On November 17, 1958 — 56 years ago today — the Kingston Trios Tom Dooley hit #1 on the Billboard popular music chart. While they might not have wanted to acknowledge it, the fans of 1960s protest folk probably owed the very existence of the movement to three guys in crew cuts and candy-striped shirts who honed their act not in freight cars or in Greenwich Village cafes, but in the fraternities and sororities of Stanford University in the mid-1950s.
Posted on: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 09:31:39 +0000
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