In early August 2017, sole Kingston Trio owner Bob Shane announced the licensing of his trademark to the Josh Reynolds/Mike Marvin group of investors. 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. Reynolds and Marvin have the exclusive right to use the mark beginning Tuesday, according to the complaint, which is posted in full below. [53], Bob Shane decided to stay in entertainment, and he experimented with solo work. "Throughout history there have been many songs written about the eternal triangle. Consequently, in October 2017, Grove, Zorn, and Dougherty were replaced as the Trio by new licensees Reynolds and Marvin and their friend, Tim Gorelangton. The group added: Once an individual has made a decision on who to marry, members are encouraged to seek the blessing of their parents, family and/or church leaders, but to say that one individual chooses or heavily influences who will marry who is entirely inaccurate.. "[129], Library of Congress National Registry of Historically Significant Recordings, All rankings are from "American Album Chart Records 19552001"[5], The non-orchestrated acoustic sound of this hit record, which has been recognized as a seminal recording in the history of American popular music by the, The second troupe of the Kingston Trio with, Hiatus and the New Kingston Trio, 19671976, Trademark and roster changes, 2017 to the present. 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. 5. The group issued a statement . [4] The Trio also charted several single records during this time, made numerous television appearances, and played upwards of 200 engagements per year. [11] They usually billed themselves under the name of "Dave Guard and the Calypsonians". 29:28. Already a subscriber? At that time the trio consisted of Dave Guard, Bob Shane, and Nick Reynolds. GREAT FALLS The Kingston Trio revolutionized music at the end of the 1950s. I didn't harm a hair on the girl's head. Instead of being listed on her birth certificate, Grant says the document listed a fictitious father called Kyle Grant. All Rights Reserved. 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. This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. The Kingston Trio - Ten songs for you. The remaining Trio partners settled quickly on John Stewart, a 21-year-old member of the Cumberland Three, one of the many groups that sprang up hoping to imitate the Kingston Trio's success. This naming was in reference to a sample of the song generated by Santo Cilauro whereby he jokingly claimed Tiziano Crudeli had performed a version of Tom Dooley with "The Kingstown Trio". [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". [7] While in Punahou's secondary school, Shane taught first himself and then Guard the rudiments of the six-string guitar,[8] and the two began performing at parties and in school shows doing an eclectic mix of Tahitian, Hawaiian, and calypso songs. Best of all, in 1962 they introduced listeners to one of the most poignant songs ever written, the anti-war ballad "Where Have All The Flowers Gone?" The Guardian typically does not identify people who allege to be a victim of sexual violence, but the publicly available lawsuit identifies Michaels, Lancaster and other plaintiffs by name. [57], In 1976, Bill Zorn left the New Kingston Trio to work as a solo performer and record producer in London. Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. Buddy Woodward has folk cred to the max. Askanews. 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. He was 75. The Kingston Trio have a central place in the folk music revival of the late 50s and early 60s, when, for a couple of years, they were arguably the most popular vocal group in the world. 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. 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. #1 - Tom Dooley [53] Stewart commenced a long and distinguished career as a singer-songwriter, composing hit songs like "Daydream Believer" for The Monkees and "Runaway Train" for Rosanne Cash. The opening scene is set in 1958, the year the Kingston Trio version of the song debuted. [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]. 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." The board is named in a lawsuit seeking to overturn rent guidelines in the city. 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. 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. Werber liked the group's raw energy but did not consider them refined enough to want to represent them as an agent or manager at that point, though he left his telephone number with Guard. As 98-year-old Jimmy Carter enters hospice care, many tributes and memories are pouring in for the former U.S. president, including for his role in . ", Glada Barn's version of Land's song closes Rectify season 2 episode "Mazel Tov".[22]. 3. Subscribe for full access to The Hollywood Reporter. 