older brother's "Hungry I" album. That was my introduction to live performance, and I loved it. South Coast still pops into my head from time to time some 60 years later. They were also the first concert I attended, opened by Henry Mancini.
wtf are 3 people THINKING????? Forget the hair and the suits and ties...this era produced an entirely new genre of music, never to be repeated. No synthesizers, no added effects. Just guitars, beautiful voices and heartfelt music, from true musicians. Yes, I'm old enough to remember (most) of the words, and young enough to enjoy much of today's music. Burt for sheer purity, you cannot beat the artists of this era.
I got to see Bob, Nick, and George twice in the mid-1990s. They really were the best; nobody ever performed like them. (Didn't get to see Dave sing with them, of course.)
One of the best concerts I ever saw was encored with John Steward, Nick Reynolds, and Henry Diltz. What a moment. Too bad Bob wasn't there. RIP guys. You were great!
I had the pleasure/honor to hang with them over the course of a few years and had my mind blown by them and the others in their circle. I read below that someone thinks Bob might leave us soon. Having partied with him many, many nights I remember asking him how he could stay up all night and party like he did, "Eddie" he replied, "I'll sleep when I'm dead!" I hope he doesn't sleep for a long, long time.
This is the original Kingston Trio, but the band as an entity is alive, well, and touring performing all the lovely old songs, still with that humorous edge and audience banter. I caught them a couple of years ago and they absolutely rocked.
@@dalehall2067 Not the original group. Bob Shane, Nick Reynold and Dave Guard were original 3. Guard was with the group for many early hits including Tom Doley, Tijuana Jail, and he wrote "Scotch and Soda".
Loved hearing their music, I liked the songs Tom Dooley, and the" Green back Dollar" ( sorry I don't remember the name) my Dad used to play their songs!!
When the radio used to play "Green Back Dollar" back in the 50s when I was a kid it went ...Don't give a hmm about a green back a dollar... They would let the word damn go out over the air.. How times they have a changed.
It takes a full sometimes a life tie to finish the apprentice of becoming an entertainer ( but the Yvonne programmes sometimes give these the start they deserve). Not days to be forgotten in days .
We have tickets for next month to here and see in Sequim, WA the Kingston Trio perform.....after purchasing the tickets we discovered they were a group just singing their songs....guess most of them are gone...but their music sure lives on
+Kingston Trio Ive loved Kingston Trio from the time I was a very young kid. My parents had a bunch of albums and like many kids I would go through them and listen to them. Ok, so I never listened to Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass album. But with a cover like Whipped Cream and Other Delights who cared about the music? lol Anyway, the first song on the Trio album was Tom Dooley. Absolutely loved that song. I never thought much about the meaning of it all at that age, guess it just had a good beat! I remember being in early grade school in music class. I was looking through our song book and there it was, Tom Dooley! So after class I stopped and asked Miss Hall if we could sing it. She was polite and didn't laugh. She just smiled and told me maybe sometime. We never sang it lol Now that Im older I cant help but laugh every time I think about what must have went through her head when this young kid came up and asked if we could sing a song about a love triangle, the woman getting stabbed and murdered and a man being hanged for the crime... Now days there would be lawsuits over exposing a kid to such things! Nevertheless, many thanks to you all for the memories!
+Kingston Trio Like many people I just want to thank you for your musical talents. Life is just a crazy journey and it was nice of you to provide much of my early background music. I still sing many of your songs in my shower, much to my wife's dismay (something about the lyrics are fine but you can't carry a tune in a ocean, much less a shower Scotch and Soda, 123 Jolly Coachmen MTA and Tom Dolley are my go to songs) I sing while working on our property, but fortunately I live in a farming area in Thailand and the people don't speak much English, and the closet neighbor lives half a kilometer away. Thank you for the memories
+Kingston Trio Mr. Shane, me and my 5 bros and sisters were brought up on your music from the crib, literally from the moment we arrived home from the hospital. The records played non-stop for years. I heard them all. My dad took his guitar to your concerts (in Phoenix), and played with you all after the performance. Boy, nowadays when I need to find a tether to bind me down to earth again, and forget all the craziness in this world, I click on those tunes that fed my bloodstream while growing up: Jane Jane Jane, Genny Glenn, and - you guessed it - It was a very Good Year. My pop left us a few years ago, he and his guitar-playing are sorely missed. He had kinda wished to meet up with you again while still alive, but lacked the courage. You gave him something, that in turn he passed on to me. So thank you kindly sir, you take good care. Best wishes.
