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...Golden Noose. Hoisted to these heights by the noose that hung Tom Dooley-the ballad was sleeping in an album they cut early in 1958-the Kingston Trio have added to the burgeoning U.S. folk music boom (see Music) a slick combination of near-perfect close harmony and light blue humor. To help their predominantly collegiate and post-collegiate audiences identify with them, the three do their best to festoon themselves in Ivy, wear button-down shirts, even chose the name Kingston because it had a ring of Princeton about it as well as a suggestion of calypso. Sporting close...
...Kingston Trio's Sold Out was anything but. With fond backward glances at Billboard's bestseller chart, where Sold Out last week led all the rest, Capitol Records was keeping all music shops well supplied with the hottest album cut so far by the hottest group in U.S. popular music...
Reckless, roll-less and rich, the Kingston Trio by themselves now bring in 12% of Capitol's annual sales, have surpassed Capitol's onetime Top Pop Banana Frank Sinatra. Scarcely out of college, Kingston's Nick Reynolds, Dave Guard and Bob Shane are making some $10,000 a week, can pick up a six-day fee of $25,000 any time they can conquer their distaste for Las Vegas-"we prefer a less Sodom-and-Gomorrah-type scene...
Last week an assize court jury in Kingston took only ten minutes to find Johnson not guilty of murder, but guilty of manslaughter. (The reduced charge is permissible under English law if the accused, at the time of the killing, was suffering from impaired mental responsibility.) The bench, like Johnson, took mercy into its own hands. Said bewigged Justice Slade: "No thinking person could feel other than the greatest sympathy for you. I accept that your terrible deed was done . . . solely to put your child out of its misery. But you knew you were breaking the law. I cannot pass...
...tried to sell a pill to these lyrics yet, but any day now, some adman may. The U.S. is smack in the middle of a folk-music boom, and already the TV pitchmen have begun to take advantage of it. Pseudo folk groups such as the Kingston Trio (see SHOW BUSINESS) are riding high on the pop charts, and enthusiasm for all folk singers-real or synthetic-has grown so rapidly that there are now 50 or so professional practitioners making a handsome living where there were perhaps half a dozen five years ago. Last week, in far from mute...