Time Peace: The Rascals' Greatest Hits

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Time Peace
Time Peace cover
Compilation album by The Rascals
Released June 24, 1968
Recorded 1966 through 1968
Genre Rock
Label Atlantic Records
Producer The Rascals, Arif Mardin, Tom Dowd
Professional reviews

Time Peace: The Rascals' Greatest Hits is a greatest hits album from The Rascals, released in mid-1968 and the only such compilation released during the group's active career. Although billed to their later name, most of the material came from when the group was known as The Young Rascals. It contains all their singles through 1968's earlier "A Beautiful Morning", as well as some of their R&B treatments from early in their career.

Packaging consisted of a gatefold album cover with front and back consisting of dot-based newspaper cartoon-style drawing of the four group members, with song titles in speech balloons; the interior gave complete song credits on one side, and an ensemble photograph on the other side whose artsy nature and 1968-style dress, together with the album's punning title, foretold the thematic and artistic direction the group was about to undertake.

Time Peace was the group's most commercially successful album, reaching number one on the Billboard Pop Albums chart by September 1968. It also topped the Cash Box albums chart with a run in the Top 10 for 20 consecutive weeks. Moreover, showing the group's white soul label was well earned, Time Peace also reached number four on the Billboard Black Albums chart. It was RIAA-certified as a gold record on September 4, 1968. It also grew in critical regard; Rolling Stone's Dave Marsh called it a "glorious chronicle" and All Music Guide's Bruce Eder said it is "arguably the greatest greatest-hits album of the '60s."

Time Peace was reissued on CD by Atlantic Records in 1990, but subsequently went out of print. It was then reissued as part of the 2003 limited edition Rhino Handmade 6-CD collection All I Really Need: The Atlantic Recordings 1965-1971, which is also now out of print.

Contents

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[edit] Side One

  1. "I Ain't Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore" (Pam Sawyer, Laurie Burton) – 2:41
  2. "Good Lovin'" (Rudy Clark, Arthur Resnick) - 2:28
  3. "You Better Run" (Felix Cavaliere, Eddie Brigati) - 2:25
  4. "Come On Up" (Cavaliere) - 2:41
  5. "Mustang Sally" (Bonny Rice) - 3:59
  6. "Love is a Beautiful Thing" (Cavaliere, Brigati) - 2:30
  7. "In the Midnight Hour" (Wilson Pickett, Steve Cropper) - 4:00

[edit] Side Two

  1. "Lonely Too Long" (Cavaliere) - 2:57
  2. "Groovin'" (Cavaliere, Brigati) - 2:25
  3. "A Girl Like You" (Cavaliere, Brigati) - 2:46
  4. "How Can I Be Sure" (Cavaliere, Brigati) - 2:50
  5. "It's Wonderful" (Cavaliere, Brigati) - 2:40
  6. "Easy Rollin'" (Cavaliere, Brigati) - 2:55
  7. "A Beautiful Morning" (Cavaliere, Brigati) - 2:32

[edit] Chart positions

Year Chart Position
1968 Billboard Pop Albums (Billboard 200) 1
Preceded by
Waiting for the Sun by The Doors		 Billboard 200 number-one album
September 28 - October 4, 1968		 Succeeded by
Cheap Thrills by Big Brother and the Holding Company
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)