Dave Guard formed as new group called the Whiskey Barrel singers with Ronnie Gilbert of Weaver’s fame. They will forever be preserved as the musical singers on the sound track of “How the West was Won”. I listen frequently as it is so beautifully recorded in 8 track stereo.
John Stewart's "July, You're a Woman" was from his first or second solo records; they were both superb. An original writer, stark and gripping. Saw him live in Palo Alto summer of '71, with a fancy guitar-picker as backup.
Every summer I would go see them at Carter Barron Amphitheater in Wash. DC. This was the early 60s and they are still some of the most memorable concerts I've ever been to. Opening acts were amazing too-Woody Allen when he was a stand up comic, Stan Getz and Astrid Gilberto, Carlos Joabim, etc. The boys were always friendly and you could easily go up and talk with them. Got their autographs every time. The really "expensive" front row seats were $3.50.
GREAT hunting story! About the time Tom Dooley came out, I was watching my dad butcher a deer he'd poached, flaying the hide from the carcass that would feed us for the coming days. Out on the highway that passed our ranch, a pair of headlights slowed,paused and turned. Dad looked, even to my 5 year old eyes, scared. BUSTED! Then, CHP officer Elton Lee, one of the best men of the,50s pulled up and said, "Jesus Christ, Cal! Kill that light!. You can see that all the way out to the road!"
Nick with his tenor guitar....I first learned to play on my dad's old Gibson tenor when I was 9 or 10. Some lefty stretching involved there. Another tenor master was Jimmy Dodd, the "adult" on the original Mickey Mouse Club. RIP all of them.
I grew up with these guys and prefer to remember them as young, outgoing, vibrant, enthusiastic and original. In their day they were refreshing and delightful. To see them much later, aged, balding and forced is too sad, ghosts of along time past. We were very fortunate to grow up with the Kingston Trio but that seems centuries ago compared with today's plastic, heartless, troubled, artificial, vulgar trash in music, movies, TV and odious performers.
*Dave Guard* was the third original member of 'The Kingston Trio' along with Nick Reynolds and Bob Shane. When Dave Guard left the group in 1961 to explore other musical directions, Stewart was selected by Reynolds and Shane to replace him.
@firesoftheempyrean I can't decipher it! But so true, their humour and warmth always make their live CDs a treat (and the wonderful musicianship and harmonies, of course)!
Likely someone else has already mentioned this, but John Stewart wasn't an original member of the group. He replaced Dave Guard, who sang, played guitar and banjo, and was with them for their most well-known hits - Tom Dooley, MTA, Worried Man, Greenback Dollar, Tijuana Jail, Raspberries, Strawberries, Send My Bail Down to Bimini, a few others. They had a hit with Rev. Mr. Black, which was when Stewart joined the group. They were the most popular group of the folk revival, and their songs regularly made the "Top 40," which was mostly rock 'n roll. Tom Dooley hit the country by storm in 1959, and I think they were on Ed Sullivan. It might have been Milton Berle or Jackie Gleason. It feels strange mentioning those names, but they all had big shows. Anyway, they are part of my growing up DNA. They provided good cheer for mostly difficult times.
John Stewart was with the Trio when they first released Greenback Dollar and "Where Have All The Flowers Gone" John was an active member of the band longer than Dave was, Dave did 9 albums for Capitol with the Trio (7 studio, one live and the Christmas album), John did 8 albums for Capitol (2 live, 6 studio) 4 with them on Decca as a well as the "Once Upon A Tim live album that came out in 1969. Although John was not an original member of the Trio, he certainly was a member when they were and active and important band and is a member of the "Classic era" Trio, Just as Dave was. They had several hits with John as well. This is the Trio that originally performed this song.
