It was 1957, and Bob Shane, Nick Reynolds and Dave Guard had formed The Kingston Trio and were trying to ascertain whether they had a future in popular music. It would be the next year before they would be booked into the "hungry i", record their first album for Capitol or have "Tom Dooley" rocket to the top of the charts. But in 1957 they were looking for the first break which came when Phyllis Diller bowed out of a date at The Purple Onion and they were booked as a fill-in. That became a regular booking and they played there for seven months, rehearsing daily in a small room above the club.

Bob Shane recently found a tape of some of those rehearsals, and decided to share it with The Trio's most devoted fans, and has graciously allowed us to offer it to you. Perhaps needless to say, it's a long way from the polished Trio that we subsequently came to know and love, but it's a wonderful treasure for those of us who are "really in to" The Trio.

1. Run Joe
   
2. Three Jolly Coachmen
   
3. Shenandoah
   
4. Tanga Tika Toerau
   
5. Marcelle Vahine
   
6. Minoi Minoi
   
7. Leipakalana
   
8. Fox Went Out On A Chilly Night
   
9. I Bawled
   
10. Go Where I Send Thee
    
11. Venga Jaleo
    
12. Truly Fair
    
13. Pay Me My Money Down