You Were on My Mind (album)
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Released | 1965 | |||
Genre | Folk | |||
Length | 29:36 | |||
Label | A&M | |||
Producer | Frank Werber | |||
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You Were on My Mind is the first studio album by the folk band We Five which was released in 1965.
The title track hit #1 on the adult contemporary chart and #3 on The Billboard Hot 100.[1] The album landed on the Billboard 200, reaching #32.[2] The single also marked a musical transition because the single was one of the first to feature drums and the electric guitar on a folk composition.[3]
Reception
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Writing for Allmusic, music critic Richie Unterberger wrote of the album "The harmonies are nice, and an overlooked influence upon the early San Francisco rock scene. But the album as a whole is pretty lightweight, with nothing else in the same league as "You Were on My Mind."[4]
Track listing
[edit]- "Love Me Not Tomorrow" (John Stewart)
- "Somewhere Beyond the Sea" (Charles Trenet, Jack Lawrence)
- "My Favorite Things" (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II)
- "If I Were Alone" (Mike Stewart, John Stewart)
- "Tonight" (Stephen Sondheim, Leonard Bernstein)
- "Cast Your Fate to the Wind" (Vince Guaraldi, Carel Werber)
- "You Were on My Mind" (Sylvia Fricker)
- "Can't Help Falling in Love" (George David Weiss, Hugo Peretti, Luigi Creatore)
- "Small World" (Jule Styne, Stephen Sondheim)
- "I Got Plenty o' Nuttin'" (Dorothy Heyward, Ira Gershwin, George Gershwin)
- "Softly, as I Leave You" (Antonio De Vita, Hal Shaper)
- "I Can Never Go Home Again" (John Stewart)
Charts
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Year | Chart | Peak position |
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1965 | Billboard Top LPs | 32 |
Singles
Year | Single | Chart | Peak position |
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1965 | "You Were on My Mind" | Billboard Hot 100 | 3 |
1965 | "You Were on My Mind" | Easy Listening | 1 |
References
[edit]- ^ We Five's charting singles Retrieved March 9, 2012
- ^ We Five's charting albums Retrieved March 9, 2012.
- ^ We Five Interview Retrieved February 2, 2015
- ^ a b Unterberger, Richie. "You Were on My Mind > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved July 3, 2011.