Territory of Hawaii. He was married to Gretchen Walling Ballard. Dave Guard, the original player, was a "work in progress" the whole time he was with them and even later when home in Hawaii doing his TV work. Reynolds eventually We got a 1939 Beechcraft D-18, with a split tail that sat on the ground, Shane says. blues, calypso, or jazz? By mid-1958, after much hard work and the fortunate radio airplay of "Tom Dooley" Then in 1957, when Reynolds and Shane agreed to team up with Guard again, the group changed its name to The Kingston Trio. Bob Shane is now retired from performing. She did her first book cover The Shaw brothers were folk singers in their own right. Gretchen and Dave were married in 1957, after his graduation. At Stanford, Guard was a member of the Beta Chi chapter of Sigma Nu fraternity. 67 years Over the years following his return to the US, Guard worked with a number of people, including Alex Hassilev, Mike Settle, Judy Henske, Cyrus Faryar, Tim Buckley, Tommy Makem and David White. ), In the early 1960s, Frank Warner and Alan Lomax sued the Kingston Trio for copyright infringement. Thirteen of the group's albums, which included such hit songs as "A Worried Man" and "Tijuana Jail," reached the Top Ten. That sent them researching, first He retired from performing in 2004 after suffering a heart attack. January 26, 2020, Phoenix, Arizona), and Nick Reynolds (b. Guard's daughter Sally died in 2001, also from cancer. years on her book illustrations at the same time she was running the home, being on the "Get RealPlayer Free" icon below to go to the RealMedia site to download the RealPlayer software fine program was broadcast February 21, 1982 on PBS and is currently In 1961, they recorded It Was a Very Good Year, a song composed for Bob Shane by Ervin Drake, only to have it become a massive hit for Frank Sinatra. Landed in everything, from gravel fields to grass fields to airfields to whatever. He was survived by his mother Marjorie, former wife Gretchen, and their three children (Sally, Catherine, and Tom). Dave Guard, Nick Reynolds (Kingston Trio) and Bob Shane arranger: Dave Guard. It was in that class that Punahou's young 7th graders like Guard and his future Kingston Trio partner-to-be Shane learned the basics of playing the ukulele. He wound up working in Tennessee on a farm owned by Col. James Grayson. He graduated from Stanford with a degree in economics in 1956.[3]. Purple Onion and into the national big time as the Kingston Trio. Other deejays across the country followed their lead, forcing Capitol to release the song as a single. Americana music veteran BUDDY WOODWARD is no stranger to The Kingston Triohis "folk cred" was born into him. us too! In 1861 Tom went off to fight in the Civil War. Place. And happily, more than 50 years after the group first got together, it looks like the Are they folk singers? silliness has finally died down. He kept insisting that all three members take time out to study the older styles, to try to make their performances more authentic. At Guard's request, the Kingston Trio records it, sung by Guard's colleague in the Trio, Mr. Bob Shane. He died on March 22, 1991 in Rollinsford, New Hampshire, USA. Trio "feel" will send chills up your spine! THE ESCAPE OF OLD JOHN WEBB - The Kingston Trio - from String Along (In the local dialect, Dula was pronounced Dooley, similar to the way opera became opry.) and leader of the Kingston Trio. available on video. It all started back at Stanford, where Gretchen Ballard and On October 1, 1866, the trial of Tom Dula began. The genre problem would bedevil the Kingston Trio throughout their careers. That June, they found themselves playing at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel in Honolulu when they got some surprising news. (He currently oversees a version of the Kingston Trio made up of musicians who played in the band in the past.). We were all pretty natural performers. Tom suggested the he and Laura elope, and on May 25, 1866, Laura packed her clothes in a bundle and went off to meet Tom in the forest. Judy Henske was eventually replaced by Liz Seneff, but the Whiskeyhill Singers were disbanded in late 1962 after Guard left for Australia. After their run at the Purple Onion ended in December 1957, the group prepared to record their first LP. He and Bogue eventually married.). Guard attended Punahou School, a private school established in 1849 by Hawaii's New England missionary families during junior high school and high school. With help from the Trio's bassist and musicologist David "Buck" Wheat, Guard embarked on a self-education program of learning more about harmony, becoming more and more disenchanted with what appeared to him to be a lack of willingness or effort to "improve" on the part of his partners.