David Crosby & The Planet Earth Rock N´Roll Orchestra - If I Could Only Remember My Name -Unreleased Doble Lp version

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This is the 1st solo album by David Crosby, released on February 22 1971 by Atlantic Records. It peaked at #12 on the Billboard 200 and earned a RIAA gold certification for selling over 500,000 copies in the United States.

It was discontinued in Europe during 1973 and in U.S two years later, although Brazil was the last country in the world to edit it before the final withdrawal from Atlantic catalog in 1979. Eleven years,October 25, 1990, had to pass to see it again at the stores, on CD, and with a bonus and unreleased track: “Kids & “Dogs”, 16 years later in 2006; but never in its original format. as I present it to you here and now.., a new reconstruction of another great album, maybe lost in the time but not forgotten.

"If I Could Only Remember My Name" lp was developed in a time of great emotional upheaval mainly from the loss of his lover Christine Hinton from a devastating car crash. On September 30th, 1969, Crosby, Stills, & Nash’s debut album, went gold; that same day, Christine borrowed Crosby’s VW bus to take her two cats to the vet. En route, one of the cats jumped into Christine’s lap, startling her and causing her to lose control of the car, which drifted into the next lane and collided head on with a school bus, dying in the instant.

This led David Crosby to a deep depressed and melancholic state, with an irremediable sense of guilt and great sorrow,his only refuge was music, friends but also unfortunately in drugs and excessive alcohol consumption. This personal misfortune nevertheless brought him one of the most creative periods of his musical career.

On September 3, 1970,Alan Wilson, co-founder, Canned Heat was found dead on a hillside behind bandmate Bob Hite's Topanga Canyon home, cause of death as accidental acute barbiturate intoxication.Just two weeks later, on September 18 1970 Jimi Hendrix died in London at his girlfriend´s apartment in the Samarkand Hotel, 22 Lansdowne Crescent, Notting Hill, while sleeping intoxicated with barbiturates, Vesparax overdose; and Janis Joplin do it days later, October 4 from an accidental overdose of heroin in room #105 of the Landmark Motor Hotel in Hollywood Ca. Obsessed with the idea that death followed him, David Crosby was convinced that he would be next, so that decided to return to the studios and record what he considered to be his farewell album.

For the occasion he was accompanied by the band known as: “The Planet Earth Rock And Roll Orchestra”: (P.E.R.R.O), a nickname given to this californian artists group by Paul Kantner, co-founder "Jefferson Airplane". This alternate and provisional band was formed by musicians from "Jefferson Airplane", "the Grateful Dead", "Quicksilver Messenger Service", and "Crosby, Stills Nash & Young", that colaborated during the sessions for Crosby's album.

The P.E.R.R.O were: Graham Nash – guitar, vocals; Paul Kantner – guitar, banjo, vocals; Grace Slick – piano, vocals; Jorma Kaukonen – lead guitar; Jack Casady – bass; Jerry Garcia – guitar, vocals; Phil Lesh – bass; Bill Kreutzmann – drums; Mickey Hart – percussion and David Freiberg – viola, vocals.

After "Blows Against the Empire", a concept album by Paul Kantner, released under the name Paul Kantner and Jefferson Starship; the second project of P.E.R.R.O was David Crosby's debut album, which features all the Planet Earthers mentioned above, in addition to: Joni Mitchell, Greg Rolie and Mike Shrieve.

Therecording sessions started on November 1970 at Wally Heider Studios in San Francisco, California, under a very entertaining and creative environment, where it was not necessary to interpret a song many times to be considered acceptable for the album bit.ly/71DCaP A couple of rehearsals and directly to record, sometimes even that was not necessary, it was directly performed live. In mid-January 1971 Graham Nash made a cut of the disc, it was structured on a double lp, with this provisional line-up: 

Side A: (18:53)

1.Music Is Love.(3:22)

2.Song With No Words (Tree With No Leaves).(5:55)

3.What Are Their Names.(4:11)

4.Laughing.(5:23) 

Side B: (18:31)

5.Tamalpais High (at about 3). (12:47) (Unreleased full length version).

6.Traction In The Rain.(3:44)

7.Orleans.(1:54) 

Side C: (18:12)

8.Cowboy Movie.(10:56) (Alternate studio version).

