Kingston Trio/vanity

[Fiji Hill]

.I still haven’t caught up, I still listen to the Ink Spots and the Big Band era singers

The Ink Spots are great! I enjoy acts such as the Coon Sanders NIghthawks, The California Ramblers, The Revelers and Waring's Pennsylvanians.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Lead singer of the Kingston Trio from 1961 to 1967, the late John Stewart’s 1979 solo album, “Bombs Away Dream Babies” is an awesome listen. Being backed up by Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks on most songs didn’t hurt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P5mhmbFMh8&list=PLOtylfD3ZrnT5pcr7i_JFuZ0_ygwNTpBU

[kosciusko51]

I had not heard this before. I’ve often joked that country & western music died with the movie “Urban Cowboy.”

[Fiji Hill]

"Popular music" in its classic form began to die in the 1920's with phonographs that produced listenable recorded music, and radio. Prior to that point, if you wanted music, you by and large made it yourself. And people did. After radio and recorded music, however, popular music became a consumer good, like soap, deodorant, or sneakers.

In the days when those desiring to hear music had to make their own, pianos could be found in even modest households, and those with more money might have a reed or pump organ. To use these instruments required learning notation, some music theory, and a repertoire of tunes. None of these skills are required to play recorded music.

[Fiji Hill]

I still prefer real country music from the 1930s-1964...It’s the music I was rocked to sleep by on the High Plains.

There are a lot of Texans on your list.

[Covenantor]

...In the days when those desiring to hear music had to make their own, pianos could be found in even modest households, and those with more money might have a reed or pump organ. To use these instruments required learning notation, some music theory, and a repertoire of tunes. None of these skills are required to play recorded music.

And along with the piano came sheet music. All the popular songs were available from music publishers. Into the fifties and even mid sixties sheet music was sold along side of recordings. Had stacks of Kingston Trio, Peter, Paul, and Mary, Ian and Sylvia, among others acquired while in high school and after. And song books of course

[Tax-chick]

It wasn’t on the “From the Hungry i” album, but it might have been done in a Hungry I performance.

[sparklite2]

The folk channel was replaced by - get ready for this - a Korean music channel.

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Heh. I confess to having been burned out on folk music. The likes of Peter, Paul, and Mary or the Kingston Trio is enough to make me change the station immediately. Different strokes, I guess. That they lost out to Korean music is hilarious.

[Fiddlstix]

Here's a Good Glenn Miller Tune many are unaware of

Blueberry Hill - Glenn Miller (Ray Eberle, vocal)

A Very popular big band piece years before Fats Domino

[mason-dixon]

It takes a worried MITCH to sing and bitch

[Fiddlstix]

It takes a worried MITCH to sing and bitch

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[Does so]

This site, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ2Hny6s24s sings of sad deportations to Mexico.

Anything different out there?

[impactplayer]

the song that comes next on the album is MUCH better.

[BBB333]

“Cab Calloway...”

Did you know that Cab Calloway played for the Harlem Globetrotters?

He also had a law degree.

A fine and upstanding man.

[vetvetdoug]

Yes, the KT were great. Bob Shane is the only original left but the reincarnation of men that played with the original members is still touring and sound like the original. I first saw the KT at Yokota Japan at the NCO Club as my Father knew I was a rabid fan and slipped me in a side entrance as a seven year old to see them. They were there when the Beatles came to Capital Records and were on the sidelines at many historic musical events. They were the first group to win a Grammy for Country/Western Music for their song, “Tom Dooley” because the Grammys didn't have a category for the song. Country music excludes them completely in their history at the CMHOF.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***I’ve often joked that country & western music died with the movie “Urban Cowboy.”***

I agree! I was raised western and when UC came out, I threw my hat and cowboy boots in the closet and didn’t wear them again for 15 years.
A few years later, I could find good hats and boots at garage sales everywhere as the fad had passed.

One of the things that got to me, was on the TONIGHT SHOW with Jay Leno, he had a faggy man go around and interview people.
One night he was in a Western dance club, and I had a bad feeling about this club. Sure enough, it was a “Country and Western bar for alternate cowboys.”

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

One of the best places to find OLD country and Western music is (believe it or not) here, out of Great Britain. They seem to appreciate the old music modern Americans now hate.
British Archive of Country Music (BACM)

http://country-music-archive.com/

Good old country and western, hillbilly, and other albums all on CD. I have several of them and they are OK, considering they use the OLD original recordings. Even some old Spade Cooley radio shows.

[Allen In Texas Hill Country]

It wasn’t on the “From the Hungry i” album, but it might have been done in a Hungry I performance.
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It was in Coplas Revisited but I can’t find which album that I have which its in. :<((

[Tax-chick]

My parents had Kingston Trio record. I learned all the songs.

[Glad2bnuts]

He said that the writers discover a singer, tell him how to dress, write songs specifically for their target audience and never vary. Alan Jackson was just about the last who worked for big producers, now that the internet is here there are people busting out with their own sound and making a living without the “big bucks” behind them.

The worst thing about Country music of the last few years is you KNOW the song was written to evoke a response, instead of REAL country which WAS the response to emotions.