The Kingston Trio

I heard a couple of different influences in there.

Some of the vocal work reminds me Of second generation Kingston Trio member John Stewart.

Uh, and, uh, then the guitar work kinda smacked of The Amazing Rhythm Aces a little bit.

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I was dyed in the wool folky indeed.

And my heroes were like the Kingston Trio.

And Joan Baez and Peter, Paul and Mary.

And that was the music that and show tunes because my mother would always buy albums of musicals when they would come out.

He always plays like that and I just love Bill Evans playing Goodbye Liza Jane that was called.

We're going to hear from an album called Scotch and Sofa which I'm pretty sure is a take off of the name Scotch and Soda from the old days of the Kingston Trio.

They did a a song called Scotch and Sold or Blood in Your Eye or something like that.

Foggy Hogtown Boys.

The great Glenn Shorrock, he was out front of Axiom when they recorded their 1971 hit My Baby's Gone.

And that followed Jon Stewart, who back in the 1950s was a member of the Kingston Trio.

He also wrote a few songs recorded by the Monkees.

And in his own right, he scored a hit with that song Gold during his solo career that spanned over 40 years.

Mm-hmm.

He had a, a kind of a Kingston Trio kind of band.

He had a Peter, Paul and Mary kind of band.

So he'd left the rock and roll thing and was doing more kind of folk music and stuff.

Mm-hmm.

But in that there was a little bit of kind of, um, like with the Kingston Trio, they had a banjo player, an upright bass, so with like little tinges of country coming in there-

Mm-hmm

... through the folk side of things.

Nick Reynolds passed away in 2008 at the age of 75 from acute respiratory disease.

He was an American folk singer and guitarist who was a founding member of the Kingston Trio.

He also helped pioneer the late 50s and early 60s American folk music revival with hits like Tom Dooley.

Lindsay DePaul passed away in 2014 at the age of 66 from a sudden brain hemorrhage.

And then, in March 1971, Armstrong.

It was written by John Stewart, a former member of the Kingston Trio, as a tribute to Neil Armstrong's lunar landing in 1969.

Reg heard it and recorded it.

And it crossed over in a way that his country music recordings had not quite crossed over before into the mainstream Australian pop charts.

I think right around the same time I started collecting 45s and LPs.

So I had and still have the Kingston Trio and the Brothers Four and people like that.

Yeah.

So I became a record collector and a fan and started reading music magazines when they came out and all at the same time that I was teaching myself harmonica.

Yeah, the Dark Ducks.

It's kind of a Brothers Four, Kingston Trio type of folky sound.

I could imagine Bruce being interested in this.

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