Awards & Winners

The Kingston Trio

The Kingston Trio is an American folk and pop music group that helped launch the folk revival of the late 1950s to late 1960s. The group started as a San Francisco Bay Area nightclub act with an original lineup of Dave Guard, Bob Shane, and Nick Reynolds. It rose to international popularity, fueled by unprecedented sales of 33â…“ rpm long-playing record albums, and helped to alter the direction of popular music in the U.S. The Kingston Trio was one of the most prominent groups of the era's pop-folk boom that started in 1958 with the release of their first album and its hit recording of "Tom Dooley", which sold over three million copies as a single. The Trio released nineteen albums that made Billboard's Top 100, fourteen of which ranked in the top 10, and five of which hit the number 1 spot. Four of the group's LPs charted among the Top 10 selling albums for five weeks in November and December 1959, a record unmatched for more than 50 years, and the group still ranks after half a century in the all-time lists of many of Billboard's cumulative charts, including those for most weeks with a number 1 album, most total weeks charting an album, most number 1 albums, most consecutive number 1 albums, and most top ten albums.

Awards by The Kingston Trio

Check all the awards nominated and won by The Kingston Trio.

1997


Grammy Hall of Fame Award
Honored for : Tom Dooley

1961


Nominations 1961 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Performance by a Vocal Group Close-Up

1960


Nominations 1960 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Performance by a Vocal Group Here We Go Again!

1959


Grammy Award for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording
Honored for : At Large

Nominations 1959 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording At Large

1958


Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Recording
Honored for : Tom Dooley
(Artist)

Nominations 1958 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Performance by a Vocal Group or Chorus Tom Dooley
Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Recording Tom Dooley