Hard Times for Lovers

Infobox Album
Name = Hard Times for Lovers
Type = studio album
Artist = Judy Collins


Released = 1979
Recorded =
Genre = Folk
Length =
Label = Elektra
Producer = Gary Klein
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|2|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:fjfixqt5ld6e link]
Last album = "So Early in the Spring" (1977)
This album = "Hard Times for Lovers" (1979)
Next album = "Running for My Life"
(1980)

"Hard Times For Lovers" is an album by Judy Collins, released on Elektra Records in 1979. It peaked at No 54 on the Billboard Pop Albums charts.

Track listing

# "Hard Times for Lovers" (Hugh Prestwood) – 3:56
# "Marie" (Randy Newman) – 3:11
# "Happy End" (Henry Gaffney) – 3:12
# "Desperado" (Glenn Frey, Don Henley) – 3:34
# "I Remember Sky" (Stephen Sondheim) – 4:00
# "Starmaker" (Bruce Robert, Carole Bayer Sager) – 4:28
# "Dorothy" (Hugh Prestwood) – 4:37
# "I'll Never Say Goodbye" (Theme from the Universal Picture "The Promise") (Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, David Shire) – 3:41
# "Through the Eyes of Love" (Theme from "Ice Castles") (Marvin Hamlisch, Carole Bayer Sager) – 3:28
# "Where or When" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 3:38

Personnel

*Judy Collins – vocals, guitar, piano
*Jeff Baxter – guitar, pedal steel
*Dennis Budimir – guitar
*Norton Buffalo – harmonica
*Gary Coleman – percussion
*Hilda Harris – background vocals
*Cissy Houston – background vocals
*David Hungate – bass
*Jim Keltner – drums
*Mike Lang – piano
*Dean Parks – guitar
*Lee Ritenour – guitar
*Maretha Stewart – background vocals
*Fred Tackett – guitar
*Jai Winding – piano, keyboards
*David Wolfert – guitar, arranger
*Sid Sharp – strings, concert master
*Harry Bluestone – strings, concert master

Production notes

*Produced by Gary Klein
*Charles Koppelman – executive producer
*Arranged and conducted by Lee Holdridge, Nick DeCaro, and Fred DeCaro
*Linda Gerrity – production coordination
*Art direction by Nancy Greenberg
*Mastered by Bernie Grundman and Zal Schreiber
*Assistant Engineering by Pete Lewis, Linda Tyler, Don Henderson
*Engineer, remixing by John Mills, Armin Steiner
*Photography by Francesco Scavullo