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Glen Campbell: Try A Little Kindness

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In January 1970, “Capitol” label released “Try a Little Kindness”, the thirteenth Glen Campbell album. It was recorded in 1969, at “United” and “Capitol” in Hollywood, and was produced by Al De Lory.

Personnel:

  • Glen Campbell – vocals, acoustic guitar
  • Al Casey – acoustic guitar
  • Joe Osborn – bass
  • Carol Kaye – bass
  • Hal Blaine – drums
  • Bob Felts – percussion
  • Al De Lory – arrangements, conductor
  • Marty Paich – arrangements
  • Joe Polito – engineer
  • Pete Abbot – engineer

Track listing:

  1. Try a Little Kindness – Curt Sapaugh, Bobby Austin
  2. Both Sides Now – Joni Mitchell
  3. For My Woman’s Love – Ben Peters
  4. Country Girl – Craig Smith
  5. All the Way – Jimmy Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn
  6. Where Do You Go – Ed Penney, John Domurad
  7. Honey Come Back – Jimmy Webb
  8. Folk Singer – C. E. Daniels
  9. Love Is Not a Game – Jerry Goldstein
  10. Once More with Feeling – Shirley Nelson
  11. And the World Keeps Spinning – Ron Green, Ron Price
  12. Home Again – Larry Rintye, Jesse Hodges

Cannanball Adderley Quintet: The Price You Got To Pay To Be Free

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In December 1970, “Capitol” label released “The Price You Got to Pay to Be Free”, album by Cannonball Adderley Quintet album (the 49th Cannonball Adderley album overall). Live material was recorded in September 1970, at the 1970 “Monterey Jazz Festival”, and studio material was recorded in October 1970, at “Capitol Studios” in New York City, and was produced by David Axelrod.

Personnel:

  • Cannonball Adderley – vocals, soprano and alto saxophone
  • Nat Adderley – vocals, cornet
  • Nat Adderley Jr. – vocals, piano, electric piano, guitar
  • Joe Zawinul – piano, electric piano, ring modulator
  • Walter Booker – bass
  • Bob West – bass
  • Roy McCurdy – drums

Track listing:

All tracks by Julian “Cannonball” Adderley except where noted.

  1. Soul Virgo – George Duke, Mike Deasy, Rick Holmes
  2. Rumplestiltskin – Joe Zawinul
  3. Inquisition – Nat Adderley
  4. Devastatement – Nat Adderley
  5. Pra Dizer Adeus (To Say Goodbye) – Edú Lobo, Torquato Neto, Lani Hall
  6. The Price You Got to Pay to Be Free – Nat Adderley Jr.
  7. Sometime Ago – Sergio Mihanovich
  8. Exquisition – Nat Adderley
  9. Painted Desert – Joe Zawinul
  10. Directions – Joe Zawinul
  11. Down in Black Bottom – Nat Adderley
  12. 1-2-3-Go-O-O-O! – Joe Zawinul, Roy McCurdy, Walter Booker, Nat Adderley
  13. Lonesome Stranger – Nat Adderley
  14. Get Up Off Your Knees
  15. Wild-Cat Pee
  16. Alto Sex
  17. Bridges – Milton Nascimento, Fernando Brant, Gene Lees
  18. Out and In
  19. Together – Nat Adderley Jr.
  20. The Scene – Nat Adderley, Joe Zawinul

Gerry Mulligan & Paul Desmond: Gerry Mulligan – Paul Desmond Quartet

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In December 1957, “Verve” label released “Gerry Mulligan – Paul Desmond Quartet”, album by Paul Desmond and Gerry Mulligan (the 18th Gerry Mulligan album overall). It was recorded in August 1957, at “Capitol” in Hollywood, “Fine Sound” in New York City, and was produced by Norman Granz.

Personnel:

  • Paul Desmond – alto saxophone
  • Gerry Mulligan – baritone saxophone
  • Joe Benjamin – bass
  • Dave Bailey – drums
  • Burt Goldblatt – cover photography
  • Nat Hentoff – liner notes

Track listing:

  1. Blues in Time – Paul Desmond
  2. Body and Soul – Johnny Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton
  3. Standstill – Gerry Mulligan
  4. Line for Lyons – Gerry Mulligan
  5. Wintersong – Paul Desmond
  6. Battle Hymn of the Republican – Paul Desmond
  7. Fall Out – Gerry Mulligan

The Band: Northern Lights-Southern Cross

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In November 1975, “Capitol” label released “Northern Lights – Southern Cross”, the sixth Band (The) studio album. It was recorded in 1975, at “Shangri-La Studios” in Zuma Beach, California, and was produced by Rick Danko, Levon Helm, Garth Hudson, Richard Manuel and Robbie Robertson.

