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. 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. I never really was an elitist. Stewart was well-acquainted with Reynolds and Shane, having sold two songs to the Trio, and he was a proficient guitarist, banjoist, and singer. but that would also feature more contemporary songs as well, including country and novelty tunes. Tourism is sucking Utah dry. "[79], Frank Proffitt, the Appalachian musician whose version of "Tom Dooley" the Trio rearranged, watched their performance of his song on a television show and wrote in reaction, "They clowned and hipswung. "[80], However, Trio members never claimed to be folksingers and were never comfortable with the label. At the time the Kingston trio would be considered a part of the folk genre. The same year, Shane secured from Werber and Reynolds the unencumbered rights to use the band's original name of the Kingston Trio without the appended "new" in exchange for relinquishing his interest in the still-profitable corporation, whose holdings included copyrights and licensing rights to many of the original Trio's songs. All Rights Reserved. [20] When the crowds came, the Trio had been well prepared by months of work, and they achieved such local popularity that the initial week's engagement stretched to six months. Bob Shane revived the group in 1969 (the only original member at the time). Instead, she claims they used group money to get her in vitro fertilization treatment. Grayson did help North Carolinians capture Dula and was involved in returning him to North Carolina but otherwise played no role in the case. [29] By 1961, the group had sold more than eight million records,[30] earning in excess of US$25 million for Capitol,[31] roughly US$230 million in 2021 dollars. Mike reflected on what Nick Reynolds would have to say about the group now. The Kingston Trio March 2020 Subscribe for $2.50/week Take a huge step back in. 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. "[80] Proffitt had learned the song from his father and his grandmother, who had known Tom Dula and Laura Foster, the killer and the victim in the actual 1866 murder related in the song. Copyright 2023 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. 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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 success of the album and the single earned the Kingston Trio a Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Performance for "Tom Dooley" at the awards' inaugural ceremony in 1959. Current members of The Kingston Trio are, from left, Don Marovich, Mike Marvin and Tim Gorelangton. Please see our Privacy Policy. Anne Foster Melton, Laura's cousin, had been Dula's lover from the time he was twelve and until he left for the Civil War even after Anne married an older man named James Melton. 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. This was told as a funny story in Amandas family, the lawsuit alleges. Anne was subsequently acquitted in a separate trial, based on Dula's word that she had nothing to do with the killing. [75], In his autobiography Chronicles, Dylan added: "I liked the Kingston Trio. "[90], In February 1982, Chicago Tribune writer Eric Zorn praised the Kingston Trio's impact on the popular music industry, claiming that "for almost five years, they overshadowed all other pop groups in America." Dave Guard and Bob Shane had been friends since junior high school at the Punahou School in Honolulu, Hawaii, where both had learned to play ukulele in required music classes. In Charlie Says Trial, A Jury Says $1.9M, The Definitive Voice of Entertainment News. At the time, no folk music category existed. [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. 0:00. Reynolds and Marvin have the exclusive right to use the mark beginning Tuesday, according to the complaint, which is posted in full below. 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"). 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". [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. In 2018, a federal civil lawsuit filed on behalf of cleanup workers found that Jacobs Engineering breached a duty to inform and protect workers from the dangers of coal ash on the job site. --and the Trio was eventually sued. So, we are grateful for this.. It was a societal change that the Kingston Trio triggered, and that doesn't happen very often.. Scott Kingston, Andre Temidis and Michael Lee are suing IBM in a New York state court. The history of the original Kingston Trio and its subsequent permutations has been well chronicled. According to music critic Bruce Eder writing for Allmusic.com: In the history of popular music, there are a relative handful of performers who have redefined the content of the music at critical points in historypeople whose music left the landscape, and definition of popular music, altered completely. He was given a new trial on appeal but he was again convicted and hanged on May 1, 1868. She later fled the group with her twin children. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. They also claimed to believe that marriage is a personal choice that should not be coerced. KTRK - Houston Footage shows suspects moments after grandmother killed for her car In video released three days after 65-year-old Judy Walters was left for dead, one of the suspects forces an. Capitol Records,[65] Decca Records,[66] Collector's Choice Music,[67] and Folk Era Records[68] have released and continue to release compilations of older albums as well as previously unreleased tapes of both studio and live recordings from the Kingston Trio's first ten years. The first consisted of guitarist Pat Horine and banjoist Jim Connor in addition to Shane and lasted from 1969 to 1973, the second including guitarist Roger Gambill and banjoist Bill Zorn from 1973 until 1976. Some variant lyrics of the song portray Grayson in that light, and the spoken introduction to the Kingston Trio version[6] did the same. [14] Shane, who had been performing part-time as a solo act at night in Honolulu, readily assented and returned to the mainland in early March 1957. These two songs are part of the Spring Break Reunion series performed on June 12, 1987 at the Rodeo Arena in Davie, Florida. Nick Reynolds, another of the originals, re-joined from 1988 to 1999. The group started as a San Francisco Bay Area nightclub act with an original lineup of Dave Guard, Bob Shane, and Nick Reynolds. On the gallows, Dula reportedly stated, "Gentlemen, do you see this hand? Members of the Kingston Group operate several businesses and schools in the suburbs of Utahs capital. [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. GREAT FALLS The Kingston Trio revolutionized music at the end of the 1950s. 