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RECORDING
SESSION: Disc 4/ Track 16, THE CAPITOL
YEARS: Hobo's Lullaby (Goebel Reeves) 3:13
Master #50908 recorded November 19, 1963
album: A TIME TO THINK
Nick Reynolds favorite lead vocal, "Hobo's
Lullaby", is one of those unusual works that
manages to be both melancholy and uplifting. The
group only performed the song in concert once,
because - as Nick put it: "It was just too
heavy." Although a product of the Great
Depression, the song fit perfectly into the over
all mood of TIME TO THINK. The track also
features some fine guitar playing by session
sideman John Staubard.
SOURCE: Liner notes; The
Kingston Trio: The Capital Years (Capitol Records
CD7243 8 28498 2 7)RECORDING SESSION:
Disc
4/ Track 20, THE CAPITOL YEARS: Last Night I Had
the Strangest Dream (Ed McCurdy) 2:06
Master #50909 recorded November 19, 1963
Previously unreleased
TIME TO THINK would be Nick, Bob and John's last
studio album for Capitol, and it's closing cut
was Ed McCurdy's "Last Night I Had The
Strangest Dream." It may as well have been
the best anti-war song ever written, and the
Trio's recording is nothing less than brilliant.
Radio just didn't want this find of song from the
Kingston Trio, and releasing it during the week
of the Beatles first appearance on the Ed
Sullivan show was the ultimate in poor timing.
"Strangest Dream" has the distinction
of being the only Kingston Trio song covered by
Simon and Garfunkel.
SOURCE: Liner notes; The
Kingston Trio: The Capital Years (Capitol Records
CD7243 8 28498 2 7)
RECORDING
SESSION: Disc 4/ Track 22, THE CAPITOL
YEARS: Ann (Billy Edd Wheeler) 2:45
Master #150907 recorded November 19, 1963
Previously unreleased
The Trio recorded this studio version of Billy
Edd Wheeler's "Ann" for TIME TO THINK,
but it didn't seem to fit the overall mood of the
album, so they would later do it again live for
BACK IN TOWN.
There has been considerable speculation over the
past three decades as to how much of TIME TO
THINK was finished before JFK's assassination,
and to what degree that even determined the tone
of the album. "Ann" was actually the
last track laid down. Of the six TIME TO THINK
tracks collected here, the two recorded prior to
Kennedy's death - "Hobo's Lullaby" and
"Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream"
- would certainly indicate that a serious work
was already in progress. The explosive "Coal
Tattoo" was recorded on the day of JFK's
funeral. The following day produced "Song
for a friend" and "Patriot Game,"
and some of the latter's lyrics take on a new
light in this historical context. (Another track
recorded that day, "If You Don't Look Around"
- collected on the Capitol John Stewart anthology
CD, American Originals (80091) - is the angriest
song the Trio ever churned out.) Even "Seasons
In the Sun," recorded ten days after the
assignation, now appears to contain different
lyrical levels of meaning, and it would not be
difficult for pessimistic historians to label it
a capsulized anthology of the unraveling of JFK's
Camelot.
SOURCE: Liner notes; The
Kingston Trio: The Capital Years (Capitol Records
CD7243 8 28498 2 7)
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