Rhymes & Reasons (John Denver album)
For the Carole King album, see Rhymes & Reasons (Carole King album).
Rhymes & Reasons | ||||
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Studio album by John Denver | ||||
Released | October 14, 1969 | |||
Studio | RCA Studios A&B, New York City | |||
Genre | Folk rock | |||
Label | RCA | |||
Producer | Milton Okun | |||
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Rhymes & Reasons is the first commercial album by the American singer-songwriter John Denver, released in 1969 by RCA Records. It was reissued on CD by Legacy Recordings in 2005.[2]
Track listing
Side one
- "The Love of the Common People" (John Hurley, Ronnie Wilkins)
- "Catch Another Butterfly" (Mike Williams)
- "Daydream" (Denver)
- "The Ballad of Spiro Agnew" (Tom Paxton)
- "Circus" (Michael Johnson, John Denver, Laurie Kuehn)
- "When I'm Sixty-Four" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney)
- "The Ballad of Richard Nixon" (only 7 seconds of silence)
- "Rhymes & Reasons" (Denver)
Side two
- "Yellow Cat" (Steven Fromholz)
- "Leaving, on a Jet Plane" (Denver)
- "(You Dun Stomped) My Heart" (Mason Williams)
- "My Old Man" (Jerry Jeff Walker)
- "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free" (Billy Taylor, Dick Dallas)
- "Today Is the First Day of the Rest of My Life (Sugacity)" (Pat & Victoria Garvey)
CD bonus tracks
- "Rusty Green" (Denver)
- "Take Me To Tomorrow (Early Version)" (Denver)
Personnel
- John Denver - guitar, vocals
- Stan Free - organ
- Eric Weissberg - banjo, steel guitar
- Paul Griffin - keyboards
- Herb Lovelle - drums
- Paul Prestopino - guitar, autoharp, mandolin
- Russ Savakus - bass guitar
- Teddy Sommer - drums
- Marvin Stamm - flute, trumpet
- George Marge - baritone saxophone
- Albert Richmond - French horn
- Milton Okun - arrangements
- Technical
- Jim Crotty, John Woram - engineer
References
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