Sunny Side! Explained

Sunny Side!
Type:Studio album
Artist:The Kingston Trio
Cover:Sunnysidekingstontrio.jpg
Released:July 1963
Recorded:1963
Genre:Folk
Label:Capitol
Producer:Voyle Gilmore
Prev Title:The Kingston Trio #16
Prev Year:1963
Next Title:Time to Think
Next Year:1963

Sunny Side! is an album by the American folk music group the Kingston Trio, released in 1963 (see 1963 in music). It reached number 7 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart. The lead-off single was "Desert Pete" b/w "Ballad of the Thresher". The single was the last Top 40 single for the group. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.[1]

Preview copies of the album that were sent to radio stations and music critics contained the track "Woody's Song." Negative feedback led to Capitol removing it from the album. "Woody's Song" appeared on "Rediscover," a rarities album released by Folk Era Records in 1985, under the title of "Folksinger's Song."[2]

Reception

Allmusic critic Bruce Eder thought the album was a "rushed recording" due to the success of "Reverend Mr. Black". He wrote: "The major problem with the album is that too many of the songs here sound like they're stuck at (or shouldn't have gotten past) the demo stage"

Reissues

Track listing

Side one

  1. "Desert Pete" (Billy Edd Wheeler)
  2. "Marcelle Vahine" (Augie Goupil)
  3. "Sing Out" (Michael Stewart)
  4. "Ballad of the Thresher" (Nat Allen, Keith Donald, Alice Nielsen)
  5. "Blowin' in the Wind" (Bob Dylan)
  6. "Goo Ga Gee" (Mike Settle)

Side two

  1. "Jackson" (Wheeler, Jerry Leiber)
  2. "Two-Ten, Six-Eighteen (Doesn't Anybody Know My Name)" (Rod McKuen)
  3. "Those Brown Eyes" (Woody Guthrie, Alan Arkin, Bill Carey, Erik Darling)
  4. "Those Who Are Wise" (John Stewart)
  5. "Rider" (Nick Reynolds, Bob Shane, Judy Henske)

Personnel

Production notes

Notes and 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. 19 October 2010. dead.
  2. Ben Blake, Song Annotations, "The Kingston Trio: The Stewart Years," 2000, Bear Family Records.
  3. Allmusic entry for reissue of The Kingston Trio #16 and Sunny Side!.