9.Kids & Dogs.(7:17) (Alternate studio version).

Side D: (18:55)

10.Is It Really Monday?.(3:28) (Unreleased re-worked and remixed version).

11.The Wall Song.(6:05) (Unreleased remixed version).

12.You Sit There.(4:10) (Unreleased re-worked and remixed version).

13.The Mountain Song w/piano outro.(5:10) (Unreleased re-worked and remixed version). 

All the songs were written by David Crosby except:

- “Music Is Love”  - in collaboration with Graham Nash & Neil Young.

- “What Are Their Names”  - with Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh, Michael Shrieve & Neil Young.

- “The Mountain Song”  - by Jerry Garcia, Paul Kantner.

- "Orleans" -  traditional arranged by David Crosby.

In this early version lack “‘I’d Swear There Was Somebody Here’, of which it is said, It was inspired by a supernatural experience that David Crosby had one dawn while he was alone in the studio when he had the vision of Christine Hinton, that watching him from the gloom, through the glass that separated the study from the control room. Something that ended up convincing him that his end was already very close. That paranormal experience brought with it that David Crosby restructure the album, giving more importance to spiritual compositions and without words, editing finaly the project to a single Lp, adding as album closure the hypnotic and transcendental tune: “I’d Swear There Was Somebody Here".

Some of the songs that were rejected, years later were rewrites and included in different works of Crosby, a couple on Jerry Garcia's solo, one on Grace's Slick album and one more on Paul's 1983 'Planet Earth...' album - and other never seen the light of day.

- “Cowboy Movie” & “ “Kis and Dogs” - original studio versions appeared in 2006 compilation box “Voyage”.

- “It´s Really Monday” - Crosby with his acoustic guitar singing . Unreleased.

- “The Wall Song” - a different version appeared in 1972 on the LP 'Graham Nash David Crosby.' On that take, the duo were backed by Garcia, Lesh and Kreutzmann. The real distinction between the released version and this is the absence of Nash.

- “You Sit There“ - sung by David Cosby with Jerry Garcia, Paul Kantner It often circulates under the title "Under Anesthesia", but the correct title is "You Sit There".

- “The Mountain song” - was re-recorded by Paul Kantner (without Garcia) for his 1983 album "The Planet Earth Rock And Roll Orchestra. In this version Jerry & David sing together with Grace Slick on backing vocals. 

There are also a multitude of outtakes of the sessions available, almost all of them under a good sound quality. Here the original selection has been recovered, for which it has been necessary to remix some themes.

About the fate of these tapes, on August 23.91 a copy of the several P.E.R.R.O master reels were compiled onto a DT 120 DAT including personal collections of Barncard, Joel Bernstein, Nash and Stills. in addition to 4 reels more from mixes made in 1971 during the "If I Could Only..." sessions for a possible inclusion on :"Crosby, Stills & Nash" box-set . Years later in 2005, Graham Nash revisited, once again, these tapes, when he was working on a new David Crosby project: "Voyage". Some alternative takes were used as: "Cowboy Movie" and "Kids & Dogs".

From "If I Could Only Remember My Name" original lp, two singles were taken: "Music Is Love," / "Laughing" a collaboration with Nash and Young that was released in April 1971 and "Orleans" / Traction in the Rain" one month later.

Enjoy it and see you soon, if you want.

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George Harrison: "Somewhere in England" (Rejected version)

 

Somewhere in England is the ninth studio album by George Harrison released in June 5.1981..Harrison began recording Somewhere in England recorded between October 30, 1979 - September 23, 1980. In october 1980 Warner Bros Records rejected the result, ordering Harrison to drop four songs deemed depressing by the label: "Tears Of The World", "Sat Singing", "Lay His Head", and "Flying Hour". The original album cover, featuring his profile next to a faded map of Great Britain, would also be rejected by Warner Bros.

George Harrison agreed to structure a new album but warned that he would not renew his record contract with Warner Bros. He resumed the project in November 1980 in Friar Park's personal studio with Ringo, who had come for the purpose of picking up two songs Harrison had written for him, "All Those Years Ago" and "Wrack My Brain", as well as a version of the song "You Belong To Me", for Ringo's album Can't Fight Lightning, later "Stop and Smell the Roses"Ringo discarded "All Those Years Ago" because the song's pitch was too high for him to sing.

