Some of you old timers will remember this (poor old charlie)

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[Ocelot II]

1. "He'll ride forever 'neath the streets of Boston, he's the man who never returned."

[FakeNoose]

2. One for the ages 👍😊

I'm an old-timer and I definitely do remember this song. I probably sang along a few times too.

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3. My 19yo daughter just bought a Kingston trio vinyl because it had this song on it

She's a handful at times, but occasionally I get a hint that maybe we did bring her up right after all....

[RB77]

4. Thank You, -

Yesterday, we played this song While I was jamming with “The Ketchum Community Library Fuzz Bucket String Band”. The significance didn’t dawn on me at the time. I’ll bring it up at our next session. 🤓

[malaise]

5. Too good

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[greatauntoftriplets]

6. Great song.

Loved the names of the stops in Boston. They were different from the ones in Chicago.

I wondered if Jamaica Plain looked anything like Jamaica. Remember, I was very young at the time, almost a fetus.

[3Hotdogs]

9. Girlfriend lived there for a while. Working class neighborhood.

Probably yuppified by now.

[Mossfern]

7. I was compelled to sing along

thank you for this.
Maybe we need a resurgence of that kind of Folk music.
Let's promote good old fashioned hootenannys like the ones that incorporated greats like Woody Guthrie, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger ...

I'm going to suggest that to my synagogue.

[Jersey Devil]

12. Check out The Seeger Sessions by Bruce Springsteen

Really good stuff
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[Attilatheblond]

15. Daughter read that a relative of Wood Guthrie had a journal of his songs, many unrecorded, that she shared

with the Dropkick Murphys lead singer. Think she said the Dropkick lads did some of them.

[LogDog75]

8. That song stumped a friend of mine

Back in the early 70s, my roommate (Mike) and I were in our early 20s. He had been a DJ at a small town station, when he was about 18, that played rock-n- roll and folk music so he was familiar with all the songs from the mid-50s to the late 60s. We used to try and stump each other by giving the title of the song and the other person would have to either name the singer/group or sing part of the song. He was very good at that game so when I heard MTA on the radio I knew I had him.

I asked him who sang MTS and he couldn't answer the question. After about an hour thinking about it he admitted he didn't know. When I told him it was The Kingston Trio he said it must have been the B-side of their record so it didn't count. I wouldn't let him off the hook that easy so Mike contacted a DJ in the San Diego region, where we lived, and asked him about the song MTA. The DJ told Mike that was one of The Kingston Trio's biggest hits and that no, it wasn't the B-side of their record.

What really put icing on the game was when he lived with his parents in Coronado, the house they were renting was previously where one of The Kingston Trio had lived.

[3Hotdogs]

10. I saw them (original configuration) at South Mountain Area, West Orange, NJ. Somewhere's around $5 per ticket.

Pleasant Valley Road, West Orange, N.J. was what Carole King wrote about in "Pleasant Valley Sunday"



I made $3k or 4k in the 60's, playing covers of the Trio and PPM. I wanted to make a career of music but by the time the Beatles came out, it was clear to me that my "talent" was too limited to make a career of music. So I became a history teacher.

[Jersey Devil]

11. It was a political campaign song

The song, based on a much older version called "The Ship That Never Returned" (or its railroad successor, "Wreck of the Old 97&quot , was composed in 1949 as part of the election campaign of Walter A. O'Brien, a Progressive Party candidate for Boston mayor. O'Brien was unable to afford radio advertisements, so he enlisted local folk singers to write and sing songs from a touring truck with a loudspeaker (he was later fined $10 for "disturbing the peace&quot .[4][5]

One of O'Brien's major campaign planks was to lower the price of riding the subway by removing the complicated fare structure involving exit fares—so complicated that at one point it required a nine-page explanatory booklet. O'Brien criticized the city’s acquisition of the privately run streetcar system. He contended that the public buyout disproportionately benefited the former private owners and resulted in higher fares for commuters. In the Kingston Trio recording, the name "Walter A. O'Brien" was changed to "George O'Brien", apparently to avoid risking protests that had hit an earlier recording, when the song was seen as celebrating a socialist politician.

[Jack Valentino]

13. My teacher of H.S. 'Practical Law' class in 1981 told us that

'The Kingston Trio' was his favorite musical group.... of course, most of us
had never heard of them at that time....

[Attilatheblond]

14. Limeliters did a sad tale about Charlie the Midnight Maurader, a spoof on the ills of tract houses

And yes, I have the old vinyl LP of this one too.

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