Chad Mitchell Trio!!!

Subject: RE: Chad Mitchell Trio!!!
From: GUEST,James
Date: 22 Nov 07 - 04:04 AM

Way I heard it was that his guru recommended he change his name from Jim to something that started with 'R.' McGuinn gave the guru a list of names, and the guru picked Roger.

Subject: RE: Chad Mitchell Trio!!!
From: GUEST,Bob Ryszkiewicz
Date: 22 Nov 07 - 09:03 PM

Yes. This thread brought back some memories. Chad Mitchell was quite a force in those days. I bought his Guild F-212 via Roma Baran, a New York Record Producer. (Laurie Anderson, etc.) And, I had the opportunity to open for Roger "Jim" McGuinn at The Golem here in Montreal a number of years back. To this day, one of the finest acoustic performances I've ever seen. Hit after hit...

bob

Subject: RE: Chad Mitchell Trio!!!
From: catspaw49
Date: 22 Nov 07 - 09:27 PM

Were they ever able to repair the control cables that broke and allowed McGuinn's head to bob back and forth and up and down uncontrollably?

Spaw

Subject: RE: Chad Mitchell Trio!!!
From: GUEST,Bob Ryszkiewicz
Date: 22 Nov 07 - 09:30 PM

no...

Subject: RE: Chad Mitchell Trio!!!
From: GUEST,mbewley
Date: 20 Dec 07 - 06:02 PM

The Chad Mitchell Trio sang in Spokane after a forty year hiatus.
According to the review, they were outstanding!!! Go to their website and you can pull up the newspaper article and read it. I was impressed. There is also a half hour live radio show with Ron Allen that Kobluk and Mitchell did in October, shortly after the Spokane concert. Apparently "Traveling Troubadours" is going to do a tour with the Chad Mitchell Trio to Alaska in June with their buddy Tom Paxton who will be an opening act for them.

Subject: RE: Chad Mitchell Trio!!!
From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego
Date: 20 Dec 07 - 06:22 PM

I first heard them via an old Harry Belafonte concert double album he did at Carnegie Hall, circa 1959 or so. What struck me was the purity of their harmonies and delivery. It reminded me of the tightness of a good brass choir. My old group used one of their numbers, "Ain't No More Cane On The Brazos," to great effect.

Subject: RE: Chad Mitchell Trio!!!
From: GUEST
Date: 30 Mar 08 - 04:55 PM

I hadn't Googled CMT for a year or more and was surprised to find that they now have a web site [http://www.chadmitchelltrio.com/] and are doing concerts again. It's too sad that I'm stuck in the middle of Arkansas and they are performing on the coasts.

My envy goes out to all who are able to attend one of their concerts. I live in Hot Springs Village, Arkansas, a community of about 13,000+, primarily retirees, and we get groups like Kingston Trio and the Platters where you're lucky if one performer was in the group originally, and then there's CMT, still together!

It also looks like more places are carrying their CDs now. It would be nice if the increased exposure and willingness to tour might get them into my general area.

I just got a new 8GB MP3 player and went through about 5000 MP3s on my hard drive to pick and choose the best songs off albums to put on it, but when I got to CMT, *everything* went on. Not a lemon in the bunch. What a great group.

Subject: RE: Chad Mitchell Trio!!!
From: GUEST,Gerry
Date: 30 Mar 08 - 07:32 PM

I may have mentioned this on some other thread - I love the CMT recording of Ain't No More Cane On The Brazos, but the way they phrase it (as opposed to the way, say, Bill Staines does it), you miss the rhyme between Brazos and molasses.

Subject: RE: Chad Mitchell Trio!!!
From: GUEST,Vicki Kelsey (guest)
Date: 31 Mar 08 - 03:03 PM

My husband and I were on the Traveling Troubadour cruise with the Chad Mitchell Trio and Jack Williams. Note also that Paul Prestopino and Jake Ander (see the "where are they now" thread) were the CMTs backup musicians, and that Paul also backs up Peter, Paul and Mary on many of their present-day gigs.
                               Vicki

Subject: RE: Chad Mitchell Trio!!!
From: GUEST,TJ
Date: 31 Mar 08 - 04:33 PM

My old trio, in the early 1960's, used our version of "No More Cane On The Brazos" as a regular part of our repertoire. I admit that two my cohorts shamelessly "lifted" most of it directly from a CMT record, which one I can't recall.

To Bat Goddess: I hope you weren't married to one of us. If you were, it had to be Bob or Lee. I KNOW I don't have the record.

Subject: RE: Chad Mitchell Trio!!!
From: open mike
Date: 01 Apr 08 - 01:57 AM

today someone mentioned tha tthis guy was with the early chad mitchell trio..anyone know anything about theis Igor guy, or is he making it up?
http://igorsjazzcowboys.com/

Subject: RE: Chad Mitchell Trio!!!
From: GUEST,'Ray Bucknell
Date: 01 Apr 08 - 10:51 AM

I consider myself well-versed on Chad Mitchell Trio-related matters and I have never heard of Igor.   I did check out the website and it says he played behind John Denver at one time (so did a lot of people) -- that's the closest "connection" I can imagine.   Igor isn't a name one would easily forget....

    BTW, the Trio has come out with a terrifc 3-DVD set that features some of their many TV appearances during the Hootenanny era (disc 1), their 1908s PBS reunion with John Denver -- with a number of songs that didn't make the TV show or subsequent video (disc 2) and their Fall 2007 concerts in Spokane and Wisconsin (disc 3). The set is kinda pricey, but quite literally a dream come true for someone like me who was too young to see them live during their heyday and too far away to attend last year's shows. Has anyone else watched this set?   Check it out at www.chadmitchelltrio.com

                                        'Ray

Subject: RE: Chad Mitchell Trio!!!
From: open mike
Date: 01 Apr 08 - 04:40 PM

i guess it was the new christie minstrels...then.

