With James Melton's consent, Tom Dula and Anne Melton began sharing a bed in Melton's cabin. We flew in that thing all the hell over. 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. 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. Nick Reynolds, Bob Shane, Dave Guard - courtesy fine program was broadcast February 21, 1982 on PBS and is currently In 1956 Shane graduated and moved back to Hawaii to work in his familys sporting goods business. 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. In 1976, Bill Zorn left the New Kingston Trio to work as a solo performer and record producer in London. It is a great guitar! (In the local dialect, Dula was pronounced Dooley, similar to the way opera became opry.) 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. Get four issues of the keepsake Fretboard Journal for just $60. It all started back at Stanford, where Gretchen Ballard and The sound was accessible and instantly comfortable. 'Deirdre,' it has a happy ending," Dave said. In the late 1970s, Dave rekindled his interest 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. Explains lead vocalist and guitarist Mike Marvin, "The three original members of The Kingston Trio were Dave Guard, Bob Shane, and Nick Reynolds. 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. to sing for them. We were all pretty natural performers. 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. Dave Guard died in March 1991, at 51, of lymphatic cancer. site to listen to your song choices. 1 Sold Out and String Along, and the Christmas LP, The Last Month of the Year. In the 1970s, Dave Guard recorded a live album at The Ice House in Pasadena. ''I'm very upset,'' said Nick Reynolds, a member of the . But wait, there's more! for the FIELD FORCE VIA G S LESLIE I volunteer at the Staordshire Regiment 'Dervishes' Museum, . as the Kingston Trio. Thats when our career took off, Reynolds said. retired to become an Oregon rancher of cattle, chickens and Christmas trees. Many thanks to Carol Berry "The first record I ever bought, the one that made me cry as a kid, was The next year, their first hit, a rendition of the traditional folk song "Tom Dooley," earned a gold record and a Grammy. [citation needed]. "because the constant travel was depriving me of life's values." Warner recorded his version in 1952; it was later covered by the Folksay Trio and the Tarriers. They sold millions of records and played thousands of concerts all over the world. Ireland. The group started as a San Francisco Bay Area nightclub act with an original lineup of Dave Guard, Bob Shane, and Nick Reynolds. Ms. Travers's first three marriages ended in divorce. Two of the bands most famous songs showed up under fairly mysterious circumstances. Incidentally, a couple of previously unreleased 1957 demos by Guard 's pre- Kingston Trio group, Dave Guard & the Calypsonians, appear on the Kingston Trio box set The Capitol Years, which also has one song by Dave Guard & the Whiskeyhill Singers. The Trio considered themselves entertainers and not activists, and felt that protest songs didnt fit into their act. I like We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. Guard's daughter Sally died in 2001, also from cancer. Dave Guard And The Calypsonians a.k.a. Tom Dooley Success was not short-lived but continued with a string of gold singles and albums. 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. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. with publishers door-to-door back East. THEY LOVE THE NIGHT - Dave Guard - from Up And In ", Dave, who grew up in Hawaii, has another island project. Mr. Guard, a native of Honolulu, graduated from Stanford University with an economics degree in 1956. 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 occasions when it attempted serious renditions of folk ballads ("Tom Dooley," for instance) it fell short. Landed in everything, from gravel fields to grass fields to airfields to whatever. Dave Guard/Up & In, Folk Era Records 1988 - courtesy of Peter Overly. to the Stanford library, then, during the summer of 1972 in the British Isles Bob Shane bought the name and in 1976 added two singers to continue appearing We really worked our butts off working on our act., Shane remembers the makeshift rehearsal studio as being particularly grimy. January 26, 2020, Phoenix, Arizona), and Nick Reynolds (b. 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. One song off that LP, Tom Dooley, became a massive hit and immediately made the Kingston Trio the most sought-after musical act in America. came back in 1968, a "lively time," and she went back to Stanford, That was some day. 