After Lennon's assassination, Harrison decided to use the recording of "All Those Years Ago" as a tribute, changing a couple of verses. With Ringo on drums, Harrison invited Paul and Linda McCartney, as well as Denny Laine, to record backing vocals for the song in early 1981. Along with "All Those Years Ago," "Blood From A Clone" (a serious denunciation of the music scene at the time), "Teardrops" and "That Which I Have Lost" were added to replace the four discarded songsby the company.Following a photo session at London's Tate Gallery for the cover, Somewhere in England was accepted by Warner Bros.

"All Those Years Ago" was released as a single in May. Peaking at #13 on the UK charts and #2 on the US charts, "All Those Years Ago" marked Harrison's biggest hit since "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)".

However, compared to previous albums, "Somewhere in England" sold less than apparent, becoming Harrison's first studio album not to be certified gold in the United States. The second single from the album, "Teardrops", reached #101 on the US charts.bit.ly/81gHsMe

Ok, this is the rejected album by Warner Bros in october 1980.

1. "Hong Kong Blues" (Carmichael)
2. "Writings on the Wall"
3. "Flying Hour" (Harrison/Mick Ralphs)
4. "Lay His Head"
5. "Unconsciousness Rules" – 3:35
6. "Sat Singing"
7. "Life Itself"
8. "Tears of the World"  
9. "Baltimore Oriole" 
10. "Save the World" (edit)

Bonus track:

10. All those years ago. (unused mono mix for the promo video.)

Well, that´s all. See you soon , meanwhile enjoy it.

Rolling Stones: "Necrophilia" - (UNreleased1972 album)

 After the release of Hot Rocks 1964–1971 in 1971, an album titled Necrophilia was compiled with the aid of Andrew Loog Oldham for release as a follow-up compilation, featuring many previously unreleased (or, more accurately, discarded) outtakes from the Rolling Stones' Decca/London period. While that project failed to materialise — with More Hot Rocks (Big Hits & Fazed Cookies) being released in its place — most of the unreleased songs were held over for a future project.

Here is are the proposed track listings for Necrophilia: 

Side one: 

1. Out of time / 2.Don´t lie to me / 3,Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby Standing In The Shadow / 4.Think / 5. Hear it./ 6.Something Just Stuck In Your Mind. / 7.Aftermatn./ 8.I'd Much Rather Be With The Boys. / 9.Andrew's Blues.

All bongs by Jagger /Richards except track 7 &9  by  Nanjer-hEKGE and 8 by Oldman / Richards.

Side Two:

1.Pay your dues./ 2.Let The Good Times Roll./ 3.Heart ofstone./ 4.ach & Every Day Of The Year./  5. (Walkin' Thru The) Sleepy City./ 6. Try I Little harder./ 7- Blue turns togrey./ 8.We're Wasting Time. bit.ly/73Esn

Most tracks that appear on side one of the vinyl album are demos, written by Jagger and Richards for other artists to perform. Some were recorded with session musicians like Big Jim Sullivan on guitar, Clem Cattini on drums, and Jimmy Page on guitar, and were not intended for release by the Rolling Stones. Indeed, on most of these tracks the only Rolling Stone who appears is Jagger. "Out of Time" and "Heart of Stone" were well-known Stones songs that appear here in drastically different renditions, with session players providing the backing. Side two includes unreleased band recordings up until the Sticky Fingers sessions of 1970.

With some speculation that "I'd Much Rather Be With the Boys" had a homosexual subtext, The Toggery Five version changed the lyric to "I'd rather be out with the boys." An alternate version of "Memo from Turner" includes Brian Jones on guitar and has a looser vibe than the Mick Jagger solo single from the soundtrack album of the 1970 film "Performance".

Digitally remastered from original vinyl source. Never released before.

In February 1974, to give it an air of authority, Bill Wyman involved himself in compiling an album he entitled Black Box. However, Allen Klein wanted more Mick Jagger/Keith Richards songs in the project for monetary reasons, and Wyman's version remained unreleased. Metamorphosis was issued in its place.Upon its initial release, Metamorphosis was released with 16 songs in the UK, while the American edition had only 14 — omitting "Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind" and "We're Wastin' Time".

