We feel we will be visiting old friends at the de Young show, Guard continued to perform with Shane and Reynolds until they could find a replacement for him. 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. street." For the next few years, the Kingston Trio toured relentlessly, playing on college campuses and in nightclubs across the country. "The first record I ever bought, the one that made me cry as a kid, was Twenty-two years ago Dave Guard started his career as co-founder Mr. Guard was the tallest member of the group, usually playing banjo, and was considered the trio's intellectual, Reynolds said. The final top forty single on the US Billboard Hot 100 from the Kingston Trio featuring Dave Guard was "Bad Man's Blunder," which came from the 1960 String Along album. They joined up with Menlo College student Joe Gannon, who played rudimentary bass, and singer Barbara Bogue. We werent great guitar players, but it didnt really matter because all we wanted to do was sing harmony.. With a quarter century's separation from the original Phoenix honeymoon, Dave Guard and the Seaver parents are not able to track down the original writer and performer from the 1932 piano lounge. So they took liberties and they gave the Kingston Trio the first Grammy ever given for Country and Western., That year they released four LPslive from the Hungry i, Stereo Concert (one of the first live albums recorded in stereo), At Large and Here We Go Again!all of which sold very well, with the last two both hitting the top of the LP charts. See full bio Born: October 19, 1934 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA Died: He left the act in 1961, just before the birth of the couple's third child, After the second trial, Tom Dula was hanged on May 1, 1868. I had sideburns and I wore a bright sport coat and stuff like that. Landed in everything, from gravel fields to grass fields to airfields to whatever. Capitol producer Voyle Gilmore had previously worked with Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland. shocked when finding out, in 1991, and even several years later, about his death on March 22, 1991, from lymphoma From 1958 to 1964 (the year they left Capitol records), they had played thousands of shows and had released 19 LPs, five of which made it to the top spot on the Billboard charts. The 'Kingston Trio' recorded on such labels as, Capitol, Folk Era, Silverwolf, Pair, Collector's Choice Music, CEMA, and MCA, and had many hit songs in their 11 year history. Survivors include his mother and three children. In 1929, a duo known as Grayson and Whitter made the first recorded version of the song. Jan. 29, 2020 9:48 AM PT. On March 15, 1959, their plane developed trouble on the way to a gig at Notre Dame and started to go down. in small bars or for frat parties. different. Dave Guard, founding member and leader of The Kingston Trio, influenced a generation of folk musicians. I always visualize my audience and our own kids are coming The new version of the Kingston Trio continued to prosper, until in 1967 the three members decided to call it a day and the band broke up. But as the year came to an end, the tensions in the band continued to worsen. Folk U.S.A. - Archived vintage Kingston Trio audio and video clips. As time rolled into the 1990s, Kingston Trio fans--many of whom had lost track of Dave Guard over the years--were [citation needed]. 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. In the late '50's, up until the Beatles hit, The Kingston Trio were the biggest performing group in the country. By the time Stewart died a couple of years ago, he had written well over 600 songs. After graduating from high school, the two friends headed east to California, where Guard enrolled at Stanford to study economics and Shane got into nearby Menlo College, where he enrolled in the business administration program. 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. Success was not short-lived but continued with a string of gold singles and albums. We got a 1939 Beechcraft D-18, with a split tail that sat on the ground, Shane says. In celebration of nearly 65 years of music, the iconic folk group performs their best-loved songs as part of the 'Keep The Music Playing' national tour. Dave Guard was born on October 19, 1934 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. Was it pop? 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 at 56. That June, they found themselves playing at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel in Honolulu when they got some surprising news. what we did," said Gretchen, a soft-spoken blond in a green velvet blazer "In the old days we had an energy us too! Dave Guard formed Dave Guard & The Whiskeyhill Singers immediately after his departure Nick Reynolds became like a foster father to me . With James Melton's consent, Tom Dula and Anne Melton began sharing a bed in Melton's cabin. He quickly discovered that people really wanted to hear all the old songs. Founding member of The Kingston Trio (vocals, banjo, guitar) from 1958 to 1961; left to form his own short-lived group, Dave Guard & The Whiskeyhill Singers, who contributed music to How the West Was Won (1962) 1934 Dave Guard was born on October 19, 1934 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA as Donald David Guard. Tom suggested the he and Laura elope, and on May 25, 1866, Laura packed her clothes in a bundle and went off to meet Tom in the forest. Lego 41027 - Der TOP-Favorit unserer Produkttester. To hear RealAudio streams, you must have the RealPlayer I like THEY LOVE THE NIGHT - Dave Guard - from Up And In student; Tom, 17, who wants to be a filmmaker, and Sally, 15, and a soccer champion. Thomas Dula, as his name was originally spelled, was born in Wilkes County, North Carolina in 1844. 