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. Tom Dula himself supposedly composed the third ballad, although today most folklorists doubt that claim. In the late '50's, up until the Beatles hit, The Kingston Trio were the biggest performing group in the country. Bob Shane is now retired from performing. Guard tried to introduce major record companies to Pure Gabby, but met with little interest, and he shelved the project. Kingston Trio. Trio musical tour-de-force has it all. In 1929, a duo known as Grayson and Whitter made the first recorded version of the song. Im very upset, said Nick Reynolds, a member of the trio since its founding in 1957. Nick and I said, Gee, Dave, it seemed to gopretty well so far, Shane recalls. in the same way Did Mary Travers have a daughter? Over the years, the former friends rarely spoke to each other. in recording. Built to be Seaworthy by SeaMonster Studios. Contact Dave at dbgmilitaria@hotmail.co.uk or 07805 399132 FOR BOOKS ON BOMBER COMMAND - 1988 - Folk Era Records. And although he was doing pretty well as a solo performer, he really missed singing in harmony. 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. With help from the Trio's bassist and musicologist David "Buck" Wheat, Guard embarked on a self-education program of learning more about harmony, becoming more and more disenchanted with what appeared to him to be a lack of willingness or effort to "improve" on the part of his partners.[5]. March 22, 1991, Rollinsford, New Hampshire), Bob Shane (b. February 1, 1934, Hilo, Hawaiid. Date April 14, 2023 7:00pm Pricing $35 - $55. The Kingston Trio ended 1958 as one of the most popular bands in America. 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 . In 1957, he, Bob Shane and Nick Reynolds founded the trio. Truly Fair, a song Shane learned in 1951 and sang during his Hawaiian Elvis days, was tried out, but it was found wanting and dropped from the act. 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. They auditioned dozens of musicians, including a young musician named Jim McGuinn who later changed his first name to Roger and formed the Byrds, before settling on a talented songwriter named John Stewart, which is a story that will be told some other time. The soundtrack to How the West Was Won was the group's final recorded appearance to be released commercially. The period of the original Kingston Trio "was the highlight of our careers," said Reynolds in a telephone interview. In 1964, Guard became the folk music consultant on the ABC-TV program Jazz Meets Folk. for submitting this article to us. on successfully pursuing their separate endeavors. from The Kingston Trio. But the Kingston Trio did more than just inspire other musicians: they made some damn fine music of their own. Fortunately, The Kingston Trio and Dave Guard both continued After a reportedly acrimonious meeting with Shane, Reynolds, and the Trio's business manager over the future of the Trio, Guard quit the group. Guard also wrote several books, including a manual on guitar technique as well as books of fairy tales. Translate; Trending; Random; Home Singer Dave Guard. At the time, no folk music category existed. Dave Guard met in 1955, "going to school," said Dave, "because Was it folk? The sound was smooth. In 1962, the Kingston Trio reached an out-of-court settlement, and to this day Tom Dooley, a song that dates back to the 1860s and was first recorded by Grayson and Whitter in 1929, 18 years before Folk Song U.S.A. was printed, bears the copyright notice Frank Warner-John A. Lomax-Alan Lomax. MJS, Wire and Hinges: How Pedal Steel Guitar Legend Bud Isaacs Changed the Course of Country Music, 2221 NW 56th St. #101, Seattle, WA 98107 | (877) 373-8273, 2016-23 Fretboard Journal. This Ann Foster Melton was tried separately. 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. 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. Craig Hankenson, his longtime agent, confirmed the death, in a hospice facility. The Kingston Trio covered Hard Travelin', Scarlet Ribbons, Corey, Corey, When the Saints Come Marching In and other songs. We seemed to be the only tourists in Northern Ireland Eventually, their one-week trial booking stretched from June until December. Dave Guard and The Calypsonians Kingston Trio Country United States Comments Popular folk revival group . Ivy Leaguers, talked about their life together, from "the little green Dieser Artikel wurde entwickelt, um den Bedrfnissen unserer Kunden entsprechend zu werden und bietet eine Vielzahl von neuen Funktionen. Among the groups hits were MTA, Where Have All the Flowers Gone? and Scotch and Soda, the latter featuring Reynolds. On June 25, Werber got them the weeklong gig at the Purple Onion that later stretched to a seven-month residence. of the Kingston Trio and today's singer. Dave Guard left the Kingston Trio in 1961 and was replaced by John Stewart, the tall guy, in the pictures. If you do not have the RealPlayer software installed on your computer, click and both sides were suspicious of us. [11], In 1981, Guard reunited with Shane and Reynolds for a PBS fundraising concert and program entitled "The Kingston Trio and Friends Reunion". in small bars or for frat parties. Cyrus Faryar. 7. into this age. Our bass player at the time was David Wheat, but we called him Buckwheat. Dave Guard, Nick Reynolds (Kingston Trio) and Bob Shane arranger: Dave Guard. 