Dave Guard & The Calypsonians

Even though the Kingston Trio, made up of Dave Guard, Nick Reynolds, and Bob Shane, met in Palo Alto in the middle-’50s, the members of the group also participated in other acts throughout that time. When Shane briefly shifted to Hawaii prior to the Kingston Trio got ever recorded, Safeguard and Reynolds sang in Dave Safeguard & the Calpysonians, who also included Joe Gannon on bass and Barbara Bogue. They under no circumstances released any information within their short-lived living, with Safeguard, Reynolds, and Shane reconnecting to create the Kingston Trio in middle-1957. Dave Safeguard & the Calypsonians, nevertheless, do record eight demos in early 1957. Two of the, “Fast Freight” (the just song within the eight demos the Kingston Trio would record) and “Operate Joe,” show up on the Kingston Trio package arranged The Capitol Years. They are proficient, if lo-fi, tranquility folk, having a calypso influence certainly present.