Judith (album)

Judith
Studio album by
Judy Collins
Released17 March 1975[1]
Recorded1975, A&R Studios, New York
GenreFolk
Length43:39
LabelElektra
ProducerArif Mardin
Judy Collins chronology
True Stories and Other Dreams
(1973) 		Judith
(1975) 		Bread and Roses
(1976)
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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.[2]

Peaking at No. 17 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart,[3] 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.[4]

Collins received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female for her cover of Stephen Sondheim's "Send in the Clowns".[5] 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.[6] 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.[7]

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".[8]

  1. ^ "E/A/N Sets March LPs" (PDF). Record World. 30 (1446). New York, NY, USA: Record World Publishing Co., Inc.: 20 1975-03-08. ISSN 0034-1622. Archived from the original on 2021-03-08. Retrieved 1 March 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)
  2. ^ Detroit Free Press 10 August 1975 "The Diverse Judy Collins is Much More Than a Folkie" by Christine Brown p.7-D
  3. ^ "US Albums and Singles Charts > Judy Collins". Billboard. Retrieved 2022-02-28.
  4. ^ "American album certifications – Judy Collins". Recording Industry Association of America.
  5. ^ "Grammy Award Nominees 1976 - Grammy Award Winners 1976".
  6. ^ "Judy Collins' Biography". Archived from the original on 2014-09-03. Retrieved 2014-08-28.
  7. ^ "Judy Collins - Chart history | Billboard". Billboard. Archived from the original on 2014-08-11.
  8. ^ "Judith - Judy Collins | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic.