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| Released | 17 March 1975[1] | |||
| Recorded | 1975, A&R Studios, New York | |||
| Genre | Folk | |||
| Length | 43:39 | |||
| Label | Elektra | |||
| Producer | Arif Mardin | |||
| Judy Collins chronology | ||||
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| AllMusic |   [2] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [3] |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [4] |
Judith is the tenth studio album by American singer and songwriter Judy Collins, released in 1975 by Elektra Records in both stereo (7E-1032) and CD-4 quadraphonic (EQ-1032) versions. Collins recorded Judith three years after her precedent album True Stories and Other Dreams, having been focused during the interim on producing Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman a documentary about Antonia Brico.[5]
Peaking at No. 17 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart,[6] Judith became Collins' best-selling studio album to date: certified Gold by the RIAA in 1975, for sales of over 500,000 copies, Judith would be certified Platinum in 1996, for sales of over 1,000,000 copies.[7]
Collins received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female for her cover of Stephen Sondheim's "Send in the Clowns".[8] Sondheim won the Grammy Award for Song of the Year that same year, based on the popularity of Collins' performance of the song on this album.[9] The single peaked at No. 36 on Billboard's Pop singles chart in 1975, and then reentered the chart in 1977, reaching No. 19; it spent a total of 27 non-consecutive weeks on this chart.[10]
The album also includes material by Steve Goodman, Danny O'Keefe, Wendy Waldman, Jimmy Webb, the Rolling Stones, and the 1930s standard "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?", as well as three of Collins' own compositions- "Houses", "Song for Duke", and "Born to the Breed".[2]
- ^ "E/A/N Sets March LPs" (PDF). Record World. 30 (1446). New York, NY, USA: Record World Publishing Co., Inc.: 20 March 8, 1975. ISSN 0034-1622. Archived from the original on March 8, 2021. Retrieved March 1, 2023.
Set for national release on March 17 are Judy Collins' first Elektra album of newly-recorded songs in two years, "Judith"
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ a b Deming, Mark. "Judith Review". AllMusic. Retrieved December 8, 2024.
- ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). "Collins, Judy". The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th Concise ed.). New York: Muze UK Ltd. pp. 338–339. ISBN 978-1-84609-856-7.
- ^ Evans, Paul (1992). "Judy Collins". In DeCurtis, Anthony; Henke, James; George-Warren, Holly (eds.). The Rolling Stone Album Guide: Completely New Reviews: Every Essential Album, Every Essential Artist (3rd ed.). New York: Random House. p. 154. ISBN 0-679-73729-4.
- ^ Detroit Free Press 10 August 1975 "The Diverse Judy Collins is Much More Than a Folkie" by Christine Brown p.7-D
- ^ "US Albums and Singles Charts > Judy Collins". Billboard. Retrieved February 28, 2022.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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- ^ "Judy Collins' Biography". Archived from the original on September 3, 2014. Retrieved August 28, 2014.
- ^ "Judy Collins - Chart history | Billboard". Billboard. Archived from the original on August 11, 2014.