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It's About Time (John Denver album)

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Released
  
November 15, 1983

Length
  
46:51

Release date
  
15 November 1983

Label
  
RCA Victor

Recorded
  
1983

Artist
  
John Denver

Producer
  
John Denver

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It's About Time (1983)
  
John Denver's Greatest Hits, Volume 3 (1984)

Genres
  
Country music, Folk rock, Soft rock

Similar
  
John Denver albums, Country music albums

It's About Time is the 17th album by American singer-songwriter John Denver recorded at Criteria Recording Studios in Miami and released in November 1983. The album featured several notable supporting vocalists, including Patti Austin, Rita Marley (and The Wailers), as well as Emmylou Harris. "Wild Montana Skies" was the single from this album; members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.

Contents

It contains the following dedication from John Denver: "This album is dedicated with great love and respect to the memory of my father, Lt. Col. (Ret.) H.J. "Dutch" Deutschendorf."

Track listing

All tracks composed by John Denver; except where indicated

Side One

  1. "Hold on Tightly" – 4:00
  2. "Thought of You" – 4:02
  3. "Somethin' About" – 3:44
  4. "On the Wings of a Dream" (Denver, Joe Henry, Lee Holdridge, John Magee) - 5:01
  5. "Flight (The Higher We Fly)" – 3:16

Side Two

  1. "Falling Out of Love" – 4:56
  2. "I Remember Romance" – 5:25
  3. "Wild Montana Skies" – 4:02
  4. "The Way I Am"1
  5. "World Game" – 4:58
  6. "It's About Time" (Denver, Glen D. Hardin) – 3:42

1Not featured on cassette version or on original LP.

Personnel

The following information is from the CD insert.

Musicians

All personnel in this section are credited along with John Denver as arrangers.

  • Jerry Carrigan - drums and percussion
  • Jerry Scheff - bass
  • Glen D. Hardin - piano, Rhodes, B-3
  • James Burton - lead guitars (electric and acoustic)
  • Jim Horn - saxophone, flute, recorder
  • Additional musicians

  • Larry Fast - synthesizer
  • Fred Wickstom - marimbas
  • Muscle Shoals Horns

  • Harvey Thompson - tenor saxophone
  • Charles Rose - trombone
  • Harrison Calloway, Jr. - trumpet
  • with Jim Horn - baritone saxophone
  • Background vocals

  • Patti Austin
  • Ullanda McCollough
  • Conrad Reeder
  • Emmylou Harris on "Wild Montana Skies"
  • Musicians from "World Game"

  • The Wailers
  • Aston "Family Man" Barrett - bass
  • Carlton "Carli" Barrett - drums
  • Steve Stewart - piano
  • Earl "Wire" Lindo - organ
  • Alvin Patterson - percussion
  • Lloyd "Gits" Willis - guitar
  • The I Threes
  • Rita Marley
  • Marcia Griffiths
  • Arrangers

  • Lee Holdridge, strings
  • Patti Austin, background vocals
  • Songs

    1Hold on Tightly4:27
    2Thought of You4:03
    3Somethin' About3:46

    References

    It's About Time (John Denver album) Wikipedia