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Album • 1972

Garden Party

Rick Nelson, The Stone Canyon Band10 songs • 36 minutes

Garden Party is the twentieth studio album by Rick Nelson, this one a country rock album recorded with the Stone Canyon Band in 1972. The title song tells the story of Nelson being booed at a concert at Madison Square Garden. The Album features self-penned songs like "Let It Bring You Along", "Nightime Lady", "So Long Mama", and re-recorded versions of Chuck Berry's "I'm Talking About You", which he had previously recorded on Spotlight on Rick 8 years later. Released as a single prior to the album, "Garden Party" peaked at number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, number 8 on the Cashbox singles charts, number 1 on the Adult Contemporary chart in the United States, number 1 also in Canada, and at number 41 in the United Kingdom. The album debuted on the Billboard Top LPs & Tape chart in the issue dated December 9, 1972, and remained on the chart for 18 weeks, peaking at number 32. It reached No. 45 on the Cashbox albums chart, where it spent for 15 weeks. According to Nelson, ""Garden Party' really took off before I expected it to. When it came out, it was like an old album because it was so long after the single". From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)

Songs

  1. 1
    Let It Bring You Along
  2. 4
  3. 5
    Are You Really Real?
  4. 6
    I'm Talking About You
  5. 8
    A Flower Opens Gently
  6. 9
    Don't Let Your Goodbye Stand

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