{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Who Will Answer? | type = Album | artist = [[Ed Ames]] | cover = Ed_Ames_Who_WIll.jpg | alt = | released = 1968 | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = [[Pop (music)|Pop]] | length = | label = [[RCA Victor]] | producer = [[Jim Foglesong]] | prev_title = [[When the Snow Is on the Roses (album)|When the Snow Is on the Roses]] | prev_year = 1967 | next_title = [[Sings Apologize]] | next_year = 1968 }} {{Music ratings | rev1 = [[Allmusic]] | rev1Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref>{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r66069}}</ref> | noprose = yes }} '''''Who Will Answer? (and Other Songs of Our Time)''''' is a 1968 album by [[Pop (music)|pop]] [[vocalist]] [[Ed Ames]]. == Overview == It features two original songs (the album title track and "Pale Venetian Blind") and nine cover versions of popular hits from the 1960s. The album peaked at No. 13 on the Billboard charts in the spring of 1968<ref name="Whitburn">{{cite book | last = Whitburn | first = Joel | title = Top LPs, 1955–1996 | year = 1996 | publisher = Record Research | page = 10 | url = https://archive.org/details/joelwhitburnstoplp00whit/page/10/mode/2up | access-date = 2025-07-10}}</ref> and in 1969 was certified gold by the [[RIAA]].<ref>{{cite web | title = Ed Ames – Gold & Platinum | website = RIAA | url = https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=default-award&se=Ed+Ames#search_section | access-date = 2025-09-01 | publisher = Recording Industry Association of America | quote = Search results page for Ed Ames’ RIAA Gold & Platinum certifications.}}</ref> On another music magazine, ''[[Cash Box]]'', the album peaked at No. 12.<ref name="CB">{{Cite book |last=Hoffmann |first=Frank W |url=https://archive.org/details/cashboxalbumchar0000hoff/page/6/mode/2up |title=The Cash box album charts, 1955-1974 |date=1988 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=0-8108-2005-6 |location=Metuchen, N.J. |pages=6}}</ref> ==Track listing==
===Side 1=== #[[Who Will Answer? (song)|Who Will Answer?]] (Aleluya No. 1) (3:42) (by [[Luis Eduardo Aute]]) #[[Blowin' in the Wind]] (3:23) (by [[Bob Dylan]]) #[[Yesterday (song)|Yesterday]] (2:04) (by [[The Beatles]]) #[[Monday, Monday]] (3:14) (by [[The Mamas and the Papas]]) #Pale Venetian Blind (1:51) #[[Massachusetts (Bee Gees song)|Massachusetts]] (2:18) (by the [[Bee Gees]])
===Side 2=== #I Wanna Be Free (2:20) By the Monkees #[[Cherish (The Association song)|Cherish]] (3:13) By the Association #[[The Other Man's Grass Is Always Greener]] (2:53) By Petula Clark #[[Can't Take My Eyes Off You]] (2:53) By Frankie Valli #[[There's a Kind of Hush]] (All Over The World) (2:50) by [[Herman's Hermits]]
== Production == * Recorded at: [[RCA Victor Records|RCA Victor's]] Music Center of the World, [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]], [[California]]. == Charts == {| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center" |+Chart peaks for ''Who Will Answer? '' ! Chart (1968) ! Peak<br />position |- ! scope="row" | US [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' Top LPs]]<ref name="Whitburn"/> | align="center"|13 |- ! scope="row" | US [[Cash Box|''Cashbox'' Top 100 Albums]]<ref name="CB"/> | align="center"|12 |}
== Certification == {{Certification Table Top}} {{Certification Table Entry|region=United States|relyear=1968|certyear=1969|title=Who Will Answer?|artist=Ed Ames|type=album|award=Gold|access-date=22 September 2025}} {{Certification Table Bottom|nosales=true}} ==References== {{Reflist}}
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