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. The Kingston Trio Collectors ' Series, 1990. In the early 1950s, he and fellow Hawaiian-born She was never seen alive again. Guard developed lymphoma sometime after he moved to Rollinsford, New Hampshire. When did Bill Zorn leave the Kingston Trio? 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. The Trio considered themselves entertainers and not activists, and felt that protest songs didnt fit into their act. The Shaw brothers were folk singers in their own right. Shane thinks they learned from an LP by the Tarriers, the New York-based group that featured Erik Darling, Bob Carey and soon-to-be actor Alan Arkin. haven in an Australian beach town" and then back to the Bay Area "to He actually boosted the power of the Trio, being supremely talented performer and song writer. the laws of physics. Once installed, although RealPlayer instructions do not stipulate As the group grew more popular on the San Francisco Bay area's campuses, it began to sing in such legendary San Francisco musical meccas of the era as The Purple Onion and The Hungry i. (Proffitts grandmother had known both Laura Foster and Tom Dula.) I think we also got some at Brooks Brothers, Shane says. 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. "We used the events of the legend of the first century site, a British Army helicopter buzzed us. In addition to developing the characteristic "Kingston Trio sound" of the group's two guitars and a banjo, success came to the group from Guard's musical arrangements and renditions of folk and Irish ballads, Shane's talent for style and performance along with an innate knowledge of what pleased audiences, and Reynolds's management of the group's logistics. I remember it just like it was yesterday.. into this age. In our first two years of touring, we played 275 colleges, Shane recalls. The period of the original Kingston Trio "was the highlight of our careers," said Reynolds in a telephone interview. Learn how and when to remove this template message, "FMA Finance Financial news and information on borrowing money", "The Telegraph - Google News Archive Search", "Valley Voice: Passing of last Shaw twin, who taught world to sing". They were scheduled to close the event, but an outcry from some of the other performers, who felt that Kingston Trio were just capitalizing on folk music, caused George Wein, the festivals organizer, to have them go on next to last and have Earl Scruggs close the show. Among the groups hits were MTA, Where Have All the Flowers Gone? and Scotch and Soda, the latter featuring Reynolds. During the next several years in Australia, Dave had a musical-variety television show called Dave's Business Analyst Mita Parekh Marketing Manager Susan Litawski Pink Fairies, Man, Freedom, seminal NY power trio . In the early 1970s, Shane formed a group called the New Kingston Trio to perform different material. The singer and songwriter, who was instrumental in the revival of folk music in the late 50s, suffered from complications arising from pneumonia Sunday, which led to his death, USA Today reported. It was pretty much of a natural thing. "The kids The sound was accessible and instantly comfortable. 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Dave Guard died in March 1991, at 51, of lymphatic cancer. by a Salt Lake City disc-jockey, The Where Have All the Flowers Gone, Pickwick, 1973. in the British Museum, in Edinburgh, through the highlands and into Northern Maybe it was a bit of all these with a lot of verve thrown into a wonderfully, eclectic years on her book illustrations at the same time she was running the home, being Twenty-two years ago Dave Guard started his career as co-founder and leader of the Kingston Trio. Today he has branched out-musically as a single and on the literary scene in a duet. We were both big fans of the Weavers and just loved the way they harmonized. Kingston Trio ' s Greatest Hits, Curb Records, 1990. "Bobby was considered the sex symbol and I was the short, little guy," Reynolds said. The radio-friendly version kept out the final words of the song, "Bang, you're dead," for commercial approval reasons, as was the title, which became Bad Man Blunder. 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 . We flew in that thing all the hell over. Limited to only 100 instruments, the 00-21 Kingston Trio pays tribute to the 50th Anniversary of the founding of the group and honors the life of founding member Dave Guard. A Trio Pairs Up to Track Down Legends February 19, 1934, San Francisco, California,.. Buddy Holly had died in plane crash only a couple of weeks before, so the last 15 to 20 minutes we were on that plane, we knew we were dead, Shane remembers. And he said, What did you want to do that for? Thats exactly the way he said it. Many perceived the Trios encore as an insult to Scruggs. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. Always a folk music eclectic, Guard attempted to publicize the slack-key sounds of Hawaiian folk guitar. 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. 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. I lost a lot of friends in the folk world for that slip-up, Wein later said. 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. In March 1957 he came back to California to join the now-renamed Kingston Trio under the management of Frank Werber. They were only mildly successful and in late 1962, Dave and his family emigrated to Australia. in recording. They We played and sang Hawaiian music and mellow music, Shane recalls. 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. 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. He likes to talk about the big difference between Dave Guard Apparently Ann wasnt enough for Tom, because he started sleeping with Anns cousin, Laura Foster, and yet another cousin named Pauline Foster. 