Times of Our Lives

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Times of Our Lives
Studio album by Judy Collins
Released	February 1982
Recorded	1981
Studio	Skyline Studios (New York City) A&R Studios (New York City)
Genre	Folk
Label	Elektra
Producer	Judy Collins Lew Hahn
Judy Collins chronology
Running for My Life (1980) Times of Our Lives (1982) Home Again (1984)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[2]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[3]

Times of Our Lives is the fourteenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Judy Collins, released in February 1982 by Elektra Records. It peaked at No. 190 on the Billboard Pop Albums charts. ^[4] In 1981, prior to the album's release, Collins appeared on the CBS soap opera Guiding Light , performing two songs from the (then) forthcoming album: "Great Expectations" and "It's Gonna Be One of Those Nights" (both having penned by Hugh Prestwood).

The single of "Memory" by Andrew Lloyd Webber from the West End musical Cats was the earliest released version of the song by a singer (apart from its London Cast Album). It was quickly followed by a version by Barbra Streisand.

Track listing

Side one

1. "Great Expectations" (Hugh Prestwood) – 3:54
2. "The Rest of Your Life" (Judy Collins) – 4:43
3. "Grandaddy" (Collins) – 3:24
4. "It's Gonna Be One of Those Nights" (Hugh Prestwood) – 3:38
5. "Memory" (T. S. Eliot, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Trevor Nunn) – 4:13

Side two

1. "Sun Son" (Anna McGarrigle) – 4:18
2. "Mama Mama" (Collins) – 3:38
3. "Drink a Round to Ireland" (Hugh Prestwood) – 3:48
4. "Angel on My Side" (Collins) – 4:31
5. "Don't Say Goodbye Love" (Collins) – 4:39

Personnel

• Judy Collins – vocals, guitar, piano; arrangement and conductor on "Don't Say Goodbye Love"
• Hugh McCracken – acoustic and electric guitar, mandolin
• Steve Khan – electric guitar
• Tony Levin – bass guitar
• Randy Kerber – piano, Fender Rhodes, Prophet-5, CS80 and Omni synthesizer, Omni strings
• Vinnie Colaiuta – drums
• Jimmy Madison – drums
• Rubens Bassini – percussion, congas
• Richard Rimbaugh – drums, tabla, tambourine, finger cymbals
• George Marge – oboe
• Dominic Cortese – accordion
• Margaret Ross – harp
• Max Pollikoff – violin
• Eddie Daniels – alto saxophone
• Bill Keith – banjo
• Dick Hyman – celesta, piano
• Ken Bichel – piano
• Lew Hahn – Casiotone MT30
• Gordon Grody, Shelton Becton, Ula Hedwig – backing vocals
• Cengiz Yaltkaya – arrangement and conductor on "The Rest of Your Lives", "Sun Son", "Mama Mama" and "Angel On My Side"
• Jonathan Tunick – arrangement and conductor on "Grandaddy" and "Drink a Round to Ireland"
• Arif Mardin – arrangement and conductor on "It's Gonna Be One of Those Nights"
• William David Brohn – arrangement and conductor on "Memory"
• David Nadien – concertmaster

Technical

• Arif Mardin – executive producer
• Jim Houghton – photography

Charts

Chart performance for Times of Our Lives

Chart (1982)	Peak position
US Top LPs & Tape ( Billboard ) [5]	190
US Top 101 to 200 Albums ( Cash Box ) [6]	178

References

1. "Times of Our Lives Review by William Ruhlmann". AllMusic. Retrieved July 20, 2023.
2. Larkin, Colin (2007). "Collins, Judy". The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th Concise ed.). New York: Muze UK Ltd. pp. 338–339. ISBN   978-1-84609-856-7.
3. Evans, Paul (1992). "Judy Collins". In DeCurtis, Anthony; Henke, James; George-Warren, Holly (eds.). The Rolling Stone Album Guide: Completely New Reviews: Every Essential Album, Every Essential Artist (3rd ed.). New York: Random House. p. 154. ISBN   0-679-73729-4.
4. "US Albums and Singles Charts > Judy Collins". Billboard . Retrieved February 28, 2022.
5. "Billboard Top LPs & Tape" (PDF). Billboard . Vol. 94, no. 14. New York: Billboard Publications Inc. April 4, 1982. p. 77. ISSN   0006-2510.
6. "Cash Box Top Albums / 101 to 200" (PDF). Cash Box . Vol. XLIII, no. 46. New York: The Cash Box Publishing Co. Inc. April 4, 1982. p. 45. ISSN   0008-7289.

External links

• Times of Our Lives at Discogs (list of releases)