[4] Peter Dreier of Occidental College observed that "Purists often derided the Kingston Trio for watering down folk songs in order to make them commercially popular and for remaining on the political sidelines during the protest movements of the 1960s. "[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. He allegedly was told that his hourly pay was $3.23. Guard wanted Shane and Reynolds to follow his lead and learn more of the technical aspects of music and to redirect the group's song selections,[41] in part because of the withering criticism that the group had been getting from more traditional folk performers for the Trio's smoother and more commercial versions of folk songs and for the money-making copyrights that the Kingston group had secured for its arrangements of public domain songs. Another plaintiff, Jeremy Roberts, said he started working four hours a day year-round at a farm run by the Order when he was seven or eight. 3. Grayson did help North Carolinians capture Dula and was involved in returning him to North Carolina but otherwise played no role in the case. Guard had been referred to in the press and on the albums' liner notes as the "acknowledged leader" of the group,[8] a description never wholly endorsed by Shane and Reynolds, who felt themselves equal contributors to the group's repertoire and success. In a lawsuit filed earlier this month, the sects ex-members allege: It is largely through illegal marriage practices that the [Kingston Group] is able to unlawfully make girls and their children religious martyrs and traffic them for sexual and labor purposes.. Almost from its inception, the Kingston Trio found itself at odds with the traditional music community. The Kingston Trio hit inspired the film, The Legend of Tom Dooley (1959), starring Michael Landon, co-starring Richard Rust. This isnt the first time the Kingston Trio has made a Montana tour; in fact, this is the third or fourth time theyve come through. The plaintiffs complaint added those practices facilitated so-called attempts by the Kingston Group to bleed the beast a term used in polygamous communities to describe how they can benefit by defrauding the government and its taxpayers. [74] Marovich resigned from the group in early 2022 and was replaced by Americana artist Buddy Woodward. [2] The Trio released nineteen albums that made Billboard's Top 100, fourteen of which ranked in the top 10, and five of which hit the number 1 spot. Share. Next 3 concerts: Billings, MT, US Palm Desert, CA, US You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked. Coronado native John Stewart joined the trio in 1961, replacing Dave Guard, who died in 1991 . 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. [5], In 1961, the Trio was described as "the most envied, the most imitated, and the most successful singing group, folk or otherwise, in all show business" and "the undisputed kings of the folksinging rage by every yardstick". by Pete Seeger, formerly with the Weavers. Preview of Spotify. In 1988, original member Nick Reynolds rejoined the band until his final retirement in 1999. 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. [16], The four drew up a contract as equal partners in Werber's office in San Francisco, deciding on the name "Kingston Trio" because it evoked, through its association with Kingston, Jamaica, the calypso music popular at the time, and also on the uniform of three-quarter-length sleeved vertically striped shirts that the group hoped would help its target audience of college students to identify with them. The Kingston Group said the concept of bleeding the beast is abhorrent and was never a tenet of its organization. According to the Kingston Trio website, In retrospect, Buddy now sees that he has been preparing his entire life to take on this amazing challenge as a bona fide member of The Kingston Trio.. Defendants included Kingston Trio performers George Grove, William Zorn and Richard Dougherty, as well as Nikki Gary, who books concerts. This was the beginning of a remarkable three-year run for the Trio in which its first five studio albums achieved number 1 chart status and were awarded gold records. The lawsuit sought to annul a payment-in-lieu-of-taxes, or PILOT, deal approved for The Kingstonian by the Industrial Development Agency on Jan. 20, 2021. [23] The song selections on the first album reflected the repertoire that the musicians had been working on for two yearsre-imagined traditional songs inspired by The Weavers like "Santy Anno" and "Bay of Mexico", calypso-flavored tunes such as "Banua" and "Sloop John B" that were reminiscent of the popular Harry Belafonte recordings of the time, and a mix of both foreign language and contemporary songwriter numbers, including Terry Gilkyson's "Fast Freight" and "Scotch and Soda", whose authorship remains unknown as of 2022. Reynolds and Marvin have the exclusive right to use the mark beginning Tuesday, according to the complaint, which is posted in full below. [124][125], The classic stage look of The Beach Boys from the early to late 1960s, blue and white striped button-down shirts with either black or grey pants, was inspired by the Kingston Trio. 