What kind of music did the Kingston Trio Play? available on video. show, "Dave's Place," and Gretchen, who always painted, gave him the Folk U.S.A. - Archived vintage Kingston Trio audio and video clips. If we had the time, we really liked to go to Reno or Vegas and see the lounge acts. By 1960, the group won the first Grammy for best folk album. ", The couple's children are Catherine, now 19 and a pre-opera Then the Bay "We used the events of the legend of the first century After a reportedly acrimonious meeting with Shane, Reynolds, and the Trio's business manager over the future of the Trio, Guard quit the group. be participants again.". Guard and Reynolds called Bob Shane in Hawaii, who was finding life in the family sporting goods business uninspiring. Shane, who had started out on ukulele years before switching to tenor guitar and later six-string guitar, taught Guard a few chords and they began working out a few songs. The new version of the Kingston Trio continued to prosper, until in 1967 the three members decided to call it a day and the band broke up. It appears that Tom and Ann hatched a plan to get revenge on Laura. The original members were Dave Guard (b. October 19, 1934, San Francisco, California, U.S.d. Please note the wonderful harmonic resonances between Dave's Vega's Tu-Ba-Phone in the same way Did Mary Travers have a daughter? On May 4, at the inaugural Grammy Awards ceremony, they won the award for Best Country and Western Performance for Tom Dooley, a fact that didnt, and still doesnt, sit well with the Nashville establishment. We flew in that thing all the hell over. He did four tracks on a 12-track cassette recorded to accompany the "All Along the Merrimac" tour of New Hampshire and a final solo album, Up & In (1988), which received mixed reviews. the Treasures of Early Irish art.". Equally important, the trio Dave Guard, Nick Reynolds, and Bob Shane made folk music immensely popular among many . Sometime in August 1961, Dave Guard left the band for good. They demonstrated the commercial viability of acoustic guitar-driven music, and the folk boom they inspired paved the way for musicians like Bob Dylan and Joan Baez among countless others. Upon completion of his final year of high school in 1952 at Menlo School, a private prep school in Menlo Park, California, he matriculated at nearby Stanford University, graduating in 1957 with a degree in economics. Dave Guard And The Calypsonians a.k.a. Over the years, the former friends rarely spoke to each other. In the early 1950s, he and fellow Hawaiian-born The original trio had nine gold albums, The Kingston Trio at the Hungry i, its most successful. In 1959 alone, they had four albums at the same time among the ten top-selling albums. 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. Tragically, Pauline had syphilis, which she passed on to Tom, who in turn gave it to Laura and Ann. a new start," Dave said. Reynolds and Stewart,. They recorded Will Holts Lemon Tree, but it was Peter, Paul and Mary and later, Trini Lopez, who had the hits with it. Founding member of The Kingston Trio (vocals, banjo, guitar) from 1958 to 1961; left to form his own short-lived group, Dave Guard & The Whiskeyhill Singers, who contributed music to How the West Was Won (1962) 1934 Dave Guard was born on October 19, 1934 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA as Donald David Guard. The Shaw brothers were folk singers in their own right. Date April 14, 2023 7:00pm Pricing $35 - $55. His memorial service in Portsmouth, New Hampshire was attended by Bob Shane, Glen Yarbrough, the Limeliters and many other figures from the folk world. They moved to a dream world in Australia. He kept insisting that all three members take time out to study the older styles, to try to make their performances more authentic. Nick Reynolds, Bob Shane, Dave Guard - courtesy 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. Under contract with Capitol Records, the Trio became a huge commercial and influential success.[1]. - circa Summer 1990. Donald David Guard was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on October 19, 1934. (He currently oversees a version of the Kingston Trio made up of musicians who played in the band in the past.). Today he has branched out-musically as a single He performed both under his own name, anonymously and under an alias as a supporting musician and vocalist on Australian recording sessions with, among others, Lionel Long, The Twiliters, The Green Hill Singers, Tina Date, and The Tolmen. 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. He was married to Gretchen Walling Ballard. 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. Were the biggest-selling group in the world., As the year progressed, the group continued to go from success to success. (No more country music awards for them! Around that time, Reynolds said, he and Shane were attending Menlo College in Palo Alto, and they used to get together to sing for fun. They were always trying to expand their repertoire beyond the folk songs, but the world at large didnt seem to care. A second album was recorded at the same private studio, but it was never released. 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. 