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It is not well remembered, but in the wake of the enormous brouhaha over folk musicians going electric, a lot of musicians identified with the pre-rock folk era did go electric, or pop, just for a little while. This late-'60s album by Burl Ives is one of the most ludicrous examples. Perhaps it was felt that getting Ives to cover contemporary material with modern arrangements might appeal to those who felt Ives doing what he'd been doing for so many years was an anachronism (which it was). So he did a set including four Bob Dylan songs, Tim Hardin's "If I Were a Carpenter," Simon & Garfunkel's "Homeward Bound," and straight pop tunes like "Gentle on My Mind" and "By the Time I Get to Phoenix." Bob Johnston, who was producing Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel, and Johnny Cash around the time (and would in fact produce Pete Seeger with electric backup at Columbia), produced. But Ives' voice was shaky, the arrangements bland MOR, and the whole enterprise a mesh of ill-fitting pieces. Nowhere is that more evident than in the title track, which devolves into a grandly intended spoken intonation of the lyrics that succeeds only in getting Ives to make a fool of himself.
© Richie Unterberger /TiVo
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Robert Mersey, Conductor - Bob Johnston, Producer - Bob Dylan, Composer, Lyricist - Burl Ives, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
Originally released 1968. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Bob Johnston, Producer - Jimmy Webb, Composer, Lyricist - Burl Ives, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
Originally released 1968. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Bob Johnston, Producer - John Hartford, Composer, Lyricist - Burl Ives, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
Originally released 1968. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Bobby Russell, Composer, Lyricist - Bob Johnston, Producer - Burl Ives, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
Originally released 1968. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Bob Johnston, Producer - Bob Dylan, Composer, Lyricist - Burl Ives, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
Originally released 1968. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Robert Mersey, Conductor - Bob Johnston, Producer - Bob Dylan, Composer, Lyricist - Burl Ives, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
Originally released 1968. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Bob Johnston, Producer - Charlie Daniels, Composer, Lyricist - Burl Ives, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
Originally released 1968. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Bob Johnston, Producer - Burl Ives, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Timothy James Hardin, Composer, Lyricist
Originally released 1968. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Bob Johnston, Producer - Paul Simon, Composer, Lyricist - Burl Ives, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
Originally released 1968. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Robert Mersey, Conductor - Bob Johnston, Producer - Charlie Daniels, Composer, Lyricist - Burl Ives, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
Originally released 1968. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Bob Johnston, Producer - Bob Dylan, Composer, Lyricist - Burl Ives, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
Originally released 1968. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
Album review
It is not well remembered, but in the wake of the enormous brouhaha over folk musicians going electric, a lot of musicians identified with the pre-rock folk era did go electric, or pop, just for a little while. This late-'60s album by Burl Ives is one of the most ludicrous examples. Perhaps it was felt that getting Ives to cover contemporary material with modern arrangements might appeal to those who felt Ives doing what he'd been doing for so many years was an anachronism (which it was). So he did a set including four Bob Dylan songs, Tim Hardin's "If I Were a Carpenter," Simon & Garfunkel's "Homeward Bound," and straight pop tunes like "Gentle on My Mind" and "By the Time I Get to Phoenix." Bob Johnston, who was producing Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel, and Johnny Cash around the time (and would in fact produce Pete Seeger with electric backup at Columbia), produced. But Ives' voice was shaky, the arrangements bland MOR, and the whole enterprise a mesh of ill-fitting pieces. Nowhere is that more evident than in the title track, which devolves into a grandly intended spoken intonation of the lyrics that succeeds only in getting Ives to make a fool of himself.
© Richie Unterberger /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 11 track(s)
- Total length: 00:33:45
- Main artists: Burl Ives
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Columbia - Legacy
- Genre: Folk/Americana
Originally released 1968. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment
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