Finally,in June1975 "Metamorphosis"lp came out at out the same day as the band's authorised hits collection Made in the Shade and was also seen to be cashing in on The Rolling Stones' summer Tour of the Americas. While the critical reception was lukewarm, Metamorphosis still managed to reach No. 8 in the US,

Two singles, "Out of Time" (featuring Jagger singing over the same backing track (with strings) used for Chris Farlowe's 1966 version) and a cover of Stevie Wonder's "I Don't Know Why" briefly made the singles charts.

That´s all for now. Enjoy it and see you soon.

Talking heads´77 (Alternate version)

 Talking Heads: 77 is the debut studio album by Talking Heads. It was recorded in April 1977 at New York's Sundragon Studios and released on September 16.1977 by Sire Records.

The band started record their music for the first time at Sundragon Recording Studios in late 1976, with the tracks: "New Feeling" and the single, "Love → Building on Fire".

In April, sessions for the album proper began in earnest at Sundragon Studios, with the group finally a foursome. Tony Bongiovi and Lance Quinn acted as co-producers

Within two weeks the basic tracks were down, but still needed overdubs. Sessions were halted when Ken Kushnick, Sire's European representative, offered them a chance to tour Europe with the Ramones in order to promote their "Love → Building on Fire" single. When the group returned to the US on June 7, they booked a four-day recording session at ODO Studios in New York to record vocals and overdubs, as well as to mix the album. The group had 22 songs to make the album. Finally there were 11, the rest came out as a B-side or were archived. Finally there were 11, the rest came out as a B-side or were archived, The album was finished.

Here is the alternative version  for the final album bit.ly/77Thds

01 Artist Only. 
02 Love Building on Fire.  
03 Uh-Oh, Love Comes to Town.
04 I Feel It inMy Heart .
 05 First Week Last Week,Carefree (Acoustic Version). 
06 Don't Worry About the Government.
 07 The Book I Read 
08 New Feelings (alternate).
09 A Clean Break (Let's Work). 
10 I Wish You Wouldn't Say That .
11 Sugar on My Tongue. 
12 Psycho Killer (acustic). 
13 Pulled Up.
Talking Heads: 77 was voted the year's seventh best album in The Village Voice's Pazz & Jop critics' poll.The album was also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.
Ok, enjoy it and see you soon.

ELO – “Secret Message”. (. unreleased version) (upgrade)

 In December 1982, Jeff Lynne, "alma mater" of the "Electric Light Orchestra", E.L.O; He moved to the Dutch studios of Wisselord, inaugurated in 1978, which by then were reputed to have the latest advances in technology, for the recording of new themes. So between the months of December and January 1983, recorded a series of songs for his next album: "Secret Messages" ,title put with all the intention, since Jeff Lynne was more than tired of hearing that in his works used to intersperse hidden messages, some of them of satanic origin.

Hence this name so decisive and enlightening, it is more, on the back cover of the album placed a warning: "Warning: contains secret backward messages" ,and it was no joke, because the album It was full of them, even in Morse. I will mention some, in "stranger", you can hear: "You're playing me backwards".

Two acetates were made, or discs of tests of how the final album should be, this time in Allen Zentz Studios; one dated March 11 and another on April 3, when the final "line-up" was delivered to CBS Records, the label advised Jeff Lynne to reduce it to only one, since production costs, say .., due to the consequences that still dragged from the Second Oil Crisis, they did not make it advisable.

So of the 18 songs that made up the original version, I quote them following the order of the acetatos: "Secret messages; Loser gone wild; Bluebird; Take me on and on; Stranger; No way out; Beatles forever; Letter from Spain; Danger Ahead; Train of gold; Mandalay; Endless Lies; Hello my old friend; Four little dreams; Building have eyes; Time after time; After all; Rock'n'Roll is King "; only eleven of them appeared in the commercial version.

Five others were B-sides and two were unpublished. One of them, the famous "Beatles Forever", song that is still not published officially, at least until the date I write this. In this reconstruction is included as a "bonus track" , because it´s a "Rou

Side A: (19:22)

1.Secret Messages.(4:43)

2.Loser Gone Wild.(5:27)

3.Blue Bird (4:13)

4.Take me on and on.(4:57)

Side B: (17:54)

5.Stranger.(4:27)

6.No way out.(3:28)

7.beatles forever.(4:14)

8.Letter from Spain.(2:51)

9.Danger Ahead.(3:52).

