Marrying Maiden

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Marrying Maiden
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Studio album by
ReleasedJune 1970
Recorded1970
Studio
Genre Psychedelic rock
Length38:31
Label Columbia
CBS
Producer Brent Dangerfield, It's A Beautiful Day
It's a Beautiful Day chronology
It's a Beautiful Day
(1969)
Marrying Maiden
(1970)
Choice Quality Stuff/Anytime
(1971)
Singles from Marrying Maiden
  1. "Soapstone Mountain"
    Released: October 13, 1970
  2. "Do You Remember The Sun?"
    Released: January 18, 1971
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Marrying Maiden is the second studio album by San Francisco psychedelic band It's a Beautiful Day, released in 1970 on Columbia Records. Founding member Linda LaFlamme was replaced by keyboardist Fred Webb on this project. Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia contributed on two tracks and Charlatans member Richard Olsen guested on a track as well.

Contents

The album was the band's most successful on the charts, reaching number 28 in the U.S. and number 45 in the U.K.

Critical reception

Lindsay Planer at AllMusic gave the album three stars out of five, writing:

"The second long-player from It's a Beautiful Day is an exceedingly more pastoral effort than the band's self-titled debut. As many of the Bay Area groups...had begun to do, the band realigns its sound from the dark psychedelia and proto-prog of its earlier works and into a lighter and earthier country-flavored rock." [1]

Track listing

  1. "Don And Dewey" (David LaFlamme) – 5:16
  2. "The Dolphins" (Fred Neil) – 4:30
  3. "Essence Of Now" (Mitchell Holman) – 3:20
  4. "Hoedown" (LaFlamme) – 2:29
  5. "Soapstone Mountain" (LaFlamme) – 4:20
  6. "Waiting For The Song" (Hal Wagenet) – 1:03
  7. "Let A Woman Flow" (LaFlamme, Pattie Santos) – 4:04
  8. "It Comes Right Down To You" (Fred Webb, Robert Lewis) – 3:14
  9. "Good Lovin'" (Webb, Holman) – 3:59
  10. "Galileo" (Wagenet) – 3:02
  11. "Do You Remember The Sun?" (Webb, Lewis) – 3:14

Personnel

It's a Beautiful Day

Additional musicians

Production

Chart performance

Album

Chart (1970)YearPeak
position
Total
weeks
US Billboard 200 197028 [2] 21
UK Official Charts 197045 [3] 2
CAN Official Charts 197035 [4] 10

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References

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  2. "Billboard 200 - It's a Beautiful Day". Billboard . Retrieved January 2, 2018.
  3. "UK Official Charts - It's a Beautiful Day". Official Charts . Retrieved January 3, 2018.
  4. "RPM Top 100 Albums - August 15, 1970" (PDF).