[5]. the laws of physics. They sold millions of records and played thousands of concerts all over the world. "because the constant travel was depriving me of life's values." Family (1) Spouse On top of it all! What kind of music did the Kingston Trio Play? At first, the groups debut LP had only modest sales, but the Kingston Trio didnt really noticebecause by the time the LP came out the band was in the early stages of what would become an insane touring schedule. In 1957, back again as a trio as in their previous college days, they changed its name to The Kingston Trio.[4]. By 1960, the group won the first Grammy for best folk album. That first week went very well and the Kingston TrioBob Shane, Nick Reynolds and Dave Guardwere asked to stay on for another week, and then another, and then another. "The first record I ever bought, the one that made me cry as a kid, was Barbara Bogue, Dave Guard, Joe Gannon, Nick Reynolds - 1957. Selections like the Tahitian medley Tanga Tika/Toerau and the Hawaiian tune Lei Pakalana made it into their stage act and later appeared on various LPs, while others, such as the Samoan song Minoi Minoi, didnt make the cut. The roots of the Kingston Trio go back to the early 1950s, to the Punahou School in Honolulu, Hawaii, where fellow students Bob Shane and Dave Guard first met. Will The Circle Be Unbroken? Guard called his group Dave Guard and the Calypsonians, with a Weavers-style signature sound that was principally two guitars, a banjo, and rollicking vocals. We didnt read music and we just would play and sing with tenor guitar, banjo and guitar and just use simple chords, and had good humor and good singing. The three bandmates developed something of a formula for their stage show, although Werber had to keep reminding Shane to attend to business. software installed on your computer. them with counterpoint and chord and vocal phrasing. I wanted to talk to Bob Shane about the early days of the Kingston Trio. we had no idea what we wanted to do and it was an elegant way to stay off the 'You'll be more peaceful,' Capitol producer Voyle Gilmore had previously worked with Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland. It was pretty much of a natural thing. out an 'unidentified Scandinavian type couple'-us," said Gretchen. Until his return to the United States in 1968, Guard gave guitar lessons and, with the help of his wife, Gretchen, wrote a book, Colour Guitar, describing a unique guitar teaching method relating music theory to a 12-valued chain of chords with color. Still appreciating Caribbean rhythms and vocals, but given his more eclectic folk music interests, Guard changed the name of the four Calypsonians to The Kingston Quartet. After leaving the group, Mr. Guard started the Whiskyhill Singers and moved to Australia, where he lived until 1968 and where he was host of a television show. Please note the wonderful harmonic resonances between Dave's Vega's Tu-Ba-Phone And when it finally left, it left a whole lot of dirt around. Dave and his wife Gretchen are author and Guard and Reynolds contacted former Calypsonian member Shane (who was performing part-time in Honolulu) asking him to join the reconstituted group. "Unlike On March 15, 1959, their plane developed trouble on the way to a gig at Notre Dame and started to go down. illustrator of the book, "Deirde: A Celtic Legend," and they will March 22, 1991, Rollinsford, New Hampshire), Bob Shane (b. He left the act in 1961, just before the birth of the couple's third child, It was like a mile high and a hundred miles wide. We were an act that did some folk-oriented material. A Dave Guard musical journey through time: RUN JOE - Dave Was it As I said, we were so busy that Nick and I didnt see reason to change.. The album was turned down by Capitol and was never released. he was. Dave also is busy So they took liberties and they gave the Kingston Trio the first Grammy ever given for Country and Western., That year they released four LPslive from the Hungry i, Stereo Concert (one of the first live albums recorded in stereo), At Large and Here We Go Again!all of which sold very well, with the last two both hitting the top of the LP charts. Dieser Artikel wurde entwickelt, um den Bedrfnissen unserer Kunden entsprechend zu werden und bietet eine Vielzahl von neuen Funktionen. Dave Guard, founder of the Kingston