Something Special (The Kingston Trio album)

Something Special is an album by the American folk music group the Kingston Trio, released in 1962 (see 1962 in music). It reached number 7 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart. The lead-off single was a non-album track "C'mon Betty Home" b/w "Old Joe Clark". "One More Town" b/w "She Was Too Good to Me" was released as a single later the same year. Neither single made the Top 40. Something Special was nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Folk Recording category.

A notable feature of Something Special is that it was highly orchestrated, using strings, brass instruments and a choir.

Reception
Allmusic music critic Bruce Eder wrote the album "was the oddest of all the Kingston Trio's albums... a marked departure from previous work by the trio... The results aren't bad so much as they are strange at times."

Reissues

 * Something Special was reissued along with Back in Town on CD by Collectors Choice Records in 2000. A bonus track, "C'mon Betty Home" is included.
 * In 2000, all of the tracks from Something Special were included in The Stewart Years 10-CD box set issued by Bear Family Records. This collection also includes eleven tracks without Jimmie Haskell's orchestral overdubs; the twelfth cut, "Old Joe Clark," appeared on the album as it was originally recorded.

Side one

 * 1) "Brown Mountain Light" (Scotty Wiseman) – 2:48
 * 2) "One More Town" (John Stewart) – 2:57
 * 3) "Oh Willow Waley" (Georges Auric, Paul Dehan) – 2:46
 * 4) "Tell it on the Mountain" (Traditional, Nick Reynolds, Bob Shane, Stewart) – 1:55
 * 5) "Little Boy" (Mike Settle) – 2:33
 * 6) "Strange Day" (Stewart, George Yanok) – 3:55

Side two

 * 1) "Away Rio" (Reynolds, Shane, Stewart) – 2:57
 * 2) "Pullin' Away" (Reynolds, Shane, Stewart) – 3:17
 * 3) "She Was Too Good To Me (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 2:46
 * 4) "Jane, Jane, Jane" (Stan Wilson) – 2:51
 * 5) "Portland Town" (Stewart) – 1:59
 * 6) "Old Joe Clark" (Traditional) – 1:58

Personnel

 * Bob Shane – vocals, guitar
 * Nick Reynolds – vocals, tenor guitar, bongos, conga
 * John Stewart – vocals, banjo, guitar
 * Dean Reilly – bass

Production notes

 * Voyle Gilmore – producer
 * Pete Abbott – engineer
 * Jimmie Haskell – arrangements, conductor