Discography: Chad Mitchel Trio (1995-01-01)
Barrie McCombs
version:
- Mike Kobluk (1987): worked at Spokane Opera House (not Seattle)
- John Denver: born John Deutschendorfer
- Songs are now complete for all albums
- Reunion Concert CD now available from Folk Era
1 GENERAL
1.1 Biographies
Chad Mitchell:
- Born: W. Chadborne Mitchell
- Left the group to follow a solo career
- In 1987: Entertainment Director of a New Orleans river boat company
Mike Kobluck:
- In 1987: manager of the Opera House in Spokane, Washington
Mike Pugh:
- A member of the group in 1958
- Replaced by Joe Frazier
Joe Frazier:
- Joined the group in 196?
- In 1987: an Episcopalian priest in California
John Denver:
- Born: John Deutschendorfer
- Replaced Chad Mitchell in 1965
David Boise:
- Replaced Joe Frazier in 1967
Mike Johnson:
- Replaced Mike Kobluk in 1968
- Group then renamed as "Denver, Boise and Johnson"
Tom Paxton:
- Tells a story that he auditioned as a replacement for Chad
- Apparently he couldn't blend his voice with the group
Sources:
- Reunion concert stage patter
- Dave Fessler (dav...@aol.com), 4 Sep 1994
- Rebecca Elder (re...@clark.net, 13 Dec 1994
- Barbara Griggs <bar...@usceast.cs.scarolina.edu>, 18 Aug 1994
1.2 Songbook
- The Mitchell Trio Songbook
- Quadrangle Books, Chicago, 1964
1.3 Contributors
- Matthew Kelley (Kell...@ucen.flint.umich.edu)
- Ton Maas (ton...@knoware.nl)
- Barbara Griggs <bar...@usceast.cs.scarolina.edu>, 18 Aug 1994
- Dave McCrady <da...@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca>, 20 Aug 1994
- Carolla Christie (car...@mrg.sas.ab.ca)
- Rick Stehn (fr...@celestat.com)
- Gerry Myerson (ge...@macadam.mpce.mq.edu.au)
- Robert Derrick (ro...@cray.com)
- Benjamin Cohen (benjami...@twty.chi.il.us), 12 Dec 94
- Rebecca Elder (re...@clark.net, 13 Dec 1994
- Dave Fessler (dav...@aol.com), 24 Dec 1994
- Joe Bethancourt (lock...@indirect.com), 25 Dec 1994
- Donald Stone (don....@on-ramp.ior.com), 25 Dec 1994
- Bill Starnes (bi...@ksmith.com), 25 Dec 1994
- THANKS TO YOU ALL!
2 CHAD MITCHELL TRIO
2.1 The Chad Mitchell Trio (Arrives)
- Colpix: CP-411, SCP-411
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Tina
Chevaliers
Walkin' On The Green Grass
Sweet Mary Jo
Pretty Saro
Sally Ann
Up On The Mountain
Paddy
I Do Adore Her
Paddy West
Gallows Tree
Hey Nanine
2.2 In Concert / Everybody's Listening (With The Gatemen)
- Colpix: CP-463, SCP-463
- With The Gatemen
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Side One: (Chad Mitchell Trio)
Herbie Spear
Devil Road
I Do Adore Her
Rodger Young
Sally Ann
Vaya Con Dios
Side Two: (The Gatemen)
Jesse James
Green Leaves Of Summer
The Klan
500 Miles
What Have You Got To Show
Wabash Cannonball
2.3 Belafonte Returns To Carnegie Hall (Guest Appearance)
- RCA Victor: LOC-6007, 1960
- Compact Disc: RCA MFCD-782
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I Do Adore Her
Vaichazkem
The Ballad Of Sigmund Freud
2.4 Mighty Day On Campus
- Kapp: KL-1262, KS-3262, circa 1962
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Mighty Day
Rum By Gum (Away With Rum)
The Whistling Gypsy
Super Skier
Dona, Dona, Dona
Whup Jamboree
Lizzie Borden
Tail Toddle
Johnnie
Puttin' On The Style
Hang On The Bell, Nellie
On My Journey
2.5 At The Bitter End
- Kapp: KL-1281, KS-3281, PKS-6002, March 1962
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The John Birch Society
Hello Susan Brown
A Very Unfortunate Man
Blues Around My Head
James James Morrison Morrison
I Was Born About Ten Thousand Years Ago (The Great Historical Bum)
Alberta
Golden Vanity
Moscow Nights
Come Along Home
You Can Tell The World
Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream
2.6 Blowin' In The Wind (AKA: In Action)
- IN ACTION, Kapp: KL-1313, KS-3313
- BLOWIN' IN THE WIND, Kapp: KL-1313, KS-3313
- Was the recording renamed because "Blowin' In The Wind" was a hit?
