Released July 1962 Producer Voyle Gil | Something Special(1962) New Frontier(1962) Release date July 1962 Label Collectors' Choice Music | |
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Similar The Kingston Trio albums, Folk music albums |
Something Special is an album by the American folk music group the Kingston Trio, released in 1962 (see 1962 in music). It reached number 7 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart. The lead-off single was a non-album track "C'mon Betty Home" b/w "Old Joe Clark". "One More Town" b/w "She Was Too Good to Me" was released as a single later the same year. Neither single made the Top 40. Something Special was nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Folk Recording category.
Contents
A notable feature of Something Special is that it was highly orchestrated, using strings, brass instruments and a choir.
Reception
Allmusic music critic Bruce Eder wrote the album "was the oddest of all the Kingston Trio's albums... a marked departure from previous work by the trio... The results aren't bad so much as they are strange at times."
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Side one
- "Brown Mountain Light" (Scotty Wiseman) – 2:48
- "One More Town" (John Stewart) – 2:57
- "Oh Willow Waley" (Georges Auric, Paul Dehan) – 2:46
- "Tell it on the Mountain" (Traditional, Nick Reynolds, Bob Shane, Stewart) – 1:55
- "Little Boy" (Mike Settle) – 2:33
- "Strange Day" (Stewart, George Yanok) – 3:55
Side two
- "Away Rio" (Reynolds, Shane, Stewart) – 2:57
- "Pullin' Away" (Reynolds, Shane, Stewart) – 3:17
- "She Was Too Good To Me (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 2:46
- "Jane, Jane, Jane" (Stan Wilson) – 2:51
- "Portland Town" (Stewart) – 1:59
- "Old Joe Clark" (Traditional) – 1:58
Personnel
Songs
1Brown Mountain Light2:48
2One More Town2:57
3O Willow Waly2:47