Peace (Rotary Connection album)

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Peace
Rotary Connection - Peace.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedDecember 1968 (1968-12)
Recorded1968
StudioTer Mar Studios, Chicago, Illinois, US
Genre
Length43:18
LanguageEnglish
Label Cadet
Producer
Rotary Connection chronology
Aladdin
(1968)
Peace
(1968)
Songs
(1969)
A Billboard ad for the album which generated more controversy than any other in the publication to date. Rotary Connection Peace ad.jpg
A Billboard ad for the album which generated more controversy than any other in the publication to date.

Peace is a 1968 studio album by American psychedelic soul group Rotary Connection, released on Cadet Records

Contents

Reception

Editors at AllMusic rated this album 4 out of 5 stars, with critic Rodney Batdorf writing that this "is a terrific, soulful Christmas album" that "has all the hallmarks of a late-'60s pop-soul record". [2] In a review for retailers, Billboard recommended this release as "a holiday package filled with Christmas" with a "marketable style". [3]

Track listing

  1. "Opening Round" (Mitch Aliotta) – 1:52
  2. "Silent Night" (Franz Gruber and Joseph Mohr) – 5:57
  3. "Christmas Love" (Morris Dollison) – 3:09
  4. "Last Call for Peace" (Arthur Feldman and H. White) – 2:52
  5. "Shopping Bag Menagerie" (Sidney Barnes) – 3:49
  6. "Silent Night" (Marshall Paul and Charles Stepney) – 3:41
  7. "Christmas Child" (Dollison and Stepney) – 2:42
  8. "Peace at Least" (Feldman) – 4:11
  9. "Santa's Little Helpers" (Jim Donlinger and Jim Nyeholt) – 0:34
  10. "Sidewalk Santa" (Barnes) – 4:21
  11. "If Peace Was All We Had" (J. Donlinger and Tim Donlinger) – 4:49
  12. "Silent Night Chant" (Paul and Stepney) – 4:33
  13. "Silence" – 0:30

Personnel

Rotary Connection

Additional personnel

Chart performance

Peace peaked at 24 on the Billboard 200. [4]

See also

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References

  1. LaPalm, Dick (January 28, 1995). "Confronting Past and Present Atrocities". Commentary. Billboard . Vol. 107, no. 4. p. 6. ISSN   0006-2510.
  2. Batdorf, Rodney (n.d.). "Rotary Connection – Peace". AllMusic . RhythmOne . Retrieved December 10, 2023.
  3. "Pop". Album Reviews. Billboard . Vol. 80, no. 46. November 16, 1968. p. 59. ISSN   0006-2510.
  4. "Rotary Connection | Awards". AllMusic . RhythmOne. n.d. Archived from the original on July 26, 2015. Retrieved December 9, 2023.