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Leave Me If You Want To (Columbus Stockade)
Green Grow The Lilacs
The Story of Alice: Part One
The Ides of Texas (Billie Sol Estes)
Alice: Revisited
The Ballad Of The Greenland Whalers
Alice: Sequel
Blowing In The Wind
Adios Mi Corazon (Spanish Is A Loving Tongue)
Run, Run, Run
My Guitar
Me Voy Pa Bete
One Day When I Was Lost (Easter Morn)
2.7 The Best Of The Chad Mitchell Trio
- Kapp: KL-1334, KS-3334
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Lizzie Borden
Hang on the Bell, Nellie
The Great Historical Bum (The Bragging Song)
Super Skier
The John Birch Society
The Ides of Texas / Don't Fence Me In
James James Morrison Morrison
Green Grow the Lilacs
Hello, Susan Brown
The Unfortunate Man
You Can Tell the World
2.8 Singin' Our Minds
- Mercury: MG-20838, SR-60838
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Ain't No More Cane On This Brazos
Four Strong Winds
Alma Mater
An Irish Song
I Feel So Good About It (Sin Bound Train)
The Marvelous Toy
Maladyozhenaya (The Young Ones)
Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
Bonny Streets of Fyve
Willie Seton
Twelve Days
2.9 Reflecting
- Mercury, MG-20891, SR-60891
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Barry's Boys
The Virgin Mary
The Tarriers Song (Drill You Tarriers, Drill)
What Did You Learn In School Today
The Hip Song (It Does Not Pay To Be Hip)
The Banks of Sicily
Tell Old Bill
Queen Elinor's Confession
Stewball
The First Time Ever
The Sinking of Reuben James
In The Summer Of His Years / Rally Round The Flag (Medley)
2.10 The Slightly Irreverent
- Mercury: MG-20944, SR-60944
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A Dying Business
Stewball and Griselda
Mandy Lane
Moon Of Alabama
When I Was A Young Man
An African Song
On That Great Civilized Morning (poem by E.Y. Harburg)
I Can't Help But Wonder Where I'm Bound
Draft Dodger Rag
If I Gave You
The Pride Of Petrovar
Rhymes For The Irreverent (E.Y. Harburg)
2.11 Typical American Boys
- Mercury, MG-20992, SR-60992
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You Were On My Mind
Jesse James
Cherry Tree Carol (Solo by Mike Kobluk)
Which Hat Shall I Wear
The Last Thing On My Mind (Solo by Joe Frazier)
The Natural Girl For Me
Waves Of The Sea
One Man's Hands
Yowzah (Solo By Chad Mitchell)
My Name Is Morgan
Gorpus Morpus (Instrumental)
With God On Our Side
2.12 Mighty Day, The Chad Mitchell Trio Reunion
- Mighty Day: The Chad Mitchell Trio Reunion (with John Denver)
- Recorded 11 November 1987, Spirit Square, Charlotte, NC
- Occasionally shown on PBS as a fund-raiser
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CD released 1994:
- Folk Era FE-1422-CD
- Folk Era Records, 705 So. Washington St., Naperville, IL 60540
- Telephone: (708) 305-0770
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Mighty Day
Four Strong Winds
Can't Help But Wonder Where I'm Bound
The Great Historical Bum
Fyve-io
The John Birch Society
Johnny
The Ballad of the Greenland Whalers
Which Hat Shall I Wear
The Sinking of the Reuben James
An African Song
Maladyozhenaya
Lizzie Borden
For Baby (For Bobbie) (John, Joe & Mike)
Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream (Chad, Joe, Mike & John)
3 MITCHELL TRIO
3.1 Thats The Way Its Gonna Be
- Mercury: MG-?????, SR-61049, August 1965
- John Denver replaces Chad Mitchell
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That's The Way It's Gonna Be
Lucy Baines
Song For Canada (Ian Tyson, Peter Gzowski)
I Was Not A Nazi Polka
Ecumenical March
Get Together
Long Tall Texan
Never Coming Home
What Kind Of Life Is That
Phoenix Bird
Mr. Tambourine Man
Three Legged Man
3.2 Violets Of Dawn
- Mercury: MG-21067, SR-61067, December 1965
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Violets Of Dawn
Another Side Of This Life
Your Friendly, Liberal, Neighborhood Ku Klux Klan
We Didn't Know
One Time And One Time Only
Bells Of Rhymney
The Sound Of Protest
Rabbit
Business Goes On As Usual
For Bobbie (AKA: For Baby, For Bobbie)
Talking Football
Peat Bog Soldiers
3.3 The Best Of The Mitchell Trio
- Mercury ??
