Chad Mitchell Trio: New Discography
Barrie McCombs
discography has been revised to reflect information published in an
article by Allan Shaw in Discover Music Magalogue, in connection with the
release of the new CD "Mighty Day - The Chad Mitchell Trio Reunion".
1 GENERAL
1.1 Biographies
Chad Mitchell:
- Born: W. Chadborne Mitchell
- Left the group to follow a solo career in 1965
- 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:
- An original member of the group in 1958
- A member of the group on the Harry Belafonte Album?
- Replaced by Joe Frazier in 1960 (?)
Tom Paxton:
- Auditioned as a replacement for Mike Pugh
- Apparently he couldn't blend his voice with the group
Joe Frazier:
- Joined the group in 1960
- In 1987: an Episcopalian priest in California
Roger (Jim) McGuinn:
- Joined the group as an instrumentalist in 1960
- Later formed the Byrds
John Denver:
- Born: H.J. Deutschendorf Jr.
- Replaced Chad Mitchell in July 1965
David Boise:
- Replaced Joe Frazier in 1967
Mike Johnson:
- Replaced Mike Kobluk in 1968
- Group renamed as "Denver, Boise and Johnson"
- One correspondant mentioned some recordings
Sources:
- Reunion concert stage patter
- Allan Shaw: in Discover Music Magalogue, Winter 1995, (1-2)
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
- Steven Sobel (KPH...@prodigy.com), 02 Jan 1995
- Allan Shaw (Discover Music Magalogue), Jan 1995
* 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
- Released by Colpix several years later
- Distribution halted by a lawsuit from the group
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Side One: (Chad Mitchell Trio)
Herbie Spear
Devil Road
I Do Adore Her
Rodger Young
Sally Ann
Vaya Con Dios
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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
- Recorded May 02, 1960
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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,
- Roger McGuinn appears on the album cover
- Released circa 1961
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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 Live At The Bitter End
- Kapp: KL-1281, KS-3281, PKS-6002, March 1962
- Guitar accompaniment by Fred Hellerman of The Weavers
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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
- Originally titled "In Action"
- Renamed to take advantage of the hit by Peter Paul & Mary
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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
- Released by Kapp after the group moved to Mercury
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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
- Released in 1963 or 1964
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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 Having A Sixties Hootenany (one track)
- Label ??
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- The Marvelous Toy
2.11 Mighty Day - The Chad Mitchell Trio Reunion
- Mighty Day - The Chad Mitchell Trio Reunion (with John Denver)
- Recorded November 11, 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 or 1-800-232-7328
* Their Discover Music Magalogue (Winter 1995) has an article on CMT
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Mighty Day
Four Strong Winds (Ian Tyson)
Can't Help But Wonder Where I'm Bound (Tom Paxton)
The Great Historical Bum
Fyve-io
The John Birch Society
Johnny (When Johnny Comes Marching Home)
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 The Slightly Irreverent Mitchell Trio
- Mercury: MG-20944, SR-60944
- Group name changed, but not the personnel
- Released in the fall of 1964
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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)
3.2 Typical American Boys
- Mercury, MG-20992, SR-60992
- Last album with Chad, Joe, and Mike Kobluk
- Released in early 1965
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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
3.3 Thats The Way It's Gonna Be
- Mercury: MG-?????, SR-61049
- John Denver replaces Chad Mitchell
- Released in August 1965
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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
3.4 Violets Of Dawn
- Mercury: MG-21067, SR-61067
- Released in 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
3.5 The Mitchell Trio 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
3.6 The Best Of The Mitchell Trio
- Mercury ??
- The same as John Denver's "Beginnings"
- Not mentioned in Discover article
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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
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 Love, A Feeling Of (Chad Mitchell)
- Warner: W-1706
- Songs are not in order
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Better Than Anything
Suzanne
Love (Webster's Definition Of)
Poems To Eat
Poem On An Underground Wall
Without Rhyme Or Reason
As Time Goes By
This Afternoon
The Life That We Lead
Jane, Jane
To A Daughter-In-Law Unknown
4.3 Chad (Chad Mitchell)
- Bell Records, 6028
- (no information on jacket as to date)
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The White Ship
Both Sides Now
Love Trilogy:
a) Wish I was Anywhere Else
b) Chase Your Eyes
c) Late Sleeping Day
Genuine Imitation Life
What's That Got To Do With Me
Let's Get Together
Follow
Bus Song
Goodbye & Hello
4.4 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 Plainsmen's Kind
Vital Signs
Clinging To The Vine
Lost In A Memory Of You
Good Times
Nobody Ever Gets Killed In Our House
4.5 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 (John Denver)
Rabbit
She Loves You (Lennon / McCartney)
Long Tall Texan
Violets Of Dawn
4.6 Unidentified? (Denver, Boise & Johnson)
- More than one record
- Mentioned by Ron Greenstein (hl...@netaxs.com), 18 Jan 1995
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Barrie McCombs
some new information. Here is a summary of the recent messages.
Reunion Concert:
- Washington, DC
- Lisner Auditorium
- January 21, 1995
- Apparently the guys are still in good form
- Chad is now selling real estate in Spokane
- The others still have their "1987" jobs
Having a 60's Hootenany:
- K-tel 60172, available from Aztec Corporation (1-800-232-7328)
That's The Way It's Gonna Be:
- Mercury MG-21049
- Barrie
Bev Herzog
bmcc...@acs.ucalgary.ca (Barrie McCombs) writes:
> It never fails. Every time the discography gets posted, it generated
> some new information. Here is a summary of the recent messages.
>
> Having a 60's Hootenany:
> - K-tel 60172, available from Aztec Corporation (1-800-232-7328)
This is also available from Discover Musci (1-800-232-7328), cataloge
number HOO6017 followed by D for cd or C for casette. I believe I've also
seen it at Best Buy.
Bev