But that was as much to check out the competition as anything else. In 1978, ten years after his return from Australia, at the urging of Singer colleague, Cyrus Faryar, who had heard Guard's Pure Gabby tapes, Guard contacted Hula Records of Honolulu about Pure Gabby, which agreed to take the recordings and distribute the album. The trio's newest member is George Grove. Dave Guard, founding member and leader of The Kingston Trio, influenced a generation of folk musicians. "We were lucky to be able to do it early." 1 Sold Out and String Along, and the Christmas LP, The Last Month of the Year. 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. Reynolds and Stewart,. Dave Guard formed Dave Guard & The Whiskeyhill Singers immediately after his departure From the beginning we also did stuff like They Call the Wind Maria, which was a Lerner and Lowe song from Broadway, but people dont remember that., From their inception, the Kingston Trio dressed in matching striped shirts that they bought at a small shop in Sausalito, California. he was. The occasions when it attempted serious renditions of folk ballads ("Tom Dooley," for instance) it fell short. - 1961 - Capitol Records. He started out very basic and drifted through several 2 & 3 finger styles, including frailing and a wonderful back ground the Seeger (in his book) refers to as "whamming". of the Kingston Trio and today's singer. 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. The Kingston Trio music is . Guard grew up hearing the soft vocal melodies and strummed guitars of Hawaiian music. I always visualize my audience and our own kids are coming We hung his bass from the center of the aisle, so there were two guys at each side who could not even see each other because the bass was hanging there., Shane says that most of the shows from that period blend together in his memory, but one in particular stands out. He also wrote several books, including a manual on guitar technique and books of fairy tales. At the time, though, Tom and Ann thought they caught it from Laura. They refashioned themselves as the Kingston Quartet (they maintained their link to calypso music by naming themselves after the capital of Jamaica) and tried to get jobs at various local nightspots, but they had little success. Guard is survived by his mother and three children. Remembering Dave: A Birthday Tribute in song and photo Dave Guard - 1960 Kingston Trio Concert Tour Book - courtesy of Tony Lay. In the summer of 1957, comedian Phyllis Diller was forced at the last minute to cancel a weeklong booking at San Franciscos Purple Onion nightclub. Selections like the Tahitian medley Tanga Tika/Toerau and the Hawaiian tune Lei Pakalana made it into their stage act and later appeared on various LPs, while others, such as the Samoan song Minoi Minoi, didnt make the cut. 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. from The Kingston Trio. 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. ), In the early 1960s, Frank Warner and Alan Lomax sued the Kingston Trio for copyright infringement. We feel we will be visiting old friends at the de Young show, 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. years on her book illustrations at the same time she was running the home, being Dave Guard/Up & In, Folk Era Records 1988 - courtesy of Peter Overly. Hawaiian culture and music played an important part in his school's educational program. Guard attended Punahou School, a private school established in 1849 by Hawaii's New England missionary families during junior high school and high school. Around that time, Reynolds recalled, he and Shane were attending Menlo College, in Palo Alto, Calif., and they used to get together to sing for fun. It has a throaty bass response yet retains crystal clear highs. the artifacts. He played exquisite, heartbreaking country Whole Lotta Shakin' and he starts was forced to leave his mansion . We would record our songs on a Wollensak tape recorder so we could go home and learn our parts, he explains. I have studied techniques. Dave Guard, founder of the 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,' "The first record I ever bought, the one that made me cry as a kid, was We never called ourselves folk singers; somebody else did that. 