THE KINGSTON TRIO
SOMETHIN’ ELSE
Original 1965 album liner notes
SIDE ONE
1. PARCHMENT FARM BLUES (2:18)
Special Arrangement and Adaptation by Jack Splittard-Randy Cierley
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2. EARLY MORNING RAIN (2:33)
Gordon Lightfoot
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3. WHERE ARE YOU GOING LITTLE BOY? (2:19)
John Stewart
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4. INTERCHANGEABLE LOVE (We Love Us) (0:47)
Mason Williams
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5. LAST THING ON MY MIND (3:01)
Tom Paxton
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6. GO TELL ROGER (There’s Another Face Looking In The Window) (1:45)
John Stewart
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SIDE TWO
1. RED RIVER SHORE (Ballad Of The) (2:27)
Special Arrangement and Adaptation by Jack Splittard-Randy Cierley
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2. VERANDAH OF MILLIUM AUGUST (2:29)
John Stewart-Randy Cierley
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3. THEY ARE GONE (2:42)
Mason Williams
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4. LONG TIME BLUES (2:15)
Mason Williams
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5. DANCING DISTANCE (2:45)
Mason Williams-John Stewart
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6. RUNAWAY SONG (2:00)
John Stewart
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Arranging: Randy Steirling
Recorded at:
Columbus Recording Studio
Columbus Tower
San Francisco, California
Produced for TRIDENT PRODUCTIONS, INC. by Frank Werber
The following musicians assisted the Kingston Trio and are heard on this album:
Dean Reilly, bass
Randy Steirling, 9 string guitar, 12 string guitar, percussion
Jerry Granelli, drums
Andrew Belling, organ
David Wheat, guitar
John Chambers, drums
Rex Larson, fender bass
Don Graham, sandwiches and milk shakes
A little of the sad, sweet blues…some rock and some roll…a jailhouse song…and a jingly, little kid thing, like jump-rope music. That takes you back to…Somethin’ Else!
The astonishing Kingston trio never hold still long enough to be typed.
And the sound! Back in the pioneer days when the fi was just beginning to get high, when the electronics engineers were tearing tweeters and rattling woofers ( and “tweeter” and “woofer” talk was the real “in” high-fi dialogue) …back in those days they would have worked in the phrase “New Sound” somewhere on the jacket of this one. “The New Sound of the Kingston Trio,” or even “The AMAZING New Sound of the Kingston Trio.” Something like that…
Now, with stereo a commonplace, and music room walls sprouting clusters of speakers that once would have done credit to the technical staff of Radio City Music Hall, hardly anybody talks very much about sheer sound in albums anymore. Sounds from the superb to the bizarre are taken for granted.
Yet much of the Somethin’ Else in this album is – and let us not shun the old phrase – a New Sound for the Kingstons. It is sound just short of the symphonic, which seems like pretty elaborate backing for three finely blended voices that, after all, need little more than guitar and bass. But hear it! It’s Somethin’ Else! In places it has a beat born in that jailhouse and baptized in the waters of the Mersey.
Likely, though, you will keep going back to that crazy jump-rope song, the one with all the charm of childhood yet spiced with an adult sense of humor. “Go Tell Roger” it’s called. It’s SOMETHIN’ ELSE…
Dick Nolan, Columnist
San Francisco Examiner
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