''Kinda Folksy'' is the debut album by vocal-trio

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Ivor Raymonde Ivor Raymonde (born Ivor Pomerance; 22 October 1926 – 4 June 1990) was a British musician, songwriter, arranger and actor, best known for his distinctive rock-orchestral arrangements for Dusty Springfield and others in the 1960s. Life and care ...

Track listing

#"Wimoweh Mambo" (Paul Campbell, Solomon Linda) - 1:55 #" The Black Hills of Dakota" ( Paul Francis Webster, Sammy Fain) - 2:25 #"Row, Row, Row" (James V. Monaco, William Jerome) - 2:10 #"

The Green Leaves of Summer "The Green Leaves of Summer" is a song by Paul Francis Webster, with music by Dimitri Tiomkin, written for the 1960 film '' The Alamo''. It was performed in the film's score by the vocal group The Brothers Four. In 1961, the song was nominated fo ...

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Dimitri Tiomkin Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin (, ; May 10, 1894 – November 11, 1979) was a Russian-born American film composer and conductor. Classically trained in St. Petersburg, Russia before the Bolshevik Revolution, he moved to Berlin and then New York City ...

, Paul Francis Webster) - 2:15 #"Silver Dollar" (Clarke Van Ness, Jack Palmer) - 2:08 #" Allentown Jail" (

Irving Gordon Irving Gordon (February 14, 1915 – December 1, 1996) was an American songwriter. Biography Irving Gordon was born in Brooklyn, New York, to a Jewish family, and later lived on Coney Island. He was named Israel Goldener but later changed his na ...

) - 2:35 #" Lonesome Traveller" (Traditional; arranged by Lee Hays) - 1:40 #" Dear Hearts And Gentle People" (

Bob Hilliard Bob Hilliard (born Hilliard Goldsmith; January 28, 1918 – February 1, 1971) was an American lyricist. He wrote the words for the songs: "Alice in Wonderland", "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning", " Any Day Now", " Dear Hearts and Gentle ...

, Sammy Fain) - 3:00 #"They Took John Away" (Bobby Sharp) - 2:15 #"Eso Es El Amor" (Pepe Iglesias; English lyrics: Sunny Skylar) - 2:05 #"Two Brothers" (Irving Gordon) - 2:35 #"

Tzena, Tzena, Tzena "Tzena, Tzena, Tzena" (), sometimes "Tzena, Tzena", is a song, written in 1941 in Hebrew. Its music is by Issachar Miron (a.k.a. Stefan Michrovsky), a Polish emigrant in what was then the British Mandate of Palestine (now Israel), and the lyrics ...

" ( Issachar Miron, Julius Grossman,

Mitchell Parish Mitchell Parish (born Michael Hyman Pashelinsky; July 10, 1900 – March 31, 1993) was an American lyricist, notably as a writer of songs for stage and screen. Biography Parish was born to a Jewish family in Lithuania, Russian Empire in July 190 ...

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Personnel

;The Springfields *

Dusty Springfield Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien (16 April 1939 – 2 March 1999), known professionally as Dusty Springfield, was an English singer. With her distinctive mezzo-soprano sound, she was a popular singer of blue-eyed soul, pop and dram ...

- vocals *

Tom Springfield Tom Springfield (born Dionysius Patrick O'Brien, 2 July 1934 – 27 July 2022) was an English musician, songwriter and record producer who was prominent in the 1960s folk and pop music scene. He was the older brother of singer Dusty Springfiel ...

- guitar, vocals * Mike Hurst - guitar, vocals with: *

- accompaniment director {{Authority control 1962 debut albums The Springfields albums albums produced by Johnny Franz Philips Records albums