{"id":803602,"date":"2020-01-29T13:56:20","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T20:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=945134"},"modified":"2020-01-29T13:56:20","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T20:56:20","slug":"bob-shane-last-surviving-original-member-of-kingston-trio-dead-at-85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/bob-shane-last-surviving-original-member-of-kingston-trio-dead-at-85\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Shane, Last Surviving Original Member of Kingston Trio, Dead at 85"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bob Shane, co-founder and last surviving original member of the influential folk group the Kingston Trio<\/a>, died Sunday at the age of 85.<\/span><\/p>\n

Shane died at a hospice facility in Phoenix, Arizona, where he lived the past few decades, his agent confirmed to The<\/em> New York Times<\/em><\/a>. Shane\u2019s wife, Bobbie Childress, told The<\/em> Washington Post<\/em><\/a> that her husband had been suffering from pneumonia and other ailments prior to this death.<\/span><\/p>\n

The members of the Kingston Trio \u2014 Shane, Nick Reynolds, and Dave Guard \u2014 formed the singing group as college students in the Bay Area in the first half of the Fifties; by the end of the decade, the Kingston Trio would become one of the nation\u2019s most popular bands, releasing five Number One albums, including a span in 1959 when four of the albums in the Top 10 belonged to the Kingston Trio.<\/span><\/p>\n

Shane served as vocalist and guitarist on their biggest hits, including \u201cScotch and Soda,\u201d \u201cM.T.A.,\u201d a rendition of the murder ballad \u201cTom Dooley,\u201d and the traditional song \u201cThe Wreck of the John B.,\u201d the latter of which directly inspired the Beach Boys\u2019 \u201cSloop John B.\u201d The trio also helped popularize Pete Seeger\u2019s \u201cWhere Have All the Flowers Gone?\u201d and recorded \u201cIt Was a Very Good Year\u201d before that song became a Frank Sinatra staple.<\/span><\/p>\n

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