Collections (album)

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Collections
Collections cover
Studio album by The Young Rascals
Released January 9, 1967
Recorded May 10, 1966 - December 30, 1966
Genre Rock
Label Atlantic Records
The Young Rascals chronology
The Young Rascals
(1966)		 Collections
(1967)		 Groovin'
(1967)

Collections is the second album by rock band The Young Rascals. The album was released on January 9, 1967 and rose to #15 on the Billboard Top LPs chart. Despite the album's title, it is not a compilation, but mostly contains original material.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Side One

  1. "What Is the Reason" (Felix Cavaliere/Eddie Brigati) – 2:23
  2. "Since I Fell For You" (Buddy Johnson) – 3:25
  3. "(I've Been) Lonely Too Long" (Felix Cavaliere) – 2:57
  4. "No Love to Give" (Gene Cornish) – 2:42
  5. "Mickey's Monkey" (B. Holland/L. Dozier/E. Holland) / "Love Lights" (D. Malone/J. Scott) – 4:41

[edit] Side Two

  1. "Come On Up" (Felix Cavaliere) – 2:41
  2. "Too Many Fish In The Sea" (Eddie Holland/Norman Whitfield) – 2:16
  3. "More" (R. Ortolani/N. Diviero/N. Newell/M. Ciorciolini) – 4:20
  4. "Nineteen Fifty-Six" (Gene Cornish) – 2:28
  5. "Love Is a Beautiful Thing" (Felix Cavaliere/Eddie Brigati) – 2:30
  6. "Land of 1000 Dances" (Chris Kenner) – 1:58

On the album's original release, Gerald Roslie was incorrectly credited as the author of "Love Lights," as he had written a different song by that name for his band The Sonics.

[edit] Singles

  • "You Better Run" (non-album single) / "Love Is a Beautiful Thing" (May 30, 1966) US: #20
  • "Come On Up" / "What Is the Reason" (September 12, 1966) US: #43
  • "(I've Been) Lonely Too Long" (2:04 edit) / "If You Knew" (January 16, 1967) US: #16

Note that upon its single release in late 1966, "(I've Been) Lonely Too Long" was credited to Cavaliere/Brigati; this was changed upon the song's inclusion in this album.

"You Better Run" was a non-LP single at this point; it would made its album debut on the next LP, "Groovin'"

The Rascals
Discography
The Young Rascals: The Young Rascals (1966) | Collections (1967) | Groovin' (1967)
The Rascals: Once Upon a Dream (1968) | Freedom Suite (1969) | See (1970) | Search and Nearness (1971) | Peaceful World (1971) | The Island of Real (1972)