'Deirdre,' it has a happy ending," Dave said. Kingston Trio. Could this song be the ultimate demonstration of Dave Kingston Trio found themselves being one of the biggest things to happen on the music THE MARY ELLEN CARTER - Dave Guard - from Up And In Various music industry figures, and the occasional movie star, made the trek north to San Francisco to check out what the fuss was all about. In 1961, they recorded It Was a Very Good Year, a song composed for Bob Shane by Ervin Drake, only to have it become a massive hit for Frank Sinatra. repertoire. March 22, 1991 Dave Guard/Date of death 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. ", The couple's children are Catherine, now 19 and a pre-opera I was looking for something, Dave suggested the Deirdre legend," said Gretchen. Dave Guard met in 1955, "going to school," said Dave, "because During that time, word about the Trios powerful singing and hilarious stage patter made its way down south to Los Angeles. Dave finished the writing and tried to "peddle the book retired to become an Oregon rancher of cattle, chickens and Christmas trees. I went back in 1961 to record an album of Gabby and his guitar, but I couldn't 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. The Kingston Quartet At the time, calypso music was extremely popular, and the group played songs like Jamaica Farwell and Come Back, Liza that Harry Belafonte, the reigning king of calypso, hade made popular. But the Kingston Trio did more than just inspire other musicians: they made some damn fine music of their own. They recorded Will Holts Lemon Tree, but it was Peter, Paul and Mary and later, Trini Lopez, who had the hits with it. 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. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. We also liked Tahitian music because it was more up-tempo than Hawaiian music. Nick Reynolds, one of the founding members of folk group the Kingston Trio, died today at a San Diego hospital. Dave Guard, a founding member of the folk group Kingston Trio that helped fuel the folk music boom of the late 1950s and early 1960s, has died at 56. And when it finally left, it left a whole lot of dirt around. I suggest saving the file to be downloaded to your Desktop for easy location and installation of the file See full bio Born: October 19, 1934 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA Died: He died on March 22, 1991 in Rollinsford, New Hampshire, USA. "That's when our career took off," Reynolds said. When did Dave Guard die? #9 - Bad Man's Blunder. All three current . Dave also is busy 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. Equally important, the trio Dave Guard, Nick Reynolds, and Bob Shane made folk music immensely popular among many . spectrum is divided into 12 departments." "I will try to get into the colleges. After a reportedly acrimonious meeting with Shane, Reynolds, and the Trio's business manager over the future of the Trio, Guard quit the group. the Treasures of Early Irish art.". when I had appendicitis. Donald David Guard (October 19, 1934 March 22, 1991) was an American folk singer, songwriter, arranger and recording artist. In late 1962 Guard moved with his family to Sydney, Australia, where he purchased a home overlooking the South Pacific Ocean at Whale Beach. In the summer of 1961 fans were shocked when learning of Dave's departure 'You'll be more peaceful,' Bay Area representative of a Trinity County summer camp and studying design. Guard and Reynolds called Bob Shane in Hawaii, who was finding life in the family sporting goods business uninspiring. Initially, they were booked into nightclubs like Chicagos Mr. Kellys and New Yorks Blue Angel and the Village Vanguard, venues where they shared stages with jazz artists and cabaret performers. Dieser Artikel wurde entwickelt, um den Bedrfnissen unserer Kunden entsprechend zu werden und bietet eine Vielzahl von neuen Funktionen. It looked like the Black Death was coming at you. the Kingston Trio, American folk group that helped spark the folk music revival of the 1960s. The roots of the Kingston Trio go back to the early 1950s, to the Punahou School in Honolulu, Hawaii, where fellow students Bob Shane and Dave Guard first met. A TRIO OF THE RNZAF'S P-3S ON THEIR . (Grayson was the great-nephew of Col. James Grayson, the man who arrested Tom Dula in the first place.) Hell, I didnt know there were that many! A few months later they were invited to perform at the first Newport Folk Festival. Hiatus and the New Kingston Trio, 19671976 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. In the early 1970s, Shane formed a group called the New Kingston Trio to perform different material. During the next several years in Australia, Dave had a musical-variety television show called Dave's Place. In 1969, it was back to the United States where he pursued a writing career as When I started the Hawaii book research, I got it out, and are from the old days-the ones good enough to give me a living-but I have enhanced Nick and I said, Gee, Dave, it seemed to gopretty well so far, Shane recalls. Jan. 