The World Needs a Melody is an album by The New Kingston Trio, released in 1973.[1]
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| Studio album by The New Kingston Trio | ||||
| Released | April 1973 | |||
| Genre | Folk | |||
| Label | The Longines Symphonette Society | |||
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History edit
Two years before the release of Once Upon a Time in 1969, the Kingston Trio disbanded in 1967 following a two-week farewell engagement at San Francisco's Hungry i, the nightclub at which they had started their rise to prominence a decade earlier. John Stewart began a solo career, Nick Reynolds retired from the music business and, after a short-lived solo career, Bob Shane created a new group, The New Kingston Trio. The first configuration of this new group lasted approximately three years and consisted of Shane, Pat Horine, and Jim Connor; a second troupe including Shane, Bill Zorn, and Roger Gambill toured from 1973 to 1976 before Shane bought the rights to the Kingston Trio name outright and assembled a new group with Gambill and George Grove.[1]
The only full-length album released by either group was The World Needs a Melody (though 25 years later FolkEra Records issued The Lost Masters 1969-1972, a compilation of previously unreleased tracks from the Shane-Horine-Connor years), and its sales were negligible. Though both troupes of the New Kingston Trio made a limited number of other recordings and several television appearances, neither generated very much interest from fans or the public at large.[2]
There were no credits included on the album packaging. The back cover consisted of a track listing and an essay and photographs titled "The Secret of Longines Symphonette" describing the process of recording LPs.
Track listing edit
- "The World Needs a Melody" (J. Slate, L. Hinley, H. Delaughter)
- "Grandma's Feather Bed" (Jim Connor)
- "In Tall Buildings" (John Hartford)
- "Riley's Medicine Show"
- "Blue Skies and Teardrops" (Mike Williams)
- "Jug Town" (Billy Edd Wheeler)
- "Lovin' You Again"
- "Come the Morning"
- "Roll Your Own, Cowboys"
- "Nellie" (Barry Etris)
Personnel edit
- Bob Shane - vocals, guitar
- Pat Horine - vocals, guitar
- Jim Connor - vocals, guitar, banjo
- Stan Kaess - bass
- Frank Sanchez - drums
References edit
- ^ a b Blake, B., Rubeck, J., Shaw, A. (1986) The Kingston Trio On Record. Kingston Korner Inc, ILL: ISBN 0-9614594-0-9
- ^ Kingston Trio On Record, pp. 129, 132.