BAND PROFILE 1957–1967

The Kingston Trio

United States

Traditional Folk MusicFolkPop

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BIOGRAPHY

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. 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 LP records and helped alter the direction of popular music in the U.S.

Biography summary from English Wikipedia, photograph via Wikimedia Commons.

MEMBERS

— Bob Shane CURRENT MEMBER

— Dave Guard CURRENT MEMBER

— Nick Reynolds CURRENT MEMBER

— Bill Zorn CURRENT MEMBER

— John Stewart CURRENT MEMBER

DISCOGRAPHY

1958 The Kingston Trio EP

1958 The Kingston Trio ALBUM

1959 Tom Dooley EP

1959 Stereo Concert LIVE

1959 The Kingston Trio at Large ALBUM

1959 The Tijuana Jail EP

1959 …from the “Hungry i” LIVE

1959 Here We Go Again! ALBUM

1960 Sold Out ALBUM

1960 El Matador EP

1960 String Along ALBUM

1960 The Last Month of the Year ALBUM

1961 Make Way ALBUM

1961 Lemon Tree EP

1961 Goin' Places ALBUM

1961 Close‐Up ALBUM

1962 Something Special ALBUM

1962 The Best of the Kingston Trio COMPILATION

1962 New Frontier ALBUM

1962 Kingston Trio Encores COMPILATION

1962 College Concert LIVE

1963 Time to Think ALBUM

1963 Sing A Song With The Kingston Trio ALBUM

1963 Sunny Side! ALBUM

1963 #16 ALBUM

1964 Back in Town LIVE

1965 The Best of the Kingston Trio, Vol. 2 COMPILATION

1965 Stay Awhile ALBUM

1965 Somethin’ Else ALBUM

1965 The Kingston Trio (Nick-Bob-John) ALBUM

1966 Children of the Morning ALBUM

1969 Once Upon a Time LIVE

1982 The Kingston Trio (La grande storia del rock) COMPILATION

1986 Stereo Concert Plus! LIVE

1987 Treasure Chest COMPILATION

1987 The Very Best of The Kingston Trio COMPILATION

1988 An Evening With The Kingston Trio COMPILATION

1989 Everybody's Talking ALBUM

1989 Greatest Hits COMPILATION

1989 We Wish You a Merry Christmas COMPILATION

1990 The Capitol Collector's Series COMPILATION

1991 Tom Dooley & Other Hits COMPILATION

1991 20 Greatest Hits COMPILATION

1991 Early American Heroes COMPILATION

1991 Made in the USA ALBUM

1991 At Large / Here We Go Again! COMPILATION

1991 Best Of The Best COMPILATION

1991 Greatest Hits COMPILATION

1992 The Kingston Trio / ...From the Hungry I COMPILATION

1992 The Most of COMPILATION

1992 The Very Best of the Kingston Trio ALBUM

1992 Make Way / Goin' Places COMPILATION

1992 Sold Out / String Along COMPILATION

1993 Stay Awhile ALBUM

1993 Live at the Crazy Horse LIVE

1993 All Time Greatest Hits COMPILATION

1994 Their Greatest Hits and Finest Performances COMPILATION

1994 Live at Newport LIVE

1995 Greatest Hits COMPILATION

1995 40 Legendary Hits COMPILATION

1995 The Capitol Years COMPILATION

1996 The Original COMPILATION

1997 The Guard Years COMPILATION

1997 Tom Dooley and Other Folksong Hits COMPILATION

1998 Best of the Decca Years COMPILATION

1999 Close-Up / College Concert COMPILATION

1999 #16 / Sunny Side! ALBUM

1999 Tom Dooley COMPILATION

2000 The Very Best of the Kingston Trio COMPILATION

2000 The Stewart Years COMPILATION

2000 Both Sides of the Kingston Trio, Volume 2 COMPILATION

2000 Both Sides of the Kingston Trio, Volume 1 COMPILATION

2000 Live in Reno 1976 LIVE

2000 Trio Treasures And Folk Favorites COMPILATION

2000 Something Special + Back in Town COMPILATION

2001 The Kingston Trio COMPILATION

2001 Sold Out / String Along COMPILATION

2001 The Extreme ALBUM

2002 Absolutely the Best of The Kingston Trio COMPILATION

2003 Kings of the American Folk Revival COMPILATION

2003 Forever Gold COMPILATION

2004 Live Forever Gold ALBUM

2004 The Flowers Are All Gone LIVE

2006 The Essential Kingston Trio COMPILATION

2007 The Lost 1967 Album Rarities Vol. 1 COMPILATION

2007 The Final Concert LIVE

2008 Turning Like Forever Rarities Volume Two COMPILATION

2008 Songs from Yesteryear: Sing-along favourites COMPILATION

2009 Flashback! 1963 LIVE

2010 Live at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium LIVE

2012 Born At the Right Time ALBUM

2014 On A Cold Winter's Night - The Kingston Trio Holiday Concert LIVE

2017 The Five #1 Billboard Albums COMPILATION

2018 Collection 1958-62 COMPILATION

2023 Tom Dooley COMPILATION

2025 Essential Classics, Vol. 852: The Kingston Trio COMPILATION

— A Worried Man EP

— American Troubadours COMPILATION

— Made In The U. S. A. COMPILATION

— The Primo Collection 2CD Set ALBUM

Discography via MusicBrainz.

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