Personnel:

  • Robbie Robertson – guitars, piano, clavinet, melodica, percussion, mixing
  • Garth Hudson -organ, keyboards,  accordion,  saxophones,  synthesizers, piccolo, woodwind, chanter, bass, brass, mixing
  • Richard Manuel – vocals, acoustic and electric piano, keyboards, organ, drums, clavinet, percussion
  • Rick Danko – vocals, bass, guitar, violin, harmonica, mixing
  • Levon Helm – vocals, drums, guitar, percussion
  • Byron Berline – fiddle
  • Nat Jeffrey – engineer, mixing
  • Rob Fraboni – engineer, mixing
  • Ed Anderson – engineer

Track listing:

All tracks by Robbie Robertson.

  1. Forbidden Fruit
  2. Hobo Jungle
  3. Ophelia
  4. Acadian Driftwood
  5. Ring Your Bell
  6. It makes No Difference
  7. Jupiter Hollow
  8. Rags and Bones

Cannonbal Adderley: 74 Miles Away

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In November 1967, “Capitol” label released “74 Miles Away”, album by Cannonbal Adderley Quintet (38th Cannonball Adderley album overall). It was recorded June – July 1967, at “Capitol Studios” in Hollywood, and was produced by David Axelrod.

Personnel:

  • Cannonball Adderley – alto saxophone
  • Nat Adderley – vocal, cornet
  • Joe Zawinul – keyboards
  • Victor Gaskin – bass
  • Roy McCurdy – drums
  • Leonard Feather – liner notes

Track listing:

  1. Do Do Do (What Now Is Next) – Nat Adderley, Gail Fisher
  2. I Remember Bird – Leonard Feather
  3. Walk Tall (Baby, That’s What I Need) – Queen Esther Marrow, Jim Rein, Joe Zawinul
  4. 74 Miles Away – Joe Zawinul
  5. Oh Babe – Julian “Cannonball” Adderley, Nat Adderley

John Stewart: Willard

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In July 1970, “Capitol” label released “Willard”, the third John Stewart studio album. It was recorded at “Crystal Sound” in Hollywood, California, “Woodland Studios” in Nashville, Tennessee, and was produced by Peter Asher.

Personnel:

  • John Stewart – vocal, acoustic and electric guitar, 12-string guitar, auto harp, boxes
  • James Taylor – acoustic guitar, backing vocals
  • Fred “The Flash” Carter – acoustic guitar
  • Danny Kooch – electric guitar
  • Mike Stewart – guitar
  • Bobby Thompson – banjo
  • Ralph Schuckett – piano, harmonium
  • Carole King – piano
  • Peter Asher – tambourine, bass, auto harp, backing vocals
  • Norbert “Home town” Putnam – bass
  • Bryan Garofalo – bass, backing vocals
  • Joel Bishop O’Brien – drums, conga
  • Russ Kunkel – knees, drums, boxes
  • Kenneth “Down wind” Buttrey – knees, drums
  • Doug Kershaw – fiddle, backing vocals
  • Chris Darrow – fiddle
  • “Goodtime” Charlie McCoy – harp
  • Bill Mumy – cow bell
  • Buffy Ford – backing vocals
  • Abigale Haness – backing vocals
  • The People – backing vocals
  • John Andrew Tartaglia – orchestration
  • Richard Sanford Orshoff – engineer
  • Robert Paull – second engineer
  • James Wyeth – cover drawing
  • Henry Diltz – insert photos

Track listing:

All tracks by John Stewart.

  1. Big Joe
  2. Julie, Judy, Angel Rain
  3. Belly Full of Tennessee
  4. Friend of Jesus
  5. Clack Clack
  6. Hero From the War
  7. Back in Pomona
  8. Willard
  9. Golden Rollin’ Belly
  10. All American Girl
  11. Oldest Living Son
  12. Earth Rider
  13. Great White Cathedrals
  14. Marshall Wind

Little River Band: First Under the Wire

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On July 9, 1979, “Capitol” label released “First Under the Wire”, the fifth Little River Band studio album. It was recorded in 1979, and was produced by John Boylan, Glenn Shorrock, David Briggs, Beeb Birtles, Graham Goble, Clive Harrison and Derek Pellicci.

Personnel:

  • Glenn Shorrock – lead vocals
  • David Briggs – lead guitars, Roland synthesizer guitars, electric sitar
  • Beeb Birtles – lead and co-lead vocals, acoustic and electric guitars guitar
  • Graham Goble – acoustic and electric guitars, backing vocals, vocal arrangements
  • Clive Harrison – bass guitar
  • Derek Pellicci – drums, percussion
  • John Boylan – acoustic guitar
  • Peter Sullivan – piano
  • Peter Jones – piano, keyboards, orchestrations
  • Mike Clarke – bass
  • Bill Harrower – saxophones

Track listing:

  1. Lonesome Loser – David Briggs
  2. The Rumour – Glenn Shorrock
  3. By My Side – Beeb Birtles, Graham Goble
  4. Cool Change – Glenn Shorrock
  5. It’s Not a Wonder – Graham Goble
  6. Hard Life (prelude) – David Briggs
  7. Hard Life – Graham Goble
  8. Middle Man – Beeb Birtles, Graham Goble
  9. Man on the Run – Beeb Birtles, Graham Goble
  10. Mistress of Mine – Graham Goble

The Kingston Trio: Sunny Side!

