Bread and Roses (album)

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Bread and Roses
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Studio album by
Judy Collins
ReleasedAugust 1976
Recorded1976
Genre Folk
Label Elektra
Producer Arif Mardin
Judy Collins chronology
Judith
(1975)		Bread and Roses
(1976)		 So Early in the Spring
(1977)
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Bread and Roses is the eleventh studio album by American singer and songwriter Judy Collins, released by Elektra Records in 1976. The album peaked at No. 25 on the Billboard Pop Albums charts. [4]

Contents

Merging the singer's political convictions with the commercial success of the previous year's Judith , political statements like the title song, originally a poem by James Oppenheim commonly associated with a 1912 garment workers strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts, were balanced with such pop compositions as Elton John's "Come Down in Time".

Released as the single from the album was "Special Delivery" by Billy Mernit. Luther Vandross sang background on this album, one of his earliest commercially recorded vocal performances.

Track listing

  1. "Bread and Roses" (Mimi Fariña, James Oppenheim) – 3:05
  2. "Everything Must Change" (Benard Ighner) – 4:25
  3. "Special Delivery" (Billy Mernit) – 3:55
  4. "Out of Control" (Judy Collins) – 3:00
  5. "Plegaria a un Labrador (Prayer to a Laborer)" (Víctor Jara) – 4:04
  6. "Come Down in Time" (Elton John, Bernie Taupin) – 3:23
  7. "Spanish Is the Loving Tongue" (Charles Badger Clark, Billy Simon) – 4:32
  8. "I Didn't Know About You" (Duke Ellington, Bob Russell) – 3:29
  9. "Take This Longing" (Leonard Cohen) – 5:25
  10. "Love Hurts" (Andrew Gold) – 3:17
  11. "Marjorie" (Judy Collins) – 0:43
  12. "King David" (Walter De La Mare, Herbert Howells) – 4:27

Personnel

Note: In a detailed writeup of the "King David" session, Modern Recording magazine lists instrumentation and shows the un-named personnel: eight cellos, two basses, two harps, flute--conducted by arranger Jonathan Tunick. [5]

Technical

Charts

Chart performance for Bread and Roses
Chart (1976)Peak
position
Australian Albums (Kent Music Report) [6] 96
US Top LPs & Tape ( Billboard ) [7] 25
US Top 100 Albums ( Cash Box ) [8] 38
US The Album Chart ( Record World ) [9] 48

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References

  1. ↑ Chrispell, James. "Bread & Roses Review". AllMusic . Retrieved December 8, 2024.
  2. ↑ Larkin, Colin (2007). "Collins, Judy". The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th Concise ed.). New York: Muze UK Ltd. pp. 338–339. ISBN   978-1-84609-856-7.
  3. ↑ Evans, Paul (1992). "Judy Collins". In DeCurtis, Anthony; Henke, James; George-Warren, Holly (eds.). The Rolling Stone Album Guide: Completely New Reviews: Every Essential Album, Every Essential Artist (3rd ed.). New York: Random House. p. 154. ISBN   0-679-73729-4.
  4. ↑ "US Albums and Singles Charts > Judy Collins". Billboard . Retrieved 2022-02-28.
  5. ↑ Solomon, Veda Nu. "A Session with Judy Collins." Modern Recording 2:1 (October-November 1976), 38-40, 42, 44.
  6. ↑ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 . Australian Chart Book, St Ives, N.S.W. p. 69. ISBN   0-646-11917-6.
  7. ↑ "Billboard Top LPs & Tape" (PDF). Billboard . Vol. 81, no. 9. New York: Billboard Publications Inc. October 16, 1976. p. 86. ISSN   0006-2510.
  8. ↑ "Cash Box Top 100 Albums" (PDF). Cash Box . Vol. XXXVIII, no. 22. New York: The Cash Box Publishing Co. Inc. October 16, 1976. p. 57. ISSN   0008-7289.
  9. ↑ "The Album Chart" (PDF). Record World . Vol. 33, no. 1528. New York: Record World Pub. Co. October 9, 1976. p. 42. ISSN   0034-1622.
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