''Rewind'' is the fourth studio album by the American musician Johnny Rivers, released in 1967 by Imperial Records. The album includes cover versions of " Baby, I Need Your Lovin'" and " The Tracks of My Tears". Produced by Lou Adler with arrangements by Jimmy Webb, who wrote seven of the songs. Noted Los Angeles session musicians The Wrecking Crew provided the music. The album spent 21 weeks on the ''

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'' albums chart and peaked at #14 . "Tracks of my Tears" spent nine weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 and peaked at #9, while "Baby I Need Your Lovin'" spent eleven weeks and peaked at #3.

Reception

In his review in AllMusic, Zach Curd called ''Rewind'', with its "big, clean production, and quality L.A. session musicians", a "great collection of blue-eyed soul and rock." Curd concluded that the album was "a solid, tight recording, with excellent production and inventive arrangements provided by Webb."

Track listing

All songs written by Jimmy Webb except where noted.

Side one

# " The Tracks of My Tears" ( Warren "Pete" Moore,

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, Marvin Tarplin) – 2:53 # "Carpet Man" – 3:02 # "Tunesmith" – 3:10 # "Sidewalk Song / 27th Street" – 2:25 # "It'll Never Happen Again" ( Tim Hardin) – 3:25 # "Do What You Gotta Do" – 2:19

Side two

# "

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" ( Lamont Dozier, Brian Holland, Eddie Holland) – 3:08 # " For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her" (

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) – 2:47 # "Rosecrans Boulevard" – 2:31 # "The Eleventh Song" – 2:19 # "Sweet Smiling Children" – 2:10

Personnel

Musicians

* Johnny Rivers – vocals, guitar * The Blossoms – backing vocals * Larry Knechtel – piano * Mike Deasy Sr. – guitar *

Joe Osborn Joseph Osborn (August 28, 1937 – December 14, 2018bass guitar * Hal Blaine –

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* Mike Deasy Jr. – vocals

Technical

* Lou Adler –

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* Armin Steiner, Michael Lietz – engineers * Jimmy Webb – arranger, conductor, liner notes * Marty Paich – horns and strings arranger/conductor * Woody Woodward –

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* Bernard Yeszin, George Rodriguez, Ivan Nagy – photography

References

External links

Johnny Rivers official website
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