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. The sound was professional. Tom Dooley Other (Dave Guard and the Whiskey Hill Singers) Dave Guard and the Whiskey Hill Singers, Capitol, 1962. Dave Guard formed Dave Guard & The Whiskeyhill Singers immediately after his departure from The Kingston Trio. Reynolds once said they first heard the song when a now-forgotten singer sang it during an audition at the Purple Onion. The sound was accessible and instantly comfortable. The hits kept on coming: M.T.A., A Worried Man and The Tijuana Jail all made the Top 40. - 1988 - Folk Era 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. I was looking for healing music as opposed to the screeching KINGSTON TRIO original instruments Vega banjo, Martin D-25, and Martin tenor | The kingston trio, Country music singers, Banjo. The radio-friendly version kept out the final words of the song, "Bang, you're dead," for commercial approval reasons, as was the title, which became Bad Man Blunder. A Dave Guard musical journey through time: RUN JOE - Dave "In the old days we had an energy Could this song be the ultimate demonstration of Dave with publishers door-to-door back East. on successfully pursuing their separate endeavors. The Trio recorded the first version of Seasons in the Sun in 1963, but Terry Jacks had the hit version in 1974. years on her book illustrations at the same time she was running the home, being Dave Guard Folksinger #136570. We loved to sing, we loved to perform, but we also loved to make money. Dave Guard, Nick Reynolds (Kingston Trio) and Bob Shane arranger: Dave Guard. Richie Unterberger's liner notes for Whiskeyhill Singers reissue. Get four issues of the keepsake Fretboard Journal for just $60. Dave Guard, founder of the Kingston Trio, which brought folk music from the coffee houses to mainstream America with songs like the haunting "Tom Dooley" and the rollicking "MTA," died. THEY LOVE THE NIGHT - Dave Guard - from Up And In She was never seen alive again. 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. His backing group on this album was The Modern Folk Quartet, which included former Whiskeyhill Singer Cyrus Faryar. personality, and life and times have made him legendary amongst Kingston Trio fans. According to Guard, his own first serious exposure to stringed instruments came from Shane, who taught him the rudiments of playing the six-string guitar. Along with all his other classmates, Guard early on learned to play Hawaii's ubiquitous ukulele in a 7th grade junior high school music class required of all students. Ann Foster Melton was tried separately. At Stanford, Guard was a member of the Beta Chi chapter of Sigma Nu fraternity. Dave thinks the original three members are too different 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. of the Kingston Trio and today's singer. I was billed as Hawaiis Elvis Presley in 1956, which was the same year he got really popular. In 1959, before the folk category was established, the group won a Grammy for the best country-Western recording for Tom Dooley, the groups best-selling single. 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. Guard, whom Shane had known since both were attending high school in Shane's native Hawaii, died in 1991. Dave also is busy Guard was dating a girl named Katie Seaver (the older sister of baseball great Tom Seaver), and her parents taught him the song. Guard was born in San Francisco and went to Punahou School in Honolulu in what was then the pre-statehood U.S. With only Dave on vocals this time, this Kingston When did Bill Zorn leave the Kingston Trio? While Tom was awaiting the second trial, a now-unknown composer wrote the second song about the murder, which opened with the Hang your head Tom Dula line. But, the sound had an edge! Dieser Artikel wurde entwickelt, um den Bedrfnissen unserer Kunden entsprechend zu werden und bietet eine Vielzahl von neuen Funktionen. That was some day. It all started back at Stanford, where Gretchen Ballard and In 2004, shortly after his 70th birthday, he suffered a major heart attack. March 7-11 at the Boarding House. Why did Peter Paul and Mary break up? As the group grew more popular on the Bay Areas campuses, it began to sing in such legendary San Francisco musical meccas of the era as The Purple Onion and The Hungry i.. it, RESTART YOUR COMPUTER to be sure all RealPlayer components are loaded! On October 1, 1866, the trial of Tom Dula began. Survivors include his mother and three children. Product Description. March 22, 1991, Rollinsford, New Hampshire), Bob Shane (b. February 1, 1934, Hilo, Hawaiid. It looked like the Black Death was coming at you. Guard, Shane, and Reynolds worked well together. The album was turned down by Capitol and was never released. 1959. 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. When I called him for this story, I was pleased to discover that he had been thinking quite a bit about that period himself. They two students quickly discovered that Shanes baritone and Reynolds tenor blended beautifully and, more importantly at the time, that their singing got them invited to the best parties. Guard attended Punahou School, a private school established in 1849 by Hawaii's New England missionary families during junior high school and high school. [9], Following his return from Australia in 1968 and his wife's 1970 graduation from Stanford with a degree in art, Guard and his wife collaborated in researching, writing, and publishing a book on the ancient Irish folk tale, Deirdre of the Sorrows, followed by a second book about a 400-year-old Hawaiian folk tale. Tom