Subject: RE: Chad Mitchell Trio!!!
From: GUEST,N.Ford
Date: 01 Apr 08 - 05:40 PM

Re: The 3-DVD set...

I've been considering getting it, but I already have the PBS show on VHS and I downloaded from YouTube a set of 3 songs they performed on the Bell Telephone show back in the '60s, so I didn't know if it could really be worth $80. (It was GREAT watching the YouTube video.)

It's too sad that concerts in the '60s weren't filmed/videoed the way they are now. How great would it be to see CMT performing at the Bitter End or the "Mighty Day On Campus" concert?

Subject: RE: Chad Mitchell Trio!!!
From: GUEST,'Ray Bucknell
Date: 05 Apr 08 - 10:39 AM

N. Ford, the PBS show didn't contain all the songs that show up on this new DVD (Whistling Gypsy, Hang on the Bell Nellie, The Unfortunate Man, Adios Mi Corazon, Nicaragua, Waves on the Sea, Tell Old Bill, Brother Can You Spare a Dime, and Ronnie's [Barry's] Boys all show up along with most of the stuff from the original VHS tape).   And, although the DVD featuring the Trio's Sixties performances does include the Bell Telephone Hour performance you mentioned from YouTube, it has a whole lot of other stuff, some of which I actually hadn't seen before (and I've been collecting video of the CMT from Ebay for years).   $80 is a lot to spend, but I don't regret the purchase at all (of course, the credit card bill hasn't yet arrived....)

                                       'Ray

Subject: RE: Chad Mitchell Trio!!!
From: GUEST,Cathy
Date: 24 May 08 - 12:09 PM

I realize this is the 'Chad Mitchell Trio!!!' thread, but I could use a little help please:

Would someone be able to fill in dates to Mitchell Trio personnel changes (July 1965 - November 1968):

MITCHELL TRIO – John Denver, Joe Frazier and Mike Kobluk
        July 1965 to ? 1966

MITCHELL TRIO – John Denver, Mike Kobluk and David Boise
        ? 1966 to ? (67 or 68)

MITCHELL TRIO – John Denver, David Boise and Michael Johnson
        ? (67 or 68) to April/May 1968

Name change to: DENVER, BOISE & JOHNSON
        April/May 1968 to final concert November 22, 1968

Thank you, much appreciated...Cathy

Subject: RE: Chad Mitchell Trio!!!
From: Joe Offer
Date: 25 May 08 - 02:34 AM

Hi, Cathy - the Wikipedia article is pretty good on that information. You may enjoy looking at the group's Website, http://chadmitchelltrio.com/, although it doesn't have any exact information about personnel changes. This Michael Johnson Website (click) may be of interest to you.

This page (click) has a recording of "The '68 Nixon" by Denver, Boise and Johnson - you NEED to hear this. Apparently, it's the only studio recording by Denver, Boise and Johnson (note this), but this YouTube video shows the group in action on another song.

If the Wikipedia article doesn't do the trick for you, contact me by e-mail and I have some resources I can check.
-Joe Offer-
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Subject: RE: Chad Mitchell Trio!!!
From: Larry The Radio Guy
Date: 11 Jun 10 - 04:09 PM

Here's a late response to raredance (10 years after his original post). I loved Chad Mitchell's 2nd lp--I thought it was one of the most creative and original recordings by a former "folksinger".   Some great experimenting with jazz (Stuart Scharf and Bob Dorough were involved in the record), and a great range of material. Loved it all!

Also, inbetween that LP and the Virgo Moon CD, he recorded an LP on Bell records (which, to my way of thinking, didn't work--he wasn't in great voice, and he ended up watering down some great songs--including the fabulous "Goodbye and Hello" by Tim Buckley.

It's too bad that Virgo Moon didn't do better. It's a fine CD==and I was always hoping he would put out some more solo works. I'm wondering if there might be anything out there on independent labels?

Subject: RE: Chad Mitchell Trio!!!
From: Joe Offer
Date: 11 Jun 10 - 04:19 PM

Hi, Larry-
Folk Era has another Chad Mitchell solo CD, this one with two albums: Chad Mitchell Himself / Love, A Feeling of. Here are the tracks:

1. Other Side of This Life
2. Buddy, Can You Spare a Dime
3. Quiet Room
4. Half a Crown
5. Broadway Is a Tame Street
6. Violets of Dawn
7. She Was Too Good to Me
8. Dark as a Dungeon
9. Over the Rainbow
10. Marieka
11. Better Than Anything
12. Love (Webster's Definition Of)
13. Poem on the Underground Wall
14. As Time Goes By
15. Life That We Lead
16. Suzanne
17. Poems to Eat
18. Without Rhyme or Reason
19. This Afternoon
20. Jane Jane
21. To a Daughter-In-Law Unknown

I like it better then the Virgo Moon CD.

Subject: RE: Chad Mitchell Trio!!!
From: Larry The Radio Guy
Date: 11 Jun 10 - 04:26 PM

Absolutely, Joe. This is no doubt his best stuff. I have both of them on vinyl, and may buy the cd if I can find it cheap. Tracks 11 to 20 are from the LP I'm talking about on my previous post--and the one that a couple people on here weren't all that enthusiastic about.