Barclay James Harvest Once Again
Label: Harvest SHVL 788, Harvest 1E 062 ○ 04697
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Gatefold
Country: UK
Released: Feb 1971
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Barclay James Harvest Once Again
Label: Harvest SHVL 788, Harvest 1E 062 ○ 04697
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Gatefold
Country: UK
Released: Feb 1971
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Janis Joplin 'I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!'
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience 'Axis: Bold As Love'
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The Rolling Stones 'The Rolling Stones'
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All the above have something in common - can you see what it is?
Now:
Cream 'Disraeli Gears'
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Marianne Faithfull 'Broken English'
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Annie Lennox 'Medusa'
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Someone on each album is dead!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry
Sorry - no cigar! You need to be a lot more specific.
I could have played any five other records where someone is dead - most '50s jazz recordings for example!
So we start the day with this truly iconic album from 1971, recorded in Studio A at the Power Plant New York The album is dedicated to the late Buddy Holly and has a slightly melancholy feel with sparse arrangements. Producer Ed Freeman, decided to use accomplished musicians who were not "studio musicians who could act like a metronome" because he wanted to capture the feel of a "band that was really cooking," so he rented a rehearsal studio and they rehearsed the title song for two weeks before they recorded it !
Personnel:
Don McLean vocals, acoustic guitar, banjo
Warren Bernhardt piano ("Crossroads")
Ray Colcord electric piano
Tom Flye drums ("The Grave"), engineering
Ed Freeman string arrangements
Paul Griffin piano ("American Pie")
Lee Hays arranger
Mike Mainieri* marimba, vibraphone
Roy Markowitz drums, percussion
Gene Orloff concertmaster
Bob Rothstein bass, vocals
David Spinozza electric guitar ("American Pie")
West Forty Fourth Street Rhythm and Noise Choir chorus
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Next up an album that few if any rock music fans can claim not to have heard the title track !
Having sold over 43 million copies worldwide the album has a folk lore story.
Steinman and Meat Loaf had difficulty finding a record company willing to sign them. According to Meat Loaf's autobiography, the band spent most of 1975 writing and recording material, and two and a half years auditioning the record and being rejected. Manager David Sinenberg joked that they were creating record companies just so they could be rejected.
They performed the album live in 1976, with Steinman on piano, Meat Loaf singing, and sometimes Ellen Foley joining them for "Paradise". Steinman says that it was a "medley of the most brutal rejections you could imagine." Meat Loaf "almost cracked" when CBS executive Clive Davis rejected the project. According to Meat Loaf's autobiography, Davis commented that "actors don't make records" and challenged Steinman's writing abilities and knowledge of rock music:
Do you know how to write a song? Do you know anything about writing? If you're going to write for records, it goes like this: A, B, C, B, C, C. I don't know what you're doing. You're doing A, D, F, G, B, D, C. You don't know how to write a song.... Have you ever listened to pop music? Have you ever heard any rock-and-roll music.... You should go downstairs when you leave here...and buy some rock-and-roll records.
Meat Loaf asserts "Jim, at the time, knew every record ever made. He is a walking rock encyclopedia." Although Steinman laughed off the insults, the singer screamed "F..k you, Clive!" from the street below his office.
In one 1989 interview with Classic Rock magazine, Steinman labeled Todd Rundgren "the only genuine genius I've ever worked with." In a 1989 interview with Redbeard for the*In the Studio with Redbeard episode on the making of the album, Meat Loaf revealed that Jimmy Iovine and Andy Johns were potential candidates for producing Bat Out of Hell before being rejected by the singer and Steinman in favor of Todd Rundgren, whom Meat Loaf initially found cocky but grew to like. Rundgren found the album hilarious, thinking it was a parody of Springsteen. The singer quotes him as saying: "I've 'got' to do this album. It's just so 'out' there." They told the producer that they had previously been signed to RCA.
Band / Personnel
Meat Loaf lead vocals, backing vocals (6), percussion (2)
Todd Rundgren guitar (1, 2, 46), percussion (1, 2), keyboards (1), backing vocals (13, 5, 6)
Kasim Sulton (misspelled as "Sultan" in vinyl liner notes) bass guitar (1, 2, 47), backing vocals (1)
Roy Bittan piano, keyboards (all except 7)
Steve Margoshes piano (7)
Cheryl Hardwick piano (7)
Jim Steinman keyboards (1, 2, 6), percussion (1, 2), spoken word (2), "lascivious effects" (6)
Roger Powell nsynthesizer (1, 2, 5, 6)
Edgar Winterb saxophone (2, 4, 6)
Max Weinberg drums (1, 2, 6)
John "Willie" Wilcoxn drums (4, 5, 7)
Phil "Scooter" Rizzuto play-by-play (6)
Ellen Foley lead vocals (6), backing vocals (1, 2, 4, 6)
Rory Dodd backing vocals (all except 4)
Gene Orloff concert master (7)
Marcia McClain spoken word (2)
Members of New York Philharmonic and Philadelphia Orchestra orchestra (7)
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We as usual close with vinyl and this 1983 debut solo album from British born guitarist and one time Thin Lizzy band member Terence Charles "Snowy" White. It includes the song "Bird of Paradise", which reached No. 6 on the UK charts when it was released as a single.
Personnel
Snowy White guitars, vocals
Kuma Harada bass guitar, double bass
Jess Bailey keyboards, moog synthesizer, electric piano (except tracks 1, 2)
Richard Bailey drums, percussion
Godfrey Wang string synthesizer (tracks 1, 2)
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Doc Powell Inner City Blues - 1996