Something Special (The Kingston Trio album)


Something Special is an album by the American folk music group the Kingston Trio, released in 1962. It reached number 7 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart. The lead-off single was a non-album track "C'mon Betty Home" b/w "Old Joe Clark". "One More Town" b/w "She Was Too Good to Me" was released as a single later the same year. Neither single made the Top 40. Something Special was nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Folk Recording category.
A notable feature of Something Special is that it was highly orchestrated, using strings, brass instruments and a choir.

Reception

music critic Bruce Eder wrote the album "was the oddest of all the Kingston Trio's albums... a marked departure from previous work by the trio... The results aren't bad so much as they are strange at times."

Reissues

Side one

  1. "Brown Mountain Light" – 2:48
  2. "One More Town" – 2:57
  3. "Oh Willow Waley" – 2:46
  4. "Tell it on the Mountain" – 1:55
  5. "Little Boy" – 2:33
  6. "Strange Day" – 3:55

    Side two

  7. "Away Rio" – 2:57
  8. "Pullin' Away" – 3:17
  9. "She Was Too Good To Me – 2:46
  10. "Jane, Jane, Jane" – 2:51
  11. "Portland Town" – 1:59
  12. "Old Joe Clark" – 1:58

    Personnel