Magic Time (compilation album)

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Compilation album by
The Millennium, The Ballroom, and Sagittarius
Released2001
Recorded1966–1968
Genre Sunshine pop
Label Sundazed
Producer Curt Boettcher
The Millennium chronology
Begin
(1968)
Magic Time
(2001)
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Magic Time is an extensive three-disc compilation album containing music from the sunshine pop bands The Millennium, The Ballroom and Sagittarius and the artist Curt Boettcher. It was released in 2001.

Contents

It contains the entire Begin album by The Millennium and all of the single versions of songs from that album, as well as the entire previously unreleased album by The Ballroom and numerous demos by The Ballroom, Sagittarius and Boettcher.

Track listing

Disc one: The Ballroom

  1. "Spinning, Spinning, Spinning"
  2. "Love's Fatal Way"
  3. "Would You Like to Go"
  4. "Magic Time"
  5. "You Turn Me Around"
  6. "Forever"
  7. "It's a Sad World"
  8. "I'll Grow Stronger"
  9. "Musty Dusty"
  10. "Crazy Dreams"
  11. "Lead Me to Love"
  12. "A Time for Everything"
  13. "Baby, Please Don't Go"
  14. "Would You Like to Go" (instrumental)
  15. "Forever (Instrumental)"
  16. "I'll Grow Stronger" (instrumental)
  17. "You Turn Me Around" (instrumental)
  18. "Magic Time (instrumental)"
  19. "It's a Sad World" (instrumental)
  20. "Spinning, Spinning, Spinning" (instrumental)

Disc two: Assorted Milk & Honey

  1. "I'm Not Living Here" - The Ballroom
  2. "Opus to a Friend" - The Ballroom
  3. "Believe You" - The Ballroom
  4. "The Island (Original Version)" - The Ballroom
  5. "5 AM (Original Version)" - The Ballroom
  6. "Karmic Dream Sequence #1 (Original Version)" - The Ballroom
  7. "Sun Arise" - The Ballroom
  8. "Milk and Honey" - Summer's Children
  9. "Too Young to Marry" - Summer's Children
  10. "Love's Fatal Way (Instrumental)" - The Ballroom
  11. "Another Time (Demo)" - Curt Boettcher
  12. "Sea of Tears (Demo)" - Curt Boettcher & Dottie Holmberg
  13. "Sunshine Today (Demo)" - The Ballroom
  14. "Sunshine Today (Alternate Instrumental Version)" - Sagittarius
  15. "Keeper of the Games (Demo)" - Curt Boettcher
  16. "Dancing Dandelion (Demo)" - Curt Boettcher
  17. "It Won't Always Be the Same (Instrumental)" - The Millennium
  18. "There Is Nothing More to Say (Instrumental)" - The Millennium
  19. "To Claudia on Thursday (Instrumental)" - The Millennium
  20. "Lonely Girl" - Sagittarius

Disc three: The Millennium

  1. "Prelude"
  2. "To Claudia on Thursday"
  3. "I Just Want to Be Your Friend"
  4. "5 AM"
  5. "I'm with You"
  6. "The Island"
  7. "Sing to Me"
  8. "It's You"
  9. "Some Sunny Day"
  10. "It Won't Always Be the Same"
  11. "The Know It All"
  12. "Karmic Dream Sequence #1"
  13. "There Is Nothing More to Say"
  14. "Anthem (Begin)"
  15. "Blight"
  16. "Just About the Same"
  17. "It's You (Single Version)"
  18. "I Just Want To Be Your Friend (Single Version)"
  19. "5 AM (Single Version)"
  20. "Prelude (Single Version)"
  21. "To Claudia on Thursday (Single Version)"
  22. "There Is Nothing More to Say (Single Version)"

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