from the Hungry i

[Allen In Texas Hill Country]

"Los Angeles is quite an intellectual town, really, and I was lucky enough to run into him down there."

A line between songs from the Hungry i. I've referenced my 3100+ music library in the past and just started my Kingston Trio section. Last time was when the Myst music started. But the Kingston Trio,,,,,, nothing like them before or after. Each song is very enjoyable.

[Allen In Texas Hill Country]

Just breakin' up the politics.

[lexington minuteman 1775]

I love the Kingston Trio! Another group from the same era was the Chad Mitchell Trio, and when Chad Mitchell left they just called it the Mitchell Trio and the young high lead that nobody had ever heard of before that sang in that group was a young fella by the name of John Denver.

[Hot Tabasco]

Damn, the Kingston Trio.....Going to Youtube now to do some listening......Thanks for bringing up the memory

[Stosh]

Did he ever return? (no he never returned) - oops, guess that wasn’t Chad Mitchell . . . .

[P-Marlowe]

That was my favorite album. I still have a vinyl copy I picked up a few years ago. I don’t have a turntable anymore, But I kept that album. I learned to play the guitar listening to those guys.

[Allen In Texas Hill Country]

Just listened to it, The MTA. I looked and I’ve got 11 of their albums. Eight in this section and then three more in an oldies group.

[Larry Lucido]

Now I’ve got this earworm:

With these hungry eyes
One look at you and I can’t disguise
I’ve got hungry eyes
I feel the magic between you and I

[Carriage Hill]

Fond memories of the Kingston Trio, when America wasn’t fractured so badly.

[Notthereyet]

I’ve enjoyed their music over the years!

[faithhopecharity]

the Hungry I (in San Francisco)... was a great night club!

another band similar to Kingston Trio was the Limelighters, you will probably enjoy their songs too

[Liberty Valance]

bttt

[impactplayer]

When Dave Guard left the Kingston Trio he formed the Whiskey Hill Singers with Judy Henske - a really great group but only one album. Great stuff, if you can find it.

[Stosh]

There’s a terrific movie called “Thank You for Smoking” - if I’m not mistaken, the song they do over the closing credits is “Greenback Dollar” - hadn’t heard it for decades until I saw that movie on cable.

[vetvetdoug]

Day before yesterday was Bob Shane's birthday as he turned 85. He's on oxygen but can play a few now and then. He's the last of the original Dave Guard, Nick Reynolds, and John Stewart. I saw the KT in Japan at the Yokota NCO Club as my Father sneaked me in the side because I adored them back in 1961. I saw them again in Memphis in 1991. I have got the entire collections of CD’s that have been issued with the Guard years and the Stewart years. The KT had an impact on Folk, country, and rock and roll because from 1958 to 1963 before the Beatles they carried Capital Records. They were there at the first meeting of the Beatles and all of the other Capital recording artists. The KT won the first Grammy for Country Music. The numbers of songwriters that the KT unearthed to the public are legendary. They didn't have to spend weeks in the recording studio for an album, they were so good they'd get most done in less than three takes. I could go on but the KT is one of my favorites along with the Beatles.Even though the KT were on the left, they didn't espouse politics and were there to satisfy their fans.

[sparklite2]

The only song I liked from the folk era was bitterly lamenting its demise.  Sort of like how Giselle Mackensie (remember her?) was furious that rock and roll was displacing pop music in the fifties, think Lucky Strike Hit Parade.

Anyway, the lament I liked was Peter, Paul, and Mary's I Love Rock and Roll Music, an unsubtle attack on the taste and intelligence of record buyers and, supposedly, other artists for their commercialism.  When they say they've hidden what they really think 'between the lines,' either they didn't hide it very well, or their real feelings were pretty awful.  PP&M were the social justice warriors of their day and didn't like that their schtick was done.

[Allen In Texas Hill Country]

I’m surprised by now that no one has mentioned “The One On The Right Is On The Left” by Johnny Cash. Hmmm, I was in Japan in ‘64 and ‘65 way up north. But getting back to Cash’s song they weren’t all on the left:<))))

[sparklite2]

And the guy in the rear burned his driver’s license.

[larryjohnson]

I only had a few records my freshman year in college and that was one. Also had a Julie London record and a Sinatra record. I played my banjo and guitar to KT.

[Carriage Hill]

I remember that PP&M song well.

[TigerHawk]

“FEVER”. That’s the ONLY Julie London record...but what a record! Anonymous Sources (’ey, if it’s good enough for the New York Times!!!) have said that Hugh Hefner had a 12 speaker sound system attached to his turntable and amplifier in his bedroom, and would go there, lock himself in, and play that record over and over again for 14-20 hrs. at a time. Came out of the room exhausted. Some say he was listening to Julie London’s “Fever” when he died, even though he had long ago gone deaf.
Nobody has “a” Julie London record...just “Fever”!