Link: Pat Boone Duet
https://myspace.com/thepatboone/music/song/tom-dooley-113455882-128975155
If you run the so-called duet it's Lonnie Donegan. Maybe he was on the Pat Boone show?
I recently saw an advertisement for a vinyl album titled "Pat Boone Duets". Maybe this has been discussed here before, but I do not remember it.
The album was published in 2015 and is made up of audio clips from old TV shows with Boone accompanying various luminaries of the day.
Track 5 was titled Pat Boone & The Kingston Trio "Tom Dooley". Not to be confused with Boone's well-known rendition of "You're Gonna Miss Me" with the Guard Trio.
I did not want to buy the album and could not find an accessible download but I was able to locate a couple of sample clips of that song.
I thought that I recognised Pat Horine's voice and so I first thought it was the original New Kingston Trio, but there was just one other voice that I had never heard before. Certainly not Shane or Connor.
Overall, the performance was quite uninspiring vocally and instrumentally and sounded nothing like any configuration of The Trio that I knew. In fact it was likely not the KT at all.
Does anyone know this album and can they identify who was singing with Boone?
Was it a mistake by the publishers of the album, a company that seems to be associated with Pat Boone, or another example of the artistically fake KTs that we have experienced in recent times?
The shallower you are, the more ground you cover.
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