Fifth Album

Fifth Album
Studio album by Judy Collins
Released	September 1965
Genre	Folk
Length	42:39
Label	Elektra
Producer	Mark Abramson, Jac Holzman
Judy Collins chronology
The Judy Collins Concert (1964) Fifth Album (1965) In My Life (1966)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[2]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[3]

Fifth Album is the fourth studio album (her 5th overall release) by American singer and songwriter Judy Collins, released by Elektra Records in 1965. It peaked at No. 69 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart. ^[4]

The album featured a collection of traditional ballads and singer-songwriter material from Bob Dylan, Richard Fariña, Phil Ochs and Malvina Reynolds. A number of the songs were topical in nature, particularly Ochs' "In the Heat of the Summer" (which chronicled the Harlem riot of 1964), and Reynolds' "It Isn't Nice".

Track listing

Side one

1. "Pack Up Your Sorrows" (Richard Fariña, Pauline Marden) – 3:10
2. "The Coming of the Roads" (Billy Edd Wheeler) – 3:31
3. "So Early, Early in the Spring" (Traditional) – 3:04
4. "Tomorrow is a Long Time" (Bob Dylan) – 4:04
5. "Daddy You've Been on My Mind" (Dylan) – 2:52
6. "Thirsty Boots" (Eric Andersen) – 4:57

Side two

1. "Mr. Tambourine Man" (Dylan) – 5:20
2. "Lord Gregory" (Traditional) – 3:28
3. "In the Heat of the Summer" (Phil Ochs) – 3:21
4. "Early Morning Rain" (Gordon Lightfoot) – 3:10
5. "Carry It On" (Gil Turner) – 2:44
6. "It Isn't Nice" (Malvina Reynolds, Barbara Dane) – 2:58

• "It Isn't Nice" recorded in concert at the Town Hall, New York, March 21, 1964.

Personnel

• Judy Collins – guitar, keyboards, vocals

Additional musicians

• Richard Fariña – dulcimer (tracks 1, 11)
• Eric Weissberg – second guitar (tracks 1, 3, 6, 10, 12), vocal (track 12)
• Bill Takas – double bass (tracks 1, 6)
• Bill Lee – double bass (tracks 4–5, 7, 10)
• Danny Kalb – second guitar (track 5)
• John Sebastian – harmonica (track 6)
• Robert Sylvester – cello (track 8)
• Jerry Dodgion – flute (track 12)
• Chuck Israels – double bass (track 12)

Technical

• Jac Holzman – production supervisor
• Mark Abramson – recording director
• Jim Frawley – cover photo
• William S. Harvey – cover design
• Richard Fariña – liner notes

Charts

Chart performance for Fifth Album

Chart (1965)	Peak position
US Top LP's ( Billboard ) [5]	69
US Top 100 Albums ( Cash Box ) [6]	46
US Top 100 LP's ( Record World ) [7]	34

References

1. Greenwald, Matthew. "Fifth Album Review". AllMusic . Retrieved December 1, 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 February 28, 2022.
5. "Billboard Top LP's" (PDF). Billboard . Vol. 77, no. 48. New York: Billboard Publications Inc. November 27, 1965. p. 36. ISSN   0006-2510.
6. "Cash Box Top 100 Albums" (PDF). Cash Box . Vol. XXVII, no. 16. New York: The Cash Box Publishing Co. Inc. November 6, 1965. p. 29. ISSN   0008-7289.
7. "Top LP's" (PDF). Record World . Vol. 20, no. 964. New York: Record World Pub. Co. November 27, 1965. p. 24. ISSN   0034-1622.

External links

• Fifth Album at Discogs (list of releases)