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"[61] The different configurations of the Trio took turns performing sets of the group's best-known songs with all the artists joining onstage for a finale. Published Feb. 23, 2023 4:56 a.m. PST. None of the three at that time had any serious aspirations to enter professional show business, however,[12] and Shane returned to Hawaii following his graduation in late 1956 to work in the family sporting goods business. [72] In 2018, Josh Reynolds left the group and was replaced by Bob Haworth, who became a member of the band for the third time. [19] On Gilmore's strong recommendation, Capitol signed the Kingston Trio to an exclusive seven-year deal. The Kingston Trio is making a stop on Saturday night in Bozeman and rounding off the tour in Billings. I could see the picturethe Kingston Trio were probably the best commercial group going, and they seemed to know what they were doing. "[91], Jac Holzman, co-founder of the originally folk-based Elektra Records, remarked that his formerly struggling company's new-found prosperity in the late 1950s resulted from "The Kingston Trio which has the ability to capture the interest of a large number of people who have never been conscious of folk music before. The song was parodied in episode No. and "Greenback Dollar", charted as well. 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. 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.' In the 1980 film Friday the 13th, the campers in the opening scene start to sing the song. [52], Following the hungry i engagement, Reynolds moved to Port Orford, Oregon and pursued interests in ranching, business, and race cars for the next twenty years. While the Kingston Group, founded in 1935, is not affilated with the FLDS, members practice a fundamentalist version of Mormonism that involves polygamy. Rounding it out is Tim Gorelangton, one of the only people Nick ever recorded with outside the Trio. It was during this period as well that PBS producers JoAnne Young and Paul Surratt approached Shane and the other principals of the original group with the idea of arranging a reunion concert that would be taped and used as a fundraiser for the network. 01/1965. 123 US [Capitol 5166] written by John Stewart. [17], Werber imposed a stern training regimen on Guard, Shane, and Reynolds, rehearsing them for six to eight hours a day for several months, sending them to prominent San Francisco vocal coach Judy Davis to help them learn to preserve their voices, and working on the group's carefully prepared but apparently spontaneous banter between songs. Both the GroveZornHaworth and GroveZornDougherty troupes of the Kingston Trio released original CDs and DVDs, and the latter configuration toured extensively for 12 years under the direction of original member Bob Shane. Shane died Sunday at a hospice in Phoenix, Arizona at age 85. The lawsuit cites Washakie Renewable Energy as an example of the groups many attempts to defraud the government. Every high school had a folk band, every fraternity. Its safe to say that there is a sense of pride when the modern trio takes the stage, and more so a sense of responsibility. Equally important, the original trioDave Guard, Nick Reynolds, and Bob Shanein tandem with other, similar early acts such as the Limeliters, spearheaded a boom in the popularity of folk music that suddenly made the latter important to millions of listeners who previously had ignored it.[1]. Shane tried to create a repertoire for these groups that included both the older and expected Kingston Trio standards like "Tom Dooley" and "M.T.A." [73] At the end of 2018, Haworth left the group and was replaced by another former Limeliter, Don Marovich. In the legal profession, information is the key to success. 1:31. The group came to national prominence in 1958 during the folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s. Each one of us has his ears open constantly to new material or old stuff that's good. "[86] Nick Reynolds added in the same article: "We don't collect old songs in the sense that the academic cats do We get new tunes to look over every day. But then they did some very high-powered, almost bluegrass tempo folk songs, too, so that really got people excited, explained Tim Gorelangton, the banjo player for the group. For those that dont know the trio, they were nominated for 8 Grammys, winning in the inaugural award show. [126], The guitar manufacturer C.F. It was a societal change that the Kingston Trio triggered, and that doesn't happen very often.. Although recorded by the Kingston Trio, Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind" would go to number two for Peter, Paul and Mary in 1963, and "Sloop John B." would become a hit for the Beach Boys in 1966. Mike was a close family friend of Nick Reynolds, often referred to as his Stepfather, but more of a mentor. A local poet, Thomas C. Land, wrote a song titled "Tom Dooley" about Dula's tragedy soon after the hanging. The Kingston Group declined to confirm its membership numbers. "[92] They also claimed to believe that marriage is a personal choice