We are not talking steps or who influenced who here Deli Sandwich and Don Firth. THAT IS A DIFFERENT THREAD.

We are talking most influential album.

Why don't you guys get it?

The name of the thread is most influential album!

The Kingston Trio's album was a folk music album. You purists can deny it all you want, call it want you want, and dismiss it all you want, but it was a folk music album, found in the folk music section in record stores, played on folk music radio shows, and it influenced more people than any before or since in folk music.

Because the Kingston Trio made the popular music charts (Oh for shame, Don!), because their first album sold a million copies, because they boosted sales and influenced more guitar playing and buying, because after that first album, every major label went looking for a folk group to sell, because they showed that just about anyone could do it and HAVE A GOOD TIME and again (omigod!) make money at it. their first album was the most influential.

When are you "purrrrrrrists" going to get that it's not about who influenced you because it's really not about just you or if Burl Ives could fit into a small airplane seat, it's about the MOST INFLUENTIAL ALBUM completely to everything and the masses.

SHEESH!