Side C:(19:08) 

10.Four Little Diamonds.(4:05)

11.Train of Gold.(4:20)

12.Endless Lies.(3:26)

13.Buildings have eyes.(3:56)

14.Rock´n´Roll is king.(3:19)

Side D: (17:53)

15.Mandalay.(5:18)

16.Time After Time.(4:01)

17.After All (edit).(0:41)

18.Hello My Old Friend.(7:51)  

Bonus tracks:

1. After All (full lenght version).(2:23)

Finally, on June 1 Jet Records, whose main distributor was CBS Records, released the penultimate album of the ELO, under a climate of tension, desertions within the band, such as bassist Kelly Groucutt and cancellation of the promotional tour . Four singles were extracted from it: "Rock'n'Roll is King"; "Secret Messages" "Four Little Dreams &" Stranger ". Another theme "Letter from Spain" was used as part of the promo of the Olympic Games of Barcelona´92.

The "artwork", it´s the original  of the 18-track version.Ok.., for now it's all, here you have a good album, not the best one, of the Electric Light Orchestra, but it does not detract, especially the theme that closes the double album.Bit.ly/sMeL82 This is the alternative  from the original line-up of the unpublished version of "Secret Messages":

Pink Floyd - "More" - (Reconstructed the lost Soundtrack)

 

"More" is an German-French production. A film written and directed by Barbet Schroeder. Production began in 1968, Released n August 4, 1969, More garnered mostly negative reviews from critics.

The film screenplay was written by Paul Gégauff and Barbet Schroeder with the original story by Schroeder. it deals with heroin addiction as drug fascination on the island of Ibiza, Spain. Schroeder's inspiration for the film came from the counterculture tradition of the 1960s with themes of drugs, addiction, sexual freedom and the beauty of life often in New Wave films. Real drugs were used in scenes showing the use of marijuana, heroin, and LSD.

Starring Mimsy Farmer and Klaus Grünberg,

Schroeder was a fan of Pink Floyd, and brought a rough cut of the film to London for them to work with.he director wanted the soundtrack to relate exactly to what was happening in the movie, rather than a film score backing the visuals.

It was recorded at Pye Studios in London, in late January and early February 1969 with engineer Brian Humphries. Produced by Pink Floyd without assistance from Norman Smith, who retained an executive producer credit, and the first full album without Syd Barrett, who had been ousted from the group in 1968, during the recording of their second album, A Saucerful of Secrets.

Pink Floyd worked out most of the music in two weeks, with material put together quickly and semi-improvised. Schroeder was impressed by how quickly the group created and recorded the material. Roger Waters wrote most of the lyrics during breaks between recording backing tracks. David Gilmour handled all lead vocals on the album. Mason and keyboardist Richard Wright co-wrote the instrumental "Up The Khyber", the only time the pair were credited as sole co-composers.

One song written by Roger Waters  can be heard in the film which were not included on the album:Sea"Seabirds". it was supposedly released in the 2016 box set, The Early Years 1965–1972. But no, it still remains unpublished because The track called "Seabirds" in the box set is not the original song, but an alternative take of "Quicksilver. And it is believed that this song has actually been lost. because, the teacher was lost during recording sound session for the film or when it was returned was mislabeled and therefore not found.

More reached number 9 in the UK and 153 in the US. It was the last of three Pink Floyd albums to be released in the United States by the Tower Records division of Capitol Records.

The version presented here is as it appears in the movie, with some added songs and other unpublished ones, "Seabirds" is pending, one day it will appeared and we can make a complete, I hope,  and almost definitive reconstruction, while that happens, enjoy this one. Bit.ly/pFm69St For this reconstruction has been done following the order in which they appeared in the film. For this, an original copy of the film that is not the one published in 2005 on DVD has been carefully viewed.

