Marrying Maiden

Marrying Maiden is the second studio album by San Francisco psychedelic band It's a Beautiful Day, released in 1970 on Columbia Records. Founding member Linda LaFlamme was replaced by keyboardist Fred Webb on this project. Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia contributed on two tracks and Charlatans member Richard Olsen guested on a track as well.

Marrying Maiden
Studio album by
It's a Beautiful Day
ReleasedJune 1970
Recorded1970
Studio
GenrePsychedelic rock
Length38:31
LabelColumbia
CBS
ProducerBrent Dangerfield, It's A Beautiful Day
It's a Beautiful Day chronology
It's a Beautiful Day
(1969)		 Marrying Maiden
(1970)		 Choice Quality Stuff/Anytime
(1971)
Singles from Marrying Maiden
  1. "Soapstone Mountain"
    Released: October 13, 1970
  2. "Do You Remember The Sun?"
    Released: January 18, 1971
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

The album was the band's most successful on the charts, reaching number 28 in the U.S. and number 45 in the U.K.

Critical reception

Lindsay Planer at AllMusic gave the album three stars out of five, writing:

"The second long-player from It's a Beautiful Day is an exceedingly more pastoral effort than the band's self-titled debut. As many of the Bay Area groups...had begun to do, the band realigns its sound from the dark psychedelia and proto-prog of its earlier works and into a lighter and earthier country-flavored rock."[1]

Track listing
  1. "Don And Dewey" (David LaFlamme) – 5:16
  2. "The Dolphins" (Fred Neil) – 4:30
  3. "Essence Of Now" (Mitchell Holman) – 3:20
  4. "Hoedown" (LaFlamme) – 2:29
  5. "Soapstone Mountain" (LaFlamme) – 4:20
  6. "Waiting For The Song" (Hal Wagenet) – 1:03
  7. "Let A Woman Flow" (LaFlamme, Pattie Santos) – 4:04
  8. "It Comes Right Down To You" (Fred Webb, Robert Lewis) – 3:14
  9. "Good Lovin'" (Webb, Holman) – 3:59
  10. "Galileo" (Wagenet) – 3:02
  11. "Do You Remember The Sun?" (Webb, Lewis) – 3:14

Personnel

It's a Beautiful Day

Additional musicians

Production
  • Brent Dangerfield, It's a Beautiful Day – producers
  • David Brown, John Fiore – engineers

Chart performance

Album
Chart (1969) Peak
position		 Total
weeks
U.S. Billboard 200 28[2] 21
UK Official Charts 45[3] 2
CAN Official Charts 35[4] 10

References
  1. "Allmusic review - Marrying Maiden". AllMusic. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
  2. "Billboard 200 - It's a Beautiful Day". Billboard. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
  3. "UK Official Charts - It's a Beautiful Day". Official Charts. Retrieved January 3, 2018.
  4. "RPM Top 100 Albums - August 15, 1970" (PDF).
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