Whales and Nightingales

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Whales and Nightingales
Whales and Nightingales cover
Studio album by Judy Collins
Released August 1970
Recorded 1970
Genre Folk
Length 65:28
Label Elektra
Producer(s) Mark Abramson
Professional reviews
Judy Collins chronology
Who Knows Where the Times Goes (1968 album)
(1968)
Whales and Nightingales
(1970)
Living
(1971)


Whales and Nightingales was a 1970 album by Judy Collins. The album included material by Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, Jacques Brel and Joan Baez, as well as Collins' top-forty version of "Amazing Grace", and the traditional "Farewell To Tarwathie", on which Collins sang to the accompaniment of humpback whales.


[edit] Track listing

  1. A Song for David (Joan Baez)
  2. Sons Of (Eric Blau, Jacques Brel, Gerard Jouannest, Mort Shuman)
  3. The Patriot Game (Behan)
  4. Prothalamium (Michael Sahl, Aaron Kramer)
  5. Oh, Had I a Golden Thread (Pete Seeger)
  6. Gene's Song (traditional)
  7. Farewell to Tarwathie (traditional)
  8. Time Passes Slowly (Bob Dylan)
  9. Marieke (Jacques Brel, Gerard Jouannest)
  10. Nightingale I (Judy Collins)
  11. Nightingale II (Judy Collins, Joshua Rifkin)
  12. Simple Gifts (traditional)
  13. Amazing Grace (traditional)

[edit] Credits

  1. Produced by Mark Abramson
  2. Engineering & Assistant Producer John Haeny
  3. Recording Assistant Greg Fulginiti
  4. Cover Concept & Art Direction William S. Harvey
  5. Photography Herb Goro