- The same as John Denver's "Beginnings"
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That's the Way It's Gonna Be
For Bobbie (AKA: For Baby, For Bobbie)
Another Side Of This Life
The Bells Of Rhymney
Never Coming Home
Get Together
Mr. Tambourine Man
Like To Deal With The Ladies
Rabbit
She Loves You
Long Tall Texan
Violets Of Dawn
3.4 Alive!
- Reprise RS-6258
- David Boise replaces Joe Frazier
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What This Country Really Needs Is Another Movie Star
Leaving On A Jet Plane
Coal Tattoo
Adam's Rib
Alabama Mothers
Like To Deal With The Ladies
She Loves You
Flaming Youth
Cindy's Cryin' (Tom Paxton)
God Is Dead
He Was A Friend Of Mine
4 MISCELLANEOUS
4.1 Chad Mitchell, Himself (Chad Mitchell)
- Warner, W-1667
- solo album
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The Other Side Of This Life
Buddy, Can You Spare A Dime
Quiet Room
Half A Crown
Broadway Is A Tame Street
Violets Of Dawn
She Was Too Good To Me
Dark As A Dungeon
Over The Rainbow
Marieka
4.2 A Feeling Of Love (Chad Mitchell)
- Warner: W-1706
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Songs unknown
4.3 Virgo Moon (Chad Mitchell)
Silver City: SCD-91590-2 (Compact Disc), 1991
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Outbound Plane
My Name Joe
A Thousand Miles Away
This Missin' You Heart Of Mine
Wild Palinsmen's Kind (Plainsmen?)
Vital Signs
Clinging To The Vine
Lost In A Memory Of You
Good Times
Nobody Ever Gets Killed In Our House
4.4 Beginnings (John Denver)
- Mercury: SRM-1704
- Released after the Trio broke up
- Contains tracks from "That's the Way It's Gonna Be" & "Violets of Dawn"
- The same as "The Best of the Mitchell Trio"
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That's the Way It's Gonna Be
For Bobbie (AKA: For Baby, For Bobbie)
Another Side Of This Life
The Bells Of Rhymney
Never Coming Home
Get Together
Mr. Tambourine Man
Like To Deal With The Ladies
Rabbit
She Loves You
Long Tall Texan
Violets Of Dawn
WAHARJU
and Blockbuster here in S.D. with no luck. Please advise?? My 33rpms are
scratchy!!
Bev Herzog
This month's Rediscover Music cataloge has an article on the trio. They
say that despite significant interest in the group, their record company
has no plans to re-issue their work on CD. Their reunion concert CD and
tape is sparsely available, including from Rediscover Music ($18 for CD,
plus S&H), as are a few solo albums by group members.
Bev
Loren Joseph MacGregor
In article <3f511s$1...@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, wah...@aol.com (WAHARJU)
wrote as follows:
>
> Are Chad Mitchell Trio recordings generally available? I've checked Tower
> and Blockbuster here in S.D. with no luck. Please advise?? My 33rpms are
> scratchy!!
Don't I wish! As far as I know, the entire catalog is out of print. I had heard that Chad Mitchell was singing on a tour boat, but that was many moons back, and the information may not have been accurate. I saw Joe Frazier a couple of years back, when he came on stage at The Great American Musical Hall to perform a couple of songs with Tom Paxton; apparently he is a deacon at a church in northern California.
As for the others, I don't know. I have heard rumors that following his
stint replacing Chad Mitchell in the Mitchell Trio, John Denver was a
member of a band called Denver, Boise and Johnson, and I'd like to hear an
album, if they ever made one.
And my records are getting a bit scratchy, too; but the only way around
that , as far as I know, is to do what I did, which was to buy several
copies of each album when I saw them rapidly disappearing.
Ron Greenstein
: each guy was replaced, and this group is the result. Also, as each guy
: quit, the vocal quality went down (my humble opinion). For more info,
: E-mail me.
ARB
DC area this weekend (without John Denver, I think). They had one
prior reunion tour and the album of that is sold by some PBS
stations and is the only Chad Mitchell album currently in print.
The Denver-Boise-Johnson configuration of the trio never did
record an album; they only did concert tours.
Hope this is helpful.
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70562,31...@compuserve.com
Loren Joseph MacGregor
<70562...@CompuServe.COM> wrote as follows:
Combined with the other material posted on the CMT, it's very helpful,
and thank you.
I was reasonably certain DBJ had not recorded an album, but it's nice to
know. I recall seeing a (fairly) recent reprint of the John
Denver/Mitchell Trio material, which I did not buy, more's the pity. (I
find myself almost alone, it seems, in thinking that "Violets of Dawn"
with John Denver replacing Chad Mitchell is one of the Mitchell Trio's
highlight albums.)
I would like to know where, if anywhere, one can get an album or tape of
the prior reunion tour, a list of songs, and so on. I have missed them.
Gerry Myerson
vanished from my site, leaving only a few uninformative follow-ups in its
wake. Could I prevail on the discographer to email it to me? I have some
track listings and suchlike that weren't included in an earlier version.
Gerry Myerson
ge...@mpce.mq.edu.au