Tim Miller I just looked it up, didn't realize John Stewart was on those songs, wish I had when they came out. I first became aware of him on Rev. Mr. Black, which I hated. Now I don't mind it, but then it seemed such a departure. They were great in both configurations, but by the time Stewart joined the group I had moved on to other tastes. Then the Beatles happened, and everything changed. Dave Guard ended up following the guru that I quit. He was a true believer, heard him on NPR calling her the greatest in the world or in history, or some such. She wasn't, and isn't.
The Kingston Trio and many other folk groups (The Limelighters, Brothers Four, Four Freshmen, Peter,Paul & Mary etc) filled the void in pop music between Elvis getting drafted in 1958 and losing Buddy Holly & company in 1959. The Kingston Trio was the best and most known of all the jangling folkies until the British Invasion led by the The Beatles in ‘63-‘64. People forget how popular folk was in that era. The best part of it was the songs were mostly simple to learn. The fans bought guitars and banjos and formed their own groups mainly for fun.
I am a big Trio fan. The funniest was John. He tells a story of a blind date who looks like a line backer, wears an orthopedic hat and has a corsage growing "out" of her wrist. Another involves an early morning drive on an LA freeway and stopping to pick up a beautiful hitchiker. "Where you going?" "Oregon, mister where you going?" "Well, hell I was going out to get cigarettes but I guess I can go to Oregon." And with that a breaks into "July You're a Woman." I miss him. RIP big guy.
They were the best of the best. The originals were Dave Guard, Bob Shane and Nick Reynolds. Dave was replaced by John Stewart who was with them for quite sometime. I doubt we will ever see the likes of them again. Bob is the only one left of the originals and he is in bad shape. Of course Dave, John and Nick have passed and so it is the end of an era of Folk music. The Folk era was also the best of the best. RIP.
In 1958 I was 16 years old and hearing the Kingston trio changed my life. I got my dad to buy me a guitar and I never put it down. Three years later I was hired to perform at Disneyland playing guitar and banjo. That lasted five years and then two more in Europe with a rock band. I don't know of a major singer-songwriter from the 60s and 70s who was not inspired by the Kingston Trio. Thank you Bob for enriching my life and the lives of others enormously. It is a debt we could never repay.
I still have my banjo.
RIP Bob Shane. You kept the music going for so many years
I was in a trio in the USAF in the early 1960's. Our set list was almost completely Kingston Trio. This was pre-Vietnam and I still listen to them and play their songs. Thanks, guys. God bless you and rest in peace.
They Call the Wind Mariah! 😎
How our world has changed since these three folk singers held us in thrall. Too bad so many today couldn't have experienced music with a story, unoffensive, no cursing or denigrating others.
Bob Shane, Dave Guard and Nick Reynolds entertained us like no other. I am very grateful for that time and those three guys.
In 1968 I was working as a bellhop in Vancouver at their hotel when they invited me to join them for breakfast. It was really enjoyable listening to them tell stories. Great guys!
As a child of the '60's, I totally LOVED these guys. Met them once in Kansas City...I was probably 13-14 years old. I started crying and couldn't stop. I got to go back in their dressing room and meet them. A kind jesture by big stars to a crying young girl. Thanks guys.
It is too sad. I grew up in San Mateo; down from Stanford; they'd go bye to San Gregorio Beach; practice, we'd sing with them; then later they lived in Saucilito -I'd see them once in awhile. The passing is too hard. They suddenly looked older than their years and the gleam was gone, just the echoes of such amazing music; nobody could play it better and make more people happier than these guys. See you up there!
Background of my Life!!
One of the three greatest bands of the twentieth century, bar none. God bless 'em.
I have ALL their albums on vinyl!😎
Kingston Trio - I grew up listening to all of your music - and it was such a joy. You gave me a wonderful childhood through your music!
I worked in radio back then as a “disk jockey“ Love playing the music
Same here.
I first heard the Kingston Trio in the early '60s. The "At Large" album (my big sisters record) was the first album I was able to put on the record player by myself, I was born in '57. I must have played it at least a few hundred times and never got sick of it. To this day it remains one of my favorite albums, and groups! I just learned of the 2008 deaths less than an hour ago, there is something missing in the world now, Rest in Peace gentlemen. You'll be missed... "Bandit"... :(
I was at Menlo College in 1953-55 with Nick and Bob (Dave Guard was at nearby Stanford). I thought they would never amount to anything because they spent most evenings at Mama Garcia's on Alpine Road, drinking beer and singing. It wasn't until around 1960 when I saw a friend's Kingston Trio album and there were - my friends!
