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Grace Slick: Manhole

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On January 4, 1974, “Grunt” label released “Manhole”, the first Grace Slick solo album. It was recorded in 1973 at “Wally Heider Studios” in San Francisco and “Olympic Studios” in London, and was produced by Grace Slick, David Freiberg, Paul Kantner, Keith Grant and Steven Schuster.

Personnel:

  • Grace Slick– vocals, rhythm guitar, piano
  • Paul Kantner– vocals, rhythm and 12-string guitar, glass harmonica
  • David Freiberg– vocals, rhythm and 12-string guitar, piano, percussion, bass, organ
  • Craig Chaquico– lead guitar
  • Gary Duncan– lead guitar
  • Pete Sears– piano, bass
  • Peter Kaukonen– bass, lead acoustic guitar, mandolin
  • Keith Grant – synthesizer programming
  • Ron Carter– bass
  • Jack Casady– bass
  • John Barbata– drums
  • David Crosby– vocals
  • London Symphony Orchestra
  • Iaian MacDonald Murray, Calum Innes, Cohn Graham, Angus McTavish, Tom Duncan, Jack Scott, Angus MacKay, William Stewart – bagpipes
  • Steven Schuster – orchestra arrangements

Track listing:

  1. Jay – Grace Slick
  2. Theme from the Movie Manhole – Grace Slick
  3. Come Again? Toucan – Grace Slick
  4. It’s Only Music – Robert Hunter
  5. Better Lying Down – Grace Slick
  6. Epic No.38 – Paul Kantner, Grace Slick, Jack Traylor

The Doors: Same

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On January 4, 1967, “Elektra” label released the self titled debut Doors (The)  album. It was recorded in August, 1966, at the “Sunset Sound  Recorders”, in Hollywood, and was produced by  Paul A. Rothchild.  Both the album and the song “Light My Fire” were inducted into the “Grammy Hall of Fame”. In 2012, magazine “Rolling Stone” ranked the album on number 42, on its list of “500 Greatest Albums of All Time”. In 2015,  based on its cultural, artistic or historical significance, the “Library of Congress” selected “The Doors” for inclusion in the “National Recording Registry”.

Personnel:

  • Jim Morrison– lead vocals
  • Ray Manzarek– Vox Continental organ, piano, keyboard bass, marxophone
  • Robby Krieger– guitar, bass overdubs
  • John Densmore– drums
  • Larry Knechtel – bass guitar

Track listing:

All tracks by Jim Morrison, Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek and John Densmore, except where noted.

  1. Break On Through
  2. Soul Kitchen
  3. The Crystal Ship
  4. Twentieth Century Fox
  5. Alabama Song (Whisky Bar) – Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill
  6. Light My Fire
  7. Back Door man – Willie Dixon, Chester Burnett
  8. I Looked at You
  9. End of the Night
  10. Take It as it Comes
  11. The End

Hot Tuna: The Phosphorescent Rat

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Phosphorescent Rat

On January 3, 1974, “Grunt” label released “The Phosphorescent Rat”, the fourth Hot Tuna album.  It was recorded May – October, 1973, at the “Wally Heider Studios” in San Francisco, and was produced by Mallory Earl.

Personnel:

  • Jorma Kaukonen– vocals, guitars
  • Jack Casady– electric bass, bass balalaika
  • Sammy Piazza –drums, spoons, percussion
  • Andrew Narell – steel drums
  • Tom Salisbury – conductor of strings and woodwinds
  • Marek A. Majewski – design

Track listing:

All tracks by Jorma Kaukonen, except where noted

  1. I See the Light
  2. Letter to the North Star
  3. Easy Now
  4. Corners Without Exits
  5. Day to Day Out the Window Blues
  6. In the Kingdom
  7. Seeweed Strut
  8. Living Fust for You
  9. Soliloquy for 2
  10. Sally, Where’d You Get Your Liquor From? – Reverend Gary Davis

Ian McDonald and Michael Giles: McDonald and Giles

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On January 3, 1971, “Island” label released “McDonald and Giles”, album by Ian McDonald and Michael Giles. It was recorded May – July, 1970, at the  “Island Studios”, and was produced by Ian McDonald and Michael Giles.