1.- More (Main Theme)  / 2. – The Nile Song / 3.- Seabirds (Roger Waters lost song - no copy available yet) / 4.-  Escape. (A.k.a:  "Romantic theme part 1) / 5.- Cymbaline. / 6.- Hollywood. / 7.- A Spanish suite (excerpt). / .- Ibiza bar (outtake. Removed from final copy) . / 9.- The Party Sequence (excerpt). / 10.- Green is the colour (Version 2). / 1.- Quicksilver (excerpt). / 12.- Cirrus Minor (no birds intro) ./ 13.- More Blues (excerpt)./ 14.- The Crying Song. / 5.- Up The Rhyyber./ 16.-Insanity (A.K.a: " Romantic Theme Part 2  excerpt). / 17.- Green is the colour (version 1) / 17.- More (Beat version - end titles). The cirector removed this section from the final copy.

Bonus track: "Seabirds" performed by The Seabirds.

"More" is the third studio album and first soundtrack album by pink Floyd It was released on 13 June 1969 in the United Kingdom by EMI Columbia and on 9 August 1969 in the United States by Tower Records.The album was a top ten hit in the UK, but received mixed reviews. Several songs became live favourites over the following years

Well, that´s all for now. Enjoy it and see you soon.

The Mamas and The Papas: "Crashon Screamon All Fall Down" (Stereo / Mono - Test Pressing).

 

Hi!, back to the 60´s with an unreleased and controversial album.

This story began with a marital infidelity. .John Phillips fired his wife Michelle Gilliam from the band on Saturday, June 4, 1966, for having had an affair with Gene Clark of The Byrds.Within days Jill Gibson had been asked to join The Mamas & the Papas as new member. 

Shortly after, a promotional campaign to introduce Mama Jill  with articles in  press,magazines and TV-shows. The group along with Lou Adler left for Europe for several weeks to begin working together. 

Upon returning to the United States, the group, their attorney Abe Somer, and Dunhill Records officially fired Mama Michelle on Tuesday, June 28, 1966, and hired Jill Gibson. 

Begining in late June and continuing through July 1966, Jill Gibson, Cass Elliot, Denny Doherty, John Phillips and Lou Adler recorded the band's second LP at Western Studios in Los Angeles, California with Bones Howe as the engineer. 

The first studio session with Jill took place on July 5, at which the revised backing track of “No Salt On Her Tail” was recorded. On July 8, John’s song “Gypsy” (which became “Dancing Bear”) was started. On July 15, Jill replaced Michelle’s vocal on “Even If I Could.”. During the last week of July, “That Kind Of Girl,” “Did You Ever Want To Cry” and “Strange Young Girls” were committed to tape along with some orchestration on “Dancing Bear.”. Mama Cass sang John's song "Did You Ever Want To Cry", being included on the A-side of the album in the first cut that was made, replacing a song sung by Mama Michelle. 

Ten tracks were recorded for the sophomore album including "I Saw Her Again", which was quickly released as the first single in early July and would peak at No. 5 on the Billboard singles chart on July 30, 1966. 

Even If I Could (04/25/66, 07/15/66 [with Jill Gibson])
Dancing In The Street (04/25/66, 08/23/66)
Words Of Love (04/26/66, 11/09/66 [orchestration by Marty Paich])
I Saw Her Again (04/26/66, 04/27/66)
Once Was A Time I Thought (04/28/66)
Here In My Arms (04/28/66)
No Salt On Her Tail (04/28/66, 08/23/66 [new backing track], 08/24/66)
I Can’t Wait (07/06/66 [with Jill Gibson], 08/02/66 [bass, drums and keyboards replaced])
Dancing Bear (07/08/66 [with Jill Gibson], 07/27/66)
That Kind Of Girl (07/24/66 [with Jill Gibson], 08/23/66 [new backing track with Michelle’s vocal])
Did You Ever Want To Cry (07/24/66 [with Jill Gibson], 07/26/66 [new backing track], 11/29/66 [new backing track])
Strange Young Girls (07/31/66 [with Jill Gibson], 08/03/66 [new backing track], 08/23/66 [Michelle’s vocal])
My Heart Stood Still (08/23/66, 08/24/66)
Look Through My Window (09/24/66; 09/28/66 [orchestration by Marty Paich])" 

Three of the ten tracks were re-recorded (they had been previously recorded with Michelle before she was fired) to include Jill's vocals. The studio musicians and John, Cass and Denny re-recorded whatever parts were necessary to make everything sound homogenous.