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In July 1963, “Capitol” label released “Sunny Side!”, the 16th Kingston Trio (The) album. It was recorded in 1963, and was produced by Voyle Gilmore. The album track “Desert Pete” was chosen by the members of the “Western Writers of America” as one of the “Top 100 Western Songs of All Time”.

Personnel:

  • Bob Shane – vocals, guitar
  • Nick Reynolds – vocals, tenor guitar, bongos, conga
  • John Stewart – vocals, banjo
  • Glen Campbell – 6 string banjo, 12 string guitar
  • Dean Reilly – bass

Track listing:

  1. Desert Pete – Billy Edd Wheeler
  2. Marcelle Vahine – Augie Goupil
  3. Sing Out – Michael Stewart
  4. Ballad of the Thresher – Nat Allen, Keith Donald, Alice Nielsen
  5. Blowin’ in the Wind – Bob Dylan
  6. Goo Ga Gee – Mike Settle
  7. Jackson – Billy Edd Wheeler
  8. Two-Ten, Six-Eighteen (Doesn’t Anybody Know My Name) – Rod McKuen
  9. Those Brown Eyes – Woody Guthrie, Alan Arkin, Bill Carey, Erik Darling
  10. Those Who Are Wise – John Stewart
  11. Rider – Nick Reynolds, Bob Shane, Judy Henske

Prism: Young and Restless

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In May 1980, “Capitol” label released “Young and Restless”, the fourth Prism studio album. It was recorded in 1979, at “Little Mountain Sound Studios” in Vancouver, Canada, and was produced by Bruce Fairbairn, Ron Tabak, John Hall, Lindsay Mitchell, Rocket Norton and Al Harlow.

Personnel:

  • Ron Tabak — lead vocals
  • Lindsay Mitchell — guitars, backing vocals
  • John Hall — keyboards
  • Al Harlow — bass guitar, guitars, backing vocals
  • Rocket Norton — drums
  • Bruce Fairbairn — horn section
  • Bob Rock — engineer
  • Mike Fraser — engineer
  • Doug Grover — engineer

Track listing:

  1. American Music – Lindsay Mitchell
  2. Young and Restless – Al Harlow, Lindsay Mitchell
  3. Satellite – Al Harlow, Lindsay Mitchel
  4. Party Line – Lindsay Mitchell
  5. Acid Rain – Lindsay Mitchell
  6. Another World – Al Harlow, Lindsay Mitchell
  7. The Visitor – Lindsay Mitchell
  8. Deception – Al Harlow
  9. Hideaway – Al Harlow
  10. Runnin’ for Cover – Rocket Norton, Timothy McHugh

The Doobie Brothers: Cycles

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On May 17, 1989, “Capitol” label released “Cycles”, the tenth Doobie Brothers (The) studio album. It was recorded in 1988, at “The Plant” in Sausalito, California, and was produced by Rodney Mills, Charlie Midnight and Eddie Schwartz.

Personnel:

  • Tom Johnston – lead vocals, guitar
  • Patrick Simmons – lead vocals, guitar
  • Tiran Porter – bass, backing vocals
  • John Hartman – drums, backing vocals
  • Michael Hossack – drums, percussion
  • Bobby LaKind – percussion, backing vocals
  • Bill Payne – keyboards
  • Dave Tyson – keyboards
  • Kim Bullard – keyboards
  • Dale Ockerman – keyboards
  • Phil Aaberg – keyboards
  • Don Frank – electronic drums
  • The Memphis Horns (Wayne Jackson, Andrew Love) – horns
  • Rem Smiers – keytar
  • Bobby La Kind – conductor
  • Brian Wayy – programming, remix
  • Tom Sadzeck, Devon Bernadoni, Jim Gaines, Rodney Mills, Jeffrey Norman – engineer
  • Bob Ludwig – mastering
  • Jeffery Fey – design
  • Tommy Steele – art direction
  • Tom Nikosey – logo design
  • Tom Keller – photography

Track listing:

  1. The Doctor – Tom Johnston, Charlie Midnight, Eddie Schwartz
  2. One Chain Don’t Make no Prison – Dennis Lambert, Brian Potter
  3. Take Me to the Highway – Patrick Simmons, Dale Ockerman, Tome Fedele, Charlie Midnight, Eddie Schwartz, Dale Ockerman,
  4. South of the Border – Tom Johnston
  5. Time Is Here and Gone – Bobby La Kind, John Mcfee, Keith Knudsen
  6. Need a Little Taste of Love – Marvin Isley, Ernie Isley, Ronald Isley, O’Kelly Isley, Rudolph Isley, Chris Jasper
  7. I Can Read Your Mind – Patrick Simmons, Dale Ockerman, Chris Thompson
  8. Tonight I’m Coming (Through the Border) – Bobby La Kind, Michael McDonald
  9. Wrong Number – Tom Johnston
  10. Too High a Price – Bobby La Kind, Zeke Zirngeibel, John Herron