>For five years the Kingston Trio were one of the biggest-selling music acts in America. They had four singles make the Billboard Top 15 and two ("Tom Dooley" and "Reverend Mr. Black") the Top 10. Yet even their albums were huge sellers in an era when pop music was still predominantly singles-based--five of them reached #1 in 1959-60 and three others reached #2 and #3. At one point the Trio were not only Capitol's single biggest act, but all by themselves accounted for a quarter of the label's total annual revenues from record sales.>The Kingston Trio were unceremoniously dropped by Capitol in 1964, within weeks of the Beatles' appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show.
They were right not to renew the Kingstons' contract, since no one listened to folk music in the 60s.
>>130456208>They were right not to renew the Kingstons' contract, since no one listened to folk music in the 60s.that particular brand of corny housewife folk had gotten a little played out by 64
>>130456162Corny slop. Dylan and the Beatles instantly ended them and even their labelmates the Beach Boys were a legit rock group.
their Christmas album was kind of neat for having more obscure material on it instead of the 920th recording of "Silent Night" or "Sleigh Ride"
>>130456162the classic Guard-era group imo had too many songs like The Tijuana Jail that engaged in ethnic comedy/stereotyping. i know it was a different time but those kind of jokes are hurtful and offensive.
>>1304562080/10 bait
>>130456304in the aftermath of seeing a president's brains exploded, Dylan's dark, kind of mysterious songwriting resonated better with the masses than TKT's silly pop folk ditties
>>130456735that's like how, oh, i dunno, 9/11 kind of ended the Backstreet Boys et al
>>130456162Fun fact: the guy on the right on that cover is John Stewart, uncle of Jamie Stewart.
>>130456792*left
>>130456162That's showbusiness for you. One day you're the most important guy who ever lived, the next day you're some schmo working in a box factory.>I heard that!>Boy, showbusiness is kind of cruel, isn't it?
