# There Is a Song

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{{Infobox album
| name       = There is a Song
| type       = Album
| artist     = [The Free Design](/source/The_Free_Design)
| cover      = File:There_is_a_Song_album_cover.webp
| alt        =
| released   = 1972
| recorded   = 
| venue      =
| studio     =
| genre      = [Sunshine pop](/source/Sunshine_pop), [baroque pop](/source/baroque_pop)
| length     = 36:47
| label      = Ambrotype
| prev_title = One By One
| prev_year  = 1971
| next_title = [Cosmic Peekaboo](/source/Cosmic_Peekaboo)
| next_year  = 2001
}}
{{Music ratings
| rev1      = [Allmusic](/source/Allmusic)
| rev1Score = {{Rating|3.5|5}} <ref name="allmusic">{{AllMusic|class=album|id=mw0000220524}}</ref>
| noprose = yes
}}
'''''There is a Song''''' is the seventh album from [The Free Design](/source/The_Free_Design), released in 1972. After feeling that they had reached a dead end with their albums on the Project 3 label,<ref name="interview">{{cite web |url=https://thefreedesign.com/blogs/news/17977901-chris-dedrick-interview|title=Chris Dedrick Interview|work=thefreedesign.com|accessdate=August 15, 2020}}</ref> they left to record for a smaller label in upstate New York called Ambrotype.<ref name="liner">{{Cite AV media notes |title=There is a Song |others=[The Free Design](/source/The_Free_Design) |url=https://lightintheattic.net/releases/38-there-is-a-song |type=Liner Notes |publisher=Light in the Attic Records}}</ref> The album also coincided with Chris Dedrick's move from [Maryland](/source/Maryland) to [Toronto](/source/Toronto), where he and his sisters, who comprised the rest of the group, were mentored by Canadian musician and philosopher [Kenneth G. Mills](/source/Kenneth_G._Mills).<ref name="liner"/> Some tracks were recorded in Rochester<ref name="liner"/> and some in Toronto.<ref name="interview"/> It was the last album the group recorded until ''[Cosmic Peekaboo](/source/Cosmic_Peekaboo)'' nearly 30 years later, and was extremely rare until its reissue on CD by [Light in the Attic Records](/source/Light_in_the_Attic_Records).<ref name="allmusic"/>

==Track listing==
# "Canada in Springtime" (Chris Dedrick)
# "Kum Ba Yah" (Traditional)
# "Peter, Paul and Mary" (Chris Dedrick)
# "Pineapple, Crabapple" (Sandra Zynczak/John Hoover)
# "The Symbols Ring" (Chris Dedrick)
# "Stay" (Ellen Dedrick Griffin)
# "I Wanna Be There" (Chris Dedrick)
# "There is a Song" (Chris Dedrick)
# "[A Child is Born](/source/A_Child_Is_Born_(jazz_standard))" 
# "Love Does Not Die" (Chris Dedrick)
# "Chorale" (Chris Dedrick)
# "Fugue" (Chris Dedrick)

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{The Free Design}}

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Category:The Free Design albums
Category:1972 albums

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