Fifth Album

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Fifth Album
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Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 1965
Genre Folk
Length42:39
Label Elektra
Producer Mark Abramson, Jac Holzman
Judy Collins chronology
The Judy Collins Concert
(1964)
Fifth Album
(1965)
In My Life
(1966)
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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. [1]

Contents

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

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References

  1. "US Albums and Singles Charts > Judy Collins". Billboard . Retrieved 2022-02-28.
  2. Greenwald, Matthew. "Judy Collins - Fifth Album Album Reviews, Songs & More". AllMusic . Retrieved January 9, 2023.