They were the BEST!
You are so right Thomas. The Trio was so big in the late 50's and 60's and we fell in love with them. I grabbed Nick Reynolds at intermission at one concert and shook his hand. It seemed to unnerve him. The girl I was with pissed me off because she kept saying out loud how sexy Dave Guard was. It's so sad to hear that Bob Shane is in "bad shape". Those were good times. The Kingston Trio hit us like a cannon. We knew the words to all their songs and sang them loudly at parties. Thanks Kingston Trio for being such a big part of our lives in those fun times.
As a boy my brothers and I used to put on one the the Trio's albums in our living room, pick up our tennis racquets, and imitate Bob, John, and Nick to our parents delight. I never saw my Dad laugh so hard. Thanks you three guys for being such an enjoyable and integral part of my boyhood.
My friend bought a new truck and one of their CDs happened to be in inside the CD player. We both listened to it. Im 22 and i absolutely love these guys! My favorite song is Coplas!!
....the warmth of old friends on stage...doing what they did best together, is palpable...and it's simply wonderful...thanks for this...
I am a LONG time fan....thanks for the music and the memories!!
I listened to the K Trio all during high school. PPM as well. I graduated in '65, went into the service, stationed in CA, where I could find records I'd never knew existed. I bought a good Gibson guitar, learned to play some songs from these records, met other fellows like myself, played in a club on base now and then. Folk music came with me to college a few years later. Went to a K Trio tribute reunion a couple years ago, where the boys were all different members, but the songs were the same. Brought back good memories. I am old now, with health issues and meds too numerous to mention. I try to play a decent mandolin as a hobby, but mostly old fiddle tunes.
Congratulations, Bob Shane on making it to 81, which, BTW is just a number! Keeping active is what it is all about. (And good genes!) Stay well. You'll always be in our hearts and a big part of our youth!
The opening joke by Bob Shane...
'Perfect pitch' is when you can throw a banjo down an open mine shaft and not hit any of the accordions. Thanks for everything, Bob!
Thanks; funny that Dave Guard played the banjo.
Please, Mr. Shane, let us have this. It's a well-played, professional, yet relaxed and comfortable video. Nobody is as young as they used to be. Some of us came to be Kingston Trio fans later in your career. I'll remember you more like this than in footage from the '50's and '60's; please don't make them take this one down.
thank you so much Kingston trio for all the wonderful memories and music, God bless you each and everyone.
May your music and memories live on forever.
Hats off to the Kingston Trio, the best, every folk singers and especially to their tune (appropriate to this day) Merry Minuet ...ohhh mmyyy
@ronaldbarrett3112 I couldn’t agree more! I play The Merry Minuet for my guests at my BnB in Mexico when we are discussing the state of the world now. 2017- 2024. The lyrics are as true as they were in the 1960s.
I grew up on their music- though they were well before my time. I remember being around eight years old and trying to introduce my friends to their music- it didn't go well, unfortunately. I was honestly perplexed that anyone could hear their music and not immediately realize it was the greatest thing ever.
+Nunna Yobidness same! my friends didnt like it either. and being that my grandpa gave me a cd of thier music, i loved it from day 1. being 19 now i still love it.
Nunna Yobidness ‘
Yeah that happened to me too-it was ‘College Concert’ on one side of a cassette tape & ZZ Top or something on the other. My friend just didn’t get it...same thing happened to guys who bring dates to see Rush-Rush is mostly a guy thing. The KT was so full of joy & infectious. I didn’t understand how anyone could dislike it.
Been watching these guys since their beginning in 1957.
Still enjoy.
I still have all their vinyl albums! 😮
I would love to have been there, I still listen to them. I do miss the banjo here. :)
These jokes are hilarious
Bob was a funny man
Rip God bless
My condolences go out to Bob,s family
Grew up hearing them in Jamaica🇯🇲 on the Radio! Love the music, still
Belated Happy 82nd Birthday wishes to Bob Shane of the Kingston Trio.. Mr Shane, I wish you all the joy your music has brought others over many decades. You've always seemed to sing with genuine affection for the music, lending your performances a heartfelt quality. Thank you.
