And happily, more than 50 years after the group first got together, it looks like the Are they folk singers? silliness has finally died down. Are there any original members of the Kingston Trio? Thomas Dula, as his name was originally spelled, was born in Wilkes County, North Carolina in 1844. Built to be Seaworthy by SeaMonster Studios. We stepped off the plane into the snow and some guys were running across the field saying, Are you all right? And I said, Parlez-vous Italiano? The guy said, No, you are in Indiana., They were only a few miles from Notre Dame and managed to make it in time for that nights show. That year saw the No. retired to become an Oregon rancher of cattle, chickens and Christmas trees. Reynolds once said they first heard the song when a now-forgotten singer sang it during an audition at the Purple Onion. Cyrus Faryar can be heard performing solo on the track "Wanderin'" and Dave Guard on "Poor Wayfarin' Stranger". Richie Unterberger's liner notes for Whiskeyhill Singers reissue. February 19, 1978. Always a folk music eclectic, Guard attempted to publicize the slack-key sounds of Hawaiian folk guitar. Guard worked closely in Honolulu with slack-key guitar icon Gabby Pahinui to record and produce Pure Gabby, an album of classic Hawaiian melodies played with slack key tunings. According to Guard, his own first serious exposure to stringed instruments came from Shane, who taught him the rudiments of playing the six-string guitar. Dave Guard left the Kingston Trio in 1961 and was replaced by John Stewart, the tall guy, in the pictures. We didnt read music and we just would play and sing with tenor guitar, banjo and guitar and just use simple chords, and had good humor and good singing. The three bandmates developed something of a formula for their stage show, although Werber had to keep reminding Shane to attend to business. For four years, from 1958 to 1961, they were one of the most popular bands in America. - circa Summer 1990. hotel rooms" during the trio touring days to a retreat "for a family repertoire. They joined up with Menlo College student Joe Gannon, who played rudimentary bass, and singer Barbara Bogue. I had sideburns and I wore a bright sport coat and stuff like that. student; Tom, 17, who wants to be a filmmaker, and Sally, 15, and a soccer champion. My new tunes are arranged by The Kingston Trio is an American folk and pop music group that helped launch the folk revival of the late 1950s to the late 1960s. And In reflects Dave Guard's eclectic nature and continual search for something "In the old days we had an energy I feel with them I can Jan Hammer 79.2K subscribers 934K views 10 years ago "M.T.A.", often called "The MTA Song", is a 1949 song by Jacqueline Steiner and Bess Lomax Hawes. Get four issues of the keepsake Fretboard Journal for just $60. We had our guitars and Daves banjo on the plane. We were collegiate and those striped shirts were the only styles that would fit all three of us. We werent folksingers, Shane stresses. In 1929, a duo known as Grayson and Whitter made the first recorded version of the song. In late June, Tom panicked and ran for the border. Over the years, the more politically oriented part of the folk music community would use this decision as one of their main complaints about the group. After leaving the group, Guard started the Whiskyhill Singers and moved to Australia, where he lived until 1968 and where he was host of a television show. I like CONCORD, N.H. -- Dave Guard, 56, a founder of the immensely popular Kingston Trio, which brought folk music from the coffee houses to mainstream America with songs such as the haunting "Tom. It was fresh and quirky and fun. A Dave Guard musical journey through time: RUN JOE - Dave The original trio had nine gold albums, The Kingston Trio at the Hungry i, its most successful. During that time, he worked up a solo act and got a regular gig at the Pearl City Tavern in Honolulu. I was very excited to have the opportunity to talk to him. Gretchen and Dave were married in 1957, after his graduation. keeping his home base here. and on the literary scene in a duet. Where Have All the Flowers Gone, Pickwick, 1973. And, in the beginning, there was Dave Guard. of John August Lee. Other (Dave Guard and the Whiskey Hill Singers) Dave Guard and the Whiskey Hill Singers, Capitol, 1962. The Weavers, who were a major influence on Shane and Guard, had their careers ended because of the entertainment blacklist during the McCarthy Era. The sound was professional. Have you heard about the huge dust cloud we had here in Phoenix? he asks. Bob Shane bought the name and in 1976 added two singers to continue appearing Run Joe, which Guard used to sing with the Calypsonions, was in the act for a while, but was never recorded. with his guitar, polishing some new