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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 bands of the era's pop-folk boom that started in 1958 with the release of their first album and its hit recording of "Tom Dooley", 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 Top 10 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. Music historian Richie Unterberger characterized their impact as "phenomenal popularity", 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.
String Along is an album by The Kingston Trio, released in 1960 (see 1960 in music). It was their fifth studio album in a row to reach number one on the Billboard charts and remained there for ten weeks. String Along received an RIAA gold certification in 1962, a year after Dave Guard had left the group. It was the last LP of the Trio to reach the number one spot. Two singles, "Bad Man Blunder" b/w "The Escape of Old John Webb" and "Everglades" b/w "This Mornin', This Evenin', So Soon", were released.[1] Both were the last singles of the "Guard years" Trio to chart, "Bad Man Blunder" the last to reach the Top 40."The Escape of Old John Webb" is an old English folk song and was deliberately recorded in an attempt to increase the Trio's popularity in Great Britain. Dave Guard played Gibson's first 12-string guitar on this album.
1. "Bad Man Blunder" (Lee Hays, Cisco Houston)
2. "The Escape of Old John Webb" (Tom Drake)
3. "When I Was Young" (Jane Bowers, Dave Guard)
4. "Leave My Woman Alone" (Ray Charles)
5. "This Mornin', This Evenin', So Soon" (Carl Sandburg)
6. "Everglades" (Harlan Howard)
Side two
1. "Buddy Better Get on Down the Line" (Bowers, Guard)
2. "South Wind" (Travis Edmonson)
3. "Who's Gonna Hold Her Hand" (Tom Drake, Bob Shane)
4. "To Morrow" (Bob Gibson)
5. "Colorado Trail" (Lee Hays, Carl Sandburg)
6. "The Tattooed Lady" (Traditional, Guard, Reynolds, Shane)