It Was the Best of Times It Was the Best of Times It Was the Best of Times is the third live album by the English rock band Supertramp, released in April 1999. The album title makes use of the opening line from "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens. "It Was the Best of Times" was recorded in September 1997 at the Royal Albert Hall, London, England, UK during the "It's About Time" tour (set up in support of the "Some Things Never Change" studio album). The band includes vocalist/guitarist/keyboardist Mark Hart performing songs originally sung by Roger Hodgson. Supertramp are also augmented by
The New York Times Fiction Best Sellers of 1944 The New York Times Fiction Best Sellers of 1944 This is a list of adult fiction books that topped "The New York Times" Fiction Best Sellers list in 1944. The most popular books of the year were "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn", by Betty Smith and "Strange Fruit", by Lillian Smith with respectively 22 and 15 weeks at the top. A "sleeper" success, "A Tree Grows" had been published fully 6 months before it eventually made it to the No. 1 spot. Somerset Maugham's mystical "The Razor's Edge" spent several weeks at No. 2, four times displacing "Strange Fruit" at