[52], Following the hungry i engagement, Reynolds moved to Port Orford, Oregon and pursued interests in ranching, business, and race cars for the next twenty years. [69], On August 11, 2017, the case against Grove, Zorn, and Dougherty was dismissed with prejudice in the same Los Angeles court and consequently cannot be re-filed.[70]. What the trio says made music accessible to all their fans and had a major effect on pop culture. Members of the Kingston Group, a powerful polygamous group in Utah, have filed a lawsuit claiming they were forced into underage marriages with their relatives to keep their blood "pure," were . The Guardian typically does not identify people who allege to be a victim of sexual violence, but the publicly available lawsuit identifies Michaels, Lancaster and other plaintiffs by name. The Kingston Trio are the missing link between the Weavers, The Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, Crosby, Stills and Nash, Dan Fogelberg, America, etc., etc., etc., Gorelangton also shared, It got them inspired to start making their own music. The Kingston Trio started one of the first pop culture movements before The Beatles. Both Dot Records and Liberty Records expressed some interest, but each proposed to record the Trio on 45 rpm (revolutions per minute) singles only, whereas Werber and the Trio members both felt that .mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}33+13 rpm albums had more potential for the group's music. Werber liked the group's raw energy but did not consider them refined enough to want to represent them as an agent or manager at that point, though he left his telephone number with Guard. This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. In 1866, Laura Foster was murdered. "[94], Among the many other artists who cite the Kingston Trio as a formative influence in their musical careers are comedian, actor, and banjo player Steve Martin,[95][96] Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac,[97] singer-songwriter Paul Simon,[98] Timothy B. Schmit[99][100] of The Eagles, pioneering folk-rock artist Gram Parsons,[101] Stephen Stills and David Crosby of Crosby, Stills, and Nash,[102] The Beach Boys' Al Jardine,[103] Big Brother and the Holding Company founding member Peter Albin,[104] Denny Doherty of The Mamas and the Papas,[105] banjo master Tony Trischka,[106] pop groups ABBA[107] and The Bee Gees,[108] Jefferson Airplane founding members Marty Balin[109] and Paul Kantner,[110] Buffalo Springfield founding member Richie Furay,[111] Byrds co-founder Gene Clark,[112] roots musician and master mandolin player David Grisman,[113] singer-songwriters Tom Paxton,[87]Harry Chapin,[114] Jimmy Buffett,[115] Tim Buckley,[116] Steve Goodman,[117] Steve Gillette,[118] Michael Smith[119] (composer of "The Dutchman"), and Shawn Colvin,[120] folk-rock group We Five co-founder Jerry Burgan,[121] folk and rock musician Jerry Yester,[122] rock photographer and Modern Folk Quartet musician Henry Diltz,[123] and progressive jazz vocal group Manhattan Transfer. "Tom Dooley" prompted a number of parodies, either as part of other songs or as entire songs. The son of one of the band's founding members says he paid $100K for a 10-year exclusive license. This was the beginning of a remarkable three-year run for the Trio in which its first five studio albums achieved number 1 chart status and were awarded gold records. The Kingston polygamist family has responded after a lawsuit was filed against them, accusing the group and its leaders of sexual abuse, fraud, child labor, and more. [128], Satirist Tom Lehrer has acknowledged the Trio's pioneering of college concerts, observing that before the Kingstons "there was no real concert circuitThe Kingston Trio started all that,"[129] and in Time magazine, critic Richard Corliss asserted, "In my youth, they changed pop music, and me with it. Col. James Grayson was actually a Tennessee politician who had hired Dula on his farm when the young man fled North Carolina under suspicion and was using a false name. Amanda Rae Grant alleges her father is Verl Johnson, accusing him of marrying 17-year-old Lori Peterson and two others to produce 33 children. Nick Reynolds, another of the originals, re-joined from 1988 to 1999. The nine years of this configuration was to that point the longest period of time that any three musicians had worked together as the Kingston Trio, and the group released two albums of largely original material.