I started listening to the Kingston Trio in the late 50s. I got my mother to buy me a guitar and started to take lessons. Being somewhat attention deficit I soon quit and bought a couple of KT song books. I learned more from those books and listening to the KT then anything else. I watched them at the academy of music in Philadelphia in the mid 60s and then got drafted. They played Martin guitars and I had to have one. It wasn't until '69 when I got home from the military that I managed to buy a D-18 but by then things had changed a lot. John Stewart had gone off on his own and the KT went through a number of personnel changes. I still listen to their music- it takes me back to another time and great memories.
Dear Bob Shane, I will second the request not to take this video down! The Kingston Trio was the first group I listened to when I was 8. I'm now 58 and enjoy seeing the real KT in their later years. The Kingston Trio started my lifelong love of folk music. I never did get to see you live, but did attend a concert with a bunch of stand ins calling themselves the KT - I went primarily to hear your music sung live. Please keep this video up for those who have followed you throughout the years. :-)
I think the Kingston Trio had more of the best songs than any other group.
They sure did!
That should have bee a thumbs up. Sorry.
Hit the wrong thumb. Should have bee a up one.
Hit the wrong thumb. Should have bee a up one.
@@sarahbauer5593 Don't worry about it. Play on!
@MrAmerican40 Hi from France,Thank for making me aware of the clarification.The song written by Denny Thompson was recorded 3 times by the Trio. 1-in 1959 for the album sessions AT LARGE (with Dave Guard) and published a single,as well as the stereo EP Tijuana Jail,later included on LP BEST OF,and THE FOLK ERA. 2- live in 66 (with John Stewart) for the 69 release of ONCE UPON A TIME - 3 -in 1981 and released in 1982 on the LP 25 YEARS NON-STOP with George Grove, Bob Shane and Roger Gambill.
This is very emotional to watch. They spent almost their whole lives together and now it’s over.
I never got to see Nick, Bob, and Dave perform together because that was before my time. I did get to see Nick, Bob, and George twice.
always wonderful. brings back great memories.
father turn me on to this when I was just a boy and now I have his albums and I played this for him and look for me at our Elks Lodge how wonderful
People don't realize how much we owe to these guys.
Gentlemen: from the very beginning of my teen years, I listened to your music...The memories are staggering. The one that got me hooked, the first one I ever heard was Riding on the MTA...It seems like yesterday. from then on, Folk was my preferred musical choice...I saw you in Phoenix live, years ago at the Celebrity Theater. Thanks for the memories and putting a smile on this olde guy's face. Blessings and peace.
Our elementary school music teacher in the mid-sixties would have sing-alongs with their songs. My aunt had one of their albums and I’d listen to it when at her apartment.
oh ... grew up with these guys and all their records!! Love them!!!
Me too. I have 21 Capitol albums and 4 Deccas! So fine.
Like all the great performers, they were one (or, in their case, three) of a kind.
RIP, John Stewart, Nick Reynolds, Dave Guard, and Roger Gambill. Bob Shane, thanks for years of happy times and enjoy your retirement.
They are truly great. And they bring me a lot of memories. Thanks.
I was in forth grade when first listened to my older brother's "Hungry I" album. That was my introduction to live performance, and I loved it. South Coast still pops into my head from time to time some 60 years later. They were also the first concert I attended, opened by Henry Mancini.
Shady Grove and Lonesome Traveler!
Thanks for being part of a genteel part of America! I will look for you when I get to the other side. I am sure you will still be singing!
wtf are 3 people THINKING????? Forget the hair and the suits and ties...this era produced an entirely new genre of music, never to be repeated. No synthesizers, no added effects. Just guitars, beautiful voices and heartfelt music, from true musicians. Yes, I'm old enough to remember (most) of the words, and young enough to enjoy much of today's music. Burt for sheer purity, you cannot beat the artists of this era.
I got to see Bob, Nick, and George twice in the mid-1990s. They really were the best; nobody ever performed like them. (Didn't get to see Dave sing with them, of course.)
