''Fifth Album'' is the fourth studio album (her 5th overall release) by American singer and songwriter

Judy Collins Judith Marjorie Collins (born May 1, 1939) is an American singer-songwriter and musician with a career spanning nearly seven decades. An Academy Awards, Academy Award-nominated documentary director and a Grammy Awards, Grammy Award-winning rec ...

, released by

Elektra Records Elektra Records (or Elektra Entertainment) is an American record label owned by Warner Music Group, founded in 1950 by Jac Holzman and Paul Rickolt. It played an important role in the development of contemporary folk and rock music between the ...

in 1965. It peaked at No. 69 on the ''Billboard'' Pop Albums chart. The album featured a collection of traditional ballads and singer-songwriter material from

Bob Dylan Bob Dylan (legally Robert Dylan; born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. Described as one of the greatest songwriters of all time, Dylan has been a major figure in popular culture over his nearly 70-year ...

Richard Fariña Richard George Fariña (; March 8, 1937 – April 30, 1966) was an American Folk music, folksinger, songwriter, poet and novelist. Early years and education Fariña was born in Brooklyn, New York, United States, the son of an Irish mother, Ther ...

Phil Ochs Philip David Ochs (; December 19, 1940 – April 9, 1976) was an American songwriter, protest song, protest singer (or, as he preferred, "topical singer"), and Political Activist, political activist. Ochs was known for his sharp wit, sardonic h ...

and

Malvina Reynolds Malvina Reynolds (née Milder; August 23, 1900 – March 17, 1978) was an American folk/blues singer-songwriter and political activist, best known for her songwriting, particularly the songs " Little Boxes", " What Have They Done to the Rain" a ...

. A number of the songs were topical in nature, particularly Ochs' "In the Heat of the Summer" (which chronicled the Harlem riot of 1964), and Reynolds' "It Isn't Nice".

Track listing

Side one # "Pack Up Your Sorrows" (

, Pauline Marden) – 3:10 # "The Coming of the Roads" (

Billy Edd Wheeler Billy Edd Wheeler (December 9, 1932 – September 16, 2024) was an American songwriter, performer, writer, and visual artist. His songs include " Jackson" ( Grammy award winner for Johnny Cash and June Carter) " The Reverend Mr. Black", "Dese ...

) – 3:31 # "So Early, Early in the Spring" (Traditional) – 3:04 # " Tomorrow is a Long Time" (

) – 4:04 # " Daddy You've Been on My Mind" (Dylan) – 2:52 # " Thirsty Boots" (

Eric Andersen Eric Andersen (born February 14, 1943) is an American folk music singer-songwriter, who has written songs recorded by Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, Linda Ronstadt, the Grateful Dead, Rick Nelson, and many others. Early in his career, ...

) – 4:57 Side two # " Mr. Tambourine Man" (Dylan) – 5:20 # "Lord Gregory" (Traditional) – 3:28 # "In the Heat of the Summer" (

) – 3:21 # " Early Morning Rain" (

Gordon Lightfoot Gordon Meredith Lightfoot Jr. (November 17, 1938 – May 1, 2023) was a Canadian singer-songwriter who achieved worldwide success and helped define the singer-songwriter era of the 1970s. Widely considered one of Canada's greatest songwriters, ...

) – 3:10 # "Carry It On" ( Gil Turner) – 2:44 # "It Isn't Nice" (

, Barbara Dane) – 2:58 *"It Isn't Nice" recorded in concert at the Town Hall, New York, March 21, 1964.

Personnel

– guitar, keyboards, vocals Additional musicians *

–

dulcimer The term dulcimer refers to two families of musical string instruments. Hammered dulcimers The word ''dulcimer'' originally referred to a trapezoidal zither similar to a psaltery whose many strings are struck by handheld "hammers". Variants of ...

(tracks 1, 11) *

Eric Weissberg Eric Weissberg (August 16, 1939 – March 22, 2020) was an American singer, banjo The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator. The membrane is typically circular, and in moder ...

– second guitar (tracks 1, 3, 6, 10, 12), vocal (track 12) *Bill Takas – double bass (tracks 1, 6) * Bill Lee – double bass (tracks 4–5, 7, 10) *Danny Kalb – second guitar (track 5) *

John Sebastian John Benson Sebastian (born March 17, 1944) is an American singer, songwriter and musician who founded the rock band the Lovin' Spoonful in 1964 with Zal Yanovsky. During his time in the Lovin Spoonful, Sebastian wrote and sang some of the ban ...

– harmonica (track 6) *Robert Sylvester – cello (track 8) *Jerry Dodgion – flute (track 12) * Chuck Israels – double bass (track 12) Technical * Jac Holzman – production supervisor * Mark Abramson – recording director *Jim Frawley – cover photo * William S. Harvey – cover design *Richard Fariña – liner notes

Charts

References

External links

* {{Authority control 1965 albums Judy Collins albums Albums produced by Mark Abramson Albums produced by Jac Holzman Elektra Records albums