Trio, which brought folk music from the coffeehouses to mainstream America with songs such as the haunting Tom Dooley and the rollicking MTA, has died at 56. Guard was aware that among the Kingston Trio, he was the only one who could read music and who had some understanding of music theory; his partners basically played by rote, and the three of them sang in simple three-part harmony. Dave Guard, the trios banjo player, died in 1991 and Nick Reynolds, the groups tenor guitarist and percussionist, died in 2008. The Kingston Trio with Guard recorded for Capitol Records; subsequent iterations of the group managed first by Werber and Shane and later by Shane alone recorded for Decca Records, Folk Era, Silverwolf, Pair, Collector's Choice Music, CEMA, and MCA, and had many hit songs in its initial 10-year run. Later, when Reynolds also left the Calypsonians, Guard replaced him with Don MacArthur to keep the quartet format intact, but by that time the national interest in calypso rhythms was waning, while Guard's musical growth was reaching out from calypso as well. For four years, from 1958 to 1961, they were one of the most popular bands in America. The sound was smooth. contact@britainatwar.com Home Last show A B.E.2C OF 'C' FLIGHT IN DARFUR WHEN SUPPORTING THE Guard! He was particularly attracted to the unique rhythmic sounds of finger-picked slack-key ukulele and guitar music masterfully performed by the many of his neighbors and beach boys. Guard, whom Shane had known since both were attending high school in Shane's native Hawaii, died in 1991. Quit partying after hours: stop being a corny ham; dont be a clown, read one of Werbers many notes to Shane from the early days. One of the best songs from this short-lived as the Kingston Trio. After that show aired, Shane and Guard reconciled enough to begin talking about a reunion, but Guard tragically contracted lymphoma and died before the plans could come to fruition. . Mary Travers/Living or Deceased. tone-ring, his banjo's strings, and Capitol Records's Studio B acoustics! Trio musical tour-de-force has it all. A Trio Pairs Up to Track Down Legends February 19, 1934, San Francisco, California,.. [citation needed]. Business Analyst Mita Parekh Marketing Manager Susan Litawski Pink Fairies, Man, Freedom, seminal NY power trio . We would go see folk acts in San Francisco when they were playing, Shane says. when I had appendicitis. As the group grew more popular on the San Francisco Bay area's campuses, it began to sing in such legendary San Francisco musical meccas of the era as The Purple Onion and The Hungry i. guitars-and-banjo act moved into a Peninsula beer garden, on to San Francisco's It was soon corrected, but that, in combination with the different idea about the bands musical direction, led Guard to leave the group in May 1961. Law360 (June 27, 2019, 8:26 PM EDT) -- Members of the latest iteration of legendary 1950s folk and pop group The Kingston Trio have again come to blows both literally and figuratively over. retired to become an Oregon rancher of cattle, chickens and Christmas trees. She really liked the music, but she had a soft spot for the Kingston Trio because in 1956, when she was a teenager, Dave Guard pulled her out of a wrecked car. Bob Shane, the last original member of the Kingston Trio, who kept the famed San Francisco band's harmonies and folk legend alive by touring with younger sidemen as the Kingston Trio long. She really liked the music, but she had a soft spot for the Kingston Trio because in 1956, when she was a teenager, Dave Guard pulled her out of a wrecked car. [8], Guard's relationship with the Trio remained strained while he was in Australia. to Nick Reynolds, Bob Shane, Dave Guard - courtesy Guard worked closely in Honolulu with slack-key guitar icon Gabby Pahinui to record and produce Pure Gabby, an album of classic Hawaiian melodies played with slack key tunings. And In reflects Dave Guard's eclectic nature and continual search for something John Stewart, who replaced Dave Guard in 1961, died in 2008; Frank Werber, the Trios manager, died in 2007; and Voyle Gilmore, their producer at Capitol Records, died in 1979. We feel we will be visiting old friends at the de Young show, Of the Trio, he wrote "The Kingston Trio will leave little mark musically, but it has a heck of a lot of fun, mostly clowning its way through a series of hillbilly, Latin, and calypso things to the great delight of the audience. The original Trio of Bob Shane, Nick Reynolds and Dave Guard reunited for a PBS television specialrecorded in 1981. This But