The Kingston Trio Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
The Kingston Trio is an American folk and pop music group that helped launch the folk revival of the late 1950s to late 1960s. The group started as a San Francisco Bay Area nightclub act with an original lineup of Dave Guard, Bob Shane, and Nick Reynolds. It rose to international popularity, fueled by unprecedented sales of 33⅓ rpm long-playing record albums (LPs), and helped to alter the direction of popular music in the U.S.The Kingston Trio was one of the most prominent groups of the era's pop-folk boom that started in 1958 with the release of their first album and its hit recording of "Tom Dooley", which sold over three million copies as a single. 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. Four of the group's LPs charted among the Top 10 selling albums for five weeks in November and December 1959, a record unmatched for more than 50 years, and the group still ranks after half a century in the all-time lists of many of Billboard's cumulative charts, including those for most weeks with a number 1 album, most total weeks charting an album, most number 1 albums, most consecutive number 1 albums, and most top ten albums.In 1961, the Trio was described as "the most envied, the most imitated, and the most successful singing group, folk or otherwise, in all show business" and "the undisputed kings of the folksinging rage by every yardstick." Music historian Richie Unterberger characterized their impact as "phenomenal popularity", and the Kingston Trio's massive record sales in its early days made acoustic folk music commercially viable, paving the way for singer-songwriter, folk rock, and Americana artists who followed in their wake.
Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Grammy Hall of Fame, Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Recording, Grammy Award for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording
Nominations
Grammy Award for Best Performance by a Vocal Group, Grammy Award for Best Performance by a Vocal Group or Chorus, NME Award for World Group
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Fact
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Bob Shane retired over the summer of 2004, to be replaced by Bill Zorn. Thus, as of this date, there are no more original members performing with the Kingston Trio. [August 2004]
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Recepient of a 2011 Lifetime Achievement Grammy.
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Vocal Group Hall of Fame Foundation/ The Kingston Trio, inductees (2000).
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National Public Radio/ Selected as NPR's 100 of the most important American musical works of the 20th century: The Kingston Trio.(2006).
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Byrd Who Flew Alone: The Triumphs and Tragedy of Gene Clark
2013
Documentary performer: "Run The Ridges"
Thank You for Smoking
2005
performer: "Greenback Dollar"
American Soundtrack: This Land Is Your Land
2002
TV Movie performer: "M.T.A.", "Where Have All The Flowers Gone", "Greenback Dollar", "Tom Dooley", "A Worried Man"
A Bright Shining Lie
1998
TV Movie performer: "Where Have All the Flowers Gone"
The Kingston Trio and Friends: Reunion
1982
TV Movie performer: "Three Jolly Coachmen", "Early Morning Rain", "Hard, Ain't It Hard", "Zombie Jamboree", "Tom Dooley", "Down Among the Sheltering Palms", "Where Have All The Flowers Gone", "Reuben James", "Chilly Winds", "Greenback Dollar", "Hard Travelin'", "Sloop John B.", "A Worried Man", "M.T.A."
The Man Who Fell to Earth
1976
performer: "Try To Remember"
Texas Across the River
1966
performer: "Texas Across The River"
Convoy
1965
TV Series performer - 1 episode
The Jack Benny Program
1965
TV Series performer - 1 episode
Young Men in a Hurry
1963
TV Movie performer: "Young Men In A Hurry", "Oh Miss Mary", "Goin' Away For To Leave You", "Coplas"
Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall
1960
TV Series performer - 1 episode
Startime
1959
TV Series performer - 1 episode
The Legend of Tom Dooley
1959
performer: "Tom Dooley"
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1959
TV Series performer - 1 episode
Playhouse 90
1958
TV Series performer - 1 episode
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Convoy
1965
TV Series
Folkgroup
Young Men in a Hurry
1963
TV Movie
Folkgroup
Startime
1959
TV Series
The Kingston Trio
Music Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Gertrude Berg Show
1962
TV Series songs - 1 episode
Playhouse 90
1958
TV Series music performers - 1 episode
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Kingston Trio: 50 Years of Havin' Fun
2006
Video documentary
The Kingston Trio Story: Wherever We May Go
2006
Video documentary
American Soundtrack: This Land Is Your Land
2002
TV Movie
Themselves
The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
1989
TV Series
Themselves
America Votes the #1 Song
1986
TV Movie
Themselves
The Kingston Trio and Friends: Reunion
1982
TV Movie
Themselves
Hungry i reunion
1981
Documentary
Himself
The Mike Douglas Show
1965-1979
TV Series
Themselves / Themselves - Vocalists
Sha Na Na
1979
TV Series
Themselves
Dinah!
1974-1975
TV Series
Themselves
Della
1970
TV Series
Themselves
The Bell Telephone Hour
1959-1967
TV Series
Themselves
The Andy Williams Show
1967
TV Series
Themselves
The Roger Miller Show
1966
TV Series
Themselves
Where the Action Is
1966
TV Series
Themselves
The Lloyd Thaxton Show
1965
TV Series
Themselves
The Jack Benny Program
1965
TV Series
Themselves
What's My Line?
1963
TV Series
Themselves - Mystery Guest
Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium