Someday Soon - Kingston Trio

An unusual and seldom-heard adaptation of Canadian Ian Tyson's classic cowboy/rodeo song "Someday Soon." The Kingston Trio converted Tyson's composition from a plaintive. almost wistful tune of hope from a young girl to a more assertive and masculine declaration by the youthful rodeo cowboy of the number - a very different take on the song as it is more familiarly known in renditions by (among many others) Judy Colline and Tyson himself.

The video is a montage of photographs of rodeo performers interspersed with portraits and sculptures by Frederic Remington, the most enduring of the cowboy artists of the early twentieth century.

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• IanTyson
• rodeo
• cowboy
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[CompVid101]

Each to his/her own. I happen to like ALL the versions of this song, starting with the original of Ian and Sylvia, then the most widely-known version by Collins, who IMHO (with Baez and Joni Mitchell) has no real equal as a female acoustic artist singing today. Auto-tuned or not, Boguss does a fine job - as does Crystal Gayle. The Comparative Video 101 blog that I uploaded this for has all of those versions.

[dwagner50]

This is a beautiful song and the Kingston Trio put a totally different take on it. Great harmonies and guitar playing. I saw them in the 80's with Nick Reynolds and two newer members. They were good but nothing like these three. This song really grabs my heart!

[HeartoftheDragonColo]

@dwagner, the 80's lineup, if it included Nick, would have included George Grove, who has been a Trio member longer than anyone other than Bob Shane. Bob was always a member of the Trio until his recent retirement. Could it have been Bob with George & either Roger Gambill or Bob Haworth (former Brothers Four)?

[allieree]

John Stewart sings well, but I like the original Kingston Trio with Dave Guard's voice, and banjo playing. However, the Kingston Trio is still the greatest.

[Rieslingontheriver]

Hi Alpha! We're all entitled to our own viewpoints, right? I'll bring up three more thoughts here: 1) I was listening to the Trio's version in the early 60s and it's always remained a meaningful piece to me (they also play their own instrumentation), and 2) Judy is okay, nothing special, but just ok, and 3) Suzy Bogguss is a flake. It's auto-tune, key-correction, contemporary Nashville sludge. Another chirpy chick-singer. Gimme the original every time.

[alphakid42]

@Rieslingontheriver Mmm, In my view, the best version is by Suzy Boggus, who adds a bit of emotion & a yodel to the Collin's style, with great muscians on the track. The lyrics work best with a girl who pines for a guy just out of the service, with her pa protective 'cuz he used to be just as wild. It' just doesn't seem to work well the other way 'round. I do think the repetition and fade on this version works really well 'cuz it reinforces the pining feeling, & i wish Collins had adopted it.

[HeartoftheDragonColo]

The Decca catalog is really quite underrated. KT detractors can say what they want. The Trio made great music from their heyday in the late 50's, through a major change (Dave Guard to John Stewart), and thanks to Bob Shane's bulldog determination (and George Grove's accomplishments) through until the present day. Thanks for all the music, guys, & we love you!

[elmerhdga]

John Stewart sounds great with the KT in this Ian Tyson masterpiece, and of course when Judy does this song....wow

[cruztacean]

@Rieslingontheriver And you choose to be so hateful because?

[Rieslingontheriver]

@cruztacean OK Crusty, you just keep on loving the song to pieces. My previous comments stand. But you stay away from those microphones, ok? The music industry already has too many wannabes.

[cruztacean]

@Rieslingontheriver I must disagree. As a (non-published, hardly ever performed in my life, totally inexperienced) female singer myself, I just LOVE this song to pieces. If I were twenty years younger and had the opportunity and knew half of what it takes to make it in the business, I would absolutely jump at a chance to record Someday Soon. Even if I didn't make a dime off of it.