Henry Lewy engineered these recordings. The band recorded their vocals to “Strange Young Girls,” “No Salt On Her Tail” and “I Can’t Wait” in early August after the keyboard, bass and drum tracks were redone on the last two songs. Re-recording was also done on “Trip, Stumble And Fall” during that session, although the vocals were not touched.

It was decided the album would be called “Crashon Screamon All Fall Down”, bit.ly/mP66Cm4 and was scheduled for an August release with this provisional line-up: 

A1. No Salt on her Tail (4/28/66 version, 7/5/66 new backing track)
A2. Trip, Stumble and Fall (4/25/66, 7/25/66 [with JG] & 8/2/66 new bass, drum & keyboard OD)
A3. Dancing Bear (7/8/66 [with JG] & 7/27/66 [with JG])
A4. Words of Love (4/26/66)
A5. Did You Ever Want to Cry (7/24/66 [with JG] & 7/26/66 new backing track OD)
A6. Dancing In the Street (4/25/66 version).

B1. I Saw Her Again (4/26/66 & 4/27/66)
B2. Strange Young Girls (7/31/66 [with JG] & 8/3/66 new backing track)
B3. I Can't Wait (7/6/66 [with JG] & 8/2/66 new bass, drum & keyboard OD)
B4. Even If I Could (4/25/66 & 7/15/66 [with JG])
B5. That Kind of Girl (7/24/66 [with JG])
B6. Once Was a Time I Thought (4/28/66) 

Prior to Michelle's firing, the band had been photographed for the cover of their second LP inside the window frame of an abandoned house in the desert. 

This was soon rectified by their label Dunhill Records who asked the original photographer Guy Webster, to photograph Jill Gibson alone in the exact same pose as Michelle had been in, and then to superimpose Jill's image over Michelle's. 

 The record label was not satisfied with the finished product and therefore ordered an entire new album cover to be shot by Webster. Guy then shot a splendid new cover with Jill, John, Denny, and Cass outside in a field of grass against a white picket fence. 

The label was pleased with this new album cover and it was used as promotion for the upcoming new LP inside of the music trade papers, as well as on large billboards across the country.

“Crashon Screamon All Fall Down” did have a pre-release,  very different from the final release.while Jill was still in the group.

The Mamas & the Papas hit the road for a five city concert tour in late July and early August But according to John, the chemistry within the group was not there with Jill. He decided in late August 1966, it would be best that Jill be let go and that Michelle be reinstated. 

The band and their label Dunhill Records gave Jill an undisclosed lump sum for her two and a half month stint as Mama Jill. 

Michelle was reinstated to the band on August 23, 1966. Once Michelle was back in the group, in three separate three-hour sessions, Michelle had to re-record as many of Jill Gibson’s parts as she could, and the first one was “Dancing In The Street.” But Jill's voice could not have been removed from anything that she originally recorded without in fact re-recording the entire song, all parts, from scratch, which would simply not have been a financially viable option for Dunhill. 

The album the group had recorded with Gibson was then pulled by the label to accommodate Michelle's return. No copies of the album featuring Jill were ever released to the public. Only the promotional copies that were sent to national radio stations across the U.S The LP was soon re-named simply as The Mamas and the Papas and it hit the stores in September 13 1966, with Michelle's image on the cover. The entire album except for two tracks that feature Michelle's vocals, the rest is sung by Jill Gibson.With.

OK!.., Here you have the stereo version and the mono version too.

That's all that is not little. Enjoy another album recovered from oblivion. I keep looking for you and see you soon.

Bob Dylan: "Slow Train Coming" " Double album - Reconstructed from the Acetate Line Up".

 

Slow Train Coming is the 19th studio album by Bob Dylan. It was recorded at  Muscle Shoals Sound Studios, in  Sheffield, Alabama, between April 30 – May 11, 1979. Produced by Barry Beckett and Jerry Wexle; and released on August 20, 1979, by Columbia Records.

The origin of the album, it is based on a mystical experience that Bob Dylan had at the end of 1978, and it goes like this.

