To Morrow By The Kingston Trio
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- The original Kingston Trio of Bob Shane, Nick Reynolds, and Dave Guard performs an old train song from the nineteenth century popularized in the 1950s by the late Bob Gibson, one of the seminal performers in the pop folk boom. Gibson had adapted the song from performer Lew Sully's 1898 copyrighted version; Sully likely borrowed the tune from an traditional Irish song.
"To Morrow" appeared on "String Along," (1960) which was the KT's fifth consecutive studio album to reach the number one spot on the "Billboard Magazine" charts, where it stayed for ten weeks and earned the Trio its fifth gold record.
Few artists today have matched the Kingston Trio's chart success of fifty years ago. Their 46 total weeks with an album in the top spot still ranks among the best ever for any artist that "Billboard" has ever tracked.
This was always one of my kid's favorite songs. I remember when the light bulb went on for my son as he exclaimed, "It's a place!!! I get it!!" He was about four.
This is one of the most amusing songs to sing to people. Especially when they get the joke early on and smirk along with you.
My home town. Morrow, Ohio
Did they name it just to make this joke? I’m the kind of person who absolutely would name a town in the hope years later to start an argument between to strangers talking about my town.
@@charleshetrick3152 No, it's named after Jeremiah Morrow, the 9th governor of Ohio.
"To Morrow" is a duet by Bob Shane (left hand channel) and Nick Reynolds (right hand channel.) Originally adapted by folk singer Bob Gibson (also known for his great songs "Daddy Roll 'Em" and "You Can Tell The World.") This song, along with "South Wind" and "Bad Man Blunder" are the best tracks on "String Along". Capitol Records exclusively recorded the Kingston Trio from 1959-1964 in Full Dimensional Stereo.
I took a cognitive relaxer and I listened to it again and ....
1. I did not get a headache
2. It actually makes sense
Wwe are living through powers that rule over us,,well not for long
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@@thomasfredjackson1115 Wow, people have authority over us? What a quaint notion
"You're going to see Attle? Who's Attle?"
"No, dummy! Seattle is a place, like Mississippi."
"Mrs. who?"
Almost as confusing as "I'm My Own Grandpaw."
What was the Hippy’s wife called….?
@@charleshetrick3152 I used to think that Mississippi was a woman, and Mystery was a man.
@@TnseWlms Good ol' Mrs. Ippi and Mr. E!
I also knew a teacher named Miss Ahlenius.
I my friend live in the town of Morrow in Ohio. We celebrate our "Railroad Days" this month.
I love the old railroad tracks. My aunt used to live in apartment there built in 1800's. In 1966 we used to go to visit and play squishing pennies on the railroad tracks. The entire building would shake when the trains passed. It was about 10 feet outside the front door. ❤I was devastated to learn the building was torn down. It could have been built in the 1700's as it seemed 100 years old back then. 😢 That's progress.
Me too❤
I'm in Morrow as we speak!
Me to I live there
@@gratefuldudegaming.8170 I grew up there. 🙂
I keep expecting a deep gravelly "I don't get it" at the end lol
With a Frank Oz-esque voice.
I actually like the Muppets version better, though I wish they had done the whole song. It's a little more "bouncy," and I like the chord progressions better.
@@Machtyn Agreed.
Lol 😝
@@Machtyn I share that sentiment.
Unfortunately no train in Morrow Ohio anymore ❤ my town ❤
This song is so brilliantly written. One cannot help but smile whilst listening to the lyrics.😀
I love this song, and it made me do some Ohioan geography research.
Morrow, Ohio is NE of Cincinnati. If I started out from where I used to live in Georgia, I could probably go to Morrow this morning and get there by tonight.
If I had to start out this morning from where I lived in England, I might not get to Morrow until overmorrow (the day after tomorrow), unless I left ereyesterday (the day before yesterday), in which case, I would get to Morrow today, but depending on which airport I had to fly into, I might be flying over Morrow in order to get back there today (or overmorrow, depending on when I left).
It gets better, though! There is, in fact, a Day Heights, SSW of Morrow. Alas, no Night, Ohio. But there IS a KNIGHT Airport, SxSSE of Norwalk. And it doesn't take that long to drive the length of Ohio, so theoretically, you could fly in to Knight this morning and get to Morrow by this afternoon, spend tonight there, then move on to Day tomorrow.
I always loved this one.
I grew up in Morrow, Ohio. 🙂
Ascoltavo sempre questa musica sognavo di essere nel FarWest
Wonderful music from an incredible group.
Amazing sounds & very enjoyable.
Hi Jim, the performance of Dave is fantastic.
Never the same without Dave!
Jim Henson?
My parents actually grew up in the town of morrow Ohio.
Always loved the twists and turns of this silly song, reminds me of Abbott and Costello's Who's on first.
XMLarry shut up, stupid Lutheran heretic
maple1212 Hey, don't be rude! What are you picking on him for? All he said was that the song reminded him of a classic comedy skit, that's all. What does being a "heretic" have to do with it anyway?
Another thing: how do you know he's a Lutheran? You can't tell by reading his post or looking at his RUclips alias, now can you?
During the Dave Guard years, Guard was the leader of the trio. He was the creative leader, the intellectual designate, the serious artist who wanted the trio to grow and take the music seriously. They had a lot of friction with Guard eventually leaving the group and enter John Stewart, not near the banjo player Dave was and a new raw talent. I never knew all this till years later, but it really doesn't matter to me. John stepped in an grew into a force of his own. He was an adequate banjo picker, more three finger than flailing style, but he certainly was one heck of a guitar picker. Will his quiver in his voice, with the wonderful smooth Shane's voice (now the on stage leader) and the velvet throat of Nick they didn't miss a beat as far as I was concerned. Too bad the world changed under their feet an a British invasion,world events moved them off the center stage. No matter, they still have more fans and following than those Beagles do......What, oh, sorry, the Beatles.
