The Kingston Trio "The Kingston Trio" (Capitol, 1958)
The Kingston Trio "...From The Hungry i" (Capitol, 1959)
The Kingston Trio "Stereo Concert" (Capitol, 1959) (LP)
The Kingston Trio "At Large" (Capitol, 1959)
The Kingston Trio "Here We Go Again!" (Capitol, 1959)
The Kingston Trio "Sold Out" (Capitol, 1960)
The Kingston Trio "String Along" (Capitol, 1960)
The Kingston Trio "The Last Month Of The Year" (Capitol, 1960)
Ho-ho-ho!! It's a Christmas album, my friends!
The Kingston Trio "Make Way" (Capitol, 1961)
The Kingston Trio "Goin' Places" (Capitol, 1961)
The Kingston Trio "Close Up" (Capitol, 1961)
This was their first album with John Stewart...
The Kingston Trio "College Concert" (Capitol, 1962)
The Kingston Trio "Something Special" (Capitol, 1962)
The Kingston Trio "New Frontier" (Capitol, 1962)
The Kingston Trio "#16" (Capitol, 1963)
The Kingston Trio "Sunny Side!" (Capitol, 1963)
The Kingston Trio "Time To Think" (Capitol, 1963)
The Kingston Trio "Back In Town" (Capitol, 1964)
With session player Glen Campbell on guitar...
The Kingston Trio "The Kingston Trio: Nick, Bob, John" (Decca, 1964) (LP)
The Kingston Trio "Stay Awhile" (Decca, 1965) (LP)
The Kingston Trio "Somethin' Else" (Decca, 1965) (LP)
The Kingston Trio "Children Of The Morning" (Decca, 1966)
This was the last album with John Stewart (although an archival live album was released in 1969 that also features him with the group... See below.
The Kingston Trio "Once Upon A Time" (Tetragrammaton, 1969)
A live show recorded in 1966 but unreleased until '69. John Stewart is in this lineup of the band...
The New Kingston Trio "The World Needs A Melody" (Longines Symphonette, 1973) (LP)
The Kingston Trio "Aspen Gold" (Nautilus, 1979) (LP)
The Kingston Trio "Looking For The Sunshine" (Xerxes, 1983) (LP)
The Kingston Trio "Everybody's Talking" (Folk Era, 1989)
The Kingston Trio "An Evening With The Kingston Trio" (Folk Era, 1994)
Vintage recordings of the Nick Reynolds/Bob Shane/John Stewart trio, with the threesome warming up and goofing around during a pre-concert sound check.
The Kingston Trio "Live At Newport" (Vanguard, 1994)
A classic concert performance from 1959 Newport Folk festival, featuring the original Trio in a buoyant live set. Amazingly, this archival album was kept in the can for over three decades!
The Kingston Trio "Live At The Crazy Horse" (Silverwolf, 1994)
The Kingston Trio "Live! At The Historic Yuma Theater" (2006) (MP3)
The Kingston Trio "The Lost 1967 Album: Rarities, v.1" (Collector's Choice, 2007)
The Kingston Trio "Nick, Bob And John: The Final Concert" (Collector's Choice, 2007)
The Kingston Trio "Live At The Santa Monica Civic Auditorium" (Collector's Choice, 2007)
The Kingston Trio "On A Cold Winter's Night" (Kingston Trio Productions, 2008)
The Kingston Trio "Turning Like Forever: Rarities, v.2" (Collector's Choice, 2008)
The Kingston Trio "Flashback: 1963" (Folk Era, 2009)
The Kingston Trio "Above The Purple Onion" (Kingston Trio Productions, 2010)
The Kingston Trio "Born At The Right Time" (Kingston Trio Productions, 2012)
The Trio as old-timers, with a lineup that includes Rick Dougherty, George Grove and Bill Zorna, with group founder Bob Shane joining them on a few tunes...
The Kingston Trio were one of the most popular bands of the 1950s/'60s folk revival, riding the crest of the folk-pop craze with one massive hit record -- their 1958 version of "Tom Dooley" -- as their calling card and the first of many Pop hits over the next few years. The Trio was co-founded in California by singer Dave Guard, who left the group in 1961 to be replaced by the multi-talented John Stewart, who later became an influential singer-songwriter in the early 1970's folk scene. Eventually the Trio dissolved as the American folk scene faltered in the face of the '60s rock revolution; the Kingston Trio folded in 1967, though founding member Bob Shane put together a "New Kingston Trio" a couple of years later and various revivals and other incarnations cropped up over the years. Here's a quick look at the band and its legacy...
