Revolution! is the seventh studio album by American

United States

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 pop rock

Pop rock

Pop rock is a music genre which mixes a catchy pop style and light lyrics in its guitar-based rock songs. There are varying definitions of the term, ranging from a slower and mellower form of rock music to a subgenre of pop music...

 group Paul Revere & the Raiders

Paul Revere & the Raiders

Paul Revere & the Raiders is an American rock band that saw considerable U.S. mainstream success in the second half of the 1960s and early 1970s with hits such as "Kicks" , "Hungry" , "Him Or Me - What's It Gonna Be?" and the 1971 No...

. Produced by Terry Melcher

Terry Melcher

Terrence P. Melcher was an American musician and record producer, who was instrumental in shaping the sound of American West Coast rock music. His greatest contribution to the culture of the time was producing The Byrds' innovative hits "Mr Tambourine Man" and "Turn! Turn! Turn!" and his...

 and released in 1967, it reached number 25 on the U.S. albums chart and yielded two top 40 singles

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. The album cover photo was taken on the porch of a house located at the corner of East 15th Street and Mississippi Avenue in Joplin, Missouri

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.

Release and reception

Revolution! featured such session musician

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s as Ry Cooder

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, Van Dyke Parks

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, Hal Blaine

Hal Blaine

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 and Glen Campbell

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.
It peaked at number 25 on the Billboard 200

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 albums chart.
In a 1967 review, Billboard

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called the album a "driving package" that should continue the band's "successful chart string." The tracks "Him or Me (What's It Gonna Be?)", "I Had a Dream", "Mo'reen", "Tighter" and "Gone - Movin' On" were named album highlights.
Allmusic's Jack Rabid wrote: "If not as consistently a knockout as Spirit of '67, Revolution! is nevertheless right on its heels, containing as it does an even greater degree of pop experimentation within the form." Rabid described singer and songwriter Mark Lindsay

Mark Lindsay

Mark Lindsay is an American musician, best known as the singer for the group Paul Revere & the Raiders.-Biography:Lindsay was born in Eugene, Oregon and was the second of eight children...

 as a "minor marvel" and "the glue that holds what would have been a willy-nilly collection together."

Track listing

All songs written by Mark Lindsay

Mark Lindsay

Mark Lindsay is an American musician, best known as the singer for the group Paul Revere & the Raiders.-Biography:Lindsay was born in Eugene, Oregon and was the second of eight children...

 and Terry Melcher

Terry Melcher

Terrence P. Melcher was an American musician and record producer, who was instrumental in shaping the sound of American West Coast rock music. His greatest contribution to the culture of the time was producing The Byrds' innovative hits "Mr Tambourine Man" and "Turn! Turn! Turn!" and his...

 unless otherwise noted.

1. "Him or Me (What's It Gonna Be?)" — 2:50
2. "Reno" — 2:24
3. "Upon Your Leaving" — 3:12
4. "Mo'reen" — 2:30
5. "Wanting You" — 2:52
6. "Gone - Movin' On" — 2:34
7. "I Had a Dream" (Isaac Hayes
   Isaac Hayes
   Isaac Lee Hayes, Jr. was an American songwriter, musician, singer and actor. Hayes was one of the creative influences behind the southern soul music label Stax Records, where he served both as an in-house songwriter and as a record producer, teaming with his partner David Porter during the...
   
   , Lindsay, Melcher, David Porter
   David Porter (musician)
   David Porter is an American soul musician. Porter is best known as the songwriting and production partner of Isaac Hayes at Stax Records during the 1960s...
   
   ) — 2:20
8. "Tighter" — 1:59
9. "Make It With Me" — 3:07
10. "Ain't Nobody Who Can Do It Like Leslie Can" — 2:19
11. "I Hear a Voice" — 2:49
12. "Ups and Downs" — 2:49
13. "Try Some of Mine" — 2:45
14. "Legend of Paul Revere" — 3:49

Chart performance

Chart (1967)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard 200	25