Posted by Fred Corcoran |
- Re: Chilly Winds
Posted by Fred Corcoran
on 11/3/2009, 1:39 am, in reply to "Chilly Winds"
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: From a website for "sing365.com"
:
:
: The Reviews about Chilly Winds (page 1/1)
: ------ performed by Kingston Trio
:
: A Collaboration of The Kingston Trio and the Mamas & Papas | Reviewer: Dick
: Dutson | 7/29/09
:
: One of the prettiest songs John Stwewart ever wrote. He wrote it with John Phillips
: from the Mamas and Papas out on Sausalito bay one afternoon when he (John Stewart)
: was a member of the famed Kingston Trio in the 19060s. They'd borrowed a rowboat
: from Nick Reynolds (one of the other guys in The Kingston Trio) and rowed out about
: two miles in shorts and t-shirts to go fishing, not knowing the weather was about to
: change. About an hour later, the winds picked up and the temperature dropped
: considerably. At some point, one of them said, "Geez, these are really chilly
: winds." To which the other replied, "Hey, that's a great title for a
: song." Because they didn't have anything to write on, they ended up rowing over
: to The Kingston Trio's secretary's (Charlotte Larson) house and (according to
: Charlotte) wrote about 50 verses. The best recording of the song is on The Kingston
: Trio's College Concert album recorded live at UCLA in 1962.
:
- Re: Chilly Winds
Posted by Dick Dutson
on 11/3/2009, 5:46 pm, in reply to "Chilly Winds"Fred-
Almost fell out of my chair when I saw your post and my name attached to it...vagely remember writing it...hope it's accurate...anyway, it's the way John told it to me one night at the Towne Crier Cafe in Pawling, NY about 20 years ago. As I recall, they were at a party at Nick's, and after things apparently wound down, decided to "split" and do a little fishing. I seem to remember some mention of their havng "some cold ones" with them... :-)
Regardless, I still think it's the prettiest song the Trio ever did and do it all the time in a variety of groups I sing with. We do it exactly the way the Trio did in the College Concert album and audiences love it! I only heard them do it one other time on a tape I have of one of their concerts, which I assume must have been right after John wrote it and joined the group as Nick didn't do his beuatiful high harmonmy (like on CC) on the chorus then.
Regards,
Dick
--Previous Message--
: From a website for "sing365.com"
:
:
: The Reviews about Chilly Winds (page 1/1)
: ------ performed by Kingston Trio
:
: A Collaboration of The Kingston Trio and the Mamas & Papas | Reviewer: Dick
: Dutson | 7/29/09
:
: One of the prettiest songs John Stwewart ever wrote. He wrote it with John Phillips
: from the Mamas and Papas out on Sausalito bay one afternoon when he (John Stewart)
: was a member of the famed Kingston Trio in the 19060s. They'd borrowed a rowboat
: from Nick Reynolds (one of the other guys in The Kingston Trio) and rowed out about
: two miles in shorts and t-shirts to go fishing, not knowing the weather was about to
: change. About an hour later, the winds picked up and the temperature dropped
: considerably. At some point, one of them said, "Geez, these are really chilly
: winds." To which the other replied, "Hey, that's a great title for a
: song." Because they didn't have anything to write on, they ended up rowing over
: to The Kingston Trio's secretary's (Charlotte Larson) house and (according to
: Charlotte) wrote about 50 verses. The best recording of the song is on The Kingston
: Trio's College Concert album recorded live at UCLA in 1962.
:
