| Children of the Morning | ||||||||||
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| Studio album by The Kingston Trio | ||||||||||
| Released | May 1966 | |||||||||
| Recorded | 1966 at Columbus Recording Studio, San Francisco, CA | |||||||||
| Genre | Folk | |||||||||
| Label | Decca | |||||||||
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Children of the Morning is an album by the American folk music group The Kingston Trio, released in 1966 (see 1966 in music). It was their last album on the Decca label. Three singles were released from the album and all were commercial flops, as was the album.[1] The singles were: "Norwegian Wood" b/w "Put Your Money Away", "The Spinnin' of the World" b/w "A Little Soul is Born" and "Lock All the Windows" b/w "Hit and Run".
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Since 1963, the Kingston Trio had been having continual problems adapting to the changing music scene around them. Their records sold poorly and barely charted or did not make the charts at all. Prior to the release of Children of the Morning, the trio had decided to disband in one year after a tour and another album. Decca declined to release the album they recorded although it was eventually released on Tetragrammaton Records.[1] It was not released until 1969. When the tour ended, John Stewart began a solo career, Nick Reynolds retired from the music business (though eventually he would return to the Trio) and Bob Shane attempted a solo career before re-forming the group as The New Kingston Trio.
Stewart wrote and sang the majority of the songs on the album.
The Trio's final release on Decca was the single "Texas Across the River" from the movie of the same name, backed with a Bob Dylan song, "Babe, You've Been on My Mind".
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Allmusic critic Bruce Eder wrote the album "doesn't really sound much like a Kingston Trio album — there's relatively little banjo, and the mood is more the introspective one of a singer/songwriter than an upbeat folk trio."[2]
All songs by John Stewart unless otherwise noted.