Roger brought me here but I love the harmony of the Chad Mitchell Trio. Nothing but goodness in music like this.

Musicians of Roger McGuinn's calibre often play several different instruments. McGuinn is in the same category of musician as Vince Gill and Marty Stuart, can play pretty much anything with strings.

Is anyone else amazed by the camera work? The music itself is extraordinary and, to me, the camera work enhances it. I've watched this many times over the years and always enjoy it.

That finger picking style that Jim McGuinn played on banjo at 19 years old is very difficult to master. No wonder he brought magic to the 12 string Rickenbacher guitar with the Byrds.

They were my favourite folkie group of the early 60's. I was in college then, and when the Beatles came along I just didn't get it.

We used to sing this song at summer camp. Virtually forgotten today, the CMT was one fantastic group--maybe the best of the lot, though the KIngston Trio and the Limeliters were also excellent folk bands.

Yessssss... a Byrd soaring on A MIGHTY WIND!

Superb ! Musically the best of all the folk era. Balance, blend, purity of sound - Moving selections, comedy, parody etc. no other group comes close.

Oh, wow! I loved the Chad Mitchell Trio! All these years later, I can still sing along with these songs. Thank you so much.

Great video -- Jim (Roger) McGuinn in a suit and tie with short hair! Takes me back in a very pleasant way to a time when our culture was about to be turned on its head. And the Princess phone commercial at the end is icing on the cake. Thanks for posting.

What harmony & musical quality! Just 4 guys and a guitar!!! I love all kinds of music but doesn't get much better than this!

Sent here by the ever-dashing Mr. McGuinn himself, who mentioned this video and its existence on KZfaq during his concert in Mobile, AL the other night. Thanks for posting - what a treat!

As a Brit never heard this music...but i like it...nice to see Mcguinn...3 years later it was Eight Miles High... but thats another story............................... Jim

Interviewed Joe Frazier was he was an Episcopalian minister here in Wilmington, DE, just before he left for San Francisco. Very nice guy and had some great stories about Jim McGuinn, John Denver and others.

Sixty years ago, and he's still touring!

The "Donna, Donna" harmonies are excellent - thank you so much for this video.

Wow, Chad Mitchell had a beautiful voice !!!!!

Nice to drop in and hear these old favorites. Now to find something by the Byrds....

Thanks for posting this piece that brings back many memories of the days when television offered much variety on so few channels.

From this to Eight Miles High in 5 years. Thanks Roger.

thats some mighty fine pickin'

How rare! Thanks for posting. This is really good stuff. The is why we all need to teach our kids and grandkids about this music.

I love the old "princess" phone at the beginning

What an amazing group they were! Their arrangements (by Milt Okun, a name you should know, who also produced PP&M) were incredible.

That was some beautiful singing

With the great James Joseph McGuinn III on banjo

For my money the best folk group of the era.

Also has that psychedelic touch - pure magic, pure harmonies!

Denver came in '65, Jim/Roger was gone in '63. replaced by Jacob Ander and Paul Prestopino.

McGuinn was featured on the covers of both of the Mitchell albums he played on, too, and seemed to be considered their primary accompanist.

@chandramaofficial That's where he got his unique sound on the Ric...he used the "Hammer & Claw" banjo technique when he played. Of course that Ric 360/12 has a sound all it's own.

McGuinns banjo picking seen early here is going to help him tame the 12 string Rickenbacker within tow years. He finger picks the twelve too. Thanks and in a twisted way I even liked the commercials.

Maravillosa armonía y un Roger Mcguinn tocando ya con maestría

Playing Spanish Guitar in the same show where Andres Segovia was? Crazy!Segovia was (is) the number 1 guitar player ever!!! McGuinn is great too.

While I am not their age, I was part of the audience then. I found an album from this group in an auction lot. I had never heard of them. I bought the lot for the Kingston Trio album and another group. This was a nice surprize.

