Time to Think (The Kingston Trio album)

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Time to Think
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Studio album by
ReleasedDecember 1963
Recorded1963 in San Francisco, California
Genre Folk
Label Capitol
Producer Voyle Gilmore
The Kingston Trio chronology
Sunny Side!
(1963)
Time to Think
(1963)
Back in Town
(1964)
Singles from Time to Think
  1. "Ally Ally Oxen Free"/"Marcelle Vahine"
    Released: 1963
  2. "Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream"/"The Patriot Game"
    Released: 1964
  3. "Seasons in the Sun"/"If You Don't Look Around"
    Released: 1964

Time to Think is an album by the American folk music group the Kingston Trio, released in 1963 (see 1963 in music). It reached number 18 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart, only the third of the Trio's fifteen albums released since 1958 not to reach the top ten. [1] The lead-off single was "Ally Ally Oxen Free" b/w "Marcelle Vahine", released in November 1963. Two more singles were released from the album in 1964 — "Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream" b/w "The Patriot Game" and "Seasons in the Sun" b/w "If You Don't Look Around", the latter the final single the trio released on the Capitol label. [1]

Contents

History

Time to Think appeared at a time when the folk music genre in the United States was changing. More socially conscious material was being released from Bob Dylan; Peter, Paul and Mary; and others. Although the album spent 21 weeks on the charts, [1] The Kingston Trio attempted to keep up with the times, only to continue to see their sales and popularity decline.

Reception

Professional ratings
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Allmusic critic Bruce Eder called the album the trio's "attempt to compete in the new era of topical folk songs... The group's sound works even in this setting, though their approaches to some of the songs do seem odd together." [2]

Reissues

Track listing

Side one

  1. "Patriot Game" (Dominic Behan) – 2:50
  2. "Coal Tattoo" (Billy Edd Wheeler) – 2:32
  3. "Hobo's Lullaby" (Goebel Reeves) – 3:08
  4. "Seasons in the Sun" (Rod McKuen, Jacques Brel) – 2:27
  5. "These Seven Men" (John Stewart) – 2:27
  6. "Ally Ally Oxen Free" (McKuen, Sammy Yates) – 2:02

Side two

  1. "Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)" (Woody Guthrie, Martin Hoffman) – 3:32
  2. "No One to Talk My Troubles To" (Dick Weissman) – 2:25
  3. "If You Don t Look Around" (Stewart) – 2:50
  4. "Turn Around" (Harry Belafonte, Alan Greene, Nick Reynolds) – 2:38
  5. "Song for a Friend" (Stewart) – 2:35
  6. "Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream" (Ed McCurdy) – 2:08

Personnel

other session players rumored Glen Campbell and Dick Rossmini

Production notes

Chart positions

YearChartPosition
1964Billboard Pop Albums18

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References

  1. 1 2 3 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. "Time to Think > Review". Allmusic . Retrieved January 31, 2011.
  3. Allmusic entry for reissue of New Frontier and Time to Think.