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    IN MEMORIAM

    Mar 30, 2020 4 minutes

    Bob Shane

    On January 26, the last surviving member of The Kingston Trio, singer, guitarist and banjo player Bob Shane passed away at the age of 85. Popular on college campuses, the San Francisco trio had a highly successful string of eight hit albums from 1958 through 1960 including five peaking at No. 1 and one reaching No. 2. Their eighth album was the dozen song holiday collection, The Last Month of the Year, filled with original compositions including a gentle song that Bob co-wrote called “White Snows of Winter.”

    Bob, along with Dave Guard and Nick Reynolds had late 1950s hits including the No. 1 gold single “Tom Dooley” along with the lively

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