Chad Mitchell Trio, The - Blowin' In The Wind (Toshiba, Kapp KP-7222) (JP 196_, 1963) (Vinyl 24-96 & 16-44.1)

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Chad Mitchell Trio, The – Blowin' In The Wind

Label: Toshiba Musical Industries, Kapp Records
Catalog#: KP-7222
Format: Vinyl, LP, Stereo
Country: Japan
Origin: US
Released: 196? (according to Kapp label early 60's), originally released 1963
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk, Vocal
Special: Aka-ban Red Wax, White label promo

Tracklist:

A1 Leave Me If You Want To 2:36
A2 Green Grow The Lilacs 2:30
A3 The Story Of Alice - Part I 2:32
A4 The Ides Of Texas (And Don't Fence Me In) 4:46
A5 Alice Revisited 2:29
A6 The Ballad Of The Greenland Whalers 2:38
A7 Alice: Sequel 0:47

B1 Blowin' In The Wind 2:30
Written-By – Bob Dylan
B2 Adios Mi Corazon 3:02
B3 Run Run Run 2:42
B4 My Guitar 2:54
B5 Me Voy Pa Bete 2:58
B6 One Day When I Was Lost (Easter Morn) 2:39

Credits

* Bass – Norman Keenan
* Engineer – Ernest Oelrich
* Guitar – Bruce Langhorne, Jacob Ander
* Guitar [Mandolin & Banjo] – Paul Prestopino
* Mastered By – Ed Begley
* Photography – Peter Perri
* Producer – Bob Bollard

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MFD.BY TOSHIBA MUSICAL INDUSTRIES LTD.JAPAN

Discogs Url: http://www.discogs.com/Chad-Mitchell-Trio-Blowin-In-The-Wind/release/2851034

The Chad Mitchell Trio were a North American vocal group who gained notoriety during the 1960s. They performed folk songs, some of which were traditionally passed down and some of their own compositions. Unlike many fellow folk music groups, none of the trio played instruments. They became popular in some quarters, and were particularly notable for performing satirical songs that criticized current events during the turmoil in the United States following the cold war and a time of unrest brought about the civil rights movements and the Vietnam War, unlike the typical 'folk music' and singer-songwriter musicians of their time.

The Trio's first recordings for Colpix were similar to the conventional folk songs that were gaining popularity then as an alternative to the early rock-and-roll genre. It was songs from their first Kapp Records release — "Mighty Day" (about the 1900 Galveston, Texas hurricane); "Rum By Gum" (about the Temperance/Prohibition movement); and, "Lizzie Borden" (an irreverent satire countering the common heroizing of the accused axe murderess) — which began to make the Trio distinct.

Their next Kapp album contained "The John Birch Society". "The Ides of Texas" from their final Kapp release took aim at financier Billie Sol Estes.

Once on Mercury, the gloves were off. "Twelve Days" imagined a group of former Nazis singing new lyrics to the old Christmas carol; a similar theme would be explored later in "The I Was Not A Nazi Polka". "Barry's Boys" ("You too can join the crew/Tippecanoe and Nixon, too") portrayed a view of the followers of conservative Republican 1964 Presidential candidate Barry Goldwater. "A Dying Business" went after funeral costs and customs, while "The Draft Dodger Rag" (by Phil Ochs: "Sarge, I'm only eighteen/I got a ruptured spleen/And I always carry a purse") explored the beginnings of resistance to the Vietnam War. "What Kind of Life Is That" pondered on celebrity fame (specifically, that of Elizabeth Taylor). "Alma Mater" ("We'll miss the classrooms/Where we learned/And effigies we burned") took on segregationist policies at the University of Mississippi, but was only a prelude to the later "Your Friendly, Liberal, Neighborhood Ku-Klux-Klan."

While the Mitchell Trio became best known for such songs, they also produced a solid body of work which showed that folk music could be "polished" yet remain close to its roots. They recorded square dance numbers like "Whup Jamboree" and "Hello Susan Brown". They could do rousing gospel music numbers like "You Can Tell The World", "I Feel So Good About It (Sin Bound Train)", and "One Day When I Was Lost (Easter Morn)". They seemed made to do the modern classics of Tom Paxton, such as "The Marvelous Toy", "What Did You Learn In School Today?", and "We Didn't Know". They also sang the work of Woody Guthrie ("The Great Historical Bum (Bragging Song)"), Shel Silverstein ("The Hip Song (It Does Not Pay To Be Hip)", "Three Legged Man"), and Bob Dylan ("Blowin' in the Wind" (they were in fact the first to record it, but because the record company objected to releasing a single with the word "death" in it, Peter, Paul and Mary's became the best known version), "With God On Our Side", "Mr. Tambourine Man").

The Mitchell Trio also did the first major recording of John Denver's later hit "For Baby (For Bobbi)", and also handled his "Leaving on a Jet Plane". Their final album offered a soft, harmonized version of The Beatles' "She Loves You". Kobluk's solo vocal on "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" pre-dated the Roberta Flack major hit version by a couple of years.

Johnny Cash cited their version of "Four Strong Winds" as a stylistic influence and included it on his Artist's Choice album of favorites. The 2003 mockumentary A Mighty Wind featured The Folksmen, a group described "as a more leftish variation on the Chad Mitchell Trio." wikipedia

Review

by Cary Ginell

After two consecutive live albums, the Mitchell Trio returned to the studio for their next collection of folk tunes. After losing the battle with Peter, Paul & Mary to issue Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind" as a single, the best Kapp Records could manage was to repackage subsequent issues of the In Action album as Blowin' in the Wind to capitalize on the monstrously successful song (record labels continued to have In Action printed on them as the album title). It's easy to see why PP&M's version was chosen; it is much more passionate than the Mitchell Trio's, which is taken at a faster pace, highlighted by a folk banjo.

The album starts off with a rousing bluegrass rendition of the traditional "Columbus Stockade Blues" (renamed "Leave Me If You Want To"). But after that, the atmosphere is more sedate, with side one dominated by the three-part madrigal-like "Story of Alice," co-written by Broadway's Jerry Bock (of Fiddler on the Roof fame) and Larry Holofcener. The group's now-obligatory political commentary tune was aimed at Texan Billy Sol Estes in "The Ides of Texas." Each trio member is featured on solo tunes: Mitchell on "Green Grow the Lilacs," Mike Kobluk on "Adios Mi Corazon" and Joe Frazier on "Me Voy Pa Bete." allmusicguide

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