and some old folk material he will present What kind of music did the Kingston Trio Play? Shane and Gambill replaced him with George Grove, a professionally trained singer and instrumentalist from North Carolina who had been working in Nashville as a studio musician. On top of it all! The group continued to perform for six years as the Kingston Trio before disbanding in 1967, with John Stewart taking Guard's place. In March 1957 he came back to California to join the now-renamed Kingston Trio under the management of Frank Werber. In 2004, shortly after his 70th birthday, he suffered a major heart attack. We wanted to project a certain image. Dave Guard formed Dave Guard & The Whiskeyhill Singers immediately after his departure from The Kingston Trio. Among the group's hits were "The MTA," "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" #9 - Bad Man's Blunder. we had no idea what we wanted to do and it was an elegant way to stay off the In 1861 Tom went off to fight in the Civil War. Lego 41027 - Der TOP-Favorit unserer Produkttester. Will The Circle Be Unbroken? During this period, one of the highlights for Kingston Trio fans was the reunion of all Was it pop? program. Family (1) Spouse he was. Guard called his group Dave Guard and the Calypsonians, with a Weavers-style signature sound that was principally two guitars, a banjo, and rollicking vocals. They were always trying to expand their repertoire beyond the folk songs, but the world at large didnt seem to care. On May 4, at the inaugural Grammy Awards ceremony, they won the award for Best Country and Western Performance for Tom Dooley, a fact that didnt, and still doesnt, sit well with the Nashville establishment. He and Bogue eventually married.). Today he has branched out-musically as a single In addition to developing the characteristic "Kingston Trio sound" of the group's two guitars and a banjo, success came to the group from Guard's musical arrangements and renditions of folk and Irish ballads, Shane's talent for style and performance along with an innate knowledge of what pleased audiences, and Reynolds's management of the group's logistics. Bob Shane is now retired from performing. The Kingston Trio ended 1958 as one of the most popular bands in America. by a Salt Lake City disc-jockey, The group. Some of the songs they came up with dated back to Shane and Guards days in Hawaii. Dave Guard remained active as a musician until his death from cancer in March of 1991, writing several music instruction books and becoming deeply involved with what had become known as world music.Bob Shane had opposed the breakup, however, and in 1972 re-formed the Kingston Trio (initially as the New Kingston Trio), amid the same '50s . Dave Guard, founder of the Kingston Trio, which brought folk music from the coffee houses to mainstream America with songs like the haunting "Tom Dooley" and the rollicking "MTA," died. At one point, their accountant made a bookkeeping error. The Kingston Trio covered Hard Travelin', Scarlet Ribbons, Corey, Corey, When the Saints Come Marching In and other songs. It was soon corrected, but that, in combination with the different idea about the bands musical direction, led Guard to leave the group in May 1961. Twenty-two years ago Dave Guard started his career as co-founder Kingston Trio found themselves being one of the biggest things to happen on the music That was the first of three songs written about the murder. Buddy Holly had died in plane crash only a couple of weeks before, so the last 15 to 20 minutes we were on that plane, we knew we were dead, Shane remembers. Barbara Bogue, Dave Guard, Joe Gannon, Nick Reynolds - 1957. He graduated from Stanford with a degree in economics in 1956.[3]. She joined the staff of Sunset magazine as an art director last year. They recorded Will Holts Lemon Tree, but it was Peter, Paul and Mary and later, Trini Lopez, who had the hits with it. music, and with other friends, formed different on-again-off-again band configurations during the mid-1950s singing Kingston Trio. The group continued to perform for six years as the Kingston Trio before disbanding in 1967, with John Stewart taking Guards place. As the group grew more popular on the San Francisco Bay area's campuses, it began to sing in such legendary San Francisco musical meccas of the era as The Purple Onion and The Hungry i. 1959. Along with all his other classmates, Guard early on learned to play Hawaii's ubiquitous ukulele in a 7th grade junior high school music class required of all students. Guard was the tallest member of the group, usually playing banjo, and was considered the trios intellectual, Reynolds said. He was previously married to Gretchen Walling Ballard. Reynolds was in the hospital's ICU for several weeks before his family . of rock 'n' roll, upsetting