I grew up hearing them play, my father really liked their style.
This song bring tears to me eyes every single time. Rest in peace Bob
One of the best concerts I ever saw was encored with John Steward, Nick Reynolds, and Henry Diltz. What a moment. Too bad Bob wasn't there. RIP guys. You were great!
Love them and has always loved them!
I had the pleasure/honor to hang with them over the course of a few years and had my mind blown by them and the others in their circle. I read below that someone thinks Bob might leave us soon. Having partied with him many, many nights I remember asking him how he could stay up all night and party like he did, "Eddie" he replied, "I'll sleep when I'm dead!" I hope he doesn't sleep for a long, long time.
Still play ‘Scotch and Soda ‘ ( jigger of gin ) once a fortnight. fab.trio !
Never forget the Kingston Trio. Absolutely wonderful
This is the original Kingston Trio, but the band as an entity is alive, well, and touring performing all the lovely old songs, still with that humorous edge and audience banter. I caught them a couple of years ago and they absolutely rocked.
Maybe like hang your head down Tom Dooley or the MTA song
@@dalehall2067 Not the original group. Bob Shane, Nick Reynold and Dave Guard were original 3. Guard was with the group for many early hits including Tom Doley, Tijuana Jail, and he wrote "Scotch and Soda".
I loved them and their songs. Thanks for posting.
Loved hearing their music, I liked the songs Tom Dooley, and the" Green back Dollar" ( sorry I don't remember the name) my Dad used to play their songs!!
When the radio used to play "Green Back Dollar" back in the 50s when I was a kid it went ...Don't give a hmm about a green back a dollar... They would let the word damn go out over the air.. How times they have a changed.
Grew up with them. Did love harmony. ❤
Thank you so much for enriching my life.
It is always a joy to see and hear the old bands, is sure beats the stuff on the market today. My favorite from The Kingston Trio is "Sloop john B"
It takes a full sometimes a life tie to finish the apprentice of becoming an entertainer ( but the Yvonne programmes sometimes give these the start they deserve). Not days to be forgotten in days .
We have tickets for next month to here and see in Sequim, WA the Kingston Trio perform.....after purchasing the tickets we discovered they were a group just singing their songs....guess most of them are gone...but their music sure lives on
Thanks so much for posting this. I loved these guys (especially John) and this is wonderful. I wish I could see the whole thing. Long live Bob & Nick.
God bless Nick and John 2OO8 and Dave 1991
RIP old fellows
Hey, I'm not in bad shape. I'm doing quite well, in fact. I'll be 81 next month, but I haven't slowed down much. ~Bob Shane
+Kingston Trio
Ive loved Kingston Trio from the time I was a very young kid. My parents had a bunch of albums and like many kids I would go through them and listen to them. Ok, so I never listened to Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass album. But with a cover like Whipped Cream and Other Delights who cared about the music? lol Anyway, the first song on the Trio album was Tom Dooley. Absolutely loved that song. I never thought much about the meaning of it all at that age, guess it just had a good beat! I remember being in early grade school in music class. I was looking through our song book and there it was, Tom Dooley! So after class I stopped and asked Miss Hall if we could sing it. She was polite and didn't laugh. She just smiled and told me maybe sometime. We never sang it lol Now that Im older I cant help but laugh every time I think about what must have went through her head when this young kid came up and asked if we could sing a song about a love triangle, the woman getting stabbed and murdered and a man being hanged for the crime... Now days there would be lawsuits over exposing a kid to such things! Nevertheless, many thanks to you all for the memories!
+Kingston Trio though unfortunately, you cannot perform music like you used to due to health reasons, am i correct?
+Kingston Trio Like many people I just want to thank you for your musical talents. Life is just a crazy journey and it was nice of you to provide much of my early background music. I still sing many of your songs in my shower, much to my wife's dismay (something about the lyrics are fine but you can't carry a tune in a ocean, much less a shower Scotch and Soda, 123 Jolly Coachmen MTA and Tom Dolley are my go to songs) I sing while working on our property, but fortunately I live in a farming area in Thailand and the people don't speak much English, and the closet neighbor lives half a kilometer away. Thank you for the memories
+Kingston Trio Mr. Shane, me and my 5 bros and sisters were brought up on your music from the crib, literally from the moment we arrived home from the hospital. The records played non-stop for years. I heard them all. My dad took his guitar to your concerts (in Phoenix), and played with you all after the performance. Boy, nowadays when I need to find a tether to bind me down to earth again, and forget all the craziness in this world, I click on those tunes that fed my bloodstream while growing up: Jane Jane Jane, Genny Glenn, and - you guessed it - It was a very Good Year.