John Stewart was a fine musician but the Dave Guard years were the Kingston Trio's best years. They just weren't the same after he left.
@@genemars5158 Dave made a *big* mistake leaving!
Two of the band members first met after walking out of a boring accounting class at Menlo College.
I grew up with Nick's son. He is one of my oldest friends. Shame we drifted apart
Someone in Australia should write a followup song about trying to book a flight to Morrow, which involves crossing the International Date Line.
This is the kind of song that Abbot and Costello could've sung if they were singers.
"Third base .. I DON'T KNOW!"
Great song .
At this moment in time it'd be Saturday.
FRANK OZ MUPPET = I don't get it
But they missed out a verse in that version.
ndingo
Granted that verse wrecks the rhythm...
This is true. Nothing's perfect.
ndingo I don’t get it
Yeah, the same thing happened with the Monkees, they had session musicians playing their parts, so no one took them seriously. That was one of the things that made Mike Nesmith so disgruntled Getting back to the Kingston Trio, apparently David 'Buck' Wheat was a hell of a session musician as well?
Most confusing song ever I love it lol such a good song
Check out the headlines on the LIfe Magazine, "What's going wrong in Cuba"
35 people couldn't get to Morrow until the day after tomorrow
I used to call the day after tomorrow "three-morrow"
I came here from the muppets 'w'
Same.
Just watched this get performed on the Muppet Show off of Disney+.
Likewise! Loved that the muppet lead singer was actually a muppet of Jim Henson himself!
Fifthed! Irony being that Disney tells you that you’ll be turned into an “-ist” if you watch the muppets. I took a chance and found this awesome song, it’s like a musical dad joke, or The Who’s on First bit.
So did I; I can see why Jim Henson chose to use it.
Who's on first?
How did my link on RUclips get Celia Thompson's picture on it? I certainly like the Kingston Trio and I've never heard "To Morrow" before.
Yep the Muppets brought me here. ;-)
It takes a year to travel fourteen hours?
Nobody played banjo better than the KT
This is basic 5 string banjo from the 60s. Nothing great. I guess you never heard of Bela Fleck.
Demonstration banjo is pointless.Thanks to Dave Guard and John Stewart and great bluegrass banjo players, banjo can be soulful
Why not go to Morrow some other day.
Frank in a deep gravelly voice with a bass with Jim and Jerry: I don't get it.
I'm so surprised this is a real song and not made for The Muppets.
Anybody recall this from Captain Kangaroo, with the dancing frog puppets? They weren't Kermit but they were fun.
MsPandaRosa Yes, I remember those puppet frogs lip syncing this song on "Captain Kangaroo."
I also recall that just before that segment, there was a brief scene with the captain and Mr. Greenjeans (the show's resident farmer) where the former is telling the latter about Mr. Frog "going to Morrow," but Mr. Greenjeans thinks the captain is saying that he's "going tomorrow," and, as might be expected, this leads to a lot of confusion. It almost sounded like one of those Abbott and Costello routines, like "Who's On First," for example.
My Mom would probably know since she watched him when she was a kid.
I'd try Columbus,or Cincinnati in Ohio and stay for a few days.😅
That's the problem with many of their early album credits, it never tells who played what. Thank you for the information, though!
I'm so confused!!!!!!
+M. King Yeah, it takes a while to catch on....
*I DON’T GET IT!*
Love the Muppets doing it! I DON'T GET IT!!
They did sing it - but KT took it and re-popularized it, only for the Muppets to do the same repopularizing some twenty years later lol
The song has a weird history of fading and then being 'brought back to life' every few centuries or so :|
Took the poor guy long enough to explain it, hee hee.
This sounds like something that should be sung by a group of Irishmen.
There is a Morrow in Ireland in the county of Mayo, and an Irish version of this song.
This is sounds so irish i can almost hear the taytos
There is an Irish version of this song, since there is a Morrow in County Mayo. But is Ireland big enough for a fourteen hour train ride?
* *confused screaming* *
im from morrow haha
Fun song. I don't get all the "don't get it its" Lol.😂
In episode 105 of The Muppet Show, released in 1976, The Country Trio (with muppet version of Jim Henson, Frank Oz, and Jerry Nelson) did a cover of this song. At the very tail end of the song, Frank's muppet says "I don't get it."
I recommend watching that recording here ruclips.net/video/JEilPR1PXko/видео.html so you can see it for yourself. :P
Is this the town's song? Should be, :-)
I'm here before the Algorithm turns this into the new Tiktok trend, catchy af song tho
Strange to see Bob Shane with a banjo. To my knowledge, he never played one on any of their releases.
You're wrong. Listen to "Coming from the mountains,"when the Saints" ..."Oh Joe Hannah" for example.There are many more . He played a 4 string banjo tuned like the first four strings of a guitar.Read the recent book Greenback Dollar!He is the banjo player in the 58 hit "Tom Dooley"
Bob was capable of playing both the acoustic guitar and the banjo. One album cover on Capitol Records in the liner notes stated that his very first instrument as a small child was a ukulele since he was a Hawaiian at birth.
Same melody as “Another Irish Drinking song”
He was so rude in calling him a chump like that
I like Dan W. Quinn's version better, just me
The Dan Quinn version makes sense. This and subsequent versions are all missing chunks of lyrics that, to me, are the parts of the song that make the whole thing make sense.
I don't get it, either.
Captain Kangaroo used this song in a skit with two puppet frogs.
Kermit and who else?
@jasonirelan4487 Not the Muppets,they were two unnamed frog puppets.
Muppets did it better😂😂😂