title: Something Special (The Kingston Trio album)
text: # 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
  
  Professional ratings :
  
  | Review scores ||
  | - | - |
  | Source | Rating |
  | Allmusic | |
  
  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.
  
  ## Track listing
  
  ### Side one
  
  * "Brown Mountain Light" (Scotty Wiseman) – 2:48
  * "One More Town" (John Stewart) – 2:57
  * "Oh Willow Waley" (Georges Auric, Paul Dehan) – 2:46
  * "Tell it on the Mountain" (Traditional, Nick Reynolds, Bob Shane, Stewart) – 1:55
  * "Little Boy" (Mike Settle) – 2:33
  * "Strange Day" (Stewart, George Yanok) – 3:55
  
  ### Side two
  
  * "Away Rio" (Reynolds, Shane, Stewart) – 2:57
  * "Pullin' Away" (Reynolds, Shane, Stewart) – 3:17
  * "She Was Too Good To Me (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 2:46
  * "Jane, Jane, Jane" (Stan Wilson) – 2:51
  * "Portland Town" (Stewart) – 1:59
  * "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
  
  ## Chart positions
  
  | Year | Chart | Position |
  | - | - | - |
  | 1962 | Billboard Pop Albums | 7 |
  