Rewind (Johnny Rivers album)

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 Billboard albums chart and peaked at #14 .[2][3] "Tracks of my Tears" spent nine weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 and peaked at #9,[4] while "Baby I Need Your Lovin'" spent eleven weeks and peaked at #3.[5]

Rewind
Studio album by
ReleasedJune 1967
GenrePop rock, R&B, soul
Length30:53
LabelImperial
ProducerLou Adler
Johnny Rivers chronology
Golden Hits
(1966)
Rewind
(1967)
Realization
(1968)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic3 [1]

Reception edit

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."[2]

Track listing edit

All songs written by Jimmy Webb except where noted.

Side one edit

  1. "The Tracks of My Tears" (Warren "Pete" Moore, Smokey Robinson, Marvin Tarplin) – 2:53
  2. "Carpet Man" – 3:02
  3. "Tunesmith" – 3:10
  4. "Sidewalk Song / 27th Street" – 2:25
  5. "It'll Never Happen Again" (Tim Hardin) – 3:25
  6. "Do What You Gotta Do" – 2:19

Side two edit

  1. "Baby I Need Your Lovin'" (Lamont Dozier, Brian Holland, Eddie Holland) – 3:08
  2. "For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her" (Paul Simon) – 2:47
  3. "Rosecrans Boulevard" – 2:31
  4. "The Eleventh Song" – 2:19
  5. "Sweet Smiling Children" – 2:10

Personnel edit

Musicians edit

Technical edit

References edit

  1. ^ Rewind at AllMusic. Retrieved July 3, 2020.
  2. ^ a b Curd, Zach. "Rewind". Allmusic. Retrieved November 13, 2012.
  3. ^ "Billboard 200 - Johnny Rivers". Retrieved July 3, 2020.
  4. ^ "Billboard Hot 100 - Johnny Rivers". Retrieved July 3, 2020.
  5. ^ "Billboard Hot 100 - Johnny Rivers". Retrieved July 3, 2020.

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