And now for something completely different, as Monty the Python would say…
This post is about the dangers of making a casual remark.
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Ever hear of the Kingston Trio? They were the Beatles of their day. They played folk music, however, not rock.
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Their recording of “Tom Dooley” hit #1 and sold over six million copies. It put them on the cover of Life magazine.
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Front to back: Nick Reynolds, Bob Shane, Dave Guard.
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later and became a big fan. I have most of their albums.
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One day I happened to tell a friend of mine, “I like the Kingston Trio.”
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Not long after, I received this in my inbox:
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I can see where he cloned Bob Shane’s hair to make mine. What’s funny about that is that it gives me a passing resemblance to John Stewart.
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Who’s John Stewart? He replaced Dave Guard in the Trio in 1961. So in a sense, there really was a “Kingston Quattro” during their “big name” period, 1958-67. Here’s the second lineup.
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If you’re not familiar with the Kingston Trio, here are a couple of my favorite tracks:
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A Worried Man, an infectious toe-tapper by the original lineup (Guard-Shane-Reynolds), and a beautiful ballad
called Where Are You Going Little Boy, written by Stewart
and performed by Shane-Reynolds-Stewart.
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