On November 17.1978 in San Diego, CaliforniaTowards the end of the show someone out in the crowd ... knew Dylan wasn't feeling too well, and they threw a silver cross on the stage.Bob looked down at that cross. He said, 'I gotta pick that up.' So he picked up the cross and put it in his pocket"  

He brought it with me to the next town, which was out in Arizona ... He was feeling even worse than He'd felt when was in San Diego.Dylan said, 'Well, I need something tonight.' I didn't know what it was. And he looked in his pocket and he had this cross

Dylan believed he had experienced a vision of Christ in his Tucson hotel room.There was a presence in the room that couldn't have been anybody but Jesus ... Jesus put his hand on he. It was a physical thing. He I felt it. I felt it all over me. I felt my whole body tremble. The glory of the Lord knocked me down and picked me up. Jesus revealed Himself, He quite literally rescued him from an early grave.The simplest explanation is that he had a very profound experience which answered certain lifelong issues for him.

He began writing songs that would reflect his new spirituality. During soundchecks on the final two weeks of the tour, he worked on a new song called "Slow Train". At the final show in Hollywood, Florida, he would introduce a new song to his audience: "Do Right to Me Baby (Do Unto Others)". In the early months of 1979, Dylan was writing his most message-driven album in sixteen years.

Bod Dylan said: "The songs that I wrote for the Slow Train album [frightened me] ... I didn't plan to write them ... I didn't like writing them. I didn't want to write them."Precious Angel", "Gonna Change My Way of Thinking", "When You Gonna Wake Up?" and "When He Returns" all drew heavily and directly upon the Book of Revelation," 

Dylan first heard Mark Knopfler when assistant and engineer Arthur Rosato played him the Dire Straits single "Sultans of Swing". Later, on March 29, 1979, Dylan caught the final show of a Dire Straits' residency at the Roxy in Los Angeles, California. Dylan approached Knopfler after the show, asking the guitarist to participate on his next album. Knopfler agreed. When sessions were held in Alabama, Dylan retained only two members from his 1978 touring band: Helena Springs and Carolyn Dennis, both background singers. Veteran bassist Tim Drummond was hired, as was Dire Straits' drummer Pick Withers on Knopfler's recommendation. Keyboardist Barry Beckett and the Muscle Shoals Horns, both key elements of the celebrated Muscle Shoals Sound, were also brought in.” the recording of the album began on April 30 with: "Trouble in mind".

The idea was to make a double concept album inspired by Christianity and God. It was Dylan's first album following his conversion to Christianity, and the songs either express personal faith, or stress the importance of Christian teachings and philosophy. But a double lp that could not be made because the producers considered that it would be too expensive, so it was reduced to a single one, changing the original order of the songs and discarding others.

After rearranging the album and scrapping three of the songs that would have made it a double album as they were: "Trouble in Mind,"Ain't No Man Righteous, No Not One" and "Ye Shall Be Changed" The basic tracks for the remaining ten songs were recorded in just six three-hour sessions over a period of three days.

On November 1, 1979, Dylan began a tour of fourteen concerts at the Fox Warfield in San Francisco (California), playing the album live bit.ly/ BdSlC79 as it was in its original form, which is what I bring you here:

Side One: (16:20)

1.Gotta Serve Somebody. (5:40) – altérnate - / 2.I Believe In You. (5:10) /  3,When You Gonna Wake Up. (5:29)

Side Two: (15:21)

 4.When He Returns. (4:22) – altérnate - / 5.Man Gave Names To All The Animals. (4:27) / 6.Precious Angel. (6:31)

Side Three: (15:51)

 7.Slow Train. (6:02) / 8.Trouble In Mind. (4:49) / 9.Ain´t No Man Righteaus. No Not One. (4:59)

Side Four: (16:29)

10.Gonna Change My Way Of Thinking. (5:29)  / 11.Do Right To Me Baby (Do Unto Others). (4:11) / 12.Ye Shall Be Changed. (4:08) / 13.Help Me Understand, (2:41)

The album was generally well-reviewed by music critics, and the single "Gotta Serve Somebody" became his first hit in three years, winning Dylan the inaugural Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance in 1980. The album peaked at No. 2 on the charts in the UK and went platinum in the US, where it reached No. 3.

Well, that´s all. See you soon with more and better, I think.