when somebody calls you a folk singer and says, Heres a lot of money you say, Oh, sure, Ill be anything you want. Dont forget, we were all business majors. And people would ask, Why would you do that? And I said, How else are you going to meet the chicks?, The Trio was traveling so much they decided it would be more efficient to rent their own airplane to get them to gigs. Giving his partners notice that he intended to leave the Trio, and unwilling to cause the group he had founded to disband, Guard agreed to stay on with the Trio until his personal commitments were completed and until Shane and Reynolds were able to find a suitable replacement for him. The Kingston Trio then had three remarkably fruitful years until they fell out with Guard, who was later replaced by John Stewart. taught in a 12-valued chain of chords with color, "as an infinite color Jan Hammer 79.2K subscribers 934K views 10 years ago "M.T.A.", often called "The MTA Song", is a 1949 song by Jacqueline Steiner and Bess Lomax Hawes. THEY LOVE THE NIGHT - Dave Guard - from Up And In By now, the Kingston Trio were a national phenomenon and folk songs were a national craze, particularly among younger people. THE MARY ELLEN CARTER - Dave Guard - from Up And In Out of these formative, scuffling years The Kingston Trio emerged in 1957. We had our guitars and Daves banjo on the plane. Dave Guard/Up & In, Folk Era Records 1988 - courtesy of Peter Overly. If it does reignite, perhaps we would all do well to remember these words from Big Bill Broonzy: All music is folk music; I aint never heard no horse sing a song.. As many of us know, the original Kingston Trio consisted of Bob Shane, Nick Reynolds, and Dave Guard. Over the years, the former friends rarely spoke to each other. The group started as a San Francisco Bay Area nightclub act with an original lineup of Dave Guard, Bob Shane, and Nick Reynolds. According to legend, Reynolds first noticed Shane sleeping during an accounting class and figured that was a guy he had to get to know. When Shane left the Calypsonians and returned to Hawaii to work in his family's business, Guard added two members, bassist Joe Gannon and vocalist Barbara Bogue, making the Calypsonians a quartet. song; to listeners, the music moved! The Weavers, who were a major influence on Shane and Guard, had their careers ended because of the entertainment blacklist during the McCarthy Era. Tom Dooley 1:36: A4: Tom Dooley. IMPORTANT! - February 20, 1957. He was previously married to Gretchen Walling Ballard. After graduating from high school, the two friends headed east to California, where Guard enrolled at Stanford to study economics and Shane got into nearby Menlo College, where he enrolled in the business administration program. But, the sound had an edge! The sound was accessible and instantly comfortable. In 1969, it was back to the United States where he pursued a writing career as Keep supporting great journalism by turning off your ad blocker. by a Salt Lake City disc-jockey, The Mr. Guard stayed with the group until 1961, when he left and was replaced by John Stewart. Warner himself then created a shorter version of the song based on Proffitts that was included in the anthology Folk Song U.S.A., compiled by John and Alan Lomax in 1947. "I started playing my guitar again in 1976 in the hospital ", Dave, who grew up in Hawaii, has another island project. Warner recorded his version in 1952; it was later covered by the Folksay Trio and the Tarriers. They also helped create a demand for acoustic guitars that continues to this day. Then, go back on the Internet to this I remember it just like it was yesterday.. . The "ukulele" class made an impact on Shane, who during the next four years progressed steadily from the 4-string ukulele to the less toy-like and more professional-appearing baritone uke, on to the tenor guitar, and finally to the 6-string acoustic guitar. take. Buddy's parents met in 1959 when the senior Mr. Woodward auditioned for his mother's folk group, The Mark III Trio. In March 1957 he came back to California to join the now-renamed Kingston Trio under the management of Frank Werber. Guard and Reynolds called Bob Shane in Hawaii, who was finding life in the family sporting goods business uninspiring. They shake hands with psychology. With James Melton's consent, Tom Dula and Anne Melton began sharing a bed in Melton's cabin. In 1929, a duo known as Grayson and Whitter made the first recorded version of the song. of John August Lee. The original trio had nine gold albums, with "The Kingston Trio at the Hungry i" its most succesful. John's real contribution was his skill as a songwriter, and in that respect, his presence was felt even before Dave left. 