My pop left us a few years ago, he and his guitar-playing are sorely missed. He had kinda wished to meet up with you again while still alive, but lacked the courage. You gave him something, that in turn he passed on to me. So thank you kindly sir, you take good care. Best wishes.
Bob, you're great. I saw you guys when I was really young with my parents. I'm 32 now, and your voice reminds me of what once was. Thank you!
The words to this song are still relevant today.
Listen to that harmony, still as smoothe as ever.
They're amazing trio, weren't they....
SAW THEM LIVE IN BOSTON MANY YEARS AGO>>> ALL ARE MISSED>>>I GOT TO 82 PLUS...SIGH..
Dave Guard formed as new group
called the Whiskey Barrel singers
with Ronnie Gilbert of Weaver’s
fame. They will forever be
preserved as the musical singers
on the sound track of “How the West was Won”. I listen frequently
as it is so beautifully recorded in 8
track stereo.
Whiskeyhill Singers?!
John Stewart's "July, You're a Woman" was from his first or second solo records; they were both superb. An original writer, stark and gripping. Saw him live in Palo Alto summer of '71, with a fancy guitar-picker as backup.
I have all Stewart's albums from 1968-73. They are all great!
May god bless em all. at least we have their music to remember them by
This is GOLD. Bittersweet.
Every summer I would go see them at Carter Barron Amphitheater in Wash. DC. This was the early 60s and they are still some of the most memorable concerts I've ever been to. Opening acts were amazing too-Woody Allen when he was a stand up comic, Stan Getz and Astrid Gilberto, Carlos Joabim, etc. The boys were always friendly and you could easily go up and talk with them. Got their autographs every time. The really "expensive" front row seats were $3.50.
Still got the KT sound! I'd recognize it anywhere! Thanks guys!
GREAT hunting story! About the time Tom Dooley came out, I was watching my dad butcher a deer he'd poached, flaying the hide from the carcass that would feed us for the coming days. Out on the highway that passed our ranch, a pair of headlights slowed,paused and turned. Dad looked, even to my 5 year old eyes, scared. BUSTED! Then, CHP officer Elton Lee, one of the best men of the,50s pulled up and said, "Jesus Christ, Cal! Kill that light!. You can see that all the way out to the road!"
When my family needed food in the early 60s, we'd just go the nearby Safeway store.
bob, great to hear your still with us!
Nick with his tenor guitar....I first learned to play on my dad's old Gibson tenor when I was 9 or 10. Some lefty stretching involved there. Another tenor master was Jimmy Dodd, the "adult" on the original Mickey Mouse Club. RIP all of them.
Thank you heaps !!!!!
SPLENDID ...Congratulation...keep away...
R.I.P. ….You guys were Awesome...….
have always loved them!!!
Still have the album with the chords to help learn the guitar Great great group!
Still pretty good for a bunch of old codgers -- bless them, they've had a long career.
I grew up with these guys and prefer to remember them as young, outgoing, vibrant, enthusiastic and original. In their day they were refreshing and delightful. To see them much later, aged, balding and forced is too sad, ghosts of along time past. We were very fortunate to grow up with the Kingston Trio but that seems centuries ago compared with today's plastic, heartless, troubled, artificial, vulgar trash in music, movies, TV and odious performers.
*Dave Guard* was the third original member of 'The Kingston Trio' along with Nick Reynolds and Bob Shane. When Dave Guard left the group in 1961 to explore other musical directions, Stewart was selected by Reynolds and Shane to replace him.
They were so important to my teenage years! Like Joan Baez, Peter, Paul and Mary❤
@firesoftheempyrean I can't decipher it! But so true, their humour and warmth always make their live CDs a treat (and the wonderful musicianship and harmonies, of course)!