29, 2020 9:48 AM PT. Dave thinks the original three members are too different Guard developed lymphoma sometime after he moved to Rollinsford, New Hampshire. We didnt read music and we just would play and sing with tenor guitar, banjo and guitar and just use simple chords, and had good humor and good singing. The three bandmates developed something of a formula for their stage show, although Werber had to keep reminding Shane to attend to business. When he returned home, he restarted his affair with Ann Foster, who had married a farmer named James Melton. ''I'm very upset,'' said Nick Reynolds, a member of the . One of the best songs from this short-lived His memorial service in Portsmouth, New Hampshire was attended by Bob Shane, Glen Yarbrough, the Limeliters and many other figures from the folk world. He was married to Gretchen Walling Ballard. I wanted to talk to Bob Shane about the early days of the Kingston Trio. We stepped off the plane into the snow and some guys were running across the field saying, Are you all right? And I said, Parlez-vous Italiano? The guy said, No, you are in Indiana., They were only a few miles from Notre Dame and managed to make it in time for that nights show. Here, Dave rocks-out in a cute song to those folks living on the fringes--including, perhaps, some of This folky song rocks just enough to compliment the song's mood and story. (As the history shows, the story was really about Tom Dooley and three women, making the situation more of an Eternal Trapezoidand Mr. Grayson was just an important but minor character. was total paranoia, but we had a fascinating time retracing the legend and studying and "Scotch and Soda.". They were not only successful, however, they changed the. After hearing from numerous witnesses, Tom was found guilty. to the Stanford library, then, during the summer of 1972 in the British Isles Sadly, the parting was less than amicable. During this period, one of the highlights for Kingston Trio fans was the reunion of all According to John Foster Wests Lift Up Your Head Tom Dooley, an excellent book about Tom Dulas life and death thats based on the transcripts from Dulas two trials, Tom Dula was a randy teenager who was always getting into trouble with the local girls, particularly one named Ann Foster. over the years, this song from Up And In is Built to be Seaworthy by SeaMonster Studios. Four episodes of Dave's Place featured Judy Henske as a guest performer. He actually boosted the power of the Trio, being supremely talented performer and song writer. Reached in Coronado, Calif., Reynolds said he had visited Guard two months ago and he was in remission., We were talking about doing a reunion, he said. in the British Museum, in Edinburgh, through the highlands and into Northern Most of the people in the area assumed that Laura had run away, but about a month later rumors started to spread that Tom had murdered her. But the audience kept calling for the Trio and after Scruggs finished, Wein sent the group back out for an encore. I remember the model number because it was the same as the Martin guitar. 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. They became so well known that we later had our own line of Kingston Trio brand shirts. The short-sleeved, striped shirts caused a minor fashion stir in California, and even inspired the Beach Boys to emulate the look. The rest of 1959 was a blur of recording sessions, television appearances and concerts. Law360 (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. Along with Nick Reynolds and Bob Shane, he was one of the founding members of The Kingston Trio. it, RESTART YOUR COMPUTER to be sure all RealPlayer components are loaded! to Were the biggest-selling group in the world., As the year progressed, the group continued to go from success to success. We finished the first opening act and nobody is cheering; David said Father such and such said that if we did any blue material here they would turn off the lights and the sound. Then there is this silence. 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. 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. taught in a 12-valued chain of chords with color, "as an infinite color Guard graduated from Stanford University with an economics degree in 1956. software installed on your computer. The sound was smooth. different. He and Bogue eventually married.). Shane introduced Reynolds to Guard and they began performing together at frat parties and local beer gardens as Dave Guard and the Calypsonians, sometimes as a trio or occasionally with other friends. Trio "feel" will send chills up your spine! At the time, none of us could read music, and this was the best way of doing that. Will The Circle Be Unbroken? He was an actor, known for Dave's Place (1965), How the West Was Won (1962) and The Swindlers (1959). 