Carwardine Colony Album

The  is a 1981 studio album recorded for Carwardine Colony in, and the first of the Carwardine Colony albums.

Most of the album was recorded at the American Star Recording Studio in. The backing band was the Carwardine Colony Orchestra (not to be confused with the later Carwardine Colony Symphony Orchestra), which was comprised of a mixture of members of the, and  orchestras as well as session musicians (including several singers that make up a SATB choir) flown in to the area, mainly coming from  and. The Carwardine Colony Song itself and its reprise were recorded at Masterfonics in in December 1979 with a different backing band.

All the songs' lyrics were written by, Frank W. Carroll and Marv Simpleton. Carroll was the arranger and Simpleton was the composer.

The album went Double Platinum in 1987 for selling 2,000,000 copies, the same year it's sequel album More Songs About Carwardine Colony went Gold. The award went to Christopher R. Carwardine.

Tracklist

 * 1) "The Carwardine Colony Song" -
 * 2) "Carwardine Mines" - Andy Griffith
 * 3) "The Flying Turns" -
 * 4) "A Ladybug's Flight" -
 * 5) "Flash Forward" - Andy Griffith
 * 6) "Around the Carousel" - Tiny Tim
 * 7) "Carwardine Mover" - Sandy Duncan & Andy Griffith
 * 8) "Sky Whirl" - Tiny Tim
 * 9) "The Carwardine Colony Song (Reprise)" - Andy Griffith

Trivia

 * The Carwardine Colony Song was used to test out the mp3 function of Carwardine Forums when it (The function) was introduced in 2002.
 * The album was re-released on CD in the late 1990s.
 * The reprise of the Carwardine Colony song is more slow and (arguably) moving, as well as mostly instrumental, with Andy Griffith only singing towards the end (with just one singing of the song’s chorus); this reprise is played throughout the park as the last song played before the park closes for the night (or day, depending on conditions, etc.).