Released July 1963 Genre Folk Producer Voyle Gilmore | Recorded 1963 Label Capitol Sunny Side!
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Sunny Side! is an album by the American folk music group the Kingston Trio, released in 1963 (see 1963 in music). It reached number 7 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart. The lead-off single was "Desert Pete" b/w "Ballad of the Thresher". The single was the last Top 40 single for the group. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.
Contents
Preview copies of the album that were sent to radio stations and music critics contained the track "Woody's Song." Negative feedback led to Capitol removing it from the album. "Woody's Song" appeared on "Rediscover," a rarities album released by Folk Era Records in 1985, under the title of "Folksinger's Song."
Reception
Allmusic critic Bruce Eder thought the album was a "rushed recording" due to the success of "Reverend Mr. Black". He wrote: "The major problem with the album is that too many of the songs here sound like they're stuck at (or shouldn't have gotten past) the demo stage"
Reissues
Side one
- "Desert Pete" (Billy Edd Wheeler)
- "Marcelle Vahine" (Augie Goupil)
- "Sing Out" (Michael Stewart)
- "Ballad of the Thresher" (Nat Allen, Keith Donald, Alice Nielsen)
- "Blowin' in the Wind" (Bob Dylan)
- "Goo Ga Gee" (Mike Settle)
Side two
- "Jackson" (Wheeler)
- "Two-Ten, Six-Eighteen (Doesn't Anybody Know My Name)" (Rod McKuen)
- "Those Brown Eyes" (Woody Guthrie, Alan Arkin, Bill Carey, Erik Darling)
- "Those Who Are Wise" (John Stewart)
- "Rider" (Nick Reynolds, Bob Shane, Judy Henske)