On this day in Music History - August 3, 1959 The Kingston Trio are featured on the cover of Life magazine with a headline that calls the group, "Top Sellers In Albums." At the time, the group had issued three, million selling LPs, "The Kingston Trio", "At Large" and "...from the Hungry i" "Tom Dooley" by The Kingston Trio is a timeless folk ballad that tells the tragic story of Tom Dula (pronounced Dooley), a man condemned to hang for the murder of his lover, Laura Foster. Released in 1958, the