Here is the very best of the trio whose huge success brought about a whole “folk revival” and inspired a generation to pick up a guitar and sing.

“Hang down your head, Tom Dooley. Hang down your head and cry”. In 1958 that cry reverberated around the world and introduced a new musical phenomenon: The Kingston Trio. While never claiming to be folksingers, Dave Guard, Nick Reynolds and Bob Shane created a performing style of infectious exuberance that took folk music out of its niche market and into the mainstream.

During a heady few years their first five studio albums all reached No.1, plus two other LPs at No.2 and one at No.3!

This Retrospective collection offers the 28 finest of the original Trio (before Dave Guard left in 1961). Now, more than half a century on, we can still feel our spirits lifted by those happy sounds – here we go again!

Contents:
1. Molly Dee
2. Tom Dooley
3. Fast Freight
4. Sloop John B
5. The Tijuana Jail
6. Scotch And Soda
7. M.T.A.
8. All My Sorrows
9. Good News
10. They Call The Wind “Maria”
11. Early In The Mornin’
12. The Seine
13. The Wanderer
14. Getaway, John
15. ’Round About The Mountain
16. San Miguel
17. A Worried Man
18. The Mountains Of Mourne
19. South Wind
20. El Matador
21. Along The Colorado Trail
22. A Rollin’ Stone
23. The River Is Wide
24. Buddy, Better Get On Down The Line
25. Blow The Candle Out
26. Speckled Roan
27. It Was A Very Good Year
28. You Don’t Knock