Whales & Nightingales
| Whales & Nightingales | ||||
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| Released | November 1970 | |||
| Recorded | 1970 | |||
| Studio | Fedco Audio Labs, Providence, Rhode Island | |||
| Genre | Folk | |||
| Length | 42:32 | |||
| Label | Elektra | |||
| Producer | Mark Abramson | |||
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| AllMusic | |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | |
| The Village Voice | C+ |
Whales & Nightingales is the eighth studio album by American singer and songwriter Judy Collins, released by Elektra Records in 1970. It peaked at No. 17 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart.
The album includes material by Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, Jacques Brel and Joan Baez, as well as Collins' top-forty version of "Amazing Grace", and the traditional "Farewell to Tarwathie", on which Collins sang to the accompaniment of humpback whales.
In 1971, the album was certified Gold by the RIAA for sales of over 500,000 copies in the US.