Monday, December 9, 2013

Fire & Rain - Fire & Rain





















Fire & Rain - Fire & Rain
Mercury Records SRM 1-654 (1972)


Side One
1. Somebody To Love
2. Carry Me Down
3. Take Me For A Little While
4. Chandelier
5. Music In The Air
6. Let's Get Rollin'

Side Two
1. Touch Me
2. Hello Stranger
3. Alright Tonight
4. That's Where It's At
5. Home To You

Personnel:
John Guerin - drums
Hal Blaine - drums
Jim Gordon - drums
Manny Freiser - vocals
Patti McCarron - vocals
Max Bennett - bass 
Reinie Press - bass 
Al Casey - guitar
Ben Benay - guitar
David Cohen - guitar
Dean Parks - guitar
Jay Graydon - guitar
Artie Butler - keyboards
David Foster - keyboards
David Paich - keyboards
Alan Estes - percussion
Gary Coleman - percussion 
Victor Feldman - percussion
Sid Sharp Orchestra - strings
Gene Cipriano - woodwinds

Dick Rosmini - A Genuine Rosmini





















Dick Rosmini - A Genuine Rosmini
Imperial LP-12440 (1969)

Side One
1. Paradise Thursday
2. The Fool On The Hill
3. Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind
4. Licks For Sale
5. Trains And Boats And Planes
6. El Funko

Side Two
1. Let's Go Get Stoned
2. The Duchess
3. People Got To Be Free
4. With A Little Help From My Friends
5. I Heard It Through The Grapevine
6. Wichita Lineman

Personnel:
Dick Rosmini - guitar, vocals
Jim Gordon - drums
Michael Botts - drums
Jerry Scheff - bass
Van Dyke Parks - piano, harpsichord
Larry Knechtel - piano, organ
Paul Lewinson - piano, organ
Gary Coleman - percussion
John Audino - trumpet
Donald Menza - woodwinds
Plas Johnson - woodwinds
Gene Cipriano - woodwinds
Jim Horn - woodwinds
Jay Migliori - woodwinds
Tony Terran - trumpet
Anne Goodman - strings
Douglas Davis - strings
Leonard Malarsky - strings
Harry Bluestone - strings
Bonnie Douglas - strings
Erno Neufeld - strings
Robert Berens - strings

Saturday, October 5, 2013

Bill LaBounty - Promised Love





















Bill LaBounty - Promised Love
20th Century Records T-492 (1975)

Side One
1. Lie To Me
2. Together
3. Crazy
4. I Hope You'll Be Very Unhappy Without Me
5. Always Be Near

Side Two
1. Take A Step
2. Pretty Little Angel
3. Open Your Eyes
4. Another Drunk

Personnel:
Bill LaBounty - vocals, keyboards
Jim Gordon - drums
Jeff Porcaro - drums
Larry Knechtel - bass, keyboards
Stu Woods - bass
Ray Parker - guitar
Dean Parks - guitar
Lee Ritenour - guitar
Mike Melvoin - keyboards
Victor Feldman - percussion
Jim Horn - saxophone
Shirley Matthews - vocals
The Miracles - vocals

Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Nilsson - Aerial Pandemonium Ballet





















Nilsson - Aerial Pandemonium Ballet
RCA Records LSP-4543 (1971)

Side One
1. Introduction
2. 1941 (Slowed Down Track & Remixed)
3. Daddy's Song (New Vocals, Guitar / Piano / Out Of Sync)
4. Mr. Richland's Favorite Song (New Background Vocals & Remixed)
5. Good Old Desk (Slowed Down Track & Remixed)
6. Everybody's Talkin' (Dumped Second Voice & Remixed)
7. Bath (Re-EQ'd Original Tracks)

Side Two
1. River Deep - Mountain High (New Vocals & Remixed)
2. Sleep Late, My Lady Friend (Remixed)
3. Don't Leave Me (Remixed)
4. Without Her (New Vocals & Remixed)
5. Together (New Vocals, Edited Out Bridge & Remixed)
6. One (Remixed)
7. Closing

Personnel:
Harry Nilsson - vocals, piano
Al Casey - guitar
Michael Deasy - guitar
Neil LeVang - guitar
Ray Brown - bass
Larry Knechtel - bass
Al McKibbon - bass
Lyle Ritz - bass
William Trochtim - bass
Donald Frost - drums
Jim Gordon - drums
Jerry Williams - drums
Mike Melvoin - piano, harpsichord
Mac Rebennack - piano
Don Ralke - piano
Dale Anderson - percussion
Hubert Anderson - percussion
Milt Holland - percussion
Roy Caton - brass
David Duke - brass
Dick Hyde - brass
Robert M. Knight - brass
Carroll Lewis - brass
Ollie Mitchell - brass
Dick Nash - brass
George Roberts - brass
Tom Scott - woodwinds
Tony Terran - brass
Jim Horn - flute
Leonard Atkins - strings
Arnold Belnick - strings
Jesse Ehrlich - strings
James Getzoff - strings
Ray Kelley - strings
Alfred Lustgarten - strings
Jacqueline Lustgarten - strings
Leonard Malarsky - strings
Wilbert Nuttycombe - strings
Jerome Reisler - strings
Charlotte Sax - strings
Paul Shure - strings
Robert Sushel - strings
Daniel Terwilliger - strings
William Weiss - strings
Tibor Zelig - strings

Harry Nilsson - The RCA Albums Collection




















Harry Nilsson - The RCA Albums Collection
RCA Records 88697915502 (2013)

Disc One: Pandemonium Shadow Show 
1. Ten Little Indians (stereo)
2. 1941 (stereo)
3. Cuddly Toy (stereo)
4. She Sang Hymns Out Of Tune (stereo)
5. You Can't Do That (stereo)
6. Sleep Late, My Lady Friend (stereo)
7. She's Leaving Home (stereo)
8. There Will Never Be (stereo)
9. Without Her (stereo)
10. Freckles (stereo)
11. It's Been So Long (stereo)
12. River Deep-Mountain High (stereo)
13. Ten Little Indians (mono)
14. 1941 (mono)
15. Cuddly Toy (mono)
16. She Sang Hymns Out Of Tune (mono)
17. You Can't Do That (mono)
18. Sleep Late, My Lady Friend (mono)
19. She's Leaving Home (mono)
20. There Will Never Be (mono)
21. Without Her (mono)
22. Freckles (mono)
23. It's Been So Long (mono)
24. River Deep-Mountain High (mono)

Disc Two: Aerial Ballet
1. Daddy's Song (stereo)
2. Good Old Desk (stereo)
3. Don't Leave Me (stereo)
4. Mr. Richland's Favorite Song (stereo)
5. Little Cowboy (stereo)
6. Together (stereo)
7. Everybody's Talkin' (stereo)
8. I Said Goodbye To Me (stereo)
9. Little Cowboy (stereo)
10. Mr. Tinker (stereo)
11. One (stereo)
12. The Wailing Of The Willow (stereo)
13. Bath (stereo)
14. Daddy's Song (mono)
15. Good Old Desk (mono)
16. Don't Leave Me (mono)
17. Mr. Richland's Favorite Song (mono)
18. Little Cowboy (mono)
19. Together (mono)
20. Everybody's Talkin' (mono)
21. I Said Goodbye To Me (mono)
22. Little Cowboy (mono)
23. Mr. Tinker (mono)
24. One (mono)
25. The Wailing Of The Willow (mono)
26. Bath (mono)
27. Aerial Ballet Radio Spot