[60]. Without the production facilities of Capitol, however, and the expertise of Voyle Gilmore and engineer Pete Abbott, the Decca releases lacked the aural brilliance of the Capitol albums,[9] and none of the four sold especially well. [4] There are several earlier known recordings, notably one that Grayson and Whitter made in 1929, approximately 10 years before Proffitt cut his own recording. Rounding it out is Tim Gorelangton, one of the only people Nick ever recorded with outside the Trio. Reynolds and Marvin have the exclusive right to use the mark beginning Tuesday, according to the complaint, which is posted in full below. I didn't harm a hair on the girl's head. Click here to login, 2023, Portfolio Media, Inc. | About | Contact Us | Legal Jobs | Advertise with Law360 | Careers at Law360 | Terms | Privacy Policy | Cookie Settings | Help | Site Map, Enter your details below and select your area(s) of interest to stay ahead of the curve and receive Law360's daily newsletters, Email (NOTE: Free email domains not supported). The Kingston Trio were one such group, transforming folk music into a hot commodity and creating a demandwhere none had existed beforefor young men (sometimes with women) strumming acoustic guitars and banjos and singing folk songs and folk-like novelty songs in harmony. "[79], Frank Proffitt, the Appalachian musician whose version of "Tom Dooley" the Trio rearranged, watched their performance of his song on a television show and wrote in reaction, "They clowned and hipswung. I remind myself that people are not there to see me. Despite the unpleasantness, Shane and Guard reconciled to a large degree (even to the point of planning a possible reunion tour)[63] prior to Guard's death at age 56 from lymphoma nine years later in March 1991. Frank Werber, a talent agent who had an office above the venue, saw this as a perfect opportunity for the new act he had just signed to get some much needed stage experience. In the 1980 film Friday the 13th, the campers in the opening scene start to sing the song. 144.76.68.173 Consequently, in October 2017, Grove, Zorn, and Dougherty were replaced as the Trio by new licensees Reynolds and Marvin and their friend, Tim Gorelangton. The Kingston Trio is making a stop on Saturday night in Bozeman and rounding off the tour in Billings. One of the more famous murder ballads, a popular hit version recorded in 1958 by The Kingston Trio, which reached No. By Hailey Konnath (June 27, 2019, 8:26 PM EDT) -- Members of the latest iteration of legendary 1950s folk and pop group The Kingston Trio have again come to blows both literally and figuratively over money, touring and the band's trademark, according to a new suit filed Wednesday in California federal court. Access to case data within articles (numbers, filings, courts, nature of suit, and more. 01/1965. A year later, following Haworth's departure, Grove and Zorn were joined by Rick Dougherty, who had performed for a time with Zorn as second-generation members of another popular folk group from the 1960s, The Limeliters.[64]. The lawsuit contains explicit details of how Kingston Group leaders - who also own and operate several businesses and schools in the suburbs of Utah's capital, Salt Lake City - allegedly. Almost from its inception, the Kingston Trio found itself at odds with the traditional music community. 0:00. Copyright 2023 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. Warner had learned the song from Proffitt, who learned it from his aunt, Nancy Prather, whose parents had known both Laura Foster and Tom Dula. However, more than 130 years later, polygamist sects exist in close-knit settlements throughout the state, including the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), run by its imprisoned leader and convicted rapist Warren Jeffs. [2] 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. The Kingston Trio hit inspired the film, The Legend of Tom Dooley (1959), starring Michael Landon, co-starring Richard Rust. They met at the Punahou School in Honolulu, where they often sang together. The British Invasion spearheaded by The Beatles, who were signed by EMI/Capitol just as the Trio's seven-year contract was running out, depressed sales of acoustic folk albums significantly, and Capitol did not make a serious effort to re-sign the group. Tourism is sucking Utah dry. She accuses Kingston Jr of physically overpowering and raping her to try to get her pregnant. I could see the picturethe Kingston Trio were probably the best commercial group going, and they seemed to know what they were doing. [22] Through Jimmy Saphier, agent for Bob Hope who had seen