Waterbeds in Trinidad!

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Waterbeds in Trinidad!
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Studio album by
ReleasedApril 1972
Length33:29
Label Columbia
Producer Lewis Merenstein
The Association chronology
Stop Your Motor
(1971)
Waterbeds in Trinidad!
(1972)
The Association 95: A Little Bit More
(1995)

Waterbeds in Trinidad! is the seventh studio album (and ninth album overall by including a greatest hits and a live album) by The Association. This album was the group's only release for Columbia Records as well as their last recorded project of the 1970s. Released in 1972, it was the last album to feature original bassist Brian Cole, who died in August that year. One last recording with Cole, the non-album track "Names, Tags, Number, & Labels", was released as a single on the Mums label the following year.

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Waterbeds in Trinidad! was their lowest charted album, climbing to only #194 on Billboard, but did reach #80 in Canada. [1] Of the two singles released in conjunction with the album, their rendition of The Lovin' Spoonful's "Darling Be Home Soon" bubbled under the Billboard charts at number 104, and reached number 64 in Canada. [2]

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Track listing

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Lead vocalsLength
1."Silent Song Through the Land"Ron DaviesRamos3:24
2."Darling Be Home Soon" John Sebastian Yester3:44
3."Midnight Wind"Jules Alexander, Steve CareyAlexander3:00
4."Come the Fall" Terry Kirkman Kirkman3:43
5."Kicking the Gong Around"Alexander, CareyAlexander and Bluechel3:30
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Lead vocalsLength
1."Rainbows Bent"Alexander, CareyAlexander and Ramos2:28
2."Snow Queen" Carole King, Gerry Goffin Yester and Ramos3:20
3."Indian Wells Woman"Del Ramos, Larry Hickman, Larry Ramos Ramos3:26
4."Please Don't Go ('Round the Bend)"AlexanderGroup3:24
5."Little Road and a Stone to Roll" John Stewart Cole3:37

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References

  1. "RPM Top 100 Albums - June 24, 1972" (PDF).
  2. "RPM Top 100 Singles - June 24, 1972" (PDF).
  3. "Waterbeds in Trinidad! > Review". Allmusic . Retrieved June 15, 2011.