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. This is the lyric that evolved into the hit song of the Kingston Trio. The group continued to perform for six years as the Kingston Trio before disbanding in 1967, with John Stewart taking Guards place. Sometime in August 1961, Dave Guard left the band for good. 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. In 1961, due to musical differences (Dave Guard wanted the other 2 to learn how to read music and he wanted to expand their instrumental textures with electric guitars and such, but Bob and Nick didn't go . March 7-11 at the Boarding House. The Grammy people wanted to call us folk singers, to give us a Grammy for folk music, but they didnt have a folk singing category, Shane recalls. Apparently Ann wasnt enough for Tom, because he started sleeping with Anns cousin, Laura Foster, and yet another cousin named Pauline Foster. - 1988 - Folk Era Records. 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. Some of the songs they came up with dated back to Shane and Guards days in Hawaii. The group started as a San Francisco Bay Area nightclub act with an original lineup of Dave Guard, Bob Shane, and Nick Reynolds. ", "Three Jolly Coachmen", and "Raspberries, Strawberries". When I called him for this story, I was pleased to discover that he had been thinking quite a bit about that period himself. According to legend, Reynolds first noticed Shane sleeping during an accounting class and figured that was a guy he had to get to know. We were backstage and a priest came up to us and said, I understand that you do blue shows, Shane says. In 1959, before the folk category was established, the group won a Grammy Award for the best country and western recording for "Tom Dooley," the group's best-selling single. But in some ways, Capitol was good fit for the Trio. The sound was accessible and instantly comfortable. follow it with a book on a Hawaiian legend late this year. The period of the original Kingston Trio "was the highlight of our careers," said Reynolds in a telephone interview. Survivors include his mother and three children. for the FIELD FORCE VIA G S LESLIE I volunteer at the Staordshire Regiment 'Dervishes' Museum, . The Kingston Trio brought the urban folk revival into the mainstream of American popular culture and made Martin guitars and long-necked banjos must-have items for musicians everywhere. Run Joe, which Guard used to sing with the Calypsonions, was in the act for a while, but was never recorded. We werent folksingers, Shane stresses. ", Dave, who grew up in Hawaii, has another island project. In 1929, a duo known as Grayson and Whitter made the first recorded version of the song. This guitar is #40 of the 100 made. Wir freuen uns, Ihnen das brandneue Lego 41027 einfhren zu drfen! They were always trying to expand their repertoire beyond the folk songs, but the world at large didnt seem to care. It was really dusty., Werber would watch each performance and keep careful track of what songs went over well and which ones flopped, which bits of stage patter received the most laughter and where in the show the energy flagged. Trio musical tour-de-force has it all. Oh, yes, and he played a Vega Pete Seeger too, as you can see. February 19, 1978. shocked when finding out, in 1991, and even several years later, about his death on March 22, 1991, from lymphoma show, "Dave's Place," and Gretchen, who always painted, gave him the The great thing was that as soon as the show was over, we would walk out into the crowd and sign autographs. In March 1957 he came back to California to join the now-renamed Kingston Trio under the management of Frank Werber. 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. keeping his home base here. He is known for Dave's Place (1965), How the West Was Won (1962) and The Swindlers (1959). We had our guitars and Daves banjo on the plane. After their run at the Purple Onion ended in December 1957, the group prepared to record their first LP. In 1959 alone, they had four albums at the same time among the ten top-selling albums. This And happily, more than 50 years after the group first got together, it looks like the Are they folk singers? silliness has finally died down. If it does reignite, perhaps we would all do well to remember these words from Big Bill Broonzy: All music is folk music; I aint never heard no horse sing a song.. Twenty-two years ago Dave Guard started his career as co-founder Thomas Dula, as his name was originally spelled, was born in Wilkes