and liked the group at The Purple Onion, Werber contacted Capitol Records, which dispatched prominent producer Voyle Gilmore to San Francisco to evaluate the Trio's commercial potential. Kingston Trio : US folk group formed in 1957. The plaintiffs complaint added those practices facilitated so-called attempts by the Kingston Group to bleed the beast a term used in polygamous communities to describe how they can benefit by defrauding the government and its taxpayers. However, the fraud accusations confronting the Kingston Group extend well beyond Washakie and other Order-run businesses. "[61] The different configurations of the Trio took turns performing sets of the group's best-known songs with all the artists joining onstage for a finale. Please see our Privacy Policy. [9] Reynolds was also able to create and sing tenor harmonies, a skill derived in part from family singalongs,[10] and could play both guitar and bongo and conga drums. [88], Further, Peter Dreier points out that "the group deserves credit for helping to launch the folk boom that brought recognition to older folkies and radicals like Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, and for paving the way for newcomers like Joan Baez, Bob Dylan and Phil Ochs, who were well known for their progressive political views and topical songs. They were the greatest of the bands to emerge after the McCarthy-era blacklisting of folk musicians and breathed new air into the genre."[89]. Current members of The Kingston Trio are, from left, Don Marovich, Mike Marvin and Tim Gorelangton. Over the years, the Kingston Trio expanded its song selection beyond the rearranged traditional numbers, calypso songs, and Broadway show tunes that had appeared on its first several albums. In early August 2017, sole Kingston Trio owner Bob Shane announced the licensing of his trademark to the Josh Reynolds/Mike Marvin group of investors. "Tom Dooley" fits within the wider genre of Appalachian "sweetheart murder ballads". The Kingston Trio took their version from Frank Warner's singing. 29:28. Group members knew of the abuse, her complaint alleges, but did not report or stop it. 5. In a lawsuit filed earlier this month, the sects ex-members allege: It is largely through illegal marriage practices that the [Kingston Group] is able to unlawfully make girls and their children religious martyrs and traffic them for sexual and labor purposes.. #1 - Tom Dooley Four of the group's LPs charted among the 10 top-selling albums for five weeks in November and December 1959,[3] a record unmatched for more than 50 years,[4] and the group still ranks 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. The song was selected as one of the American Songs of the Century by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the National Endowment for the Arts, and Scholastic Inc. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.[1]. "[86] Bob Shane remarked years later: "To call the Kingston Trio folksingers was kind of stupid in the first place. The group came to national prominence in 1958 during the folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s. "[46] Six of the group's next seven albums between 1961 and 1963 continued to place in Billboard's Top Ten and several of the group's most successful singles, including "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" According to the Kingston Trio website, In retrospect, Buddy now sees that he has been preparing his entire life to take on this amazing challenge as a bona fide member of The Kingston Trio.. [17], Werber imposed a stern training regimen on Guard, Shane, and Reynolds, rehearsing them for six to eight hours a day for several months, sending them to prominent San Francisco vocal coach Judy Davis to help them learn to preserve their voices, and working on the group's carefully prepared but apparently spontaneous banter between songs. [6] The 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.