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unusual facts about the Kingston Trio


Goober Peas

It has been recorded and sung by scores of artists, including Burl Ives, Tennessee Ernie Ford and The Kingston Trio.


Allentown Jail

The Kingston Trio recorded a version in 1962 with plans of releasing it as a single, but the single never came to fruition.

An Evening with The Kingston Trio

An Evening with The Kingston Trio is a live album by the American folk music group The Kingston Trio, recorded in 1962 and released in 1994 (see 1994 in music).

Children of the Morning

Children of the Morning is an album by the American folk music group The Kingston Trio, released in 1966 (see 1966 in music).

Christmas Is Coming

The musical version of the rhyme was popularized by The Kingston Trio as "A Round About Christmas", on their album The Last Month of the Year.

Hobo's Lullaby

"Hobo's Lullaby" is a song written by Goebel Reeves, and famously performed by various people including folk singer Woody Guthrie, his son Arlo Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Emmylou Harris, the Kingston Trio, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Tim Barry, Cisco Houston, and Anaïs Mitchell.

Joe Gannon

The Calypsonians regrouped with Guard, Reynolds and Bob Shane becoming known as The Kingston Trio.

Live at the Crazy Horse

Live at the Crazy Horse is a live album by the American folk music group The Kingston Trio, released in 1994 (see 1994 in music).

Live at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium

Live at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium is a live album by the American folk music group The Kingston Trio, recorded in 1961 and released in 2007 (see 2007 in music).

Looking for the Sunshine

Looking for the Sunshine is an album by the American folk music group The Kingston Trio, released in 1983 (see 1983 in music).

Poor Ellen Smith

The song and its variants have been performed and recorded by a range of artists including Tommy Jarrell, Neko Case, Laura Cantrell, Molly O'Day, Kristin Hersh, Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper, Stanley Brothers, Ralph Stanley & Larry Sparks, the Kossoy Sisters, Country Gentlemen, John Hartford, The Kingston Trio, and Crooked Still.

Randy Starr

Songs written by Starr were recorded by a number of artists, including Jackie Wilson, The Kingston Trio, Teresa Brewer, Nelson Riddle, Chet Atkins, Kay Starr and Connie Francis.

The Final Concert

The Final Concert is a live album by the American folk music group The Kingston Trio, recorded in 1967 and released in 2007 (see 2007 in music).

The Kingston Trio No. 16

The Kingston Trio #16 is an album by the American folk music group The Kingston Trio, released in 1963 (see 1963 in music).

The Last Month of the Year

The Last Month of the Year is an album of Christmas music by The Kingston Trio, released in 1960 (see 1960 in music).

Will Holt

As "Lemon Tree", it was recorded by Peter, Paul and Mary, The Kingston Trio, The Seekers, Sandie Shaw, and Trini Lopez, among others, and it was heard in television commercials for the aerosol furniture polish Lemon Pledge.


see also

Jean Redpath

In 2009, Redpath made an appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman singing the song "Some Kind of Love" by the late John Stewart of the Kingston Trio.

Lisa Law

Whether she was backstage with The Beatles, Peter, Paul and Mary, The Kingston Trio, Otis Redding, The Lovin Spoonful, The Velvet Underground, The Byrds, taking promotional photographs of Janis Joplin and Big Brother, or at home making dinner for house guests like Bob Dylan or Andy Warhol or helping feed hundreds of thousands at Woodstock with the Hog Farm Commune, her passion for photography grew into a profession.

The Lost Masters 1969–1972

Two years before the release of Once Upon a Time in 1969, the Kingston Trio disbanded in 1967 following a two week farewell engagement at San Francisco's Hungry i, the nightclub at which they had started their rise to prominence a decade earlier.