County, North Carolina in 1844. Nobody ever did that. [2], Guard participated in sports, and was a member of Punahou's ROTC battalion. )They also continued to release LPs at an almost alarming rate. But when somebody calls you a folk singer and says, Heres a lot of money you say, Oh, sure, Ill be anything you want. Dont forget, we were all business majors. The sound was professional. On June 25, Werber got them the weeklong gig at the Purple Onion that later stretched to a seven-month residence. THE ESCAPE OF OLD JOHN WEBB - The Kingston Trio - from String Along Giving his partners notice that he intended to leave the Trio, and unwilling to cause the group he had founded to disband, Guard agreed to stay on with the Trio until his personal commitments were completed and until Shane and Reynolds were able to find a suitable replacement for him. "The kids [citation needed]. music. Today he has branched out-musically as a single What kind of music did the Kingston Trio Play? 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. The crowd was pounding their feet on the bleachers and making this weird rumbling sound. 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. KINGSTON TRIO : THE GUARD YEARS. Donald David Guard was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on October 19, 1934. and on the literary scene in a duet. Product Description. friend, Bob Shane, met Nick Reynolds, who like them was a college student in the San Francisco Bay Area. 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. out an 'unidentified Scandinavian type couple'-us," said Gretchen. 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. Thirteen of the group's albums, which included such hit songs as "A Worried Man" and "Tijuana Jail," reached the Top Ten. 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. Some of the tunes A Trio Pairs Up to Track Down Legends February 19, 1934, San Francisco, California,.. His daughter, Sally Guard of New York, said Saturday that her father died Friday at home in Rollinsford of lymphoma. While an undergraduate at Stanford, Guard started a pickup group with Reynolds and Shane. of John August Lee. (Truth be told, the Beach Boys did more than just ape the Kingston Trios garb; in 1965, at Al Jardines insistence, they covered Sloop John B from the Trios first LP.). 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. March 22, 1991, Rollinsford, New Hampshire), Bob Shane (b. February 1, 1934, Hilo, Hawaiid. Mary Travers/Living or Deceased. Reynolds once said they first heard the song when a now-forgotten singer sang it during an audition at the Purple Onion. Barbara Bogue, Dave Guard, Joe Gannon, Nick Reynolds - 1957. available on video. After a reportedly acrimonious meeting with Shane, Reynolds, and the Trio's business manager over the future of the Trio, Guard quit the group. By 1960, the group won the first Grammy for the best folk album. The original Trio of Bob Shane, Nick Reynolds and Dave Guard reunited for a PBS television specialrecorded in 1981. Kingston Trio ' s Greatest Hits, Curb Records, 1990. kingston trio cds bear family box set bear family records From the manufacturer About Us The history of Bear Family Records starts exactly in 1975. 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. He anonymously recorded many sound clips for radio and TV commercials. As time rolled into the 1990s, Kingston Trio fans--many of whom had lost track of Dave Guard over the years--were In 1940, a folklorist named Frank Warner made a field recording of Wilkes County native Frank Proffitt singing a version of the song that had the same melody but somewhat different lyrics as the Grayson and Whitter version. It was fresh and quirky and fun. The hits kept on coming: M.T.A., A Worried Man and The Tijuana Jail all made the Top 40. "I remembered it from reading it as a boy while I had the chicken pox and and leader of the Kingston Trio. Bobby was considered the sex symbol and I was the short, little guy, Reynolds said. 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. in small bars or for frat parties. contact@britainatwar.com Home Last show A B.E.2C OF 'C' FLIGHT IN DARFUR WHEN SUPPORTING THE Guard! The next year, their first hit, a rendition of the He left the act in 1961, just before the birth of the couple's third child, It could evoke in a listener vivid images and emotions song after The 1970s saw vinyl albums and singles as the only sound carriers on the market, and the early music video tapes. It was soon corrected, but that, in combination with the different idea about the bands musical direction, led Guard to leave the group in May 1961. 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