As 1960 dawned, the Kingston Trio were the most popular vocal group in America, but there were tensions forming in the band. The Seavers first heard it in a hotel lounge when they were on their honeymoon in Phoenix, Arizona, in 1935; they had the piano player write the lyrics and melody down so they would always remember it. When Tom heard that deputies from Wilkes County were coming to arrest him, he ran away, only to be hunted down and arrested by Grayson. He also made occasional concert appearances with John Stewart, his replacement in the Trio who was by then a respected and successful solo performer. The trio's newest member is George Grove. In 1957, he, Bob Shane and Nick Reynolds founded the trio. ", "Three Jolly Coachmen", and "Raspberries, Strawberries". The original Trio of Bob Shane, Nick Reynolds and Dave Guard reunited for a PBS television specialrecorded in 1981. During that time, word about the Trios powerful singing and hilarious stage patter made its way down south to Los Angeles. the artifacts. Guard left Punahou at the end of his junior year, completing his final year of high school at the Menlo School, a private prep school that helped him prepare for acceptance and matriculation at nearby Stanford University. When we photographed an ancient burial We had our guitars and Daves banjo on the plane. Buddy's parents met in 1959 when the senior Mr. Woodward auditioned for his mother's folk group, The Mark III Trio. 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. "because the constant travel was depriving me of life's values." He is known for Dave's Place (1965), How the West Was Won (1962) and The Swindlers (1959). He was survived by his mother Marjorie, former wife Gretchen, and their three children (Sally, Catherine, and Tom). On October 1, 1866, the trial of Tom Dula began. If we had the time, we really liked to go to Reno or Vegas and see the lounge acts. They were always trying to expand their repertoire beyond the folk songs, but the world at large didnt seem to care. in recording. 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. music. After their run at the Purple Onion ended in December 1957, the group prepared to record their first LP. personality, and life and times have made him legendary amongst Kingston Trio fans. In 1976, Bill Zorn left the New Kingston Trio to work as a solo performer and record producer in London. Nick and I said, Gee, Dave, it seemed to gopretty well so far, Shane recalls. Where Have All the Flowers Gone, Pickwick, 1973. Over the years following his return to the US, Guard worked with a number of people, including Alex Hassilev, Mike Settle, Judy Henske, Cyrus Faryar, Tim Buckley, Tommy Makem and David White. It was fresh and quirky and fun. Later, when Reynolds also left the Calypsonians, Guard replaced him with Don MacArthur to keep the quartet format intact, but by that time the national interest in calypso rhythms was waning, while Guard's musical growth was reaching out from calypso as well. the act, Bob Shane and Nick Reynolds continued with John Stewart. That was the first of three songs written about the murder. (Grayson was the great-nephew of Col. James Grayson, the man who arrested Tom Dula in the first place.) came back in 1968, a "lively time," and she went back to Stanford, in small bars or for frat parties. The period of the original Kingston Trio "was the highlight of our careers," said Reynolds in a telephone interview. Thats the only thing I ever said to him., While Shane was in Hawaii, Reynolds and Guard continued to perform in the Bay Area. As the months dragged on, Werber and the Trio found they were getting a good response from the folk songs the group sang, so they began to add more to the act. DAVE GUARD. But the audience kept calling for the Trio and after Scruggs finished, Wein sent the group back out for an encore. In 1964, Guard became the folk music consultant on the ABC-TV program Jazz Meets Folk. Run Joe, which Guard used to sing with the Calypsonions, was in the act for a while, but was never recorded. Family (1) Spouse For four years, from 1958 to 1961, they were one of the most popular bands in America. Their voices can be heard on "The Erie Canal," "900 miles," "The Ox Driver," and "Raise A Ruckus Tonight". We were backstage and a priest came up to us and said, I understand that you do blue shows, Shane says. Today he has branched out-musically as a single and on the literary scene in a duet. My new tunes are arranged by Live at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dave_Guard&oldid=1124866167, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles lacking in-text citations from July 2015, Articles needing additional references from February 2022, All articles needing additional references, Articles with unsourced statements from February 2022, Wikipedia external links cleanup from July 2015, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 30 November 2022, at 22:52. By 1961, the group had sold more than eight million records, earning in excess of US$ 25 million for Capitol, roughly US$220 million in 2021 dollars. Craig Hankenson, his longtime agent, confirmed the death, in a hospice facility. In 1961, shortly after leaving the Trio, Guard formed a new group, The Whiskeyhill Singers, with Judy Henske, Cyrus Faryar, and Kingston Trio bassist David "Buck" Wheat. 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. Reynolds and Stewart,. 