Published Feb. 21, 2023 2:41 p.m. PST. Current members of The Kingston Trio are, from left, Don Marovich, Mike Marvin and Tim Gorelangton. 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. At the time the Kingston trio would be considered a part of the folk genre. 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. "[4] A series of scathing articles appeared over several years in Sing Out! 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. "[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. [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. 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. 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. 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. Try our Advanced Search for more refined results. Coronado native John Stewart joined the trio in 1961, replacing Dave Guard, who died in 1991 . 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. 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. He was given a new trial on appeal but he was again convicted and hanged on May 1, 1868. 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 started one of the first pop culture movements before The Beatles. The school faces a three-month probation during which it is required to rectify its issues or face closure. I began to feel sorty sick. 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. Subscribe for full access to The Hollywood Reporter. Bob Shane revived the group in 1969 (the only original member at the time). On the gallows, Dula reportedly stated, "Gentlemen, do you see this hand? This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. Colburn began playing "Tom Dooley" extensively on his show, prompting a rush of album sales in the Salt Lake area by fans who wanted to listen to the song, as yet unavailable as a single record. "[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?" Click here to contact Ryan. 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. [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. 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 . The group came to national prominence in 1958 during the folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s. The Kingston Trio - Ten songs for you. Warner had learned the song from Proffitt, who learned it from his aunt, Nancy Prather, whose parents had known both Laura Foster and Tom Dula. On one side is Josh Reynolds, son of founding member Nick Reynolds, and his cousin Gerald Mike Marvin. By early 1961 a rift developed and deepened between Guard on one side and Shane and Reynolds on the other. 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. Meanwhile, in July 2019, four members of the Kingston family pleaded guilty to fraud charges after federal authorities established that an Order-run business Washakie Renewable Energy stole a half billion dollars worth of biodiesel tax credits and laundered it through shell companies. 1965. "Tom Dooley" is the name of a season 5 episode of Ally McBeal, in which John Cage sings a version of the song with his Mexican band. The Kingston Trio's influence on the development of American popular music has been considerable. In Charlie Says Trial, A Jury Says $1.9M, The Definitive Voice of Entertainment News. 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. 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. but that would also feature more contemporary songs as well, including country and novelty tunes. 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. "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"). 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. 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. The last kingston trio concert was on May 18, 2019 at Crest Theatre in Sacramento, California, United States. It was a phenomenon, as influential in its time as The Beatles would become in theirs. 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. 0:00. Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream by The Kingston Trio from Time to Think . 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). "[citation needed], Dula's last name was pronounced "Dooley," leading to some confusion in spelling over the years. 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. The Hollywood Reporter is a part of Penske Media Corporation. It was interesting for a group doing a ballad like Tom Dooley. 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. Shane and Reynolds performed at fraternity parties and luaus for a time, and eventually Shane introduced Reynolds to Guard. He was 75. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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 trio just broke through with that folk music sound. Mike was a close family friend of Nick Reynolds, often referred to as his Stepfather, but more of a mentor. 702 of Mystery Science Theater 3000. It was a phenomenon, as influential in its time as The Beatles would become in theirs. "[80], However, Trio members never claimed to be folksingers and were never comfortable with the label. 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]. 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. 5. 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. Copyright 2023 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. "Tom Dooley" prompted a number of parodies, either as part of other songs or as entire songs. [51] The group followed this strategy successfully, and on June 17, 1967, the Kingston Trio ceased to be an actively performing band. In July 2018, Marvin and Reynolds sued three other musicians who'd been playing as the Kingston. GREAT FALLS The Kingston Trio revolutionized music at the end of the 1950s. Scott Kingston, Andre Temidis and Michael Lee are suing IBM in a New York state court. 