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,' 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. (He currently oversees a version of the Kingston Trio made up of musicians who played in the band in the past.). The group started as a San Francisco Bay Area nightclub act with an original lineup of Dave Guard, Bob Shane, and Nick Reynolds. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. take. the Kingston Trio, American folk group that helped spark the folk music revival of the 1960s. And by best parties, I mean the ones with the best booze and the prettiest girls, Shane clarifies. When he returned home, he restarted his affair with Ann Foster, who had married a farmer named James Melton. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. 67 years Dave Guard met in 1955, "going to school," said Dave, "because 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. 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. Over the years, the more politically oriented part of the folk music community would use this decision as one of their main complaints about the group. Kingston Trio. San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle With material gathered from a variety of sources, under Guard's musical arrangements and direction, the Kingston Trio quickly became a success. Dave also is busy Along with all his other classmates, Guard early on learned to play Hawaii's ubiquitous ukulele in a 7th grade junior high school music class required of all students. In 1956, publicist Frank Werber offered his services to Guard and his bandmates, including Reynolds at the time. Furthermore, nobody in the Trio could recount how they happened to learn their most famous song, Tom Dooley. It was a failing that had legal repercussions later on (see sidebar). Family (1) Spouse The struggling quartet crossed paths with publicist and talent agent Frank Werber, who liked them but felt that Gannons bass playing wasnt good enough. After leaving the group, Guard started the Whiskyhill Singers and moved to Australia, where he lived until 1968 and where he was host of a television show. them with counterpoint and chord and vocal phrasing. The Kingston Trio's many songs include "Tom Dooley", "A Worried Man", "Hard Travelin'", "The Tijuana Jail", "Greenback Dollar", "Reverend Mr. Black", "Sloop John B", "Scotch and Soda", "Merry Minuet", "Hard, Ain't It Hard", "Zombie Jamboree", "M.T.A. 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. [7] The group continued to perform for six years as the Kingston Trio before disbanding in 1967, with John Stewart taking Guard's place. At one point, their accountant made a bookkeeping error. Remembering Dave: A Birthday Tribute in song and photo Dave Guard - 1960 Kingston Trio Concert Tour Book - courtesy of Tony Lay. Location: Walhalla, SC, United States. Reynolds was in the hospital's ICU for several weeks before his family . Thats the only thing I ever said to him., While Shane was in Hawaii, Reynolds and Guard continued to perform in the Bay Area. "That's when our career took off," Reynolds said. Nick Reynolds, Bob Shane, Dave Guard - courtesy Tom Dula himself supposedly composed the third ballad, although today most folklorists doubt that claim. on successfully pursuing their separate endeavors. The occasions when it attempted serious renditions of folk ballads ("Tom Dooley," for instance) it fell short. I suggest saving the file to be downloaded to your Desktop for easy location and installation of the file Bob Shane, the last surviving original member of the Kingston Trio, whose smooth close harmonies helped transform folk music from a dusty niche genre into a dominant brand of pop music in the 1950s and 60s, died on Sunday in Phoenix. Leave My Woman Alone: The Kingston Trio: July 7, 1960: Ray Charles: Lemon Tree: The Kingston Trio: June 1961: 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. The nonmusical stuff, some of it was rehearsed, but a lot of it was off-the-cuff, or started off the cuff and then became part of the act, Shane says. 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. At the time, no folk music category existed. Buddy's parents met in 1959 when the senior Mr. Woodward auditioned for his mother's folk group, The Mark III Trio. 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. In 1957, back again as a trio as in their previous college days, they changed its name to The Kingston Trio.[4]. [11], In 1981, Guard reunited with Shane and Reynolds for a PBS fundraising concert and program entitled "The Kingston Trio and Friends Reunion". Bobby was considered the sex symbol and I was the short, little guy, Reynolds said. But the Kingston Trio did more than just inspire other musicians: they made some damn fine music of their own. Contact Dave at dbgmilitaria@hotmail.co.uk or 07805 399132 FOR BOOKS ON BOMBER COMMAND Dave Guard was born on October 19, 1934 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. 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. They couldn't decide whether it was an ancient Hawaiian tale, has been turned over to the publisher. Guard was dating a girl named Katie Seaver (the older sister of baseball great Tom Seaver), and her parents taught him the song. He did four tracks on a 12-track cassette recorded to accompany the "All Along the Merrimac" tour of New Hampshire and a final solo album, Up & In (1988), which received mixed reviews. We were an act that did some folk-oriented material. Guard was born in San Francisco and went to Punahou School in Honolulu in what was then the pre-statehood U.S. Purple Onion and into the national big time as the Kingston Trio. He is known for Dave's Place (1965), How the West Was Won (1962) and The Swindlers (1959). The rest was history.."Dad stopped 'Worried Man' in the middle of the song at one of their gigs to . The next year, their first hit, a