'Deirdre,' it has a happy ending," Dave said. Im very upset, said Nick Reynolds, a member of the trio since its founding in 1957. February 19, 1978. I did a few different things like singing Harry Belafonte and Hank Williams songs, but what most people dont know is I was the first Elvis Presley impersonator in the world, Shane says. The period of the original Kingston Trio, between 1957 and 1961, when Guard left the group, was the highlight of our careers, said Reynolds, who with Bob Shane, a high school friend of Guard in Hawaii, has remained with the group. He may be gone but we will always enjoy his contributions It completely blacked out the airport to the point where they had to cancel all of the flights. away. They launched the American folk revival, setting the stage for Peter, Paul & Mary, Bob Dylan and many others. This is the lyric that evolved into the hit song of the Kingston Trio. Ann Foster Melton was tried separately. Bay Area representative of a Trinity County summer camp and studying design. Thats when our career took off, Reynolds said. After Toms death, the three songs remained popular in North Carolina, but over time, the Hang your head Tom Dula version won out. Today he has branched out-musically as a single 'Pure Gabby' will be out in April-with Gretchen's cover design. So we drank a fifth of booze between the four of us. (No more country music awards for them! As 1960 dawned, the Kingston Trio were the most popular vocal group in America, but there were tensions forming in the band. THE BONNIE SHIP THE DIAMOND - from Dave Guard & The Whiskeyhill Singers - 1962 - Capitol Records. Two deejays, Bill Terry and Paul Colburn at the Salt Lake City radio station KLUB, fell in love with Tom Dooley and started playing the album track. The crowd was pounding their feet on the bleachers and making this weird rumbling sound. "I wanted to illustrate children's books, and while personality, and life and times have made him legendary amongst Kingston Trio fans. At the 1960 Grammys, they got the award in the new category Best Folk Performance for their LP The Kingston Trio at Large. I went back in 1961 to record an album of Gabby and his guitar, but I couldn't interest anyone. By 1960, the group won the first Grammy for the best folk album. According to John Foster Wests Lift Up Your Head Tom Dooley, an excellent book about Tom Dulas life and death thats based on the transcripts from Dulas two trials, Tom Dula was a randy teenager who was always getting into trouble with the local girls, particularly one named Ann Foster. Folk U.S.A. - Archived vintage Kingston Trio audio and video clips. Frank Werber, a talent agent who had an office above the venue, saw this as a perfect opportunity for the new act he had just signed to get some much needed stage experience. Sadly, the parting was less than amicable. The Kingston Trio's many songs include "Tom Dooley", "A Worried Man", "Hard Travelin'", "The Tijuana Jail", "Greenback Dollar", "Reverend Mr. Black", "Sloop John B", "Scotch and Soda", "Merry Minuet", "Hard, Ain't It Hard", "Zombie Jamboree", "M.T.A. CONCORD, N.H. -- Dave Guard, 56, a founder of the immensely popular Kingston Trio, which brought folk music from the coffee houses to mainstream America with songs such as the haunting "Tom Dooley" and the rollicking "MTA," died of lymphoma March 22 at his home in Rollinsford, N.H. That was some day. On June 25, Werber got them the weeklong gig at the Purple Onion that later stretched to a seven-month residence. Here, Dave rocks-out in a cute song to those folks living on the fringes--including, perhaps, some of Learn how and when to remove this template message, "FMA Finance Financial news and information on borrowing money", "The Telegraph - Google News Archive Search", "Valley Voice: Passing of last Shaw twin, who taught world to sing". In 1961 Guard formed the group, 'Dave Guard's Whiskeyhill Singers' also with Nick Reynolds and Bob Shane. By late 1960 Guard's frustration and discontent with his partners,[6] combined with an alleged embezzlement of the group's finances, had reached a point where he no longer wanted to work with Reynolds and Shane. The Kingston Trio covered Hard Travelin', Scarlet Ribbons, Corey, Corey, When the Saints Come Marching In and other songs. Our pilot flew B-17s during World War II and he managed to land relatively safely in a field. 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