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. On the other side is original member Bob Shane, his wife Barbara Childress, musiciansGeorge Grove, William Zorn and Richard Dougherty and concert booker Nikki Gary. The British Invasion spearheaded by The Beatles, who were signed by EMI/Capitol just as the Trio's seven-year contract was running out, depressed sales of acoustic folk albums significantly, and Capitol did not make a serious effort to re-sign the group. Without the production facilities of Capitol, however, and the expertise of Voyle Gilmore and engineer Pete Abbott, the Decca releases lacked the aural brilliance of the Capitol albums,[9] and none of the four sold especially well. Shane and Reynolds performed at fraternity parties and luaus for a time, and eventually Shane introduced Reynolds to Guard. The Kingston Group argued that it is parents prerogative to file birth records for their children how they choose within the bounds of the law. The Kingston Trio is making a stop on Saturday night in Bozeman and rounding off the tour in Billings. I'm Going Home by The Kingston Trio Rounding it out is Tim Gorelangton, one of the only people Nick ever recorded with outside the Trio. The lawsuit alleged that Shane and his associates accepted $100,000 from the Reynolds group in exchange for exclusive rights to use the trademarked name of the band but then allowed Grove, Zorn and Dougherty to perform as the Kingston Trio at concerts booked by Gary. Sign up free. The three began performing at campus and neighborhood hangouts, sometimes as a trio but with an aggregation of friends that could swell its ranks to as many as six or seven, according to Reynolds. Discussing his earliest musical influences in a 2001 Rolling Stone interview, Bob Dylan remembered: There were other folk-music records, commercial folk-music records, like those by the Kingston Trio. "[86] Bob Shane remarked years later: "To call the Kingston Trio folksingers was kind of stupid in the first place. 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. For example: For Capitol Records 45 rpm Release #F4049 By The Kingston Trio[18], The third and final verse of Stonewall Jackson's crossover hit song Waterloo of 1958 referenced Tom Dooley with the lyrics "Now he swings where the little birdie sings, and that's where Tom Dooley met his Waterloo.". This was told as a funny story in Amandas family, the lawsuit alleges. Preview of Spotify. 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. [citation needed], Dula was tried in Statesville because it was believed he could not get a fair trial in Wilkes County. Many of their personal memories recall the iconic trio's performances and journey as folk music made its extraordinary ascent to the pinnacle of popular culture - and the top of the music charts. Il trio femminile Inventio esce con l'album Brilliant Classic. They were spotted by Dave Brubeck's . 0:00. Shane died Sunday at a hospice in Phoenix, Arizona at age 85. Jan. 29, 2020 9:48 AM PT 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. but that would also feature more contemporary songs as well, including country and novelty tunes. 0:00. 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. This song was recorded for The Kingston Trio At Large sessions. It was Nick Reynolds and my fondest hope that Josh and Mike would carry on the Trio and family legacy.[71]. 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. kingston trio is most often considered to be Folk, Singer-Songwriter, Country, Folk Rock, and American Folk Revival. They also claimed to believe that marriage is a personal choice that should not be coerced. 1:31. 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. Recording Industry Association of America, List of Hot 100 number-one singles of 1958 (U.S.), List of number-one singles in Australia during the 1950s, "Ask the Marshall: What is the story behind the folk song 'Tom Dooley? [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. 702 of Mystery Science Theater 3000. Guard regarded it as inexcusable carelessness while to Shane and Reynolds it highlighted what they perceived as Guard's propensity to claim individual copyright for some of the group's songs,[42] including "Tom Dooley" (though Guard eventually lost a suit over copyright for that number to Alan Lomax, Frank Warner, and Frank Proffitt)[43] and "Scotch and Soda". The son of one of the band's founding members says he paid $100K for a 10-year exclusive license. Defendants included Kingston Trio performers George Grove, William Zorn and Richard Dougherty, as well as Nikki Gary, who books concerts. Click to reveal A Western set after the Civil War, it was not about traditional Tom Dula legends or the facts of the case, but a fictional treatment tailored to fit the lyrics of the song. They encouraged young songwriters including Hoyt Axton ("Greenback Dollar"), Rod McKuen ("Ally Ally Oxen Free", "The World I Used to Know") and Billy Edd Wheeler ("Reverend Mr Black"). The Kingston Trio is an American folk and pop music group that helped launch the folk revival of the late 1950s to the late 1960s. [21] Werber built upon this initial success, booking a national club tour in early 1958 for the Trio that included engagements at such prominent night spots as Mister Kelly's in Chicago, the Village Vanguard in New York, Storyville in Boston, and finally a return to San Francisco and its showcase nightclub, the hungry i, in June of that year. He was given a new trial on appeal but he was again convicted and hanged on May 1, 1868. The plaintiffs attorney, Roger Hoole, declined to elaborate beyond his clients lawsuit or respond to requests for interviews with former group members. 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. Agreement was reached, and on November 7, 1981, Dave Guard, Nick Reynolds, and John Stewart joined the Shane-Gambill-Grove Trio and guest performers Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary, Tom Smothers of the Smothers Brothers, and Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac at the Magic Mountain amusement park north of Los Angeles for a show billed as "The Kingston Trio and Friends Reunion. 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. 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 . HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) Two pieces of legislation that would temporarily waive time limits so victims can sue over otherwise outdated child sexual abuse claims have the approval of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. Though finances were not an immediate concernthe Kingston Trio partners Werber, Shane and Reynolds still owned an office building, a restaurant, other commercial real estate, and a variety of other lucrative investments[55]Shane wanted to return to a group environment and in 1969 secured permission from his partners to use the mutually owned group name for another band, with Reynolds and Werber insisting only that Shane's group be musically as accomplished as its predecessors and that Shane prefix "new" to the band's title. Though both troupes of the New Kingston Trio made a limited number of other recordings and several television appearances, neither generated very much interest from fans or the public at large. 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. [Part 1]", "What is the story behind the folk song 'Tom Dooley? Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. The Kingston Trio are the missing link between the Weavers, The Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, Crosby, Stills and Nash, Dan Fogelberg, America, etc., etc., etc., Gorelangton also shared, It got them inspired to start making their own music. I remind myself that people are not there to see me. Coronado native John Stewart joined the trio in 1961, replacing Dave Guard, who died in 1991 . [15] Bogue left with Gannon, and Guard, Reynolds, and Werber invited Shane to rejoin the now more formally organized band. They introduced "It Was A Very Good Year" in 1961, later a standard for Frank Sinatra, and they were one of the first to spot the potential of English language versions of Jacques Brel's songs by recording "Seasons in the Sun" in 1963. [58] Since 1976, the various troupes owned by Shane have performed and recorded simply as the Kingston Trio. The Kingston Trio March 2020 Subscribe for $2.50/week Take a huge step back in. "Tom Dooley" is a traditional North Carolina folk song based on the 1866 murder of a woman named Laura Foster in Wilkes County, North Carolina by Tom Dula (whose name in the local dialect was pronounced "Dooley"). 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. 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. [citation needed] The confusion was compounded by the fact that Dr. Tom Dooley, an American physician known for international humanitarian work, was at the height of his fame in 1958 when the Kingston Trio version became a major hit. Col. James Grayson was actually a Tennessee politician who had hired Dula on his farm when the young man fled North Carolina under suspicion and was using a false name. Foster had been stabbed to death with a large knife, and the brutality of the attack partly accounted for the widespread publicity of the murder and subsequent trial received. At the same time, the group was developing a varied and eclectic repertoire of calypso, folk, and foreign language songs, suggested by all three of the musicians though usually arranged by Guard[12] with some harmonies created by Reynolds.[18]. Before I turned into a snob and learned to look down upon all commercial folk music as bastardized and unholy, I loved the Kingston Trio. The only full-length album released by either group was The World Needs a Melody in 1973 (though 25 years later FolkEra Records issued The Lost Masters 19691972, a compilation of previously unreleased tracks from the Shane-Horine-Connor years), and its sales were negligible. its important to note that the trio never considered themselves to be folk singers, considered themselves to be more of, entertainers, said Marvin and chiming in, Buddy Woodward, a tenor guitarist for the group. 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