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Judy Collins

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Folk albums of 1962: Fad To Staple — Disks Reflect 'Arrival' of Folk Music As Part of Country's Popular Arts

Review by Robert Shelton, The New York Times, 28 April 1963

A LONGER perspective may revise the view, but it appears from a distance of a few months that 1962 was the year when the folk-music ...

Judy Collins: Carnegie Hall, New York NY

Live Review by Robert Shelton, The New York Times, 27 December 1965

Judy Collins Gives Folk-Song Concert ...

On Records: The Folk-Rock Rage

Review by Robert Shelton, The New York Times, 30 January 1966

FOLK-ROCK, which mixes the simplicity of folk music with the frenetic rhythmic heat of the electrically amplified sound of rock 'n' roll, caused one of ...

"All Folk Music Now" at Newport

Report and Interview by Karl Dallas, Melody Maker, 30 July 1966

THIS YEAR'S Newport Folk Festival was more like a blues show or a pop show, with traditional folk music supported by a very small hard ...

Collins: A Singer, Period

Interview by Karl Dallas, Melody Maker, 12 November 1966

"I AM FINALLY beginning to see what my direction is. I'm a singer and songs like these are what I want to sing." Lovely Judy ...

Tom Paxton, Judy Collins, The Incredible String Band: Royal Albert Hall, London

Live Review by Karl Dallas, Melody Maker, 12 November 1966

A TRIUMPH — there is no other word for the reception Judy Collins and Tom Paxton received at the Royal Albert Hall on Friday. The ...

Albums from Elvis Presley, Judy Collins, Eddie Floyd et al

Review by Peter Jones, Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 15 April 1967

Remarkable sincerity on El's How Great Thou Art album. ...

New Stars On The Horizon

Profile by uncredited writer, Hit Parader, May 1967

Jimmy Castor, Tim Buckley, Jimmy Ruffin, Judy Collins ...

Judy Collins Discovers Success as Folk Singer

Interview by Pete Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 24 November 1967

FIVE ALBUMS, one each year, established Judy Collins as a very good folk singer, though not as important as Joan Baez. She was one of ...

No strings attached...

Comment by Karl Dallas, Melody Maker, 6 January 1968

DEAR JUDY, Julie, Phil, Tom and Al: Girls! Fellows! What's got into you? It's getting so a folksinger isn't a folksinger any more. ...

Albums from Judy Collins and the Electric Prunes

Review by uncredited writer, KRLA Beat, 10 February 1968

WILDFLOWERS (Elektra) Judy Collins. 'Michael From Mountains', 'Sisters of Mercy', 'Sky Felt', plus seven more. ...

Judy Collins: Troubadour, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Stephen M H Braitman, Van Nuys Valley News, 13 February 1968

Folk-Singer Judy Collins Dazzles in Nitery Stint ...

New Albums from Manfred Mann, Judy Collins, Butterfield Blues Band et al

Review by Peter Jones, Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 9 March 1968

MANFRED MANN: Up The Junction (Fontana TL 5460). HOW FORTUNATE it is for the Manfreds that this LP of film music — never strictly commercial ...

The Folk Poets: Hardin, Buckley, Ian & Collins

Profile by Jacoba Atlas, KRLA Beat, 23 March 1968

MUSIC HAS become a very personal thing. With the advance of the writer-singer, songs have become an expression of internal feelings mirrored for everyone. These ...

Stand by for the "electric" Judy Collins

Report by Karl Dallas, Melody Maker, 17 August 1968

WHEN JUDY Collins makes a brief visit to Britain at the beginning of November, some of her fans are going to get a bit of ...

Judy Collins: Who Knows Where The Time Goes? (Elektra EKS74033)

Review by Miles, International Times, 11 April 1969

THOUGH GLITTERING ecstatic static runs through Hendrix Fudge USA Touch, there's nothing but boring old feedback, too loud for subtlety, in MC5 & Blue Cheer ...

Judy Collins' Fans Greet Her Return at Hollywood Spot

Live Review by Stephen M H Braitman, Van Nuys Valley News, 25 June 1969

JUDY COLLINS returned Thursday to Doug Weston's Troubadour singing, or rather, celebrating the virtues of love and goodness for her ecstatic followers. ...