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. 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. 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. [9] Reynolds was also able to create and sing tenor harmonies, a skill derived in part from family singalongs,[10] and could play both guitar and bongo and conga drums. Reserved seating tickets ($70-$45) are available online or by calling the Gesa Power House Theatre box office at 509-529-6500. Already a subscriber? 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. [15] Bogue left with Gannon, and Guard, Reynolds, and Werber invited Shane to rejoin the now more formally organized band. Consequently, in October 2017, Grove, Zorn, and Dougherty were replaced as the Trio by new licensees Reynolds and Marvin and their friend, Tim Gorelangton. 0:00. 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. Personally, I liked the Kingston Trio. 3. Shane wrote on what was then the group's official website that: I am pleased to announce the Kingston Trio legacy will be carried forth by Josh Reynolds, Mike Marvin and Tim Gorelangton, who will begin performing as the Kingston Trio in October 2017. [74] Marovich resigned from the group in early 2022 and was replaced by Americana artist Buddy Woodward. 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.. Askanews. 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. Woodward added, Its a big responsibility. 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.". 01/1965. The group started as a San Francisco Bay Area nightclub act with an original lineup of Dave Guard, Bob Shane, and Nick Reynolds. [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. Disbanded in 1967. 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. 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. Mike Marvin, Buddy Woodward, and Tim Gorelangton are not the original founding members, but all three have ties to past trio members. 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. 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. Rounding it out is Tim Gorelangton, one of the only people Nick ever recorded with outside the Trio. 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. [13], Still in the Bay Area, Guard and Reynolds had organized themselves somewhat more formally into an entity named "The Kingston Quartet" with friends bassist Joe Gannon and vocalist Barbara Bogue, though as before the members were often joined in their performances by other friends. "Tom Dooley" prompted a number of parodies, either as part of other songs or as entire songs. The first major break for the Kingston Trio came in late June 1957 when comedian Phyllis Diller canceled a week-long engagement at The Purple Onion club in San Francisco. 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. A view of Salt Lake City. It was Nick Reynolds and my fondest hope that Josh and Mike would carry on the Trio and family legacy.[71]. 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]. Vanguard Academys leaders sued state charter school officials in response, and a judge issued a restraining order that kept the targeted governing board members in their positions. Listen to Tom Dooley, Greenback Dollar and more from The Kingston Trio. Officials alleged that school leaders hired Kingston-connected businesses and paid them with taxpayer money, the Salt Lake City television news station KUTV reported. [73] At the end of 2018, Haworth left the group and was replaced by another former Limeliter, Don Marovich. As you all know, Josh is the son of founding member, and my friend and partner Nick Reynolds, and Mike Marvin is Nicks cousin. Nick Reynolds, another of the originals, re-joined from 1988 to 1999. The Kingston polygamist family has responded after a lawsuit was filed against them, accusing the group and its leaders of sexual abuse, fraud, child labor, and more. 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). Bob Shane revived the group in 1969 (the only original member at the time). Martin & Company has attributed the dramatic rise in demand for its instruments in the early 1960s in large part to the Kingston Trio's use of the company's guitars,[127] which are featured prominently and without compensation on nearly all of their album covers. Disbanded in 1967. The group issued a statement . 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 . [58] Since 1976, the various troupes owned by Shane have performed and recorded simply as the Kingston Trio. 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. [81] Both Proffitt and fellow North Carolina musician Doc Watson sang the older version of the tune, which had "a lively mocking tempo that retained some of the ghastliness and moral squalor of an actual murder",[82] according to folk historian Robert Cantwell, who also notes that the Kingston Trio's version of the song omitted several verses from the traditional lyric. 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.. The Brothers Four - 100% match to The Kingston Trio. 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. [83] The slower, harmonized Trio version of the Dooley song and other traditional numbers struck Proffitt as a betrayal of "the strange mysterious workings which has made Tom Dooly [sic] live"[84] In 2006, folk traditionalist and influential banjo master Billy Faier remarked: "I hear and see very little respect for the folk genre" in their music and described the Trio's repertoire as "a mishmash of twisted arrangements that not only obscure the true beauty of the folk songs from which they derive, but give them a meaning they never had. The Kingston Group said the concept of bleeding the beast is abhorrent and was never a tenet of its organization. [88], Further, Peter Dreier points out that "the group deserves credit for helping to launch the folk boom that brought recognition to older folkies and radicals like Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, and for paving the way for newcomers like Joan Baez, Bob Dylan and Phil Ochs, who were well known for their progressive political views and topical songs. - Clark Center - 7:30pm 487 Fair . Jesse Orvil Kingston is not listed on either Michaels or Lancasters birth certificates, according to the lawsuit, which additionally accuses him of fathering more than 300 children with 14 wives. If You Don't Look Around by The Kingston Trio from Time to Think . 