Posted on 08/26/2017 11:42:57 AM PDT by Allen In Texas Hill Country
As I've said in the past I don't watch any national news and after this Charlottesville thing I had to stop listing to CNN, Fox and MSNBC on Sirius radio while in the car.
Back in the 80s I built a library of 3,600 songs which I now listen too while driving. They all fit on a jump drive. Don't have everything memorized but as soon as the next song starts I say YES!!!! As it was when the Kingston Trio started a few of days ago. And especially when a clip came up from the Hungry i album. They were always inserting this and that between songs. At one point one of them says "Show me a cowboy that rides sidesaddle and I'll show you a gay ranchero". The crowd went wild yelling and clapping. I'm pretty sure that was the Hungry i.
But unfortunately it tells me how much of the America I grew up in and worked in is totally gone. "Don't muddy the water around us 'cause we'll have to drink it soon". At least I've got 3,600 songs of what it was like.
Wasn’t “The Hungry i” in San Francisco?
If you like the Kingston Trio you might also like the Whiskey Hill Singers, featuring Dave Guard and their string bass player, along with Judy Hensky. Only cut one album, but it is really great.
Yes
I credit the transition point to the Beatles. They were the marker between traditional pop music and rebellious nihilistic, hateful music. Not most of the Beatles music , but what followed them got progressively more angry and mean spirited.
Country music is even worse. I don't know what year country music died, maybe around 1975 or 1976. It slowly morphed into rock and roll pop. No more Porter and Dolly or Pretty Miss Norma Jean. No more Skeeter Davis, or Dottie West, or Bobby Bare, or George Jones or Hank Snow or … or … or …
It died when the “Pink Hand” moved into Nashville and took over production. I worked for a man who was a “country music Big” producer and he relayed the story of how the place turned into SF of the South, or as he relayed it Hollywood part two.
But unfortunately it tells me how much of the America I grew up in and worked in is totally gone. .................................I still haven’t caught up, I still listen to the Ink Spots and the Big Band era singers.
Younger people tell me, "No, there's lot's of good music being made, you just have to look for it." Well, I figure if I have to go looking for good music, it must be pretty scarce if it exists at all. I tell those same people, "OK, I'm open to new things-- maybe you can recommend some good music to me." But they never can.
Yes, my collection includes soft melodies like “Oh My Papa’ and many, many others from the 50s. “Whatever will be will be”.
Country music lost it’s country back in the early 1960s. In the 1970s it became mostly 1950s rock and roll for a while. I still prefer real country music from the 1930s-1964.
Spade Coley
Bob Wills
Hoyle Nix
Slim Willet
Ray Rogers
Butler Boss
Buddy Walker
Tex Williams
It’s the music I was rocked to sleep by on the High Plains.
But then, music must move on or we would be still listening to variations of 15th century chamber music.
> If you like the Kingston Trio you might also like the Whiskey Hill Singers <
Thanks for posting that. I’m a big KT fan, but i never heard of the WHS before now. I found some of the stuff on Youtube.
By the way, Judy Hensky sounds a lot like Judy Collins.
The Kingston Trio is coming to Charlotte this fall (or maybe spring). They must either be a “legacy” group or a zillion years old!
It takes a worried man to sing a worried song.
Well worth the annual subscription to Sirius XM on my car stereo........
Love, love, love the Kingston Trio’s version of “They Call the Wind Maria” from “the Hungry I”
To paraphrase the famous "MTA" song:
Will it ever return?
No, America will never return
And its fate will be unlearned
(Shame and scandal)
> Well worth the annual subscription to Sirius XM on my car stereo........ <
I dropped Sirius XM (and wrote them an angry letter) when they dropped their folk music channel. The folk channel was replaced by - get ready for this - a Korean music channel.
Absolutely just listened to it coming home. Oh well.
Coming to Charlotte? What version.:<)))
Kingston Trio are still one of my favorite groups.
Perry Como
Cab Calloway
Artie Shaw
Glen Miller
Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys
Big bands still RULE in my house between the great operas and symphonies.
To show my age the first concert I attended was the Kingston Trio at Catholic University in D.C..
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