[1]. [81] Both Proffitt and fellow North Carolina musician Doc Watson sang the older version of the tune, which had "a lively mocking tempo that retained some of the ghastliness and moral squalor of an actual murder",[82] according to folk historian Robert Cantwell, who also notes that the Kingston Trio's version of the song omitted several verses from the traditional lyric. [citation needed], Dula was tried in Statesville because it was believed he could not get a fair trial in Wilkes County. : An Introduction to Rock and Its History", Kingston Trio Liner Notes: Song Profile, "Scotch and Soda", "Folk Music, Copyright, and the Public Domain", "Did the Beatles kill America's radio stars? Already a subscriber? [7] While in Punahou's secondary school, Shane taught first himself and then Guard the rudiments of the six-string guitar,[8] and the two began performing at parties and in school shows doing an eclectic mix of Tahitian, Hawaiian, and calypso songs. PLEASE NOTE: A verification email will be sent to your address before you can access your trial. The conduct of Defendants (and others), which is entirely inconsistent with the collaborative and positive spirit of the sixty-year history of The Kingston Trio, must be dealt with now, before it is too late, and the value of the Kingston Trio name is diluted beyond repair.. 23. This event is a . It was a phenomenon, as influential in its time as The Beatles would become in theirs. The allegations facing the Kingston Group come after the state of Utah effectively decriminalized polygamy between consenting adults in 2020, making plural marriage an infraction similar in gravity to a speeding ticket. Askanews. Theyre suing Grove, Zorn, Dougherty and Gary for trademark infringement and dilution, among other claims, and are seeking an injunction that bars defendants from using the trademark for the next decade. A Western set after the Civil War, it was not about traditional Tom Dula legends or the facts of the case, but a fictional treatment tailored to fit the lyrics of the song. Capitol Records,[65] Decca Records,[66] Collector's Choice Music,[67] and Folk Era Records[68] have released and continue to release compilations of older albums as well as previously unreleased tapes of both studio and live recordings from the Kingston Trio's first ten years. They got us interested in trying to put the good stuff out therethe Kingston Trio. This pioneering and long-running folk/pop quartet was formed in 1957 by University of Washington fraternity brothers Bob Flick (upright bass, vocals), Mike Kirkland (guitar, banjo, vocals), John Paine (guitar, vocals) and Richard Foley (guitar, vocals). [citation needed] The confusion was compounded by the fact that Dr. Tom Dooley, an American physician known for international humanitarian work, was at the height of his fame in 1958 when the Kingston Trio version became a major hit. Heading into 1957, the Calypso craze was roaring, as Harry Belafontes hit record soared to a whopping one million copies sold. Vanguard Academys leaders sued state charter school officials in response, and a judge issued a restraining order that kept the targeted governing board members in their positions. The Kingston Trio have a central place in the folk music revival of the late 50s and early 60s, when, for a couple of years, they were arguably the most popular vocal group in the world. [73] At the end of 2018, Haworth left the group and was replaced by another former Limeliter, Don Marovich. Nick Reynolds, another of the originals, re-joined from 1988 to 1999. Nine of the plaintiffs claim the Kingston Group made them begin working during their elementary or preschool days through their late teenage years. Shane died Sunday at a hospice in Phoenix, Arizona at age 85. The 64-year-old actor has pleaded not guilty to two charges of involuntary manslaughter over the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, 42, on the set of the Western in October 2021, and now faces a new lawsuit over the tragedy from film workers who say they were left physically and emotionally traumatised by the incident. 702 of Mystery Science Theater 3000. Members of the Kingston Group operate several businesses and schools in the suburbs of Utahs capital. A view of Salt Lake City. I went out and bawled on the ridge. In July 2017, Billboard reported that a lawsuit had been filed in Los Angeles by Josh Reynolds, son of Nick Reynolds, and his cousin Gerald "Mike" Marvin. At Menlo, Shane became friends with Nick Reynolds, a native San Diegan with an extensive knowledge of folk and calypso songsin part from his guitar-playing father, a career officer in the U.S. It marked the latest chapter in Utahs long, complicated history with polygamy. They were spotted by Dave Brubeck's . The lawsuit alleged that Shane and his associates accepted $100,000 from the Reynolds group in exchange for exclusive rights to use the trademarked name of the band but then allowed Grove, Zorn and Dougherty to perform as the Kingston Trio at concerts booked by Gary. Website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks Dave... 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