tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post4536602006804147166..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: Kingston TrioAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-42248265215982461572018-01-20T22:30:39.381-05:002018-01-20T22:30:39.381-05:00That IS a dandy movie! Watch it and enjoy, Murph....That IS a dandy movie! Watch it and enjoy, Murph.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-23560017579331877472018-01-20T18:52:42.472-05:002018-01-20T18:52:42.472-05:00@ Murph - you will enjoy "A Mighty Wind,"...@ Murph - you will enjoy "A Mighty Wind," which is a send-up of that era by the same folks who did "Spinal Tap."Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-1730988405315737842018-01-20T17:58:08.665-05:002018-01-20T17:58:08.665-05:00Oh, wow. Kingston Trio. MTA and Tom Dooley. Scotch...Oh, wow. Kingston Trio. MTA and Tom Dooley. Scotch and Soda and Greenback Dollar.<br /><br />On vinyl in my basement, I've got early & originals albums of: Buffy St. Marie, Tom Rush, Eric Andersen, Joan Baez, Gordon Lightfoot, Judy Collins, Ian and Sylvia, Dave Van Ronk, and believe it or not, the New Christy Minstrels. ...others that I can't recall - I'd have to go digging in boxes.<br />Also Cat Stevens from before he got all Islamic & weird.Murphhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11865623200954289332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-32417989697174528042018-01-20T12:37:30.320-05:002018-01-20T12:37:30.320-05:00I heard them live on campus, way back when... Sti...I heard them live on campus, way back when... Still sound good to me.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-22131591689020253252018-01-20T02:35:04.840-05:002018-01-20T02:35:04.840-05:00Buddy Better Get on Down the Track is my favorite ...Buddy Better Get on Down the Track is my favorite to sing along with, alone in the car.<br /><br />Donna B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16771075314473811594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-55340864394181720942018-01-20T02:07:54.878-05:002018-01-20T02:07:54.878-05:00The summer before the Beatles appeared on the Ed S...The summer before the Beatles appeared on the Ed Sullivan show, at my request I got Kingston Trio albums for my birthday: College Concert, Live at the Hungry I and String Along. <br /><br />I was already well-informed about folk music, courtesy of a box set of folk music we got for a previous Christmas. The box set featured Odetta, Cisco Houston, Ewan MacColl, Pete Seeger, and Jimmy Driftwood, among others (Folk Song and Minstrelsy-still available in vinyl at Amazon). In looking through the Kingston Trio discography, I saw that even if I didn't associate the Kingston Trio with a particular song, I often knew the song. <br /><br />Several days before the Beatles appeared on the Ed Sullivan show, I remarked to my sister and father at a local cafe that in contrast to the Beatles, the Kingston Trio were competent musicians. I later decided I was mistaken- not in my appraisal of the Kingston Trio, but of the Beatles. <br /><br />Folk music didn't make me a liberal. Liberalism came with the territory. Alger Hiss was innocent. Recognize Red China. End Jim Crow. Folk music. Well, three good things out of four ain't bad. (Even if the folk music push included a lot of Reds like Pete Seeger-who discarded his anti-war views and songs right after June 22 1941- it was still a positive.)RichardJohnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07490819511630683969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-9686870127306869372018-01-19T23:56:05.145-05:002018-01-19T23:56:05.145-05:00They were a great favorite of my father's. I ...They were a great favorite of my father's. I grew up knowing a number of their tunes well enough to sing. "Reuben James" was among these.Grimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-70399176351586678422018-01-19T21:12:39.264-05:002018-01-19T21:12:39.264-05:00Tom Dooley was a favorite of ours growing up, part...Tom Dooley was a favorite of ours growing up, partly because we could sing it and it was pleasantly grim, and partly because of a friend Tom whose name fit the meter perfectly. There was a very similar song in the folk part of the music curriculum. I gather from Wikipedia that some folks got their underwear in knots because of KT's popularization (they quote a fellow whose grandmother knew the pair).<br /><br />I just thought they sounded fine, the few times I heard them. I didn't run across a cassette of their work until after I was married. The timing wasn't quite right, I guess. I <i>did</i> see <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=416o9b_pjQk" rel="nofollow">this team</a>.jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01792036361407527304noreply@blogger.com