Personnel:

  • Ian McDonald – vocals, guitar, piano, organ, saxes, flute, clarinet, zither, sundries
  • Steve Winwood– organ, piano
  • Peter Giles– bass guitar
  • Michael Giles – vocals, drums, percussion
  • Michael Blakesley – trombone
  • Mike Gray – strings and brass arrangements

Track listing:

  1. Suite in C- Ian McDonald
  • Turnham Green
  • Here I Am
  • And many more
  1. Flight of the Ibis – music by Ian McDonald, lyrics by BP Fallon
  2. Is She Waiting? – Ian McDonald
  3. Tomorrow’s People – The Children of Today – Michael Giles
  4. Birdman – music by Ian McDonald, lyrics by Peter Sinfield
  • The Inventor’s Dream (O.U.A.T.)
  • The Workshop
  • Wishbone Ascension
  • Birdman Flies!
  • Wings in the Sunset
  • Birdman – The Reflection

 

 

Syd Barrett: The Madcap Laughs

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Syd Barrett - Mad Cap Laughs

On January 3, 1970, “Harvest” label released “The Madcap Laughs”, the debut Syd Barrett solo album.  It was recorded May 1968 – August 1969, at the “Abbey Road Studios” in London, and was produced by Syd Barrett, Peter Jenner, Malcolm Jones, David Gilmour and Roger Waters.

Personnel:

  • Syd Barrett– lead vocal, acoustic and electric guitar
  • David Gilmour– bass guitar, 12-string acoustic guitar, drums
  • Mike Ratledge– keyboards
  • Hugh Hopper– bass guitar
  • Willie Wilson– bass guitar
  • Jerry Shirley– drums
  • Robert Wyatt– drums
  • Storm Thorgerson, Aubrey Powell of Hipgnosis – design
  • Mick Rock– photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Syd Barrett, except where noted.

  1. Terrapin
  2. No Good Trying
  3. Love You
  4. No Man’s Land
  5. Dark Globe
  6. Here I Go
  7. Octopus
  8. Golden Hair – lyrics based on a poem by James Joyce, music by Syd Barrett
  9. Long Gone
  10. She Took A Long Cold Look
  11. Feel
  12. If It’s in You
  13. Late Night

Melody Maker

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Melody Maker 1926

On January 2, 1926, first issue of “Melody Maker”, British weekly magazine was published.  “Melody Maker” was probably the earliest world music magazine and at its beginnings it was magazine for jazz, dance bands and musicians.  Publisher was Lawrence Wright and the first editor was Edgar Jackson. In 2000 “Melody Maker’ was merged into “New Musical Express”.

Graham Nash: Wild Tales

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On January 2, 1974, “Atlantic” label released “Wild Tales”, the second Graham Nash studio album.  It was recorded in 1973, at  “Rudy Records Studio” in San Francisco, and was produced by Graham Nash.

Personnel:

  • Graham Nash – lead vocal, acoustic, electric and rhythm guitar, electric piano, piano, harmonica
  • Joel Bernstein – acoustic guitar
  • Ben Keith – pedal steel guitar, dobro
  • David Lindley – electric slide guitar, mandolin
  • Dave Mason – twelve string guitar
  • Harry Halex – electric piano, acoustic guitar
  • Joe Yankee (a pseudonym for Neil Young) – acoustic piano
  • Tim Drummond – bass
  • Johnny Barbata – drums
  • David Crosby: vocal
  • Joni Mitchell: vocal
  • Stanley Johnston: voice montage