Disc Three: Harry
1. The Puppy Song
2. Nobody Cares About The Railroads Anymore
3. Open Your Window
4. Mother Nature's Son
5. Fairfax Rag
6. City Life
7. Mournin' Glory Story
8. Maybe
9. Marchin' Down Broadway
10. I Guess The Lord Must Be In New York City
11. Rainmaker
12. Mr. Bojangles
13. Simon Smith And His Amazing Dancing Bear
14. I Will Take You There (single mix)
15. Waiting
16. Rainmaker (single mix)
17. Mournin' Glory Story (single mix)
18. Garbage Can Ballet (alternate version)
19. Harry Radio Spot
20. Voices Of Vista Radio Spots

Disc Four: Nilsson Sings Newman
1. Vine St.
2. Love Story
3. Yellow Man
4. Caroline
5. Cowboy
6. The Beehive State
7. I'll Be Home
8. Living Without You
9. Dayton, Ohio 1903
10. So Long Dad
11. Snow
12. Love Story (alternate version)
13. Cowboy (alternate version)
14. I'll Be Home (alternate version)
15. Living Without You (alternate version)

Disc Five: The Point!
1. Everything's Got 'Em
2. The Town
3. Me And My Arrow
4. The Game
5. Poli High
6. The Trial And Banishment
7. Think About Your Troubles
8. The Pointed Man
9. Life Line
10. The Birds
11. P.O.V. Waltz
12. The Clearing In The Woods
13. Are You Sleeping?
14. Oblio's Return
15. Think About Your Troubles (alternate version)
16. Life Line (alternate version)
17. Down To The Valley (alternate version)
18. I'll Never Leave You
19. The Point! Travel Brochure Radio Spot With Bill Martin

Disc Six: Aerial Pandemonium Ballet
1. Introduction
2. 1941
3. Daddy's Song
4. Mr. Richland's Favorite Song
5. Good Old Desk
6. Everybody's Talkin'
7. Bath
8. River Deep-Mountain High
9. Sleep Late, My Lady Friend
10. Don't Leave Me
11. Without Her
12. Together
13. One
14. Closing
15. You Can't Do That
16. It's Been So Long (italian version)
17. Sleep Late, My Lady Friend (italian version)
18. Without Her (italian version)
19. Cuddly Toy (italian version)
20. You Can't Do That (italian version)
21. BBC Saturday Club Introduction
22. 1941 (live)
23. Mr. Richland's Favorite Song (live)
24. Nilsson Talks With Brian Matthew
25. Together (live)
26. Good Old Desk (live)
27. Aerial Pandemonium Ballet Radio Spot

Disc Seven: Nilsson Schmilsson
1. Gotta Get Up
2. Driving Along
3. Early In The Morning
4. The Moonbeam Song
5. Down
6. Without You
7. Coconut
8. Let The Good Times Roll
9. Jump Into The Fire
10. I'll Never Leave You
11. Si No Estas Tu
12. How Can I Be Sure Of You
13. The Moonbeam Song (demo)
14. Lamaze
15. Old Forgotten Soldier (demo)
16. Gotta Get Up (alternate version)

Disc Eight: Son Of Schmilsson
1. Take 54
2. Remember (Christmas)
3. Joy
4. Turn On Your Radio
5. You're Breakin' My Heart
6. Spaceman
7. The Lottery Song
8. At My Front Door
9. Ambush
10. I'd Rather Be Dead
11. The Most Beautiful World In The World
12. What's Your Sign?
13. Take 54 (alternate version)
14. Campo De Encino
15. Daybreak (single version)
16. It Had To Be You/I'd Rather Be Dead 
17. Son Of Schmilsson Radio Spot

Disc Nine: A Little Touch Of Schmilsson In The Night
1. Lazy Moon
2. For Me And My Gal
3. It Had To Be You
4. Always
5. Makin' Whoopee!
6. You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want To Do It)
7. Lullaby In Ragtime
8. I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now
9. What'll I Do
10. Nevertheless (I'm In Love With You)
11. This Is All I Ask
12. As Time Goes By
13. I'm Always Chasing Rainbows
14. Make Believe