I didn't know McGuinn had banjo skills !

i really enjoyed this...especially looking back from here

Playing the "claw hand" stule of banjo picking made his sound unique with he Byrds and on the Rickenbacker 12 string guitar.

When we went to hear them play, as we did for others, the Limeliters, the symphony, the KT, most of audience wore coat and tie. it was the same in a concert hall or at the Hungry i. Ties for the men. Back then you needed a tie too be seated at a good restaurant and people dressed up to take a plane. I sort of miss some of that, though not ties so much as recognition that there were standards in a public place.

You don't hear music like this anymore. I think our tastes have been bastardized by our cynicism and despair.

Wondering if John Denver and Roger McGuinn were ever in the trio at the same time??? Both Fabulous!!!!!!!!

Under Review brought me here. The first song was included in the Byrds’ segment of Under Review.

That was a mighty day for them.

Donavon sings "Donna Donna" on his first albumn. Thanks

Wow, I didn't now McGuinn was such a great banjoist. I remember seeing him holding a Rickenbacker banjoline in a pic somewhere of the Byrds in about the Sweetheart of the Rodeo era. I would have loved to hear him play it.

also check out on you tube a pre Byrds Gene Clark and the New Christie Minstrals. It was Clark who wrote Eight Miles High. Cool stuff all the way around.

McGuinn is so cute.

It was great growing up in the 60's. The Chad Mitcell Trio The Kingston Trio The Brothers Peter Paul and Mary Folk singing was very harmonic and went from beautiful melodies to Protest Songs, Life on the Sea and some eventually morphed in to Rock and Roll, and as Paul Stookie said OH Uncrupulous Modifiers, lol The Banjo and guitar player, Roger McGuinn wrote music for other groups like the Mama's and the Papa's. I believe he became part of the Byrds

Jimbo, Roger was still a number of years away.

What an amazing group. Both with Chad Mitchell and then John Denver. I was fortunate to see them live right after they added John Denver to replace Chad.

I think Roger is the most KICK ASS guitar player That I have ever heard (with the exception of Chet ATKINS) Long live Roger nMcGuinn

This is great, thank you! I've seen McGuinn solo with acoustic & electric 123 string, just amazing. Thank you for this. Michelle 333999's comments about the rest of the Byrds (especially Crosby) was good comic relief, but you can' t.deny their talent. Thoroughly amazing post, thank you!

Love it!

Did you ever notice that (except for the Limeliters) those old folk groups would never feature or show the bass player on camera, even though the bass was essential to their overall sound? I always thought that was really odd. Ever see the Kingston Trio's or Peter, Paul, and Mary's bass player? Me either. They usually made the bass player stand somewhere off to the side and out of the spotlight where they wouldn't be noticed. It was almost as though bass players were to be ignored or hidden in folk music. Go figure.

The Chad Mitchell Trio comes to the attention of at least thousands of new listeners whenever "John Sebastian's Folk Rewind" airs on public television.. Some of the material from that era reminds me of the kind of folksong that Steven Bishop played when Belushi smashed his guitar in "Animal House." Most of this is rousing stuff, though.

Amazing.

Itoo was in college then. I was playing a gig with a folk trio one night at a Catholic girls college. One of the songs we did was Ain't no more cane on the Brazos, covering the Chad Mitchell Trios version. Later in the evening, the girls voted us off in favor of a new Beatles lp. Oh well. Those guys were pretty good.

Got to see Rodger McGuinn play the banjo at the rosebud... Pittsburgh PA 1991..?

As I recall, in my area in 1961 we finally got our 2nd TV channel (at least in English). Finally - a choice!!! - Still the same choice in '63

Wow! Never heard these guys - great songs- and depth musically. Looks like they could have influenced the Beatles. Don’t see a Dylan connection - melodic

Roger - Back before him & that other guy (; were catchin' fire in L.A. you know where that's at.

Fabulous! Thanks very much. I never new McQuinn played with the CMT and I haven't heard the CMT for decades. Where do you find this stuff???

