The Decca Years (The Kingston Trio album)

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The Decca Years
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Compilation album by The Kingston Trio
Released April 16, 2002
Genre Folk
Label Folk Era
Producer Frank Werber
Allan Shaw (reissue producer)
The Kingston Trio chronology
The Kingston Trio: The Stewart Years
(2000) The Kingston Trio: The Stewart Years2000		The Decca Years
(2002)		 Once Again
(2004) Once Again2004

The Decca Years is a compilation of The Kingston Trio's four albums recorded for the Decca Records label. Folk Era had previously reissued The Kingston Trio (Nick Bob John) , Stay Awhile and Children of the Morning , each including tracks from Somethin' Else as bonus tracks. They are presented here in the same song order as the reissues.

The Kingston Trio American folk and pop music group

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

Decca Records US/British record label

Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis. Its U.S. label was established in late 1934 by Lewis, along with American Decca's first president Jack Kapp and later American Decca president Milton Rackmil. In 1937, anticipating Nazi aggression leading to World War II, Lewis sold American Decca and the link between the UK and U.S. Decca labels was broken for several decades. The British label was renowned for its development of recording methods, while the American company developed the concept of cast albums in the musical genre. Both wings are now part of the Universal Music Group, which is owned by Vivendi, a media conglomerate headquartered in Paris, France. The US Decca label was the foundation company that evolved into UMG.

<i>The Kingston Trio</i> (Nick Bob John) album by The Kingston Trio

The Kingston Trio is an album by the American folk music group the Kingston Trio, released in 1964. Nick Bob John failed to reach the Top 40, peaking at number 53 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart.

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Reception

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Writing for Allmusic, music critic Zac Johnson wrote of the album; "This three-disc set from Folk Era Records covers the Kingston Trio's Decca recordings from 1964-1967... An informative booklet containing a history of this era and the original liner notes only sweetens the deal." [1]

Track listing

  1. "Midnight Special" (Lead Belly) – 2:07
  2. "Love's Been Good to Me" (Rod McKuen) – 3:05
  3. "Poverty Hill" (Fred Hellerman, Fran Minkoff) – 3:22
  4. "Someday Soon" (Ian Tyson) – 2:49
  5. "Gotta Travel On" (Paul Clayton, Larry Ehrlich, Ronnie Gilbert, Lee Hays, Fred Hellerman, Dave Lazar, Pete Seeger) – 3:18
  6. "Hope You Understand" (John Stewart) – 2:20
  7. "Little Play Soldiers" (Martin Cooper) – 2:20
  8. "Love Comes a Trickling Down" (Jonathan Harris) – 2:53
  9. "My Ramblin' Boy" (Tom Paxton) – 3:42
  10. "More Poems" (Mason Williams) – 1:42
  11. "Farewell (Fare Thee Well)" (Bob Dylan) – 3:16
  12. "I'm Going Home" (Fred Geis) – 2:22
  13. "Long Time Blues" (Williams) – 2:21
  14. "Come Gather the Time" (Stewart) – 2:26
  15. "Hanna Lee" (Stan Jones, Richard Mills) – 3:14
  16. "Three Song" (Williams) – 2:08
  17. "Gonna Go Down the River" (Dallas Frazier, Buddy Mize) – 2:01
  18. "Rusting in the Rain" (Rod McKuen) – 2:43
  19. "Dooley" (Rodney Dillard, Mitch Jayne) – 1:53
  20. "If I Had a Ship" (Williams) – 3:28
  21. "Yes I Can Feel It" (Williams) – 2:28
  22. "Bottle of Wine" (Paxton) – 1:56
  23. "Stories of Old" (Stewart) –3:01
  24. "Where I'm Bound" (Paxton) – 2:37
  25. "If You See Me Go" (Stewart) – 2:00
  26. "Stay Awhile" (Nick Reynolds, Bob Shane, Stewart) – 2:12
  27. "Dancing Distance" (Stewart, Williams) – 2:36
  28. "They Are Gone" (Williams) – 2:43
  29. "Last Thing on My Mind" (Paxton) – 3:02
  30. "Early Morning Rain" (Gordon Lightfoot) – 2:37
  31. "Children of the Morning" (Stewart) – 2:41
  32. "Hit and Run" (Stewart) – 2:15
  33. "When You've Been Away for a Long Time" (Stewart) – 3:07
  34. "Lei Pakalana" (Samuel F. Omar) – 2:16
  35. "Gaze on Other Heavens" (Stewart) – 2:36
  36. "A Taste of Honey" (Bobby Scott, Ric Marlow) – 1:44
  37. "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 2:21
  38. "Put Your Money Away" (Stewart) – 2:47
  39. "Lock All the Windows" (Stewart) – 3:16
  40. "Less of Me" (Glen Campbell) – 2:25
  41. "The Spinnin' of the World" (Stewart) – 2:02
  42. "A Little Soul Is Born" (Stewart) – 2:56
  43. "Where Are You Going Little Boy?" (Stewart) – 2:23
  44. "Go Tell Roger" (Stewart, Randy Cierley) – 1:50
  45. "Red River Shore" (Arranged by Jack Splittard, Cierley) – 2:32
  46. "Runaway Song" (Stewart) – 2:03

Personnel

Bob Shane American musician

Robert Castle Schoen, known professionally as Bob Shane, is an American singer and guitarist and, with Nick Reynolds' death in October 2008, the only surviving founding member of The Kingston Trio. In that capacity, Shane became a seminal figure in the revival of folk and other acoustic music as a popular art form in the U.S. in the late 1950s through the mid-1960s.

Nick Reynolds American singer

Nicholas Wells Reynolds was an American folk musician and recording artist. Reynolds was one of the founding members of The Kingston Trio, whose folk and folk-style material captured international attention during the late Fifties and early Sixties.

Production notes

Mason Williams American guitarist

Mason Douglas Williams is an American classical guitarist, composer, writer, comedian, and poet, best known for his 1968 instrumental "Classical Gas" and for his work as a comedy writer on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour, and Saturday Night Live.

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References

  1. 1 2 Johnson, Zac. "The Decca Years > Review". Allmusic . Retrieved January 31, 2011.
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