Judy Collins: Judy — the leading lady

Profile and Interview by Al Aronowitz, Melody Maker, 9 January 1971

JUDY COLLINS is a leading lady. Like Myrna Loy used to be, and Loretta Young, and Barbara Stanwyck, and Rosalind Russell. The kind of actress ...

Judy Collins: "Music Reminds Us That We're Human Beings"

Interview by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 30 October 1971

LIKE A CHILD Judy Collins posed for photographers at a special reception held for her this week to welcome her back to Britain for the ...

A Week In the Life Of a Critic

Report by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 25 June 1972

"DEAR LILLIAN: It sure must be nice to be a rock critic. I really envy you. Can you tell me something about your life? ...

Elektra: The House That Jac Built

Interview by Loraine Alterman, Melody Maker, 23 September 1972

The story of Elektra, one of rock's most influential labels. As told to Loraine Alterman by founder JAC HOLZMAN ...

Judy Collins: True Stories And Other Dreams (Elektra).

Review by Robin Katz, New Musical Express, 17 February 1973

Springtime with Collins ...

Judy Collins: True Stories And Other Dreams (Elektra)

Review by Mark Shipper, Phonograph Record, April 1973

LIKE AIR pollution or a sore that won't heal, Judy Collins will not go away. She is godlike only in that she's been around forever. ...

Jac Holzman Then and Now

Interview by John Tobler, ZigZag, May 1973

IF EVER I've identified with a record company, the nearest thing in my mind to an ideal would be Elektra Records, for many reasons, not ...

Judy Collins: Judy In Disguise

Interview by Loraine Alterman, Melody Maker, 1 September 1973

Judy Collins film director? The singer – songwriter has taken a year out of her life to make a movie with a strong Womens' Lib ...

Judy Collins: In Through The Other Door

Interview by Bob Woffinden, New Musical Express, 29 September 1973

TRANSATLANTIC phone calls can be a precarious undertaking at the best of times. But on this grey Wednesday afternoon, as successive international operators tried vainly ...

Judy Collins: Easy Times Come Hard

Interview by Bob Woffinden, New Musical Express, 20 October 1973

JUDY COLLINS TALKS TO BOB WOFFINDEN ON MUSIC, FILMS, PEACE AND THE POSSIBILITY OF FURTHER POLITICAL INVOLVEMENT ...

Judy Collins: Teacher's Pet

Interview by Loraine Alterman, Rolling Stone, 26 September 1974

NEW YORK — Judy Collins, blue eyes bright with enthusiasm, is sitting in her sunswept Upper West Side apartment, talking about the film she has ...

Judy Collins - Judith

Review by Bob Woffinden, New Musical Express, 26 April 1975

JUDY COLLINS HAS recently completed a movie about a female symphony conductor. ...

Judy Collins: Getting Judy's Number

Interview by Robin Katz, Sounds, 31 May 1975

Talk In... By Robin Katz... Talk In... By Robin Katz... Talk In... By Robin Katz... PART 1... ...

Judy Collins: Judy Fights On

Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 31 May 1975

Judy Collins – back in the MM chart with a hit single, 'Send In The Clowns' – talks to Chris Charlesworth in New York ...

The Liberation of Judy Collins

Interview by Robin Katz, Sounds, 7 June 1975

JUDY COLLINS is a liberated lady who feels that the feminist movement's mistake has, in many cases, been to isolate itself. She sees her job ...

John Wood: Pioneer of the 'English Sound'

Interview by Karl Dallas, Melody Maker, 26 June 1976

THOUGH SOUND recording celebrates its centenary next year, it is only in the past ten to 16 years that studio techniques have reached the present ...

Elektra Label: Various Reissues

Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, December 2001

Twenty-album reissue programme commemorates a great Sixties label ...

Judy Collins: Judy Collins 3/In Concert

Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, September 2004

ARGUABLY THE best female folk voice of the age, Judy Collins brought a fresh commercial edge to the early ‘60s East Coast folk revival. Her ...

Judy Collins

Interview by Jim Sullivan, Cape Cod Times, November 2015

ASK JUDY Collins a question about legacy – what would she like hers to be? – and she answers with this: "Always move forward." ...

Judy Collins: Ol' Blue Eyes is back

Retrospective and Interview by Liz Thomson, Tortoise, 17 December 2019

No, not Frank Sinatra but the great folk singer, Judy Collins. Liz Thomson renews acquaintance with the woman who discovered Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell ...

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