Disc Ten: Pussy Cats
1. Many Rivers To Cross
2. Subterranean Homesick Blues
3. Don't Forget Me
4. All My Life
5. Old Forgotten Soldier
6. Save The Last Dance FOr Me
7. Mucho Mungo/Mt. Elga
8. Loop De Loop
9. Black Sails
10. Rock Around The Clock
11. Down By The Sea
12. The Flying Saucer Song
13. Turn Out The Light
14. Save The Last Dance For Me (alternate version)
15. Don't Forget Me
16. Black Sails (demo)

Disc Eleven: Duit On Mon Dei
1. Jesus Christ You're Tall
2. It's A Jungle Out There
3. Down By The Sea
4. Kojak Columbo
5. Easier For Me
6. Turn Out The Light
7. Salmon Falls
8. Puget Sound
9. What's Your Sign?
10. Home
11. Good For God
12. Goin' Down

Disc Twelve: Sandman
1. I'll Take A Tango
2. Something True
3. Pretty Soon There'll Be Nothing Left For Everybody
4. The Ivy Covered Walls
5. Here's Why I Did Not Go To Work Today
6. The Flying Saucer Song
7. How To Write A Song
8. Jesus Christ You're Tall
9. Will She Miss Me?
10. A Tree Out In The Yard (Central Park)

Disc Thirteen: ...That's The Way It Is
1. That Is All
2. Just One Look/Baby I'm Yours
3. Moonshine Bandit
4. I Need You
5. A Thousand Miles Away
6. Sail Away
7. She Sits Down On me
8. Daylight Has Caught Me
9. Zombie Jamboree (Back To Back)
10. That Is All (reprise)
11. ...That's The Way It Is Radio Spot

Disc Fourteen: Knnillssonn
1. All I Think About Is You
2. I Never Thought I'd Get This Lonely
3. Who Done It?
4. Lean On Me
5. Goin' Down
6. Old Bones
7. Sweet Surrender
8. Blanket For A Sail
9. Laughin' Man
10. Perfect Day
11. Ain't It Kinda Wonderful
12. Sweet Lorraine
13. Shuffle Off To Buffalo
14. Ballin' The Jack
15. All I Think About Is You (demo)
16. Knillssonn Radio Spot

Disc Fifteen: Nilsson Sessions 1967-1968
1. 1941 (demo)
2. World (demo)
3. Signs (demo)
4. Cuddly Toy (demo)
5. This Could Be The Night (demo)
6. As I Wander Lonely
7. The Family
8. Miss Butter's Lament
9. Mr. Tinker
10. Leggenda
11. Sister Marie
12. She Wandered Through The Garden Fence
13. One (alternate version)
14. I Said Goodbye To Me (alternate version)
15. Searchin'
16. She's Just Laughing At Me
17. Together (alternate version)
18. Bath (alternate version)

Disc Sixteen: Nilsson Sessions 1968-1971
1. You Are Here
2. The Cast And Crew
3. Garbage Can Ballet
4. I Will Take You There
5. Girlfriend
6. Wasting My Time
7. Rainmaker (alternate version)
8. Open Your Window (alternate take)
9. Postcard 
10. Think About Your Troubles (alternate version)
11. Marry Me A Little
12. Ballin' The Jack
13. Gotta Get Up (demo)
14. Down To The Valley (single mix)
15. Buy My Album (single mix)
16. Joy (alternate version)
17. Blackbird
18. Paradise
19. Lucille
20. Early In The Morning (alternate version)

Disc Seventeen: Nilsson Sessions 1971-1974
1. Walk Right Back
2. Jump Into The Fire (alternate version)
3. Isolation
4. Without You (demo)
5. Driving Along (demo)
6. Gotta Get Up (demo)
7. Coconut (demo)
8. Old Forgotten Soldier (alternate demo)
9. Down (demo)
10. The Moonbeam Song (alternate demo)
11. Jump Into The Fire (single version)
12. Per Chi
13. Joy (guitar demo)
14. Joy (piano demo)
15. You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want To Do It) (alternate version)
16. Lullaby In Ragtime (alternate version)
17. Always (alternate version)
18. It Had To Be You (alternate version)
19. I Want You To Sit On My Face
20. A Souvenir - Also Sprach Schmilsson Schmixon