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. Reynolds eventually Hawaii's Gabby Pahinui. He played exquisite, heartbreaking country Whole Lotta Shakin' and he starts was forced to leave his mansion . of age on October 19, 2001. After their run at the Purple Onion ended in December 1957, the group prepared to record their first LP. The group continued to perform for six years as the Kingston Trio before disbanding in 1967, with John Stewart taking Guards place. We got a 1939 Beechcraft D-18, with a split tail that sat on the ground, Shane says. 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. Remembering Dave: A Birthday Tribute in song and photo Dave Guard - 1960 Kingston Trio Concert Tour Book - courtesy of Tony Lay. Dave Guard, perhaps stung by the criticism the group received at Newport, wanted to move the band in a more traditional folk direction. We had our guitars and Daves banjo on the plane. It could evoke in a listener vivid images and emotions song after And Ill never forget when I met Elvis in 63, just briefly, and I told him thats how I got my start. They played even more concerts and appeared on even more television shows. When did Dave Guard die? After a few months onstage at the Purple Onion, the Trio was still a little rough around the edges, but they had forged a winning performance formula. Tom Dooley sold more than 3 million units. 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. 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 Rollinsford, destitute and without insurance, he was taken in by twin brothers Ron and Rick Shaw (who died 2018 and 2021, respectively). With material gathered from a variety of sources, under Guard's musical arrangements and direction, the Kingston Trio quickly became a success. 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. "My daughter Catherine's ambition to be in show business launched me on 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. "I wanted to illustrate children's books, and while music, and with other friends, formed different on-again-off-again band configurations during the mid-1950s singing Could this song be the ultimate demonstration of Dave THE ESCAPE OF OLD JOHN WEBB - The Kingston Trio - from String Along hotel rooms" during the trio touring days to a retreat "for a family 'Pure Gabby' will be out in April-with Gretchen's cover design. in the British Museum, in Edinburgh, through the highlands and into Northern The Kingston Trio then had three remarkably fruitful years until they fell out with Guard, who was later replaced by John Stewart. the artifacts. Twenty years after - The Kingston Trio And Friends Reunion - 1981 "I started playing my guitar again in 1976 in the hospital In late 1962 Guard moved with his family to Sydney, Australia, where he purchased a home overlooking the South Pacific Ocean at Whale Beach. On top of it all! "Unlike Guard was born in San Francisco and went to Punahou School in Honolulu in what was then the pre-statehood U.S. Today he has branched out-musically as a single The rest was history.."Dad stopped 'Worried Man' in the middle of the song at one of their gigs to . 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 only Dave on vocals this time, this Kingston It completely blacked out the airport to the point where they had to cancel all of the flights. We were both big fans of the Weavers and just loved the way they harmonized. The original trio had nine gold albums, The Kingston Trio at the Hungry i, its most successful. Guard developed lymphoma sometime after he moved to Rollinsford, New Hampshire. By 1960, the group won the first Grammy for the best folk album. She joined the staff of Sunset magazine as an art director last year. There was a storeroom above the Purple Onion and we would spend our days up there rehearsing, five and six hours at a time, and then go downstairs in the evening to perform. what we did," said Gretchen, a soft-spoken blond in a green velvet blazer As 1960 dawned, the Kingston Trio were the most popular vocal group in America, but there were tensions forming in the band. [7] The group continued to perform for six years as the Kingston Trio before disbanding in 1967, with John Stewart taking Guard's place. 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. My new tunes are arranged by 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. John's real contribution was his skill as a songwriter, and in that respect, his presence was felt even before Dave left. By early 1961 Shane and Reynolds had found a replacement. We werent folksingers, Shane stresses. Then, go back on the Internet to this 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. He quickly discovered that people really wanted to hear all the old songs. once it is downloaded. During the next several years in Australia, Dave had a musical-variety television show called Dave's Place. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. IMPORTANT! One of the best songs from this short-lived "We used the events of the legend of the first century 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). 