Track listing

All tracks by Graham Nash

  1. Wild Tales
  2. Hey You (Looking at the Moon)
  3. Prison Song
  4. You’ll Never Be The Same
  5. And So It Goes
  6. Grave Concern
  7. Oh! Camil (The Winter Soldier)
  8. I Miss You
  9. On The Line
  10. Another Sleep Song

The Stranglers: Feline

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Stranglers-Feline

On January 1, 1983, “Epic” label release “Feline”, the seventh Stranglers (The) studio album.  It was recorded in December 1982, at the “ICP Studios” in Brussels, and was produced by Steve Churchyard, Hugh Cornwell, Jean-Jacques Burnel,Dave Greenfield and Jet Black. The album first edition was sold with a free one-sided 7″ single “Aural Sculpture Manifesto”.

Personnel:

  • Hugh Cornwell – vocals, guitar
  • Jean-Jacques Burnel- vocals, bass
  • Dave Greenfield- keyboards
  • Jet Black- drums, percussion
  • Anna Von Stern, France Lhermitte – backing vocals
  • Tony Visconti– mixing
  • Nick Marchant – art direction, design
  • Tim Widdal – design

Track listing:

All tracks by The Stranglers.

  1. Midnight Summer Dream
  2. It’s a Small World
  3. Ships That Pass in the Night
  4. European Female (In Celebration Of)
  5. Let’s Tango in Paris
  6. Paradise
  7. All Roads Lead to Rome
  8. Blue Sister
  9. Never Say Goodbye

Joni MItchell: Court and Spark

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On January 1, 1974, “Asylum” label released “Court and Spark”, the sixth Joni Mitchell studio album.  It was recorded in 1973, and was produced by Joni Mitchell.  The album was certified 2 x Platinum in the US by the “RIAA” and was voted the best album of the year for 1974 in “The Village Voice Pazz & Jop Critics Poll.” In 2003, the album was ranked at number 113 in “Rolling Stone” magazine list of “500 Greatest Albums of All Time”.

Personnel:

  • Joni Mitchell– lead and backing vocals, acoustic guitar, piano,  clavinet
  • Larry Carlton– electric guitar
  • Wayne Perkins– electric guitar
  • Dennis Budimir – electric guitar
  • Robbie Robertson– electric guitar
  • José Feliciano– electric guitar
  • Joe Sample– electric piano, clavinet
  • Wilton Felder– bass
  • Max Bennett– bass
  • Jim Hughart – bass
  • John Guerin– drums, percussion
  • Milt Holland– chimes
  • Tom Scott– woodwinds, reeds
  • Chuck Findley– trumpet
  • David Crosby– backing vocals
  • Graham Nash– backing vocals
  • Susan Webb – backing vocals
  • Cheech Marin– backing voice
  • Tommy Chong– backing voice

Track listing:

All track by Joni Mitchell, except where noted.

  1. Court and Spark
  2. Help me
  3. Free Man in Paris
  4. People’s Parties
  5. Same Situation
  6. Car on a Hill
  7. Down to You
  8. Just Like This Train
  9. Raise on Robbery
  10. Trouble Child
  11. Twisted – Annie Rose, Wardell Gray

Stone the Crows: Same

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On January 1, 1970, “Polydor” label released self-titled, debut Stone the Crows album. It was recorded in 1970, and was produced by Mark London.

Personnel:

  • Maggie Bell– vocals
  • Les Harvey– acoustic and electric guitars
  • John McGinnis– organ, piano, keyboards
  • Jimmy Dewar– vocals, bass guitar
  • Colin Allen– drums, percussion

Track listing:

  1. The Touch of Your Loving Hand – Jimmy Dewar, Les Harvey
  2. Raining in Your Heart – Jimmy Dewar, Les Harvey
  3. Blind Man – Josh White Jr.
  4. The Fool on the Hill – John Lennon, Paul McCartney
  5. I saw America – Daevid Allen, Colin Allen, Les Harvey, Mark London