Personnel:
Harry Nilsson - vocals, keyboards, guitar, harmonica
Mike Deasy - guitar
Michael Duré - guitar
Neil LaVang - guitar
Mac Rebennack - guitar, keyboards
Bob Segarini - guitar
Ray Brown - bass
Al McKibbon - bass
Lyle Ritz - bass
William Trochim - bass
Richie Frost - drums
Vann Slatter - drums
Jerry Williams - drums
Dale Anderson - percussion
Hubert Anderson - percussion
Milt Holland - percussion
Mike Melvoin - keyboards
Don Ralke - keyboards
Roy Caton - trumpet
David Duke - french horn
Robert M. Knight - brass
Carroll Lewis - trumpet
Ollie Mitchell - trumpet
Dick Nash - trombone
Tom Scott - woodwinds
Jesse Ehrlich - cello
Paul Shure - strings
Robert Sushel - strings
Darrell Terwilliger - violin
Dennis Budimir - guitar, ukulele, banjo
James Burton - guitar
Al Casey - guitar
David Cohen - guitar
Drake Levin - guitar
Tommy Tedesco - guitar
Larry Knechtel - bass, keyboards
Jim Gordon - drums, percussion
John Guerin - drums, percussion
John Philips - percussion
Bill Martin - keyboards
Michael Wofford - keyboards
Tommy Morgan - harmonica
Norman Benno - brass
Gene Cipriano - woodwinds
Robert Enevoldsen - brass
Bernard Fleischer - brass
Jim Horn - woodwinds
Dick Hyde - trombone
John Johnson - woodwinds
Plas Johnson - woodwinds
Lew McCreary - trombone
Tony Terran - trumpet
Robert Hardaway - woodwinds
John E. Lowe - woodwinds
Johnny Rotella - woodwinds
Israel Baker - strings
Arnold Belnick -strings
Bobby Bruce - strings
Donnie Douglas - strings
James Getzoff - strings
Edgar Lustgarten - strings
Ray Kelley - strings
Michael Mutt - strings
Myron Sandler - strings
Ralph Schaeffer - strings
Fred Seykora - strings
Marshall Sosson - strings
Tibor Zelig - strings
Randy Newman - piano
Max Bennett - bass, recorder
Stephen LaFever - bass
Frank Capp - drums
Earl Palmer - drums
Michael Lang - keyboards
Michel Rubini - keyboards
Ralph Grierson - keyboards
Dorothy Rensen - harp
Ian Duck - guitar
Caleb Quaye - guitar
Chris Spedding - guitar, bouyoukia
John Uribe - guitar
Klaus Voorman - guitar, bass
Herbie Flowers - bass
Jim Keltner - drums
Roger Pope - drums
Richard Perry - percussion, keyboards
Jimmy Webb - keyboards
Gary Wright - keyboards
Roger Coolan - keyboards
Henry Krein - accordion
Bobby Keys - saxophone
Jim Price - trumpet, trombone
Peter Frampton - guitar
Lowell George - guitar
Paul Keogh - guitar
Les Thatcher - guitar
George Harrison - guitar
Red Rhodes - pedal steel guitar
Barry Morgan - drums
Ringo Starr - drums
Ray Cooper - percussion
Nicky Hopkins - keyboards
Graham Smith - harmonica
Dominick Fera - horns
Wilbur Schwartz - horns
Richard Mackey - horns
Tony Gilbert - orchestra member
Ray Cohen - orchestra member
Charles Vorzinger - orchestra member
Leonard Dighl - orchestra member
Keith Bird - orchestra member
Ken Cooper - orchestra member
Tony Randell - orchestra member
George Turnland - orchestra member
Alan Peters - orchestra member
Lou Rosen - orchestra member
Lou Whiteson - orchestra member