Adieu! Last of the Original Lil Darlings! Kiss!
I wish someone would do a compilation of Bob Shane's jokes!
I have an mp3 of Trio jokes and banter that were recorded in 1998 that I will upload tonight
@@MikeBehindTheMike Oh FABULOUS! Thank you SO much!!!!!
@@Planet_Molly here you go! th-cam.com/video/RSGAY-zDNps/w-d-xo.html
@@MikeBehindTheMike Love, love LOVE this! Many thanks!
Likely someone else has already mentioned this, but John Stewart wasn't an original member of the group. He replaced Dave Guard, who sang, played guitar and banjo, and was with them for their most well-known hits - Tom Dooley, MTA, Worried Man, Greenback Dollar, Tijuana Jail, Raspberries, Strawberries, Send My Bail Down to Bimini, a few others. They had a hit with Rev. Mr. Black, which was when Stewart joined the group.
They were the most popular group of the folk revival, and their songs regularly made the "Top 40," which was mostly rock 'n roll. Tom Dooley hit the country by storm in 1959, and I think they were on Ed Sullivan. It might have been Milton Berle or Jackie Gleason. It feels strange mentioning those names, but they all had big shows.
Anyway, they are part of my growing up DNA. They provided good cheer for mostly difficult times.
John Stewart was with the Trio when they first released Greenback Dollar and "Where Have All The Flowers Gone" John was an active member of the band longer than Dave was, Dave did 9 albums for Capitol with the Trio (7 studio, one live and the Christmas album), John did 8 albums for Capitol (2 live, 6 studio) 4 with them on Decca as a well as the "Once Upon A Tim live album that came out in 1969. Although John was not an original member of the Trio, he certainly was a member when they were and active and important band and is a member of the "Classic era" Trio, Just as Dave was. They had several hits with John as well.
This is the Trio that originally performed this song.
Tim Miller I just looked it up, didn't realize John Stewart was on those songs, wish I had when they came out. I first became aware of him on Rev. Mr. Black, which I hated. Now I don't mind it, but then it seemed such a departure. They were great in both configurations, but by the time Stewart joined the group I had moved on to other tastes. Then the Beatles happened, and everything changed. Dave Guard ended up following the guru that I quit. He was a true believer, heard him on NPR calling her the greatest in the world or in history, or some such. She wasn't, and isn't.
My parents had an album by the Kingston Trio. I played it on an ancient turn table as a joke but ended up liking it. That album had this song on it.
The Kingston Trio and many other folk groups (The Limelighters, Brothers Four, Four Freshmen, Peter,Paul & Mary etc) filled the void in pop music between Elvis getting drafted in 1958 and losing Buddy Holly & company in 1959.
The Kingston Trio was the best and most known of all the jangling folkies until the British Invasion led by the The Beatles in ‘63-‘64. People forget how popular folk was in that era. The best part of it was the songs were mostly simple to learn. The fans bought guitars and banjos and formed their own groups mainly for fun.
Too bad they cut off the song. What an experience it would have been to see them here!
You better not get old.
I am a big Trio fan. The funniest was John. He tells a story of a blind date who looks like a line backer, wears an orthopedic hat and has a corsage growing "out" of her wrist. Another involves an early morning drive on an LA freeway and stopping to pick up a beautiful hitchiker. "Where you going?" "Oregon, mister where you going?" "Well, hell I was going out to get cigarettes but I guess I can go to Oregon." And with that a breaks into "July You're a Woman." I miss him. RIP big guy.
They were the best of the best. The originals were Dave Guard, Bob Shane and Nick Reynolds. Dave was replaced by John Stewart who was with them for quite sometime. I doubt we will ever see the likes of them again. Bob is the only one left of the originals and he is in bad shape. Of course Dave, John and Nick have passed and so it is the end of an era of Folk music. The Folk era was also the best of the best. RIP.
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Now Bob is gone too. They are all gone but certainly never forgotten.
J thomas Bob Shane passed in Jan 2020 ! RIP Bob A- fly high, dude!
End of the BEST era!
too great !!!
#1 FAN!!!
Dave Guard's flashy picking was the best thing about the original KT.
RIP John Stewart