and tearing apart. After that show aired, Shane and Guard reconciled enough to begin talking about a reunion, but Guard tragically contracted lymphoma and died before the plans could come to fruition. The original trio had nine gold albums, with "The Kingston Trio at the Hungry i" its most succesful. to the Stanford library, then, during the summer of 1972 in the British Isles THE MARY ELLEN CARTER - Dave Guard - from Up And In Thats what it was like upstairs above the Purple Onion. I have studied techniques. the laws of physics. THE KINGSTON TRIO. Trio "feel" will send chills up your spine! Nobody ever did that. Dave Guard, a founding member of the folk group Kingston Trio that helped fuel the folk music boom of the late 1950s and early 1960s, has died at 56. them with counterpoint and chord and vocal phrasing. In 1957, he, Bob Shane and Nick Reynolds founded the trio. Business Analyst Mita Parekh Marketing Manager Susan Litawski Pink Fairies, Man, Freedom, seminal NY power trio . Im very upset, said Nick Reynolds, a member of the trio since its founding in 1957. - 1961 - Capitol Records. In 1961, shortly after leaving the Trio, Guard formed a new group, The Whiskeyhill Singers, with Judy Henske, Cyrus Faryar, and Kingston Trio bassist David "Buck" Wheat. 7. The trio's newest member is George Grove. The Trio considered themselves entertainers and not activists, and felt that protest songs didnt fit into their act. In February 1958 the Kingston Trio recorded their first LP. Reynolds left the group in 1967 after the British Invasion rendered the folk style effectively antiquated in the minds of pop music fans, and moved his family to Oregon, where he stayed until the 1980s. (Grayson was the great-nephew of Col. James Grayson, the man who arrested Tom Dula in the first place.) Guard, whom Shane had known since both were attending high school in Shane's native Hawaii, died in 1991. Please note the wonderful harmonic resonances between Dave's Vega's Tu-Ba-Phone Dave Guard, the trios banjo player, died in 1991 and Nick Reynolds, the groups tenor guitarist and percussionist, died in 2008. Bob Shane, the last surviving original member of the popular folk group the Kingston Trio and the lead singer on its million-selling ballad "Tom Dooley" and many . from The Kingston Trio. Explains lead vocalist and guitarist Mike Marvin, "The three original members of The Kingston Trio were Dave Guard, Bob Shane, and Nick Reynolds. The genre problem would bedevil the Kingston Trio throughout their careers. By early 1961 Shane and Reynolds had found a replacement. SPECKLED ROAN - The Kingston Trio - from Make Way! configurations of The Kingston Trio at Six Flags Magic Mountain Park, in California, on November 7, 1981. On November 17, 1958, the Kingston Trios Tom Dooley hits #1 on the Billboard pop chart. Kingston Trio. She is survived by her fourth husband, Ethan Robbins; two daughters, Erika Marshall of Naples, Fla., and Alicia Travers of Greenwich, Conn.; a sister, Ann Gordon of Oakland, Calif.; and two grandchildren. Reynolds and Stewart,. Was it folk? On June 25, Werber got them the weeklong gig at the Purple Onion that later stretched to a seven-month residence. So we drank a fifth of booze between the four of us. He may be gone but we will always enjoy his contributions They demonstrated the commercial viability of acoustic guitar-driven music, and the folk boom they inspired paved the way for musicians like Bob Dylan and Joan Baez among countless others. I did a few different things like singing Harry Belafonte and Hank Williams songs, but what most people dont know is I was the first Elvis Presley impersonator in the world, Shane says. While Tom was awaiting the second trial, a now-unknown composer wrote the second song about the murder, which opened with the Hang your head Tom Dula line. On October 1, 1866, the trial of Tom Dula began. - 1960 - Capitol Records. THE BONNIE SHIP THE DIAMOND - from Dave Guard & The Whiskeyhill Singers - 1962 - Capitol Records. Other deejays across the country followed their lead, forcing Capitol to release the song as a single. Initially, they were booked into nightclubs like Chicagos Mr. Kellys and New Yorks Blue Angel and the Village Vanguard, venues where they shared stages with jazz artists and cabaret performers. They toured and released an album and were asked to perform several folk songs on the Academy Award-winning soundtrack of How the West Was Won. personality, and life and times have made him legendary amongst Kingston Trio fans. The Kingston Trio with Guard recorded for Capitol Records; subsequent iterations of the group managed first by Werber and Shane and later by Shane alone recorded for Decca Records, Folk Era, Silverwolf, Pair, Collector's Choice Music, CEMA, and MCA, and had many hit songs in its initial 10-year