It Was the Best of Times selections from Supertramp's career to that point, still eschewing their first two LPs, without really adding anything to the portrait painted by the slimmer edition." All songs written by Rick Davies and Roger Hodgson, except where noted. 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,
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