When I was in high school in the early 1960's, I used to babysit for two families. One family had all the Peter, Paul and Mary albums, and the other had what seemed like stacks and stacks of Kingston Trio albums. I loved babysitting at those two place. We had five kids in my family, so we didn't have money for lots of records. My dad bought a Radio Shack stereo and five record albums - PP&M's first album, "To Kill a Mockingbird," "The Trapp Family Singers Singing 'The Sound of Music,'" and budget recordings of "South Pacific" and one other musical. It was probably a year before we got a sixth album.
I think my folk music tastes have become more sophisticated in recent years, but I have to say it was PP&M and the KT that started me out.
-Joe Offer-