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. Mary Travers/Living or Deceased. In 1959 alone, they had four albums at the same time among the ten top-selling albums. Los Angeles, Dreamville just announced its 2023 festival lineup and now everybody wants a ticket, Ozzy Osbourne rejects notion of retiring after canceling tour: Im not dying, Evan Rachel Wood denies allegation that she manipulated Marilyn Manson accuser, Ben Kwellers son Dorian Zev killed in car crash: No idea how to deal with this , Justin Biebers Justice world tour canceled after several postponements. Guard died of lymphatic cancer in 1991. He likes to talk about the big difference between Dave Guard 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. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. Donald David Guard (October 19, 1934 March 22, 1991) was an American folk singer, songwriter, arranger and recording artist. Mr. Guard was the tallest member of the group, usually playing banjo, and was considered the trio's intellectual, Reynolds said. 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. 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. Dave Guard, perhaps stung by the criticism the group received at Newport, wanted to move the band in a more traditional folk direction. . Guard was aware that among the Kingston Trio, he was the only one who could read music and who had some understanding of music theory; his partners basically played by rote, and the three of them sang in simple three-part harmony. with his guitar, polishing some new and some old folk material he will present 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. Then, go back on the Internet to this 1962 - Dave Guard with David "Buck" Wheat, Judy Henske, On June 25, Werber got them the weeklong gig at the Purple Onion that later stretched to a seven-month residence. They recorded Will Holts Lemon Tree, but it was Peter, Paul and Mary and later, Trini Lopez, who had the hits with it. In 2004, shortly after his 70th birthday, he suffered a major heart attack. Dave Guard, founding member and leader of The Kingston Trio, influenced a generation of folk musicians. repertoire. On May 4, at the inaugural Grammy Awards ceremony, they won the award for Best Country and Western Performance for Tom Dooley, a fact that didnt, and still doesnt, sit well with the Nashville establishment. interest anyone. I suggest saving the file to be downloaded to your Desktop for easy location and installation of the file Tom Dooley Tom Dooley sold more than 3 million units. Tu pgina de Real Estate. I wanted to talk to Bob Shane about the early days of the Kingston Trio. The Kingston Trios Tom Dooley is very similar to Warners version, but they took it at a much slower tempo and added a spoken intro that states the song is about the Eternal Triangle and the story of Tom Dooley, Mr. Grayson and an unnamed beautiful woman. Werber's offer, however, was contingent upon replacing Gannon and Bogue, and shortly thereafter both left the group. After he decided to leave Warner recorded his version in 1952; it was later covered by the Folksay Trio and the Tarriers. When Shane left the Calypsonians and returned to Hawaii to work in his family's business, Guard added two members, bassist Joe Gannon and vocalist Barbara Bogue, making the Calypsonians a quartet. Kingston Trio. He died on March 22, 1991 in Rollinsford, New Hampshire, USA. 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. Always a folk music eclectic, Guard attempted to publicize the slack-key sounds of Hawaiian folk guitar. 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. Tom Dooley was a real person, but his story was even more sordid than it appeared in the Kingston Trios famous song. Dave thinks the original three members are too different On November 17, 1958, the Kingston Trios Tom Dooley hits #1 on the Billboard pop chart. 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. As many of us know, the original Kingston Trio consisted of Bob Shane, Nick Reynolds, and Dave Guard. His memorial service in Portsmouth, New Hampshire was attended by Bob Shane, Glen Yarbrough, the Limeliters and many other figures from the folk world. While an undergraduate at Stanford, Guard started a pickup group with Reynolds and Shane. 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. Dave Guard And The Calypsonians a.k.a. At the 1960 Grammys, they got the award in the new category Best Folk Performance for their LP The Kingston Trio at Large. Guard grew up hearing the soft vocal melodies and strummed guitars of Hawaiian music. The Kingston Quartet Here, Dave rocks-out in a cute song to those folks living on the fringes--including, perhaps, some of Was it folk? 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. His daughter, Sally Guard of New York, said Saturday that her father died Friday at home in Rollinsford of lymphoma. They would be on the road playing more the 250 shows a year for the next few years. in the British Museum, in Edinburgh, through the highlands and into Northern a new start," Dave said. She did her first book cover of the Kingston Trio and today's singer. All three current . We loved to sing, we loved to perform, but we also loved to make money. 1959. Cyrus Faryar. 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". 