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  • The Kingston Trio
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  • The Kingston Trio
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  • Whiskeyhill_Singers
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  • Musical trios
  • Grammy Award winners
  • Capitol Records artists
  • Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners
  • American folk musical groups
  • Decca Records artists
  • Musical groups established in 1957
  • Musical groups from the San Francisco Bay Area
abstract
  • US folk group formed in 1957. Disbanded in 1967.Bob Shane revived the group in 1969. (the only original member at the time). Nick Reynolds re-joined from 1999 to 2004.Having gone through many iterations the group is still performing as at 2014 although none of the original members are in the line up.
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  • The Kingston Trio is an American folk and pop music group that helped launch the folk revival of the late 1950s to late 1960s. The group started as a San Francisco Bay Area nightclub act with an original lineup of Dave Guard, Bob Shane, and Nick Reynolds. It rose to international popularity, fueled by unprecedented sales of 33⅓ rpm long-playing record albums (LPs), and helped to alter the direction of popular music in the U.S.The Kingston Trio was one of the most prominent groups of the era's pop-folk boom that started in 1958 with the release of their first album and its hit recording of %22Tom Dooley%22, which sold over three million copies as a single. The Trio released nineteen albums that made Billboard's Top 100, fourteen of which ranked in the top 10, and five of which hit the number 1 spot. Four of the group's LPs charted among the 10 top-selling albums for five weeks in November and December 1959, a record unmatched for more than 50 years, and the group still ranks after half a century in the all-time lists of many of Billboard's cumulative charts, including those for most weeks with a number 1 album, most total weeks charting an album, most number 1 albums, most consecutive number 1 albums, and most top ten albums.In 1961, the Trio was described as %22the most envied, the most imitated, and the most successful singing group, folk or otherwise, in all show business%22 and %22the undisputed kings of the folksinging rage by every yardstick.%22 Music historian Richie Unterberger characterized their impact as %22phenomenal popularity%22, and the Kingston Trio's massive record sales in its early days made acoustic folk music commercially viable, paving the way for singer-songwriter, folk rock, and Americana artists who followed in their wake.
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  • The Kingston Trio
  • Kingston Trio (Bob Shane)
  • Kingston Trio, The
  • Original Kingston Trio
  • The King Ston Trio
  • The Kingstone Trio
  • キングストン・トリオ
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  • 1967
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  • 1957
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  • The Kingston Trio
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