Carwardine Colony Album

The  is a 1981 studio album recorded for Carwardine Colony in.

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 flown in from  and.

All the songs' lyrics were written by and Marv Simpleton. Frank W. Carroll was the arranger and Marv 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) "Fast 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.