''Times of Our Lives'' is the fourteenth studio album by American singer-songwriter

Judy Collins Judith Marjorie Collins (born May 1, 1939) is an American singer-songwriter and musician with a career spanning seven decades. An Academy Award-nominated documentary director and a Grammy Award-winning recording artist, she is known for her ec ...

, released in February 1982 by

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. It peaked at No. 190 on the ''Billboard'' Pop Albums charts. In 1981, prior to the album's release, Collins appeared on the CBS soap opera ''

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'', performing two songs from the (then) forthcoming album: "Great Expectations" and "It's Gonna Be One of Those Nights" (both having penned by Hugh Prestwood). The single of " Memory" by

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from the West End musical ''

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'' was the earliest released version of the song by a singer (apart from its London Cast Album). It was quickly followed by another version by Barbra Streisand.

Track listing

Side one #"Great Expectations" (

Hugh Prestwood Hugh Loring Prestwood (born April 2, 1942) is an American Hall of Fame songwriter, whose work is primarily in country music. He was discovered by Judy Collins, who gave him his first hit "Hard Time for Lovers", which was recorded in 1978. Prestw ...

) – 3:54 #"The Rest of Your Life" (

) – 4:43 #"Grandaddy" (Collins) – 3:24 #"It's Gonna Be One of Those Nights" (Hugh Prestwood) – 3:38 #" Memory" (

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, Trevor Nunn) – 4:13 Side two #

"Sun Son" ( Anna McGarrigle) – 4:18 #"Mama Mama" (Collins) – 3:38 #"Drink a Round to Ireland" (Hugh Prestwood) – 3:48 #"Angel on My Side" (Collins) – 4:31 #"Don't Say Goodbye Love" (Collins) – 4:39

Personnel

* Judy Collins – vocals, guitar, piano; arrangement and conductor on "Don't Say Goodbye Love" * Hugh McCracken – acoustic and electric guitar, mandolin * Steve Khan – electric guitar * Tony Levin – bass guitar * Randy Kerber – piano,

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, CS80 and Omni synthesizer, Omni strings * Vinnie Colaiuta – drums * Jimmy Madison – drums *

Rubens Bassini Rubens Bassini (January 26, 1933 in Rio de Janeiro – September 1985) was a percussionist, who played bongos and congas above all. He played together with the band Os Ipanemas: Astor Silva; (trombone), Marinho (bass), Wilson das Neves (drums ...

– percussion, congas * Richard Rimbaugh – drums, tabla, tambourine, finger cymbals * George Marge – oboe * Dominic Cortese – accordion * Margaret Ross – harp * Max Pollikoff – violin * Eddie Daniels – alto saxophone * Bill Keith – banjo *

Dick Hyman Richard Hyman (born March 8, 1927) is an American jazz pianist and composer. Over a 70-year career, he has worked as a pianist, organist, arranger, music director, electronic musician, and composer. He was named a National Endowment for the Art ...

– celesta, piano *

Ken Bichel Ken Bichel is an American actor, composer, conductor, pianist, and synthesizer musician. Musical career Bichel attended the Juilliard School where he graduated with a master's degree in piano performance in 1969. While at Juilliard he met Gersh ...

– piano * Lew Hahn – Casiotone MT30 * Gordon Grody, Shelton Becton, Ula Hedwig – backing vocals * Cengiz Yaltkaya – arrangement and conductor on "The Rest of Your Lives", "Sun Son", "Mama Mama" and "Angel On My Side" *

Jonathan Tunick Jonathan Tunick (born April 19, 1938, New York City) is an American orchestrator, musical director, and composer, and one of seventeen " EGOTs" - people to have won all four major American showbusiness awards: the Tony Awards, Academy Awards, Emmy A ...

– arrangement and conductor on "Grandaddy" and "Drink a Round to Ireland" * Arif Mardin – arrangement and conductor on "It's Gonna Be One of Those Nights" *

William David Brohn William David "Bill" Brohn (March 30, 1933 – May 11, 2017) was an American arranger and orchestrator, best known for his scores of musicals such as ''Miss Saigon'', ''Ragtime'' and ''Wicked''. He won the Tony Award for Best Orchestrations for ' ...

– arrangement and conductor on "Memory" *

David Nadien David Nadien (March 12, 1926 – May 28, 2014) was an American virtuoso violinist and violin teacher. He was the concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic from 1966 to 1970. His playing style, characterized by fast vibrato, audible shifting noise ...

– concertmaster Technical * Arif Mardin – executive producer * Jim Houghton – photography

Charts

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Times Of Our Lives (Judy Collins Album) Judy Collins albums 1982 albums Albums arranged by Arif Mardin Elektra Records albums