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The Wonder of You (The Sandpipers album)

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Released
  
May 1969

Artist
  
The Sandpipers

Label
  
A&M Records

The Wonder of You (1969)
  
Greatest Hits (1970)

Release date
  
May 1969

Genres
  
Rock music, Pop music

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Misty Roses, Overdue, A Gift of Song, Come Saturday Morning, Softly

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The Wonder of You was an LP album featuring The Sandpipers, released by A&M Records in May 1969 with catalog number SP 4180. The album was released by A&M in the United Kingdom with the title Kumbaya and catalog number AMLS 935. Other international releases included Australia (World Record Club R02377, different cover), Canada (A&M SP-4180), Germany (A&M 212 066), and Mexico (A&M AML/S-1024, titled La Maravilloso De Ti).

Contents

The May 3, 1969 issue of Billboard reviewed the LP saying, "This album, with the persuasive rhythm of the Sandpipers' singing, is definitive of easy listening at its best. The popular trio's material is no small part of the LP's success, and includes their current single, "The Wonder of You," their not to be imitated version of "Let Go," the Oscar-winning "Windmills of Your Mind," and the much recorded "Yellow Days." Credit producer Allen Stanton and arranger Nick DeCaro for a job very well done."

The album reached #194 on the Billboard charts. Two singles from the album made the charts: "Let Go" at #36 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart and "Kumbaya" at #38 on the UK singles chart.

Track listing

  1. "Let Go" (Norman Gimbel/Baden Powell) 3:21
  2. "That Night (Theme from The Fox)" (Norman Gimbel/Lalo Schifrin) 3:12
  3. "Wave" (Antonio Carlos Jobim) 2:32
  4. "Yellow Days" (Alan Bernstein/Álvaro Carrillo) 3:03
  5. "Lo Mucho Que Te Quiero (The More I Love You)" (Herrero/Ornelas/Ibarra) 3:08
  6. "Pretty Flamingo" (Mark Barkan) 2:38
  7. "The Wonder of You" (Baker Knight) 2:39
  8. "Temptation" (Nacio Herb Brown/Arthur Freed) 2:58
  9. "The Windmills of Your Mind (Theme from The Thomas Crown Affair)" (Alan Bergman/Marilyn Bergman/Michel Legrand) 2:48
  10. "If I Were the Man" (Jimmie Rodgers) 2:59
  11. "Kumbaya" (Traditional) 2:43

Production

  • Producer: Allen Stanton
  • Arranger: Nick DeCaro
  • Engineer: Dick Bogert
  • Art Direction/Cover Photography: Tom Wilkes
  • Album Notes: Derek Taylor

    • Reissue

    The album was combined with Misty Roses in a 2006 CD release by Collectors' Choice Music.

    Songs

    1Let Go3:21
    2That Night (Theme from The Fox)3:12
    3Wave2:32

    References

    The Wonder of You (The Sandpipers album) Wikipedia
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