appealed the verdict and a new trial was held, which also reached a guilty verdict. Buddy Holly had died in plane crash only a couple of weeks before, so the last 15 to 20 minutes we were on that plane, we knew we were dead, Shane remembers. It was fresh and quirky and fun. We were smart enough to say when we formed the band that if there ever gets to the point where somebodys really pissed-off with the whole thing, he has the freedom to go anywhere he wants, Shane says. When I started the Hawaii book research, I got it out, and This guitar is #40 of the 100 made. We were collegiate and those striped shirts were the only styles that would fit all three of us. Dave and his wife Gretchen are author and illustrator of the book, "Deirde: A Celtic Legend," and they will follow it with a book on a Hawaiian legend late this year. Fun facts: before fame, family life, popularity rankings, and more. With material gathered from a variety of sources, under Guard's musical arrangements and direction, the Kingston Trio quickly became a success. Sadly, the parting was less than amicable. 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Dave finished the writing and tried to "peddle the book 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. They were ready! I think we also got some at Brooks Brothers, Shane says. In February 1958 the Kingston Trio recorded their first LP. We had our guitars and Daves banjo on the plane. Sadly, the piano player neglected to write down his name, and to this day no one knows who actually composed the song. THE BONNIE SHIP THE DIAMOND - from Dave Guard & The Whiskeyhill Singers - 1962 - Capitol Records. During that time, he worked up a solo act and got a regular gig at the Pearl City Tavern in Honolulu. Business Analyst Mita Parekh Marketing Manager Susan Litawski Pink Fairies, Man, Freedom, seminal NY power trio . I always visualize my audience and our own kids are coming program. The trio's newest member is George Grove. I went back in 1961 to record an album of Gabby and his guitar, but I couldn't We also liked Tahitian music because it was more up-tempo than Hawaiian music. I wanted to talk to Bob Shane about the early days of the Kingston Trio. After the weeks stretched on, it dawned on Werber and the Trio that they didnt have enough material, so they began a relentless search for new tunes. My new tunes are arranged by Ireland. Limited to only 100 instruments, the 00-21 Kingston Trio pays tribute to the 50th Anniversary of the founding of the group and honors the life of founding member Dave Guard. Thats when our career took off, Reynolds said. The great thing was that as soon as the show was over, we would walk out into the crowd and sign autographs. DAVE GUARD. Find out about folksinger Dave Guard: Age, What he did before fame, his family life. #9 - Bad Man's Blunder. At the 1960 Grammys, they got the award in the new category Best Folk Performance for their LP The Kingston Trio at Large. He also wrote several books, including a manual on guitar technique and books of fairy tales. different. In the early 1970s, Shane formed a group called the New Kingston Trio to perform different material. Many thanks to Carol Berry into this age. For four years, from 1958 to 1961, they were one of the most popular bands in America. This song's imagery, rhythmic drive, tasteful fills and trademark Kingston In the late '50's, up until the Beatles hit, The Kingston Trio were the biggest performing group in the country. I suggest saving the file to be downloaded to your Desktop for easy location and installation of the file (Gannon later went on to have a successful career as a stage designer for acts like Neil Diamond and Alice Cooper. The Trio hit on the idea of playing on college campuses, the first band to discover this lucrative market. While an undergraduate at Stanford, Guard started a pickup group with Reynolds and Shane. [citation needed]. the act, Bob Shane and Nick Reynolds continued with John Stewart. in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. out an 'unidentified Scandinavian type couple'-us," said Gretchen. San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle Then in 1957, when Reynolds and Shane agreed to team up with Guard again, the group changed its name to The Kingston Trio. After a reportedly acrimonious meeting with Shane, Reynolds, and the Trios business manager over the future of the Trio, Guard quit the group. He played exquisite, heartbreaking country Whole Lotta Shakin' and he starts was forced to leave his mansion . He attended Honolulu's Punahou School, where he met Bob Shane; they both graduated in 1952. 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. He is known for Dave's Place (1965), How the West Was Won (1962) and The Swindlers (1959). 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. This He wound up working in Tennessee on a farm owned by Col. James Grayson. - 1988 - Folk Era Records. 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. In late June, Tom panicked and ran for the border. Guard was upset because Shane and Reynolds seemed to be unconcerned about it. Americana music veteran BUDDY WOODWARD is no stranger to The Kingston Triohis "folk cred" was born into him. the laws of physics. It means so much to me I want to pass it on to you. His daughter, Sally Guard of New York, said Saturday that her father died Friday at home in Rollinsford of lymphoma. 