Kingston Trio Orig 8 x 10" photograph vintage 1960s

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This is an original old vintage 8 x 10" inch real photograph of Kingston Trio the the famous 1960s folk / rock band . . . probably a photo sent to fans or given away at shows. ! very good condition !!! this is a vintage photo from the 1960s era . . reads on back ion blue ink stamp " filed aug ". on front reads : " kingston trio exclusive capitaol recording artists " . great condition this came from a large collection of autographs, movie star photos, political photos and autographs , musican photos and more ... see my auctions for more of these all the time !! SEE MORE Big Band , Jazz , musician photos on now !!!! Some info about Kingston trio: The Kingston Trio is an American folk and pop music group. They helped launch the folk revival of the late-1950s to early 1960s, and continued to thrive as an acoustic group despite the increasing dominance of rock and roll .The Kingston Trio was formed in 1957 in the Palo Alto , California , area by Dave Guard , Bob Shane and Nick Reynolds , who were just out of college. Greatly influenced by The Weavers , the calypso sounds of Harry Belafonte , and other semi-popular folk artists such as the Gateway Singers and the Tarriers. They were discovered playing at a Menlo College area club called the Cracked Pot in northern California by Frank Werber, a local publicist then working at the Hungry i . He became their manager, and secured them a one-shot deal with Capitol Records . Bob Shane would later tell concert audiences that the group considered itself at first to be primarily a calypso group, and tfore named itself after the capital of Jamaica .Their first hit was a catchy rendition of an old-time folk song, " Tom Dooley ," (based upon the life of the tragic figure, Tom Dula ) which went gold in 1958. It was so popular that it entered popular culture as a catchphrase: Ella Fitzgerald , for example, parodies it during her recorded version of " Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer ." It won them the first Grammy award for Best Country & Western Performance in 1959. The next year, they won the first Grammy Award for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording category for the album The Kingston Trio at Large .At one point in the early 1960s The Kingston Trio had four albums at the same time among the Top 10 selling albums, a record unmatched for nearly 40 years. In spite of this, they had a relatively small number of hit singles.The group's music was simple and accessible, with much use of tight vocal harmony , signature riffs (often played on the banjo ), and repetitive choruses. Capitol producer Voyle Gilmore [1] enhanced their vocal sound to great effect with reverb and the relatively new process of doubletracking , in which the performers sang along with their own pre-recorded part to produce a stronger sound than with a single voice, in part due to a natural time gap of a fraction of a second between the original recording and the overdubbed part. At first pairs of tape recorders were used, then later multitrack recording machines, to produce the effect.Several of the group's most popular songs were humorous numbers, such as "Tijuana Jail", the tale of an ill-fated trip to Mexico, and "MTA" , the saga of a man who "never returned" from the Boston subway system. A concert favorite was the darkly humorous "Merry Minuet", a tuneful meditation on the prospect of nuclear war . see if you have any questions please email us at Buyer pays close as possible to actual US postal service shipping rates . . we do not have handling or packing fee. We will be happy to combine shipping on multiple items. Note our OVER 8000 100% positive feeback ! photo photos photograph photographs music musician jazz two band bands leader famous hollywood sing singer music folk guita guiats guitars 1960s 1960 60s 60's 1960's < read more

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