Derek Collins - orchestra member
Ken Essex - orchestra member
Maurice Taylor - orchestra member
Reginald Mosley - orchestra member
Dannie McCOnnell - orchestra member
George French - orchestra member
Red Leopold - orchestra member
Steve Shingles - orchestra member
Nat Comrass - orchestra member
Jesse Ed Davis - guitar
Danny Kortchmar - guitar
Pete Kleinow - pedal steel guitar
Keith Moon - drums
Norman Kurban - percussion
May Pang - percussion
Jane Getz - keyboards
Ken Ascher - keyboards
Willie Smith - keyboards
Trevor Lawrence - brass
Robert Greenidge - pedal steel guitar, percussion, steel drum
Fred Myrow - keyboards
Van Dyke Parks - keyboards
Emmett Kennedy - percussion
Patrick Murphy - percussion
Gene Estes - percussion
John Bergamo - marimba
Cosmo DeAguero - marimba
Victor Feldman - marimba
Douglas Dillard - banjo
Denzil Laughton - harp
Gayle Levant - harp
Norman Herzberg - bassoon
Lloyd Hildebrand - bassoon
Robert Tricarico - bassoon
Ron Langinger - woodwinds
Jay Migliori - woodwinds
Lew Tabackin - woodwinds
Jules Jacob - woodwinds
John Bambridge - woodwinds
Joseph Soldo - woodwinds
Bud Brisbois - horns
Charles Dinwiddle - horns
Chuck Findley - trumpet
Paul Hubinon - horns
Jerome Jumonville - horns
Bobby Keys - woodwinds
Martin Krystall - horns
Malcom McNabb - trumpet
Tom Shepard - horns
Myer Bello - strings
Samuel Boghossian - strings
Joseph DiTullio - strings
Assa Drori - strings
Arni Egildson - strings
Henry Ferber - strings
Ronald Folsom - strings
Allan Harshman - strings
Harry Hyams - strings
William Hymanson - strings
Armand Kaproff - strings
Dennis Karmazyn - strings
Louis Kievman - strings
Raphael Kramer - strings
Bernard Kundell - strings
Abe Luboff - strings
Kathleen Lustgarten - strings
Joy Lyle - strings
Gordon Marrow - strings
Peter Mercurio - strings
Joe Mondragon - strings
Gareth Nuttycombe - strings
Stanley Plummer - strings
David Schwartz - strings
Sid Sharp - strings
Harry Shlutz - strings
Haim Shtrum - strings
Jeff Solow - strings
Robert Stone - strings
Limm Subotnick - strings
Reher Sven - strings
David Turner - strings
Gerald Vinci - strings
Keith Allison - guitar
Michael Anthony - guitar
Peter Jameson - guitar
John Morrell - guitar
Fred Tackett - guitar
Derrek VanEaton - guitar
Lon VanEaton - guitar
Chili Charles - drums
Doug Hoefer - percussion
Thomas Collier - percussion, keyboards
James Newton Howard - keyboards
David Paich - keyboards
Malcolm Cecil - keyboards
Steven Madaio - horns
Benny Powell - horns
James Roberts - horns
Henry Sigismonti - horns
Charles Gould - bassoon
Melvin Tax - bassoon
Joe Darensbourg - horns
Andrew Blakeney  - horns
Herbert Harper - horns
Murray Adler - strings
James Bond Jr. - strings
Rolice Dale - strings
Edward Green - strings
Harris Goldman - strings
Raphael Kramer
 - strings
Carl Lamagna - strings
Michael Nowak - strings
Polly Sweeney - strings
William Weiss - strings
Charlotte Sax - strings
James Griffin - bass
Don Randi - keyboards