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. 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. The liner notes for the group's first album featured a quotation from Dave Guard asserting that "We don't really consider ourselves folksingers in the accepted sense of the word"[85] Guard later told journalist Richard Hadlock in Down Beat magazine: "We are not students of folk music; the basic thing for us is honest and worthwhile songs that people can pick up and become involved in. 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 Kingston Trio's influence on the development of American popular music has been considerable. He was 75. [48] According to critic Ken Barnes, the British Invasion played a significant role in curtailing the sales of the Trio's recordings. Kingston Trio co-founder Nick Reynolds, who died here in 2008 at the age of 75, was a San Diego native. Click here to contact Ryan. [citation needed]. "[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. "[4] A series of scathing articles appeared over several years in Sing Out! 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. Il trio femminile Inventio esce con l'album Brilliant Classic. 702 of Mystery Science Theater 3000. The bands that performed were: Kingston Trio. Wednesday's suit is the latest spat among Trio members to spill over into the legal system. Mike was a close family friend of Nick Reynolds, often referred to as his Stepfather, but more of a mentor. In August, the Utah state charter school board mandated that the Kingston Group-run charter school, Vanguard Academy, replace all nine members of its governing board after various and repeated violations. [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. "[citation needed], Dula's last name was pronounced "Dooley," leading to some confusion in spelling over the years. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. [50], By 1966, Reynolds had grown weary of touring and Stewart wanted to strike out on his own as a singer-songwriter, so the three musicians and Werber developed an exit strategy of playing as many dates as possible for a year with an endpoint determined to be a final two-week engagement at the hungry i in June 1967. Cloudflare Ray ID: 7a1543d6d872c289 FOR THE RECORD: Nick Reynolds: The obituary of Kingston Trio. Share. They were spotted by Dave Brubeck's . 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 Kingston Trio were one such group, transforming folk music into a hot commodity and creating a demandwhere none had existed beforefor young men (sometimes with women) strumming acoustic guitars and banjos and singing folk songs and folk-like novelty songs in harmony. 06aug8:00 pm Kingston Trio at McCabe's Guitar Shop - Santa Monica, CA - 8:00pm 11aug7:00 pm Santa Cruz, CA Rio Theatre - 7:00pm 1205 Soquel Ave, 12aug7:00 pm Santa Barbara, CA Lobero Theatre - 7:00pm 33 E Canon Perdido St. 13aug7:30 pm Arroyo Grande, CA. [49], Werber secured a generous signing bonus from Decca Records, and the last four albums of the Kingston Trio's first decade were released by that label. [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. On a purely commercial level, from 1957 until 1963, the Kingston Trio were the most vital and popular folk group in the world, and folk music was sufficiently popular as to make that a significant statement. [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. I didn't harm a hair on the girl's head. 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. They met at the Punahou School in Honolulu, where they often sang together. I remind myself that people are not there to see me. He also noted that they "so changed the course of popular music that their impact is largely felt to this day. Confederate veteran Tom Dula, Foster's lover and the father of her unborn child, was convicted of her murder and hanged May 1, 1868. 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 . 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. magazine, a publication that combined articles on traditional folk music with political activism. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. 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. 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. Reynolds and Marvin last year entered into a 10-year licensing agreement with Shane and Childress to use the bands trademark but, less than a week after paying the $100,000 royalty fee, they found out Gary was booking gigs for Grove, Zorn and Dougherty to perform as The Kingston Trio. When heart disease forced Bob Shane's retirement from touring in March 2004, he was replaced by former New Kingston Trio member Bill Zorn. [22] Through Jimmy Saphier, agent for Bob Hope who had seen and liked the group at The Purple Onion, Werber contacted Capitol Records, which dispatched prominent producer Voyle Gilmore to San Francisco to evaluate the Trio's commercial potential. He says, he doesnt know but could believe that he is proud of the new trio. The suit alleges Kingston family members try to preserve their blood purity which they refer to as Pure Kingston Blood by marrying and procreating with other Kingstons. 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. [57], In 1976, Bill Zorn left the New Kingston Trio to work as a solo performer and record producer in London. Password (at least 8 characters required). Combined with the widespread publicity the trial received, Land's song further cemented Dula's place in North Carolina legend[2][3] and is still sung today throughout North Carolina. 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. By Hailey Konnath (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 money, touring and the band's trademark, according to a new suit filed Wednesday in California federal court. Access to case data within articles (numbers, filings, courts, nature of suit, and more. They were the greatest of the bands to emerge after the McCarthy-era blacklisting of folk musicians and breathed new air into the genre."[89]. This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. 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