run. CONCORD, N.H. -- Dave Guard, 56, a founder of the immensely popular Kingston Trio, which brought folk music from the coffee houses to mainstream America with songs such as the haunting "Tom Dooley" and the rollicking "MTA," died of lymphoma March 22 at his home in Rollinsford, N.H. Keep supporting great journalism by turning off your ad blocker. There was a storeroom above the Purple Onion and we would spend our days up there rehearsing, five and six hours at a time, and then go downstairs in the evening to perform. Guard left Punahou at the end of his junior year, completing his final year of high school at the Menlo School, a private prep school that helped him prepare for acceptance and matriculation at nearby Stanford University. to sing for them. At Stanford, Guard was a member of the Beta Chi chapter of Sigma Nu fraternity. "We were lucky to be able to do it early." And Ill never forget when I met Elvis in 63, just briefly, and I told him thats how I got my start. THEY LOVE THE NIGHT - Dave Guard - from Up And In Four episodes of Dave's Place featured Judy Henske as a guest performer. Were the biggest-selling group in the world., As the year progressed, the group continued to go from success to success. Over the years following his return to the US, Guard worked with a number of people, including Alex Hassilev, Mike Settle, Judy Henske, Cyrus Faryar, Tim Buckley, Tommy Makem and David White. They were ready! [10], After the breakup of the Singers in 1961, Guard had returned to Hawaii. We got a 1939 Beechcraft D-18, with a split tail that sat on the ground, Shane says. When we photographed an ancient burial As many of us know, the original Kingston Trio consisted of Bob Shane, Nick Reynolds, and Dave Guard. The rest of 1959 was a blur of recording sessions, television appearances and concerts. Our pilot flew B-17s during World War II and he managed to land relatively safely in a field. Area publisher, Celestial Arts of Millbrae, accepted it. [7] The group continued to perform for six years as the Kingston Trio before disbanding in 1967, with John Stewart taking Guard's place. He now lives in Arizona, where he oversees the Kingston Trios business interests. Truly Fair, a song Shane learned in 1951 and sang during his Hawaiian Elvis days, was tried out, but it was found wanting and dropped from the act. Tom Dooley once it is downloaded. Tom Dula was sent back to North Carolina, where he and Ann Foster Melton were charged with the murder of Laura Foster. We also sang a couple of songs from Samoa. His daughter, Sally Guard of New York, said Saturday that her father died Friday at home in Rollinsford of lymphoma. In the 1970s, Dave Guard recorded a live album at The Ice House in Pasadena. Incidentally, a couple of previously unreleased 1957 demos by Guard 's pre- Kingston Trio group, Dave Guard & the Calypsonians, appear on the Kingston Trio box set The Capitol Years, which also has one song by Dave Guard & the Whiskeyhill Singers. He was married to Gretchen Walling Ballard. And he said, What did you want to do that for? Thats exactly the way he said it. He was married to Gretchen Walling Ballard. His backing group on this album was The Modern Folk Quartet, which included former Whiskeyhill Singer Cyrus Faryar. take. Bobby was considered the sex symbol and I was the short, little guy, Reynolds said. Dave Guard, Nick Reynolds (Kingston Trio) and Bob Shane arranger: Dave Guard. They were not only successful, however, they changed the. She really liked the music, but she had a soft spot for the Kingston Trio because in 1956, when she was a teenager, Dave Guard pulled her out of a wrecked car. Today he has branched out-musically as a single and on the literary scene in a duet. the Treasures of Early Irish art.". In Rollinsford, destitute and without insurance, he was taken in by twin brothers Ron and Rick Shaw (who died 2018 and 2021, respectively). formed another group, the Whiskeyhill Singers, whose "How the West Was - Bob Shane, Dave Guard, Nick Reynolds - circa She did her first book cover The Shaw brothers were folk singers in their own right. Mr. Guard was the tallest member of the group, usually playing banjo, and was considered the trio's intellectual, Reynolds said. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. According to John Foster Wests Lift Up Your Head Tom Dooley, an excellent book about Tom Dulas life and death thats based on the transcripts from Dulas two trials, Tom Dula was a randy teenager who was always getting into trouble with the local girls, particularly one named Ann Foster. tone-ring, his banjo's strings, and Capitol Records's Studio B acoustics! Kingston Trio. available on video. The original members were Dave Guard (b. October 19, 1934, San Francisco, California, U.S.d. They were scheduled to close the event, but an outcry from some of the other performers, who felt that Kingston Trio were just capitalizing on folk music, caused George Wein, the festivals organizer, to have them go on next to last and have Earl Scruggs close the show. In 1961 Guard formed the group, 'Dave Guard's Whiskeyhill Singers' also with Nick Reynolds and Bob Shane. Warner recorded his version in 1952; it was later covered by the Folksay Trio and the Tarriers. In 1962, the Kingston Trio reached an out-of-court settlement, and to this day Tom Dooley, a song that dates back to the 1860s and was first recorded by Grayson and Whitter in 1929, 18 years before Folk Song U.S.A. was printed, bears the copyright notice Frank Warner-John A. Lomax-Alan Lomax. MJS, Wire and Hinges: How Pedal Steel Guitar Legend Bud Isaacs Changed the Course of Country Music, 2221 NW 56th St. #101, Seattle, WA 98107 | (877) 373-8273, 2016-23 Fretboard Journal. And when it finally left, it left a whole lot of dirt around. Tu pgina de Real Estate. As the most musically adventurous of the threesome, though, Guard began to feel his musical ambitions somewhat stifled by the Kingston Trio formula. That first week went very well and the Kingston TrioBob Shane, Nick Reynolds and Dave Guardwere asked to stay on for another week, and then another, and then another. Mary Travers/Living or Deceased. Of the Trio, he wrote "The Kingston Trio will leave little mark musically, but it has a heck of a lot of fun, mostly clowning its way through a series of hillbilly, Latin, and calypso things to the great delight of the audience. ''I'm very upset,'' said Nick Reynolds, a member of the . While in jail, Tom said that he was the sole murderer of Laura Foster, a confession that led to the acquittal of Ann Foster Melton in her trial. 'You'll be more peaceful,' The singer and songwriter, who was instrumental in the revival of folk music in the late 50s, suffered from complications arising from pneumonia Sunday, which led to his death, USA Today reported. The stark, guitar- and banjo-driven sound was very unusual to hear on a major label. Donald David Guard was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on October 19, 1934. We played and sang Hawaiian music and mellow music, Shane recalls. He played exquisite, heartbreaking country Whole Lotta Shakin' and he starts was forced to leave his mansion . A TRIO OF THE RNZAF'S P-3S ON THEIR . IMPORTANT! Reynolds eventually On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. They two students quickly discovered that Shanes baritone and Reynolds tenor blended beautifully and, more importantly at the time, that their singing got them invited to the best parties. The Kingston Trie 25 Years Non-Stop, Xeres, 1982. When did Dave Guard die? Los Angeles, Dreamville just announced its 2023 festival lineup and now everybody wants a ticket, Ozzy Osbourne rejects notion of retiring after canceling tour: Im not dying, Evan Rachel Wood denies allegation that she manipulated Marilyn Manson accuser, Ben Kwellers son Dorian Zev killed in car crash: No idea how to deal with this , Justin Biebers Justice world tour canceled after several postponements. It looks like you're using an ad blocker. Landed in everything, from gravel fields to grass fields to airfields to whatever. I lost a lot of friends in the folk world for that slip-up, Wein later said. go for Irish-type endings. A Trio Pairs Up to Track Down Legends February 19, 1934, San Francisco, California,.. ", Their hotel in Armagh, the Ulster Arms, had its sign blasted When Shane left the Calypsonians and returned to Hawaii to work in his family's business, Guard added two members, bassist Joe Gannon and vocalist Barbara Bogue, making the Calypsonians a quartet. In the summer of 1957, comedian Phyllis Diller was forced at the last minute to cancel a weeklong booking at San Franciscos Purple Onion nightclub. over the years, this song from Up And In is In 1959 alone, they had four albums at the same time among the ten top-selling albums. "We then started singing for beers," Reynolds recalled. At the time, no folk music category existed. Reached in Coronado, Calif., Reynolds said he had visited Guard two months ago and he was in remission., We were talking about doing a reunion, he said. to The hits kept on coming: M.T.A., A Worried Man and The Tijuana Jail all made the Top 40. The original members were Dave Guard (b. October 19, 1934, San Francisco, California, U.S.d. Playing with Dave and Nick, we had earned why did dave guard leave the kingston trio gold records and two. The soundtrack to How the West Was Won was the group's final recorded appearance to be released commercially. I had always liked it," he explained. Dave Guard Folksinger #136570. That June, they found themselves playing at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel in Honolulu when they got some surprising news. spectrum is divided into 12 departments." Thirteen of the group's albums, which included such hit songs as "A Worried Man" and "Tijuana Jail," reached the Top Ten. How do I create a SharePoint List template? It was a great idea because they didnt have much television in Hawaii yet, so you could do whatever you wanted. And although he was doing pretty well as a solo performer, he really missed singing in harmony. He died on March 22, 1991 in Rollinsford, New Hampshire, USA. contact@britainatwar.com Home Last show A B.E.2C OF 'C' FLIGHT IN DARFUR WHEN SUPPORTING THE Guard! They moved to a dream world in Australia. Judy Henske was eventually replaced by Liz Seneff, but the Whiskeyhill Singers were disbanded in late 1962 after Guard left for Australia. In 1976, Bill Zorn left the New Kingston Trio to work as a solo performer and record producer in London. Tom Dula himself supposedly composed the third ballad, although today most folklorists doubt that claim. The period of the original Kingston Trio, between 1957 and 1961, when Guard left the group, was the highlight of our careers, said Reynolds, who with Bob Shane, a high school friend of Guard in Hawaii, has remained with the group. We were both big fans of the Weavers and just loved the way they harmonized. After the second trial, Tom Dula was hanged on May 1, 1868. for Folk Era Records. As the months dragged on, Werber and the Trio found they were getting a good response from the folk songs the group sang, so they began to add more to the act. That was some day. The crowd was pounding their feet on the bleachers and making this weird rumbling sound. "because the constant travel was depriving me of life's values." We seemed to be the only tourists in Northern Ireland At the time, none of us could read music, and this was the best way of doing that. design for it. Over the next several years, Dave Guard put out a couple of eclectic but fine solo albums When Tom heard that deputies from Wilkes County were coming to arrest him, he ran away, only to be hunted down and arrested by Grayson. The new version of the Kingston Trio continued to prosper, until in 1967 the three members decided to call it a day and the band broke up. Giving his partners notice that he intended to leave the Trio, and unwilling to cause the group he had founded to disband, Guard agreed to stay on with the Trio until his personal commitments were completed and until Shane and Reynolds were able to find a suitable replacement for him. site, a British Army helicopter buzzed us. He had a TV folk music See full bio Born: October 19, 1934 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA Died: It is a great guitar! !, Dave Guard ( b. October 19, 1978, San Francisco Sunday why did dave guard leave the kingston trio Chronicle. At the time, calypso music was extremely popular, and the group played songs like Jamaica Farwell and Come Back, Liza that Harry Belafonte, the reigning king of calypso, hade made popular. The Kingston Trio were one such group, transforming folk music into a hot commodity and creating a demand -- where none had existed before -- for young men (sometimes with women) strumming acoustic guitars and banjos and singing folk songs and folk-like novelty songs in harmony. Guard was upset because Shane and Reynolds seemed to be unconcerned about it. She really liked the music, but she had a soft spot for the Kingston Trio because in 1956, when she was a teenager, Dave Guard pulled her out of a wrecked car. We never called ourselves folk singers; somebody else did that. in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Capitol producer Voyle Gilmore had previously worked with Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland. He's 20, 22, 23, there's all that intense and personal. The Trio hit on the idea of playing on college campuses, the first band to discover this lucrative market. idea for writing "Colour Guitar," a teaching book relating music theory He also made occasional concert appearances with John Stewart, his replacement in the Trio who was by then a respected and successful solo performer. friend, Bob Shane, met Nick Reynolds, who like them was a college student in the San Francisco Bay Area. interest anyone. We feel we will be visiting old friends at the de Young show, We would go see folk acts in San Francisco when they were playing, Shane says. )They also continued to release LPs at an almost alarming rate. His memorial service in Portsmouth, New Hampshire was attended by Bob Shane, Glen Yarbrough, the Limeliters and many other figures from the folk world. THE ESCAPE OF OLD JOHN WEBB - The Kingston Trio - from String Along March 22, 1991, Rollinsford, New Hampshire), Bob Shane (b. 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