that should not be coerced. Click here to login, 2023, Portfolio Media, Inc. | About | Contact Us | Legal Jobs | Advertise with Law360 | Careers at Law360 | Terms | Privacy Policy | Cookie Settings | Help | Site Map, Enter your details below and select your area(s) of interest to stay ahead of the curve and receive Law360's daily newsletters, Email (NOTE: Free email domains not supported). Their rendition of a folk song called The next year, largely as a result of The Kingston Trio and "Tom Dooley",[28] the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences instituted a folk category and the Trio won the first Grammy Award for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording for its second studio album At Large. However, the fraud accusations confronting the Kingston Group extend well beyond Washakie and other Order-run businesses. The lawsuit contains explicit details of how Kingston Group leaders - who also own and operate several businesses and schools in the suburbs of Utah's capital, Salt Lake City - allegedly. The son of one of the band's founding members says he paid $100K for a 10-year exclusive license. None of them received a paycheck, they allege. I began to feel sorty sick. "Tom Dooley" fits within the wider genre of Appalachian "sweetheart murder ballads". The Kingston Trio ' s roots were not in Jamaica, as their name would suggest, but in Hawaii where Dave Guard and Bob Shane grew up. [19], The group's first album, Capitol T996 The Kingston Trio, was recorded over a three-day period in February 1958 and released in June that year, just as the Trio was beginning its engagement at the hungry i. Gilmore had made two important supervisory decisions as producer first, to add the same kind of "bottom" to the Trio's sound that he had heard in live performance and consequently recruiting Purple Onion house bassist Buzz Wheeler to play on the album, and second to record the group's songs without the supporting orchestral accompaniment that was nearly universal (even for folk-styled records) at the time. By early 1961 a rift developed and deepened between Guard on one side and Shane and Reynolds on the other. Theyre suing Grove, Zorn, Dougherty and Gary for trademark infringement and dilution, among other claims, and are seeking an injunction that bars defendants from using the trademark for the next decade. Listen to Tom Dooley, Greenback Dollar and more from The Kingston Trio. "[46] Six of the group's next seven albums between 1961 and 1963 continued to place in Billboard's Top Ten and several of the group's most successful singles, including "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" [41], Furthermore, over $100,000 appeared to be missing from the Trio's publishing royalties, an accounting error eventually rectified,[41] which created an additional irritant to both sides. However, if a spouse is coerced or underage in a plural marriage in Utah, it becomes a felony. [Part 1]", "What is the story behind the folk song 'Tom Dooley? Answers is the place to go to get the answers you need and to ask the questions you want Dave Guard's name is on the copyright, but the complex story of the song's origin is related at: Last edited on 28 February 2023, at 01:55, National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, Grammy Award for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording, 1960 Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording, "What's That Sound? The nine years of this configuration was to that point the longest period of time that any three musicians had worked together as the Kingston Trio, and the group released two albums of largely original material.[60]. ), Create custom alerts for specific article and case topics and, I took a free trial but didn't get a verification email. Now it faces a choice - growth or survival? Shane, Reynolds, and Werber bought out Guard's interest in the partnership for $300,000[31] to be paid over a number of years and moved to replace him immediately. [48] According to critic Ken Barnes, the British Invasion played a significant role in curtailing the sales of the Trio's recordings. THE KINGSTON TRIO - The Last Month Of The Year - Full Album. The lawsuit explains how the birth certificates of multiple plaintiffs failed to list their biological fathers, so those men could escape the legal consequences inherent to having multiple and often underage wives. At Menlo, Shane became friends with Nick Reynolds, a native San Diegan with an extensive knowledge of folk and calypso songsin part from his guitar-playing father, a career officer in the U.S. 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. Pro-polygamy groups estimate there are about 30,000 to 40,000 people in Utah who live in polygamist communities. The board is named in a lawsuit seeking to overturn rent guidelines in the city. He was 75. ", Glada Barn's version of Land's song closes Rectify season 2 episode "Mazel Tov".