Something Special (The Kingston Trio album)

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Something Special
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Studio album by The Kingston Trio
Released July 1962
Recorded April 1962
Studio Capitol Studios, Los Angeles, California
Genre Folk
Label Capitol
Producer Voyle Gilmore
The Kingston Trio chronology
College Concert
(1962) College Concert1962		Something Special
(1962)		 New Frontier
(1962) New Frontier1962
Singles from Something Special
  1. "One More Town"/"She Was Too Good to Me"
    Released: 1962

Something Special is an album by the American folk music group the Kingston Trio, released in 1962 (see 1962 in music). It reached number 7 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart. The lead-off single was a non-album track "C'mon Betty Home" b/w "Old Joe Clark". "One More Town" b/w "She Was Too Good to Me" was released as a single later the same year. Neither single made the Top 40. Something Special was nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Folk Recording category. [1]

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Contents

A notable feature of Something Special is that it was highly orchestrated, using strings, brass instruments and a choir.

Reception

Professional ratings
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Allmusic music critic Bruce Eder wrote the album "was the oddest of all the Kingston Trio's albums... a marked departure from previous work by the trio... The results aren't bad so much as they are strange at times." [2]

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Track listing

Side one

  1. "Brown Mountain Light" (Scotty Wiseman) – 2:48
  2. "One More Town" (John Stewart) – 2:57
  3. "Oh Willow Waley" (Georges Auric, Paul Dehan) – 2:46
  4. "Tell it on the Mountain" (Traditional, Nick Reynolds, Bob Shane, Stewart) – 1:55
  5. "Little Boy" (Mike Settle) – 2:33
  6. "Strange Day" (Stewart, George Yanok) – 3:55

Side two

  1. "Away Rio" (Reynolds, Shane, Stewart) – 2:57
  2. "Pullin' Away" (Reynolds, Shane, Stewart) – 3:17
  3. "She Was Too Good To Me (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 2:46
  4. "Jane, Jane, Jane" (Stan Wilson) – 2:51
  5. "Portland Town" (Stewart) – 1:59
  6. "Old Joe Clark" (Traditional) – 1:58

Personnel

Bob Shane American musician

Robert Castle Schoen, known professionally as Bob Shane, is an American singer and guitarist and, with Nick Reynolds' death in October 2008, the only surviving founding member of The Kingston Trio. In that capacity, Shane became a seminal figure in the revival of folk and other acoustic music as a popular art form in the U.S. in the late 1950s through the mid-1960s.

Nick Reynolds American singer

Nicholas Wells Reynolds was an American folk musician and recording artist. Reynolds was one of the founding members of The Kingston Trio, whose folk and folk-style material captured international attention during the late Fifties and early Sixties.

John Coburn Stewart was an American songwriter and singer. He is known for his contributions to the American folk music movement of the 1960s while with the Kingston Trio (1961–1967) and as a popular music songwriter of the Monkees' No. 1 hit "Daydream Believer" and his own No. 5 hit "Gold" during a solo career spanning 40 years that included almost four dozen albums and more than 600 recorded songs.

Production notes

Voyle Gilmore was an American record producer and arranger. He was best known for his work with Frank Sinatra and The Kingston Trio on Capitol Records. Gilmore also worked with Judy Garland, Dick Dale, Dean Martin, The Four Preps and The Four Freshmen. Gilmore was the producer of the original live tapes used on The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl.

Chart positions

YearChartPosition
1962Billboard Pop Albums7

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References

  1. ↑ Blake, B., Rubeck, J., Shaw, A. (1986) The Kingston Trio On Record. Kingston Korner Inc, ILL: ISBN   0-9614594-0-9
  2. 1 2 Eder, Bruce. "Something Special > Review". Allmusic . Retrieved January 31, 2011.
  3. ↑ Allmusic entry for reissue of Something Special/Back in Town.
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