Kites Are Fun

Kites Are Fun
Studio album by The Free Design
Released 6 April 1967
Recorded 1967
Genre Sunshine pop, baroque pop
Length 42:12
Label Project 3
Producer Enoch Light
The Free Design chronology

Kites Are Fun (1967) You Could Be Born Again (1968)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Crawdaddy! (favorable) [2]

Kites are Fun is the debut album from The Free Design, released in 1967. The group was signed to the Project 3 label after a demo recording that was completed with the assistance of the band's father.[3]

The tracks are composed of precise instrumental arrangements with high ranges in complex vocal harmonies.[4] Although the group achieved chart listing of #33 with the single "Kites Are Fun" on the Billboard Adult Contemporary Charts, their success would be limited by their label's unsatisfactory promoting as the single only reached #114 on the pop charts.[4] None of the group's future singles would chart on the national charts.

Track listing

  1. "Kites Are Fun" (Chris Dedrick)
  2. "Make the Madness Stop" (Chris Dedrick)
  3. "When Love is Young" (Sandy Dedrick and Stephanie Dedrick)
  4. "The Proper Ornaments" (Chris Dedrick)
  5. "My Brother Woody" (Chris Dedrick)
  6. "59th Street Bridge Song" (Paul Simon)
  7. "Don't Turn Away" (Chris Dedrick)
  8. "Umbrellas" (Bruce Dedrick)
  9. "Michelle" (Lennon–McCartney)
  10. "Never Tell the World" (Sandy Dedrick and Chris Dedrick)
  11. "A Man and a Woman" (Francis Lai)
  12. "Stay Another Season" (Chris Dedrick)

The title cut, released as a single, earned status on Billboard's "Bubbling Under The Top 100" and "Top 40 Easy Listening" surveys.

Charts

Personnel

Notes

"Kites are Fun" was covered by Tomorrow's World for the Songs for the Jet Set, Volume 1 compilation.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Eder, Bruce. Kites Are Fun at AllMusic
  2. ↑ Crawdaddy! review
  3. ↑ "The Free Design - Billboard Charts". billboard.com. Retrieved February 26, 2015.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "The Free Design - Kites Are Fun". popmatters.com. Retrieved February 26, 2015.
  5. ↑ "Songs for the Jet Set, Volume 1" on Last.fm . Retrieved April 25, 2013.