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. By the time these younger folk singers arrived on the scene, the political climate had changed enough to provide a wide audience for protest music. : An Introduction to Rock and Its History", Kingston Trio Liner Notes: Song Profile, "Scotch and Soda", "Folk Music, Copyright, and the Public Domain", "Did the Beatles kill America's radio stars? It was Nick Reynolds and my fondest hope that Josh and Mike would carry on the Trio and family legacy.[71]. [14], Some weeks later (and following a brief period in which Reynolds was temporarily replaced in the quartet by Don MacArthur), Guard and Reynolds invited Werber to a performance of the group at the Italian Village Restaurant in San Francisco, where Werber was so impressed by the group's progress that he agreed to manage them provided they replace Gannon, in whose professional potential Werber had no faith. The Brothers Four - 100% match to The Kingston Trio. 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. She accuses Kingston Jr of physically overpowering and raping her to try to get her pregnant. Tourism is sucking Utah dry. It marked the latest chapter in Utahs long, complicated history with polygamy. [6] Supported by the testimony of Anne and Frank Warner, Frank Proffitt was eventually acknowledged by the courts as the preserver of the original version of the song, and the Kingston Trio were ordered to pay royalties to him for their uncredited use of it. "[86] Bob Shane remarked years later: "To call the Kingston Trio folksingers was kind of stupid in the first place. None of them received a paycheck, they allege. Il trio femminile Inventio esce con l'album Brilliant Classic. [15] Bogue left with Gannon, and Guard, Reynolds, and Werber invited Shane to rejoin the now more formally organized band. ", Glada Barn's version of Land's song closes Rectify season 2 episode "Mazel Tov".[22]. I never really was an elitist. [78] Following the Trio's performance at the premier Newport Folk Festival in 1959, folk music critic Mark Morris wrote: "What connection these frenetic tinselly showmen have with a folk festival eludes me except that it is mainly folk songs that they choose to vulgarize. 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. Pauline's comments led to the discovery of Laura's body and accusations against both Tom and Anne. 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. If You Don't Look Around by The Kingston Trio from Time to Think . It was a societal change that the Kingston Trio triggered, and that doesn't happen very often.. So, we are grateful for this.. [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. [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. 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. [74] Marovich resigned from the group in early 2022 and was replaced by Americana artist Buddy Woodward. At one engagement at Redwood City's Cracked Pot beer garden, they met a young San Francisco publicist named Frank Werber, who had heard of them from a local entertainment reporter. The group started as a San Francisco Bay Area nightclub act with an original lineup of Dave Guard, Bob Shane, and Nick Reynolds. Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. The son of one of the band's founding members says he paid $100K for a 10-year exclusive license. A year later, following Haworth's departure, Grove and Zorn were joined by Rick Dougherty, who had performed for a time with Zorn as second-generation members of another popular folk group from the 1960s, The Limeliters.[64]. 23. I could see the picturethe Kingston Trio were probably the best commercial group going, and they seemed to know what they were doing. He also noted that they "so changed the course of popular music that their impact is largely felt to this day. 1:40. (Melton, who had once expressed jealousy of Dula's purported plans to marry Foster, died either in a carting accident or by going insane a few years after the homicide, depending on the version. [7] Dula's enigmatic statement on the gallows that he had not harmed Foster but still deserved his punishment led to press speculation that Melton was the actual killer and that Dula simply covered for her. 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. Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day, Unique expertise on how the law impacts Hollywood pros, projects and processes. 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. Cloudflare Ray ID: 7a1543d6d872c289 The world was changing, and the Kingston Trio made history. [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. [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. The group has called the Pure Kingston Blood term fringe, unfamiliar, and somewhat offensive for its members, and it rejects any preference for any particular family or bloodline. 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. "[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." ', "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. 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. The suit alleges episodes of rape aimed at forcing pregnancy, group members covering up years of sexual abuse and indoctrinating children in elementary school about plural marriage. 2023 The Hollywood Reporter, LLC. In the legal profession, information is the key to success. 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 Kingston Group argued that it is parents prerogative to file birth records for their children how they choose within the bounds of the law. They got me interested in it! 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. [69], On August 11, 2017, the case against Grove, Zorn, and Dougherty was dismissed with prejudice in the same Los Angeles court and consequently cannot be re-filed.[70]. - Clark Center - 7:30pm 487 Fair . 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