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. Mr. Guard stayed with the group until 1961, when he left and was replaced by John Stewart. He 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. Bob Shane, founder and last original member of the chart-topping folk group The Kingston Trio, died days before his 86th birthday. . 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". The struggling quartet crossed paths with publicist and talent agent Frank Werber, who liked them but felt that Gannons bass playing wasnt good enough. We feel we will be visiting old friends at the de Young show, Reynolds was in the hospital's ICU for several weeks before his family . [2], Guard participated in sports, and was a member of Punahou's ROTC battalion. We wanted to project a certain image. he was. Under contract with Capitol Records, the Trio became a huge commercial and influential success.[1]. Along with Nick Reynolds and Bob Shane, he was one of the founding members of The Kingston Trio. with his guitar, polishing some new and some old folk material he will present Place. We also liked Tahitian music because it was more up-tempo than Hawaiian music. 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. 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. The rest of 1959 was a blur of recording sessions, television appearances and concerts. [10], After the breakup of the Singers in 1961, Guard had returned to Hawaii. I had sideburns and I wore a bright sport coat and stuff like that. - Dave Guard, Bob Shane, Nick Reynolds He died on March 22, 1991 in Rollinsford, New Hampshire, USA. The Tarriers were best known for writing The Banana Boat Song, which became a huge hit for Harry Belafonte under the name Day-O.), In 2010, Shane was cleaning out a closet and found a box of old reel-to-reel tapes that the Trio made in 1957 during their initial stand at the Purple Onion. As one of the founding members of The Kingston Trio, Dave Guard's music, 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. When he suggested he might sign them on if they got rid of Gannon, Bogue said she would leave the group if Gannon was kicked outso they did, and then she did. On February 5, 1958, they headed into the studio in the Capitol Tower in Hollywood, where over the next three days they recorded their self-titled debut record. "The kids He was previously married to Gretchen Walling Ballard. Guard called his group Dave Guard and the Calypsonians, with a Weavers-style signature sound that was principally two guitars, a banjo, and rollicking vocals. Reynolds, Bob Shane and Dave Guard formed the Kingston Trio in 1957, originally as calypso group. He hosted his own ABC-TV national variety show, Dave's Place, on Sunday nights for 13 weeks in late 1965. He likes to talk about the big difference between Dave Guard 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. Dave finished the writing and tried to "peddle the book 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 . 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. "We've done some things together.". 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. In 1961 Guard formed the group, 'Dave Guard's Whiskeyhill Singers' also with Nick Reynolds and Bob Shane. - 1961 - Capitol Records. out an 'unidentified Scandinavian type couple'-us," said Gretchen. They recorded Will Holts Lemon Tree, but it was Peter, Paul and Mary and later, Trini Lopez, who had the hits with it. we were told, and we heard there were radio reports for the military to check I wanted to talk to Bob Shane about the early days of the Kingston Trio. In late June, Tom panicked and ran for the border. I always visualize my audience and our own kids are coming They would be on the road playing more the 250 shows a year for the next few years. "We were lucky to be able to do it early." Barbara Bogue, Dave Guard, Joe Gannon, Nick Reynolds - 1957. All three loved 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. Guard worked closely in Honolulu with slack-key guitar icon Gabby Pahinui to record and produce Pure Gabby, an album of classic Hawaiian melodies played with slack key tunings. 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]. As I said, we were so busy that Nick and I didnt see reason to change.. When I got a couple of dollars with the Kingston Trio "The Hawaiians won't After that show aired, Shane and Guard reconciled enough to begin talking about a reunion, but Guard tragically contracted lymphoma and died before the plans could come to fruition. to Guard died of lymphatic cancer in 1991. 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. We played and sang Hawaiian music and mellow music, Shane recalls. During the 1980s Guard continued to perform as a soloist and teach music. 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. KINGSTON TRIO : THE GUARD YEARS. 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. Kingston Trio. Nick Reynolds became like a foster father to me . She did her first book cover Sometime in August 1961, Dave Guard left the band for good. 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. Have you heard about the huge dust cloud we had here in Phoenix? he asks. 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