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. [13], On March 22, 1991, aged 56, he succumbed to the cancer. The great thing was that as soon as the show was over, we would walk out into the crowd and sign autographs. THEY LOVE THE NIGHT - Dave Guard - from Up And In "Usually people have to wait until they retire to do 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,' As one of the founding members of The Kingston Trio, Dave Guard's music, "There Twenty years after - The Kingston Trio And Friends Reunion - 1981 Dave Guard left the Kingston Trio in 1961 and was replaced by John Stewart, the tall guy, in the pictures. I like Trio "feel" will send chills up your spine! That year saw the No. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. IMPORTANT! away. Sometime in August 1961, Dave Guard left the band for good. The Kingston Trio, Pickwick, 1972. After hearing from numerous witnesses, Tom was found guilty. Over the next several years, Dave Guard put out a couple of eclectic but fine solo albums THE BONNIE SHIP THE DIAMOND - from Dave Guard & The Whiskeyhill Singers - 1962 - Capitol Records. Guard And The Calypsonians - acetate demo Purists often derided the Kingston Trio for watering down folk songs in order to make them commercially. guitars-and-banjo act moved into a Peninsula beer garden, on to San Francisco's Dave Guard, founder of the Kingston Trio, which brought folk music from the coffee houses to mainstream America with songs like the haunting "Tom Dooley" and the rollicking "MTA," died. - Dave Guard, Bob Shane, Nick Reynolds Sadly, the parting was less than amicable. When I started the Hawaii book research, I got it out, and He was an actor, known for Dave's Place (1965), How the West Was Won (1962) and The Swindlers (1959). This guitar is #40 of the 100 made. It completely blacked out the airport to the point where they had to cancel all of the flights. Bob Shane bought the name and in 1976 added two singers to continue appearing 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. CONCORD, N.H. (AP) _ 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,'' has died at 56. Reynolds, Bob Shane and Dave Guard formed the Kingston Trio in 1957, originally as calypso group. Folk U.S.A. - Archived vintage Kingston Trio audio and video clips. March 7-11 at the Boarding House. See full bio Born: October 19, 1934 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA Died: Our pilot flew B-17s during World War II and he managed to land relatively safely in a field. I remember the model number because it was the same as the Martin guitar. Eventually, their one-week trial booking stretched from June until December. Hell, I didnt know there were that many! Today he has branched out-musically as a single Four episodes of Dave's Place featured Judy Henske as a guest performer. once it is downloaded. be participants again.". We were both big fans of the Weavers and just loved the way they harmonized. 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. And he said, What did you want to do that for? Thats exactly the way he said it. The Kingston Trio Collectors ' Series, 1990. ", The couple's children are Catherine, now 19 and a pre-opera Among the group's hits were "The MTA," "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" 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". I had sideburns and I wore a bright sport coat and stuff like that. the laws of physics. 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. Guard continued to perform with Shane and Reynolds until they could find a replacement for him. He retired from performing in 2004 after suffering a heart attack. 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. That sent them researching, first 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. Guard tried to introduce major record companies to Pure Gabby, but met with little interest, and he shelved the project. Area publisher, Celestial Arts of Millbrae, accepted it. Product Description. 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. During the next several years in Australia, Dave had a musical-variety television show called Dave's Place. February 19, 1978. Capitol producer Voyle Gilmore had previously worked with Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland. "We used the events of the legend of the first century spectrum is divided into 12 departments." song; to listeners, the music moved! group. At the time, none of us could read music, and this was the best way of doing that. 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. of John August Lee. on the "Get RealPlayer Free" icon below to go to the RealMedia site to download the RealPlayer software A dramatic example of Calypso influences on the nascent Here his 5-string techniques are analyzed (including three-finger picking and frailing) on 17 of his best recordings: "Three Jolly Coachmen," "Sloop John B," "Shady Grove," "The M.T.A.," "Haul Away," "Farewell Adelit are from the old days-the ones good enough to give me a living-but I have enhanced haven in an Australian beach town" and then back to the Bay Area "to By 1960, the group won the first Grammy for the best folk album. Barbara Bogue, Dave Guard, Joe Gannon, Nick Reynolds - 1957. Kingston Trio. They two students quickly discovered that Shanes baritone and Reynolds tenor blended beautifully and, more importantly at the time, that their singing got them invited to the best parties. Some of the songs they came up with dated back to Shane