Favorite Kingston Trio song?

There must be someone else who grew up with this stuff in the early 60s like I did.

I always preferred Dave Guard to John Stewart. Those in the know will understand that.

Any faves?

All The Flowers Gone (and Blowing in the Wind). She would be denounced as brainwashing innocent children if she tried it today in public schools . . . .

Had a dangerous Bolshevik as her grade-school choir director. Sang Kingston Trio and Peter, Paul, and Mary.

Danger, Will Robinson... ;-)

...EVERY TIME. I mean, if Charley's wife could hand him his lunch, why couldn't she hand him a nickle?

But I literally grew up in the anti-Vietnam-war movement (draft # 115 in 1971) and Flowers always makes me cry, so I voted Flowers.

Have All the Flowers Gone." Nobody else did M.T.A. that I know of.

I was a student teacher in 1967 and taught my kids (elementary age) "This Land is Your Land." Woody ruled then and still does.

I'm pretty sure that's the name of it: "They're rioting in Africa , they're starving in Spain, there's hurricanes in Florida, and Texas needs rain, but we can be tranquil, and thankful, and proud, for man's been endowed with a mushroom-shaped cloud, and we know for certain that some sunny day, someone will push the button and we will all be blown away." I loved the Kingston trio. I think I was in 7th grade when "Tom Dooley" was wildly popular.

"And I don't like anybody very much!"

South Africans hate the Dutch..."

It just don't get no better! :D

Will be done by our fellow man!"

Prophetic.

nevermind

The Merry Minuet
The Kingston Trio
Words and Music by Sheldon Harnick

-From their 1959 LP "From the Hungry i"

They’re rioting in Africa (whistling)
They’re starving in Spain (whistling)
There’s hurricanes in Flo-ri-da (whistling)
And Texas needs rain
The whole world is festering with unhappy souls
The French hate the Germans, the Germans hate the Poles
Italians hate Yugoslavs, South Africans hate the Dutch
AND I DON’T LIKE ANYBODY VERY MUCH!!

But we can be tranquil and thankful and proud
For man’s been endowed with a mushroom-shaped cloud
And we know for certain that some lovely day
Someone will set the spark off
AND WE WILL ALL BE BLOWN AWAY!!

They’re rioting in Africa (whistling)
There’s strife in Iran
What nature doesn’t so to us
Will be done by our fellow *man*---

"Leave a bottle full for others, thank you kindly, Desert Pete."

I was sure I'd just give up and drink the water.

Extra points if you can tell me who The Charmer was.

but I'm not telling.

First it wasn't likely to have been originally performed by the Charmer as it is attributed to being a song from Trinidad while The Charmer was from NYC. It is also unlikely that the original artist was Lord Invader which is the attribution given by the Kingston Trio.

And To keep the competition open, all I will answer with are the initials of the Charmer, LF.

It was the B-Side of Tom Dooley. As a kid I liked it much more than Tom Dooley.

Okay, so I was weird, so what? You gotta problem with that?

And a couple of those already listed.

"Glory glory hallelujah
Glory glory hallelujah
Glory glory hallelujah
Our truth is marching on

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the launching of the sword
It is trampling out the vintage where the strangers wealth is stored
We have loosed our fateful lightning and with flame and death as sport
Our might is marching on

Glory glory hallelujah
Glory glory hallelujah
Glory glory hallelujah
Our might is marching on

I have seen it in the watchfires of a hundred foreign camps
Where we’ve build it in an altar in the eastern dews and damps
I have read its righteous sentence by the light of human lamps
Our power is marching on

I’ve seen its gospel message writ in burnished rows of steel
As men deal with our pretensions so to them our wealth shall heal
Let the mighty sons of freedom crush the patriots with their heel
Our greed is marching on


From the halls of Montezuma
Glory glory hallelujah

To the shores of Tripoli
Glory glory hallelujah

We will fight our country’s battles
Glory glory hallelujah

Our greed is marching on"

it's fantastic...!

edit to note:

this line actually says (i'm listening to it right now)...

As men deal with our pretensions so with them our wealth shall heal...

No he never returned
But his fate is still unlearned
He may ride forever neath the streets of Boston
He's the man who never returned

MTA is my all-time favorite.

I will admit, though, I'd memorized "Tom Dooley" by the age of 4.

But there is so much to choose from. The Zombie Jamboree (named by some above) is a hilarious delight. It is hear on Hungry i album, recorded live in 1959. The same album also contains The Merry Minuit and their signature closing number, When the Saints Go Marching In.

The Dave Guard years are the best of KT.