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'Nick Reynolds' (born July 27, 1933 San Diego, California) American folk musician and recording artist. One of the founding members of The Kingston Trio group, whose largely folk-based material captured international attention during the late fifties and early sixties.
Growing up in Coronado Island, California, his passions as a kid growing up were tennis, skin-diving and singing with his family. His father, a Navy captain, was an avid guitar player who brought back songs from his travels around the world. He taught Nick the guitar and ukulele, and the family spent many nights singing and harmonizing for pure enjoyment. Nick enrolled in Menlo College in 1954 as a business major, and met Bob Shane in an accounting class. They soon started hanging out, drinking, and chasing women together, and this, in turn, led to playing music, initially as a way of being popular at parties -- Shane's guitar and Reynolds' bongos became a fixture at local frat gatherings, and after a few weeks of this, Shane introduced Reynolds to Dave Guard.
Shane returned to Hawaii for a time to work for his father's sporting goods company. Guard and Reynolds began playing with Joe Gannon on bass and singer Barbara Bogue, and became Dave Guard & the Calypsonians. Reynolds then left for a time following his graduation and was replaced by Don McArthur in a group that was known as the Kingston Quartet, and in a resulting shuffle, Reynolds and Shane (back all the way from Hawaii) were brought back into the group, now rechristened the Kingston Trio. Their initial approach to music was determined by the skills that each member brought or, more accurately, didn't bring to the trio -- Nick Reynolds sang a third above the melody, swapped his ukulele for a tenor guitar, and his bongos for a conga drum. Reynolds provided the group with an ebullient vocal style, superb harmonizing, and an ability to convey tender lyrics with a touching intimacy.
e trio disbanded in 1967 but was revived in the seventies under the direction of original member Bob Shane, and continues to the present although Shane retired from performing in 2004. When the Trio disbanded, Nick moved to Oregon where he spent twenty years ranching and raising 4 children.
The 1981 the Trio reunited, featuring Bob Shane, Nick Reynolds, Dave Guard, John Stewart, George Grove, Roger Gambill. A PBS Reunion Special DVD was recorded, hosted by Tommy Smothers and featuring special guest Mary Travers. In 1983, Nick Reynolds collaborated with John Stewart and Lindsey Buckingham on a new album/CD "Revenge of The Budgie" with seven new recordings.
In the mid-eighties Reynolds moved back to California and rejoined the Trio in 1987/1988. He sang and played with them happily for another 11 years, then retired for the second time in December, 1999. Folk Music Archives interviewed the Trio in San Antonio and New York City when Nick Reynolds, a founding 1958 member performed his last full-time performance with the group during a concert with the San Antonio Symphony.
Today Nick lives comfortably and well in Coronado, California with his wife Leslie. Every summer, Nick joins John Stewart to do a “Trio” fantasy camp in Scottsdale, Arizona. Bob Shane has been known to show up, too. The first night is Q&A. Second day, attendess are formed into trios, and they all get the striped shirts. The third night, each of them gets to sing with Nick and John, and they’re all members of The Kingston Trio—for a night.

Contents

Discography and Videography

Top 40 Hits Songs

External links

References

Discography and Videography

'Capitol Records Releases: Albums'







★ ''The Kingston Trio'' 1958

★ ''...from the Hungry i'' 1959

★ ''Stereo Concert'' 1959

★ ''The Kingston Trio At Large'' 1959

★ ''Here we Go Again'' 1959

★ ''Sold Out'' 1960

★ ''String Along'' 1960

★ ''The Last Month of the Year'' 1960

★ ''Make Way'' 1961

★ ''Goin' Places'' 1961

★ ''Close Up'' 1961

★ ''College Concert'' 1962

★ ''Something Special'' 1962

★ ''New Frontier'' 1962

★ ''#16'' 1963

★ ''Sunny Side'' 1963

★ ''Time to Think'' 1963

★ ''Back in Town'' 1964
Capitol Records also released vinyl albums of ''The Best of the Kingston Trio, Vols I, II, and III
between 1961 and 1966, a "duophonic" reissue of cuts from the first two albums named ''The Kingston Trio Encores'' in 1961, and a number of CD compilations and re-issues in the 1980s and 1990s.
'Decca Records Releases: Albums'

★ ''Nick Bob John'' 1964

★ ''Stay Awhile'' 1965

★ ''Somethin' Else'' 1965

★ ''Children of the Morning'' 1966
'Tetragrammaton Records Release: Album'

★ ''Once Upon a Time'' (double album) 1969
'Folk Era/Rediscover Records Releases: Albums/CDs'

★ ''Rediscover The Kingston Trio'' 1985

★ ''Hidden Treasures'' 1987

★ ''Everybody's Talking'' 1989

★ ''The New Kingston Trio: The Lost Masters 1969-1972'' 1997

★ ''Snapshot'' 2006
'Vanguard Records Release: CD'

★ ''The Kingston Trio Live At Newport'' 1994
'Silverwolf Records Release: Original CD'

★ ''Live At The Crazy Horse'' 1995
'Collector's Choice Music Releases: Original CDs'

★ ''The Lost 1967 Album'' 2007

★ ''The Final Concert'' 2007
'Shout Factory Release: CD'

★ ''The Essential Kingston Trio'' 2006
'Kingston Trio Productions Release: CD'

★ ''The First Fifty Years'' 2007
There are in addition literally scores of vinyl, tape, and CD compilations and reissues by a multitude of companies in the U.S., Germany, Japan, and elsewhere.
'Video Releases'

★ ''The Kingston Trio and Friends Reunion'' (WhiteStar Video, 1982)

★ ''An Evening With The Kingston Trio'' (Rhino Video, 1989)

★ ''Wherever We May Go'' (Shout Factory, 2006)

★ ''The Kingston Trio: Fifty Years Of Having Fun'' (EDI, 2006)

★ ''Young Men In A Hurry'' [TV Series Pilot] (Paramount, 2007)

Top 40 Hits Songs

★ ''Tom Dooley'' 1958 #1 Gold Record

★ ''The Tijuana Jail'' 1959 #12

★ ''M.T.A.'' 1959 #15

★ ''A Worried Man'' 1959 #20

★ ''El Matador'' 1960 #32

★ ''Bad Man Blunder'' 1960 #37

★ ''Where Have All the Flowers Gone?'' 1962 #21

★ ''Greenback Dollar'' 1963 #21

★ ''Reverend Mr. Black'' 1963 #8

★ ''Desert Pete'' 1963 #33

External links

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★ Kingston Trio

★ Folk Archives

★ Life Magazine Cover

★ Kingston Trio recording with Boobams

★ Answere's

★ Fans Camp

★ Nick Reynolds Interview

References

This editing culled from the following resources and links:
Blake, B., Rubeck, J., Shaw, A. (1986) The Kingston Trio On Record. Kingston Korner Inc, ILL: ISBN 0-9614594-0-9.