🎵 ON THIS DAY IN MUSIC HISTORY – AUGUST 3, 1959 🎵 Folk music was blazing a trail in 1959, and no group was hotter than The Kingston Trio. On this day, they were featured on the cover of Life magazine, hailed as “Top Sellers In Albums.” At the time, they had already achieved three million-selling LPs: The Kingston Trio (1958) …from the Hungry i (1959) At Large (1959) The group—Dave Guard, Bob Shane, and Nick Reynolds—took an old 19th-century Appalachian ballad and turned it into a national phen