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. At the time, no folk music category existed. She is survived by her fourth husband, Ethan Robbins; two daughters, Erika Marshall of Naples, Fla., and Alicia Travers of Greenwich, Conn.; a sister, Ann Gordon of Oakland, Calif.; and two grandchildren. design for 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. 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. Out of these formative, scuffling years The Kingston Trio emerged in 1957. We were both big fans of the Weavers and just loved the way they harmonized. haven in an Australian beach town" and then back to the Bay Area "to Nick and I said, Gee, Dave, it seemed to gopretty well so far, Shane recalls. 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. Bobby was considered the sex symbol and I was the short, little guy, Reynolds said. Location: Walhalla, SC, United States. 'Deirdre,' it has a happy ending," Dave said. Had Dave lived, he would have been interest anyone. According to Guard, while he was in Australia, he was never in contact with Reynolds and Shane, and he never heard any of their albums. My mother had quite a few Kingston Trio records when I was growing up, as well as records by performers who followed in their wake such asthe Limeliters and the Chad Mitchell Trio. We also sang a couple of songs from Samoa. 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. In the 1970s, Dave Guard recorded a live album at The Ice House in Pasadena. [10], After the breakup of the Singers in 1961, Guard had returned to Hawaii. Was it folk? take. The 1970s saw vinyl albums and singles as the only sound carriers on the market, and the early music video tapes. Shirley Collins, the English folk singer, succinctly summed up the opinion of most of the traditionalists toward the Trio: I despised them. But she did add, The audience loved them!. "My daughter Catherine's ambition to be in show business launched me on 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. Rather than soak the Trio in strings and grand orchestrations, as was the style at the time, he opted to record Shane, Reynolds and Guard essentially live in the studio. He quickly discovered that people really wanted to hear all the old songs. Over the years, the more politically oriented part of the folk music community would use this decision as one of their main complaints about the group. And Ill never forget when I met Elvis in 63, just briefly, and I told him thats how I got my start. 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. At Guard's request, the Kingston Trio records it, sung by Guard's colleague in the Trio, Mr. Bob Shane. I feel with them I can Time magazine quoted Dave as saying, Nick and Bob wouldnt rehearse or learn to read music better, or do this, or do that. KINGSTON TRIO : THE GUARD YEARS. With James Melton's consent, Tom Dula and Anne Melton began sharing a bed in Melton's cabin. 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. On March 15, 1959, their plane developed trouble on the way to a gig at Notre Dame and started to go down. came back in 1968, a "lively time," and she went back to Stanford, music. That was the first of three songs written about the murder. He 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. They launched the American folk revival, setting the stage for Peter, Paul & Mary, Bob Dylan and many others. In 1976, he bowed to the inevitable and dropped the New from the bands name and hit the road with various hired musicians to play Tom Dooley, M.T.A., Scotch and Soda and all the rest until his heart attack forced him to retire. SPECKLED ROAN - The Kingston Trio - from Make Way! The Kingston Trio were one such group, transforming folk music into a hot commodity and creating a demand where none had existed before for young men (sometimes with women) strumming acoustic guitars and banjos and singing folk songs and folk-like novelty songs in harmony. Explains lead vocalist and guitarist Mike Marvin, "The three original members of The Kingston Trio were Dave Guard, Bob Shane, and Nick Reynolds. The Kingston Trie 25 Years Non-Stop, Xeres, 1982. The Trio only scratched the surface when it came to tapping his songwriting talent. The period of the original Kingston Trio "was the highlight of our careers," said Reynolds in a telephone interview. Truly Fair, a song Shane learned in 1951 and sang during his Hawaiian Elvis days, was tried out, but it was found wanting and dropped from the act. Shane and Gambill replaced him with George Grove, a professionally trained singer and instrumentalist from North Carolina who had been working in Nashville as a studio musician. After leaving the group, Guard started the Whiskyhill Singers and moved to Australia, where he lived until 1968 and where he was host of a television show. when I had appendicitis. 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. At one point, their accountant made a bookkeeping error. The Kingston Trio covered Hard Travelin', Scarlet Ribbons, Corey, Corey, When the Saints Come Marching In and other songs. Kingston Trio found themselves being one of the biggest things to happen on the music Dave Guard/Up & In, Folk Era Records 1988 - courtesy of Peter Overly. 'You'll be more peaceful,' The group continued to perform for six years as the Kingston Trio before disbanding in 1967, with John Stewart taking Guard's place. 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