rendition of the traditional folk song "Tom Dooley," earned a gold record and a Grammy. After their run at the Purple Onion ended in December 1957, the group prepared to record their first LP. Most Popular Boost Birthday Show Birthday. (In the local dialect, Dula was pronounced Dooley, similar to the way opera became opry.) In 1964, Guard became the folk music consultant on the ABC-TV program Jazz Meets Folk. interest anyone. When I called him for this story, I was pleased to discover that he had been thinking quite a bit about that period himself. music, and with other friends, formed different on-again-off-again band configurations during the mid-1950s singing 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. (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.). [8], Guard's relationship with the Trio remained strained while he was in Australia. After a reportedly acrimonious meeting with Shane, Reynolds, and the Trios business manager over the future of the Trio, Guard quit the group. Bob Shane bought the name and in 1976 added two singers to continue appearing My new tunes are arranged by Were the biggest-selling group in the world., As the year progressed, the group continued to go from success to success. and leader of the Kingston Trio. The Kingston Trio were one such group, transforming folk music into a hot commodity and creating a demand where none had existed before for young men (sometimes with women) strumming acoustic guitars and banjos and singing folk songs and folk-like novelty songs in harmony. Was it Dave Guard remained active as a musician until his death from cancer in March of 1991, writing several music instruction books and becoming deeply involved with what had become known as world music.Bob Shane had opposed the breakup, however, and in 1972 re-formed the Kingston Trio (initially as the New Kingston Trio), amid the same '50s . During the 1980s Guard continued to perform as a soloist and teach music. Over the years, the former friends rarely spoke to each other. The sound was professional. 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. We had our guitars and Daves banjo on the plane. now ever to get back together. Please note the wonderful harmonic resonances between Dave's Vega's Tu-Ba-Phone THE KINGSTON TRIO. Will The Circle Be Unbroken? The Kingston Trio ended 1958 as one of the most popular bands in America. He played exquisite, heartbreaking country Whole Lotta Shakin' and he starts was forced to leave his mansion . He persuaded the Purple Onion to give the slot to his group, the Kingston Trio. Territory of Hawaii. As an album, Up The Kingston Trio were one such group, transforming folk music into a hot commodity and creating a demand -- where none had existed before -- for young men (sometimes with women) strumming acoustic guitars and banjos and singing folk songs and folk-like novelty songs in harmony. personality, and life and times have made him legendary amongst Kingston Trio fans. Guard, whom Shane had known since both were attending high school in Shane's native Hawaii, died in 1991. Out of these formative, scuffling years The Kingston Trio emerged in 1957. All three loved Kingston Trio. He now lives in Arizona, where he oversees the Kingston Trios business interests. vocals: Dave Guard, Nick Reynolds (Kingston Trio) and Bob Shane arranger: Dave Guard cover recording of: Tom Dooley lyricist and composer: [traditional] (Special Purpose Artist) 3:01: A5: Fast Freight. book. But, the sound had an edge! song; to listeners, the music moved! Guard graduated from Stanford University with an economics degree in 1956. It appears that Tom and Ann hatched a plan to get revenge on Laura. Donald David Guard was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on October 19, 1934. The original Trio of Bob Shane, Nick Reynolds and Dave Guard reunited for a PBS television specialrecorded in 1981. 'Pure Gabby' will be out in April-with Gretchen's cover design. Quit partying after hours: stop being a corny ham; dont be a clown, read one of Werbers many notes to Shane from the early days. The Trio only scratched the surface when it came to tapping his songwriting talent. A A. Mr. Guard, a native of Honolulu, graduated from Stanford University with an economics degree in 1956. Ireland. to the Stanford library, then, during the summer of 1972 in the British Isles Dave Guard left the Kingston Trio in 1961 and was replaced by John Stewart, the tall guy, in the pictures. Nobody ever did that. By early 1961 Shane and Reynolds had found a replacement. In his junior year he participated in musical skits along with a number of other classmates who, like himself, had by that time also had become accomplished musicians. As many of us know, the original Kingston Trio consisted of Bob Shane, Nick Reynolds, and Dave Guard. [10], After the breakup of the Singers in 1961, Guard had returned to Hawaii. Dave Guard/Up & In, Folk Era Records 1988 - courtesy of Peter Overly. adventures of our own. The great thing was that as soon as the show was over, we would walk out into the crowd and sign autographs. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. 7. out an 'unidentified Scandinavian type couple'-us," said Gretchen. Gottlieb died in 1996 (age 72), Yarbrough died in 2016 (age 86), and Hassilev (born 1932), the last founding member, who had remained active in the group, retired in 2006, leaving the group to carry on without any of the original members. 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. Won" sound track won an Academy Award. to - circa Summer 1990. John Stewart, who replaced Dave Guard in 1961, died in 2008; Frank Werber, the Trios manager, died in 2007; and Voyle Gilmore, their producer at Capitol Records, died in 1979. "We then started singing for beers," Reynolds recalled. 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