Whales & Nightingales

Whales & Nightingales
Studio album by Judy Collins
Released August 1970
Recorded 1970
Genre Folk
Length 42:32
Label Elektra
Producer Mark Abramson
Judy Collins chronology
Who Knows Where the Time Goes
(1968)
Whales & Nightingales
(1970)
Living
(1971)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Allmusic[1]

Whales & Nightingales is a 1970 album by Judy Collins. It peaked at No. 17 on the Billboard Pop Albums charts.[2]

The album included material by Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, Jacques Brel and Joan Baez, as well as Collins' top-forty version of "Amazing Grace",[3] and the traditional "Farewell To Tarwathie", on which Collins sang to the accompaniment of humpback whales.

The album was certified Gold by the RIAA in 1971, for sales of over 500,000 copies in the US.[4]

Track listing

  1. "A Song for David" (Joan Baez) – 3:30
  2. "Sons Of" (Eric Blau, Jacques Brel, Gerard Jouannest, Mort Shuman) – 2:26
  3. "The Patriot Game" (Dominic Behan) – 4:06
  4. "Prothalamium" (Michael Sahl, Aaron Kramer) – 1:42
  5. "Oh, Had I a Golden Thread" (Pete Seeger) – 3:57
  6. "Gene's Song" (Traditional) – 1:22
  7. "Farewell to Tarwathie" (Traditional) – 5:31
  8. "Time Passes Slowly" (Bob Dylan) – 3:35
  9. "Marieke" (Jacques Brel, Gerard Jouannest) – 3:18
  10. "Nightingale I" (Judy Collins) – 2:11
  11. "Nightingale II" (Judy Collins, Joshua Rifkin) – 5:19
  12. "Simple Gifts" (Traditional) – 1:32
  13. "Amazing Grace" (John Newton) – 4:03

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