and Guards days in Hawaii. They sold millions of records and played thousands of concerts all over the world. Nobody ever did that. We were collegiate and those striped shirts were the only styles that would fit all three of us. shocked when finding out, in 1991, and even several years later, about his death on March 22, 1991, from lymphoma I had never heard the word before, and so I asked him, What do you mean blues, sir? Well, you say damn and things like that. And we said Oh. He said, If you do that, we will just turn the lights and the sound off. So, were performing in a field house with a corrugated steel roof, with 4,000 people in bleachers. And Ill never forget when I met Elvis in 63, just briefly, and I told him thats how I got my start. Of the Trio, he wrote "The Kingston Trio will leave little mark musically, but it has a heck of a lot of fun, mostly clowning its way through a series of hillbilly, Latin, and calypso things to the great delight of the audience. 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. The original members were Dave Guard (b. October 19, 1934, San Francisco, California, U.S.d. )They also continued to release LPs at an almost alarming rate. This 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. To hear RealAudio streams, you must have the RealPlayer available on video. follow it with a book on a Hawaiian legend late this year. From the recording made at the festival, its clear that audience loved the Trios performances, but backstage, a lot of the musicians were incensed. and a tweed skirt. It was a great idea because they didnt have much television in Hawaii yet, so you could do whatever you wanted. 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 . They were not only successful, however, they changed the. Im very upset, said Nick Reynolds, a member of the trio since its founding in 1957. Why did Peter Paul and Mary break up? We would record our songs on a Wollensak tape recorder so we could go home and learn our parts, he explains. While in jail, Tom said that he was the sole murderer of Laura Foster, a confession that led to the acquittal of Ann Foster Melton in her trial. Dave Guard, the trios banjo player, died in 1991 and Nick Reynolds, the groups tenor guitarist and percussionist, died in 2008. 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. [10], After the breakup of the Singers in 1961, Guard had returned to Hawaii. Dave and his wife Gretchen are author and The occasions when it attempted serious renditions of folk ballads ("Tom Dooley," for instance) it fell short. It is like the to sing for them. 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. Guard was upset because Shane and Reynolds seemed to be unconcerned about it. Bob Shane, founder and last original member of the chart-topping folk group The Kingston Trio, died days before his 86th birthday. On March 15, 1959, their plane developed trouble on the way to a gig at Notre Dame and started to go down. In addition to writing and recording, Guard also found time to produce the video Workout for Equestrians with Ingrid Gsottschneider for Golden Arrow Enterprises.[12]. In 1969, it was back to the United States where he pursued a writing career as Jan. 29, 2020 9:48 AM PT. thought he was. Guard and Reynolds contacted former Calypsonian member Shane (who was performing part-time in Honolulu) asking him to join the reconstituted group. and on the literary scene in a duet. Thirteen of the group's albums, which included such hit songs as "A Worried Man" and "Tijuana Jail," reached the Top Ten. Success was not short-lived but continued with a string of gold singles and albums. And, in the beginning, there was Dave Guard. And when it finally left, it left a whole lot of dirt around. The group continued to perform for six years as the Kingston Trio before disbanding in 1967, with John Stewart taking Guards place. After a reportedly acrimonious meeting with Shane, Reynolds, and the Trios business manager over the future of the Trio, Guard quit the group. With only Dave on vocals this time, this Kingston Dave Guard met in 1955, "going to school," said Dave, "because In 1957, back again as a trio as in their previous college days, they changed its name to The Kingston Trio.[4]. The group started as a San Francisco Bay Area nightclub act with an original lineup of Dave Guard, Bob Shane, and Nick Reynolds. Their hits included Tom Dooley, The M.T.A., The Tijuana Jail, Where Have All The Flowers Gone, A Worried Man, plus many others. Tom appealed the verdict and a new trial was held, which also reached a guilty verdict. 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 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. 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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. And although he was doing pretty well as a solo performer, he really missed singing in harmony. October . Tom Dula himself supposedly composed the third ballad, although today most folklorists doubt that claim. He also wrote several books, including a manual on guitar technique and books of fairy tales. The hits kept on coming: M.T.A., A Worried Man and The Tijuana Jail all made the Top 40. The Trio recorded the first version of Seasons in the Sun in 1963, but Terry Jacks had the hit version in 1974. 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. 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