The pitch perfect harmonies on “Dona, Dona, Dona” demonstrate how good this group were. I recommend checking out another clip where John Denver has replaced Chad Mitchell and they do a beautifully poignant version of The Beatles “She Loves You”.

He was (un)known as "Jim McGuinn" back then, and never got any billing as you see here. "Roger" came about because some hippie convinced him to make the change during his drug-fueled rock years. No real reason, just seemed like the thing to do! Chad Mitchell had a beautiful, powerful voice, but tossed it all away to embark on an unsuccessful solo career, then was arrested in Texas for dealing marijuana, back when such things carried long jail times. He eventually appealed the conviction and won, but then disappeared from the music scene entirely. Pity!

Great American music !

I Have An Original Pressing Of "Mighty Day On Campas" Album!

10!

The peak of American culture and cohesion. Vietnam war was the nail in the coffin.

Saw the trio in the sixties, then again with John Denver I wonder if I saw Roger McGinn also

That kid had talent!

Damn good!

Susan Brown is a testament to the CMT’s incredible harmony and abilities.

Damn thing is that this was originally in color! Videotape must be somewhere!

Always wondered what music would be like today if rock music never caught on. no elvis or beatles. So many other types of music got swept away.

Jim actually changed his name due to a stint with Subud, then later in life embraced the Christian faith but kept the name roger. He was on the road and making money at 17, moved to LA and the rest is history.

OMG, tuned in for Chad Mitchell but does anyone have the recording of Maria Tallchief and Rudolf Nureyev!

Wonderful video! I just found it. On a trivial note, it would be interesting to know the name of the other unseen guitarist who played during the transition from one song to another, and at the very end (assuming it wasn't Segovia). Like other posters, I also enjoyed the Princess Phone commercial. I remember what a big deal it was, when Bell Telephone started selling phones in colors other than black.

WoW!!!

my favorite song by the cmt is bonney streets of fivio.can you add that

You're rite. I've watched the old NBC Groucho Marx quiz show last day and I've thought that we have nothing of that quality nowdays: just idiots on TV... and outside.

Which one is Roger McGuinn from the birds?

Wasn't John Denver with CMT when he co wrote Take Me Home Coutry ????

What a great show this was, all about the music. All different types. Why don't we have anything like this today? Don't want to sound cynical, but today's tv fare is crap compared to this.

How many knew Chad Mitchell left the trio they still called them the Mitchell and. John Denver stepped in to fill his place?

@swelstead And it is commonly accepted that the Clash was the last band that mattered.

And no one's gettin' fat but Mamma Cass

Banjo is the best part of this!

Roger back when he had haircuts!

So it was Jim McGuinn at that time

Then known as 'Jim McGuinn'.

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this was available for years on VHS you could watch over and over for free. It's relative but you miss the point. It's the factor of this being produced in then current time frame that is what they are speaking on - but it does miss alot of perspective too like there was total garbage being droned on radios alway. But today is purely dispicable since the 1996 FCC take overs. Like a nightmare.

One turquish princess telephone plz

@bellier20 Progress, brother...progress.

Not to spoil anyone's fun ... but I'm pretty sure this performance is lip synched and finger synched from the recordings. The guitar music starts before McGuinn gets the guitar in his hands. The ending didn't synch either. But you can rest easy with the knowledge that, in a recording studio, somewhere, those four guys made all that music. If I'm not mistaken, this was the era of 4-track tape decks. But I wouldn't be surprised if this was done around one microphone, with one take. They were incredibly well-rehearsed.

若い頃のロジャーマッギンはこんなにバンジョー上手かったのか‼️12ギターのテクニックはバンジョー🪕からきてるんだろうね♫

When Chad left, John Denver stepped in.l

So the Chad Mitchell Quartet??

Beautiful music - I wonder what the reaction would have been if they had done any of their more political numbers like Barry's Boys or The I Am Not A Nazi Polka

How many know that Roger McGuinn is from another famous group?