Whales & Nightingales

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Whales & Nightingales
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Studio album by
Judy Collins
ReleasedNovember 1970
Recorded1970
StudioFedco Audio Labs, Providence, Rhode Island
Genre Folk
Length42:32
Label Elektra
Producer Mark Abramson
Judy Collins chronology
Who Knows Where the Time Goes
(1968)		Whales & Nightingales
(1970)		 Living
(1971)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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The Village Voice C+ [4]

Whales & Nightingales is the eighth studio album by American singer and songwriter Judy Collins, released by Elektra Records in 1970. It peaked at No. 17 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart. [5]

Contents

The album includes material by Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, Jacques Brel and Joan Baez, as well as Collins' top-forty version of "Amazing Grace", [6] and the traditional "Farewell to Tarwathie", on which Collins sang to the accompaniment of humpback whales. [7]

In 1971, the album was certified Gold by the RIAA for sales of over 500,000 copies in the US. [8]

Track listing

Side one

  1. "A Song for David" (Joan Baez) – 3:25
  2. "Sons Of" (Eric Blau, Jacques Brel, Gérard Jouannest, Mort Shuman; arranged and adapted by Joshua Rifkin) – 2:21
  3. "The Patriot Game" (Dominic Behan) – 4:05
  4. "Prothalamium" (Michael Sahl, Aaron Kramer; arranged and adapted by Rifkin) – 1:37
  5. "Oh, Had I a Golden Thread" (Pete Seeger) – 3:55
  6. "Gene's Song" (Traditional; arranged and adapted by Gene Murrow) – 1:23
  7. "Farewell to Tarwathie" (Traditional; arranged and adapted by Judy Collins) – 5:13

Side two

  1. "Time Passes Slowly" (Bob Dylan) – 3:30
  2. "Marieke" (Jacques Brel, Gérard Jouannest; arranged and adapted by Rifkin) – 3:12
  3. "Nightingale I" (Collins) – 2:14
  4. "Nightingale II" (Collins, Rifkin) – 5:16
  5. "Simple Gifts" (Traditional; arranged and adapted by Collins) – 1:28
  6. "Amazing Grace" (John Newton; arranged and adapted by Collins) – 4:04

Personnel

Additional musicians
All duties are unspecified in liner notes.

Technical

Charts

Chart performance for Whales & Nightingales
Chart (1970–1971)Peak
position
Australian Albums (Kent Music Report) [9] 26
Canada Top 100 Albums ( RPM ) [10] 14
UK Albums (OCC) [11] 16
US Top LP's ( Billboard ) [12] 17
US Top 100 Albums ( Cash Box ) [13] 15
US The Album Chart ( Record World ) [14] 14

Certifications and sales

Certifications for Whales & Nightingales
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA) [8] Gold500,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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