It's_About_Time_(John_Denver_album)

<i>It's About Time</i> (John Denver album)

It's About Time (John Denver album)

1983 studio album by John Denver

It's About Time is the 17th studio album by American singer-songwriter John Denver recorded at Criteria Recording Studios in Miami and released in November 1983. The album featured several notable supporting vocalists, including Patti Austin, Rita Marley (and The Wailers), and Emmylou Harris. "Wild Montana Skies" was the single from this album; members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.[2]

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It contains the following dedication from John Denver: "This album is dedicated with great love and respect to the memory of my father, Lt. Col. (Ret.) H.J. "Dutch" Deutschendorf."

Track listing

All tracks composed by John Denver; except where indicated

Side One

  1. "Hold on Tightly" – 4:00
  2. "Thought of You" – 4:02
  3. "Somethin' About" – 3:44
  4. "On the Wings of a Dream" – 5:01
  5. "Flight (The Higher We Fly)" (Adapted from the Poem by John Gillespie Magee, Jr.; Words: John Gillespie Magee, Jr., John Denver and Joe Henry; Music: Lee Holdridge) – 3:16

Side Two

  1. "Falling Out of Love" – 4:56
  2. "I Remember Romance" – 5:25
  3. "Wild Montana Skies" – 4:02
  4. "The Way I Am"1
  5. "World Game" – 4:58
  6. "It's About Time" (Denver, Glen D. Hardin) – 3:42

1Not featured on cassette version or on original LP.

Personnel

The following information is from the CD insert.[3]

Musicians

All personnel in this section are credited along with John Denver as arrangers.

Additional musicians

  • Larry Fast – synthesizer
  • Fred Wickstrom – marimbas

Muscle Shoals Horns

  • Harvey Thompson – tenor saxophone
  • Charles Rose – trombone
  • Harrison Calloway, Jr. – trumpet

Background vocals

Musicians from "World Game"

Arrangers

Engineers

  • Roger Nichols – Recording And Mixing Engineer
  • John Slywka – Assistant Engineer
  • Patrice Carroll-Levinsohn – Assistant Engineer

Chart performance

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References

  1. [1]
    https://www.allmusic.com/album/r5471
  2. [2]
    Western Writers of America (2010). "The Top 100 Western Songs". American Cowboy. Archived from the original on October 19, 2010.
  3. [3]
    John Denver. It's About Time. RCA. 1983.
  4. [4]
    Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 87. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
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