It's About Time (John Denver album) explained

It's About Time
Type:	Studio album
Artist:	John Denver
Cover:	John Denver-It's About Time.jpg
Released:	November 15, 1983
Recorded:	1983
Studio:	Criteria (Miami)
Genre:	Country soft rock folk rock
Length:	46:51
Label:	RCA Records
Producer:	John Denver, Barney Wyckoff
Prev Title:	Rocky Mountain Holiday
Prev Year:	1982
Next Title:	John Denver's Greatest Hits, Volume 3
Next Year:	1984

It's About Time is the seventeenth studio album by American singer-songwriter John Denver recorded at Criteria Recording Studios in Miami and released in November 1983. The album featured several notable supporting vocalists, including Patti Austin, Rita Marley (and The Wailers), and Emmylou Harris. "Wild Montana Skies" was the single from this album; members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.^[1]

It contains the following dedication from John Denver: "This album is dedicated with great love and respect to the memory of my father, Lt. Col. (Ret.) H.J. "Dutch" Deutschendorf."

Track listing

All tracks composed by John Denver; except where indicated

Side One

1. "Hold on Tightly" – 4:00
2. "Thought of You" – 4:02
3. "Somethin' About" – 3:44
4. "On the Wings of a Dream" – 5:01
5. "Flight (The Higher We Fly)" (Adapted from the Poem by John Gillespie Magee, Jr.; Words: John Gillespie Magee, Jr., John Denver and Joe Henry; Music: Lee Holdridge) – 3:16

Side Two

1. "Falling Out of Love" – 4:56
2. "I Remember Romance" – 5:25
3. "Wild Montana Skies" – 4:02
4. "The Way I Am"¹
5. "World Game" – 4:58
6. "It's About Time" (Denver, Glen D. Hardin) – 3:42

¹Not featured on cassette version or on original LP.

Personnel

The following information is from the CD insert.^[2]

Musicians

All personnel in this section are credited along with John Denver as arrangers.

• Jerry Carrigan – drums and percussion
• Jerry Scheff – bass
• Glen Hardin – piano, Rhodes, B-3
• James Burton – lead guitars (electric and acoustic)
• Jim Horn – saxophone, flute, recorder

Additional musicians

• Larry Fast – synthesizer
• Fred Wickstrom – marimbas

Muscle Shoals Horns

• Harvey Thompson – tenor saxophone
• Charles Rose – trombone
• Harrison Calloway, Jr. – trumpet
  • with Jim Horn – baritone saxophone

Background vocals

• Patti Austin
• Ullanda McCullough
• Conrad Reeder
• Emmylou Harris on "Wild Montana Skies"

Musicians from "World Game"

• The Wailers
  • Aston "Family Man" Barrett – bass
  • Carlton "Carli" Barrett – drums
  • Steve Stewart – piano
  • Earl "Wire" Lindo – organ
  • Alvin Patterson – percussion
  • Lloyd "Gits" Willis – guitar
• The I Threes
  • Rita Marley
  • Marcia Griffiths

Arrangers

• Lee Holdridge – strings
• Patti Austin – background vocals

Engineers

• Roger Nichols – Recording And Mixing Engineer
• John Slywka – Assistant Engineer
• Patrice Carroll-Levinsohn – Assistant Engineer

Chart performance

Chart (1983)	Peak position
Australia (Kent Music Report)^[3]	19
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	55
U.S. Billboard 200	61
Canadian RPM Top Albums	92

References

1. Web site: The Top 100 Western Songs . Western Writers of America . 2010 . Western Writers of America . American Cowboy . https://web.archive.org/web/20101019002745/http://americancowboy.com/culture/top-100-western-songs . October 19, 2010 . dead .
2. John Denver. It's About Time. RCA. 1983.
3. Book: Kent, David. David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. illustrated. Australian Chart Book. St Ives, N.S.W.. 1993. 0-646-11917-6. 87.