[22]. It was a phenomenon, as influential in its time as The Beatles would become in theirs. Ironically, the Trio never thought it would be a hit song; it was just a "neat ballad" to them, something to help fill out their first Capitol LP, "The Kingston Trio" (T996), released in February of 1958. Filed July 6, the lawsuit alleges IBM violated New York labor and human-rights laws by retaliating against. but that would also feature more contemporary songs as well, including country and novelty tunes. Members of the Kingston Group, a powerful polygamous group in Utah, have filed a lawsuit claiming they were forced into underage marriages with their relatives to keep their blood "pure," were . The bands that performed were: Kingston Trio. We never called ourselves folksingers We did folk-oriented material, but we did it amid all kinds of other stuff. 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. "Tom Dooley" prompted a number of parodies, either as part of other songs or as entire songs. The group argued that its values exact self-sufficiency and that per capita its members save or contribute more to their community than the average citizen does. The Kingston Trio: 1: 1999: Close-Up / College Concert: The Kingston Trio: 2: 1999: Tom Dooley: The Kingston Trio: 1: 2000: Both Sides of the Kingston Trio, Volume 1: The Kingston Trio: 1: 2000: Both Sides of the Kingston Trio, Volume 2: The Kingston Trio: 1: 2000: Something Special + Back in Town: The Kingston Trio: 1: 2000: The Very Best of . Members of the Kingston Group operate several businesses and schools in the suburbs of Utahs capital. Four of the group's LPs charted among the 10 top-selling albums for five weeks in November and December 1959,[3] a record unmatched for more than 50 years,[4] and the group still ranks in the all-time lists of many of Billboard's cumulative charts, including those for most weeks with a number 1 album, most total weeks charting an album, most number 1 albums, most consecutive number 1 albums, and most top ten albums. One of the lawsuits more shocking allegations centers on claims from plaintiff Jenny Kingston, 25, that her parents sent her to a rehabilitation center named Lifeline for Youth for six months to punish her for resisting her marriage to Jacob Daniel Kingston Jr, the son of the Washakie energy companys boss. 1 in Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, and also was top 10 on the Billboard R&B chart, and appeared in the Cashbox Country Music Top 20. 2023 The Hollywood Reporter, LLC. [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. [citation needed], A man named "Grayson", mentioned in the song as pivotal in Dula's downfall, has sometimes been characterized as a romantic rival of Dula's or a vengeful sheriff who captured him and presided over his hanging. [6] The Trio's massive record sales in its early days made acoustic folk music commercially viable, paving the way for singer-songwriter, folk rock, and Americana artists who followed in their wake.[1]. Questions or comments about this article? --and the Trio was eventually sued. 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. 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. SALT LAKE CITY (CN) Survivors of Utah's notorious Kingston clan filed a lawsuit seeking punitive damages against 22 Kingston members on Wednesday for sex trafficking minors born into the organization, sexual battery, child abuse and more. [1] Shane and Reynolds felt that the formula for song selection and performance that they had painstakingly developed still served them well. The Kingston Trio album was a nearly instant smash success, propelled by what would be their biggest hitand one of the most popular songs of the late 1950s, the pretty but mournful ballad "Tom Dooley." Shane explains, "Tom Dooley's real name was Tom Dula. Mike Marvin, Buddy Woodward, and Tim Gorelangton are not the original founding members, but all three have ties to past trio members. [76] Its editor Irwin Silber referred to "the sallow slickness of the Kingston Trio"[77] and in an article in the spring 1959 issue Ron Radosh said that the Trio brought "good folk music to the level of the worst in Tin Pan Alley music" and referred to its members as "prostitutes of the art who gain their status as folk artists because they use guitars and banjos". However, more than 130 years later, polygamist sects exist in close-knit settlements throughout the state, including the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), run by its imprisoned leader and convicted rapist Warren Jeffs. The history of the original Kingston Trio and its subsequent permutations has been well chronicled. The Kingston Trio are featured as part of the . 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. At the same time, Werber was attempting to leverage the Trio's popularity as a club act into a recording contract. 05/1964. 124 US [Capitol 5132] written by Ed McCurdy. The lawsuit contains explicit details of how Kingston Group leaders who also own and operate several businesses and schools in the suburbs of Utahs capital, Salt Lake City allegedly arrange incestuous and sometimes underage marriages between teenage girls and adult men with exalted status to produce hundreds of children. They were spotted by Dave Brubeck's . In her complaint, Amanda Rae Grant claims she was assigned to work in her early teens at Advance Copy, where wedding announcements and invitations were printed, because wedding pictures of little girls marrying men in incestuous or plural marriages could not be printed at Walmart. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. 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. Confederate veteran Tom Dula, Foster's lover and the father of her unborn child, was convicted of her murder and hanged May 1, 1868. He was 42 years old and lived in Roswell, Ga.. The world was changing, and the Kingston Trio made history. It was the rise of the Kingston Trio that really established Martin as "America's Guitar"The Kingston Trio wasn't just a musical group. Montana, Washington, Idaho, Oregon, there's certain parts of the United States that they've really thrown their arms around the Kingston Trio and Montana is one of them, Marvin said. 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. At the time the Kingston trio would be considered a part of the folk genre. All Rights Reserved. So, we are grateful for this.. Personally, I liked the Kingston Trio. Anne was subsequently acquitted in a separate trial, based on Dula's word that she had nothing to do with the killing. 3. Find similar music that you'll enjoy, only at Last.fm. This is especially true of the mother, who has the legal right to establish paternity or not to establish paternity at the time of filing, the Kingston Group said in a statement. The Kingston Trio - Ten songs for you. [57], In 1976, Bill Zorn left the New Kingston Trio to work as a solo performer and record producer in London. The Kingston Trio performs it as a group of young men who travel to Tijuana for a night on the town but run into complications with the lawmen of the land who throw them in prison. Consequently, in October 2017, Grove, Zorn, and Dougherty were replaced as the Trio by new licensees Reynolds and Marvin and their friend, Tim Gorelangton. Mike reflected on what Nick Reynolds would have to say about the group now. Law360 provides the intelligence you need to remain an expert and beat the competition. Members are primarily born into the organization whose leader Paul Elden Kingston is known as the Man in the Watch Tower. Click to reveal Amanda Rae Grant alleges her father is Verl Johnson, accusing him of marrying 17-year-old Lori Peterson and two others to produce 33 children. [62] Guard implicitly disparaged Shane's current group, and Shane asserted a distaste for performing again with Guard,[62] who had spent the intervening decades living and performing in Australia, touring sporadically as a soloist, and writing about and teaching music. ', "A Bond of Song: Two men, one from New York and the other from the mountains of North Carolina, formed an enduring friendship that brought the ballad of Tom Dooley out of the hollers and onto mainstream radio", http://boblog.blogspot.com/2017/02/oldtime-songs-as-radio-drama.html, "Tom Dooley: The Ballad That Started The Folk Boom", "Grammy Hall of Fame Award: Past Recipients", "The Kingston Trio Chart History (Hot 100)", "Billboard Hot 100 60th Anniversary Interactive Chart", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tom_Dooley_(song)&oldid=1133502697, This page was last edited on 14 January 2023, at 03:23. Il trio femminile Inventio esce con l'album Brilliant Classic. NEW YORK (AP) Bob Shane, the last surviving original member of the popular folk group the Kingston Trio and the lead singer on its million-selling ballad "Tom Dooley" and many other hits, has died. Roger Gambill, a tenor with the Kingston Trio since 1973, died on Wednesday at St. Joseph's Hospital here after having had a heart attack on March 2. [34] For five consecutive weeks in November and December 1959, four Kingston Trio albums ranked in the top ten of Billboard's Top LPs chart,[35][36][37][38][39][40] an accomplishment unmatched by any artist before or since. Over the years, the Kingston Trio expanded its song selection beyond the rearranged traditional numbers, calypso songs, and Broadway show tunes that had appeared on its first several albums. It marked the latest chapter in Utahs long, complicated history with polygamy. This was told as a funny story in Amandas family, the lawsuit alleges. After graduating from high school in 1952, Guard enrolled at Stanford University while Shane matriculated at nearby Menlo College. Subscribe for full access to The Hollywood Reporter. [128], Satirist Tom Lehrer has acknowledged the Trio's pioneering of college concerts, observing that before the Kingstons "there was no real concert circuitThe Kingston Trio started all that,"[129] and in Time magazine, critic Richard Corliss asserted, "In my youth, they changed pop music, and me with it. 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. He says, he doesnt know but could believe that he is proud of the new trio. Folk U.S.A. Archived vintage Kingston Trio audio and video clips. In July 2017, Billboard reported that a lawsuit had been filed in Los Angeles by Josh Reynolds, son of Nick Reynolds, and his cousin Gerald "Mike" Marvin. Bob Shane revived the group in 1969 (the only original member at the time).