Zombie Jamboree

Описание: The original Kingston Trio of Bob Shane, Nick Reynolds, and Dave Guard perform one of their best known and most beloved songs, "Zombie Jamboree," from the group's second album on Capitol Records, "...from the Hungry i" in 1958. The song was written around 1953 by Winston O'Connor, a Calypso musician from Trinidad and Tobago who styled himself "Lord Intruder." The droll introduction heard on this video by Trio member Dave Guard misidentifies the composer and group as "Lord Invader and his 12 Penetrators." Guard was joking; while there was an actual Lord Invader in the calypso world, he didn't write this particular song, and there was never a band of that name on record.

The Kingston Trio started out as a group most interested in performing calypso music, and their very name derived from the association of "Kingston" with the Caribbean as much as it did from the vaguely Ivy League sound that it had as well. When the Trio's recording of "Tom Dooley" became a monster hit a few months after the "Hungry i" album was released, Capitol Records decided to market the Kingstons as "folk singers" - a label with which the Trio was always uncomfortable and which traditionalists resented. But as sole surviving original member Bob Shane remarks, "After Tom Dooley broke out, Capitol Records came to us with a great big suitcase full of money and said 'You boys are now folk singers." We said "You're damn right we are!' After all, we were all business majors in college."

"Zombie Jamboree" has also been recorded by the calpso king himself, Harry Belafonte (though strangely three years after the KT) and more recently in the 1990s by the vocal group Rockapella.

For more on the song with versions by other groups as well, please see:

http://compvid101.blogspot.com/2009/0...