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Gerry Rafferty: Life Goes On

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On November 30, 2009, “Hypertension Music” label released “Life Goes On”, the tenth Gerry Rafferty album, and the last one released in his lifetime. It was recorded in 2009, at  “Icon Studios” in East Sussex, England, “Studio Miraval” in France, “Blue Wave Recording Studios” in St. Philip, Barbados, “Parkgate Studios” in Sussex, England, “Chipping Norton Studios” in Oxfordshire, England, “Tye Farm”, “The Hit Factory”, “Skibo Castle” in Dornoch, Sutherland, Scotland, and was produced by Hugh Murphy and Gerry Rafferty.

Personnel:

  • Gerry Rafferty – lead, harmony and backing vocals, acoustic, electric and high-string guitar, piano, electric piano, organ, synthesizer, programming
  • Bryn Haworth – guitar, slide guitar, bottleneck guitar
  • Hugh Burns – electric guitar
  • Mark Knopfler – electric guitar
  • Jerry Donahue – electric rhythm guitar
  • B. J. Cole – pedal steel guitar
  • Pavel Rosak – keyboards, bass guitar, drums, percussion, brass, marimba, drum programming
  • Kenny Craddock – Hammond organ, keyboards, synthesizer
  • Alan Clark – Hammond organ, keyboards, synthesizer
  • Ian Lynn – keyboards, strings
  • Pino Palladino – bass guitar
  • Mo Foster – bass guitar, fretless bass guitar
  • Giles Twigg – drums, percussion, guitar, bass guitar, reading from Digital Delirium, programming, engineer
  • Arran Ahmun – drums, percussion, hi-hat, cymbal, tambourine, toms, cowbell, congas, talking drum, agogô, finger cymbals
  • Mell Collins – saxophone
  • Arturo Tappin – saxophone
  • Gavyn Wright – strings
  • Andy Patterson – bells, programing, engineer
  • Joe Egan – backing vocals
  • Lianne Carroll – backing vocals
  • Julian Littman – backing vocals
  • Melanie Harrold – backing vocals
  • Nicky Moore – backing vocals
  • Cindy Legall – backing vocals
  • Tamara Marshall – backing vocals
  • Ronnie Rehse – German reading
  • Andrew Jackman – bassoon, horn, oboe, string arrangements
  • Doug Cook – engineer, engineer assistant
  • Brad Davis – engineer
  • Philipe Garcia – engineer
  • Jean Jacques Lemoine – engineer
  • Chris Potter – engineer
  • Dan Priest – engineer, mixing
  • Brian Europe – vocal engineering, engineer assistant
  • Tom Gonzales – vocal engineering
  • Barry Hammond – drum engineering, additional engineering
  • Hugh Murphy – recording, engineer
  • Mike Ross – string recording
  • Tim Young – additional engineering
  • Zahir Kahn – engineer assistant
  • Martin Raymond – engineer assistant

Track listing:

All tracks by Gerry Rafferty, except where noted.

  1. Kyrie Eleison – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  2. The Waters of Forgetfulness – (new edit)
  3. Don’t Speak of My Heart – Gerry Rafferty, Jim Rafferty
  4. Because – John Lennon, Paul McCartney
  5. Everytime I Wake Up (new edit) – Gerry Rafferty, with a reading from Rainer Maria Rilke
  6. Love and Affection (new edit) 
  7. The Land of the Chosen Few (new edit) 
  8. Life Goes On (new edit)
  9. Another World (new edit)
  10. Time’s Caught Up on You (new edit)
  11. Conscious Love
  12. Over My Head
  13. Hang On
  14. It’s Easy to Talk
  15. The Maid of Culmore – traditional
  16. Your Heart’s Desire
  17. Adeste Fidelis – traditional
  18. Silent Night

The Miracles: Four In Blue

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On November 3, 1969, “Motown” label released “Four in Blue”, album by The Miracles. It was recorded in 1969, at “Hitsville USA” in Detroit, and was produced by Smokey Robinson.

Personnel:

  • Smokey Robinson – lead vocals
  • Claudette Robinson – backing vocals
  • Pete Moore – backing vocals
  • Bobby Rogers – backing vocals
  • Ronnie White – backing vocals
  • Marv Tarplin – guitar

Track listing:

  1. You Send Me (With Your Good Lovin’) – Al Cleveland, Terry “Buzzy” Johnson, Smokey Robinson
  2. Dreams Dreams – Smokey Robinson, Al Cleveland
  3. Tomorrow Is Another Day – Deke Richards, Beatrice Verdi
  4. Hey Jude – John Lennon, Paul McCartney
  5. California Soul – Nickolas Ashford, Valerie Simpson
  6. A Legend in Its Own Time – Smokey Robinson
  7. You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’ – Barry Mann, Phil Spector, Cynthia Weil
  8. We Can Make It We Can – Nikolas Ashford, Valerie Simpson
  9. When Nobody Cares – Smokey Robinson
  10. Don’t Say You Love Me – Richard Morris
  11. Wish I Knew – Debbie Dean, Deke Richards
  12. My World Is Empty Without You – Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Eddie Holland

Ray Charles: True To Life

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In October 1977, “Atlantic” label released “True to Life”, album by Ray Charles. It was recorded in 1977, at “R. P. M. International” in Los Angeles, and was produced by ray Charles.

Personnel:

  • Ray Charles – vocals, piano, keyboards, arrangements, engineer
  • Larry Muhoberac, Roger Newman, Sid Feller – arrangements
  • Bob Gratts – engineer
  • Robert Gratts – engineer

Track listing:

  1. I Can See Clearly Now – Johnny Nash
  2. The Jealous Kind – Robert Guidry
  3. Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’ – Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers
  4. How Long Has This Been Going On? – George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin
  5. Be My Love – Nicholas Brodsky, Sammy Cahn
  6. Anonymous Love – Edward Langford, Joel Webster
  7. Heavenly Music – Bob Bradstreet, Solomon Burke
  8. Game Number Nine – Dee Ervin, Tommy Payton
  9. Let It Be – John Lennon, Paul McCartney

The Rolling Stones: Hackney Diamonds

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On October 20, 2023, “Polydor” label released “Hackney Diamonds”, the twenty-fourth  Rolling Stones (The) studio album. It was recorded February 2019, 2020, December 2022, January 2023, at “Electric Lady” in New York City, “Henson” in Los Angeles, “The Hit Factory” in New York City, “Metropolis” in London, “Sanctuary” in Nassau, Bahamas, and was produced by Andrew Watt and Don Was.

Personnel:

  • Mick Jagger – lead and backing vocals, guitar, percussion, harmonica
  • Keith Richards – lead and backing vocals, guitar, bass guitar
  • Ronnie Wood – guitar, bass guitar
  • Charlie Watts – drums
  • Matt Clifford – keyboards, piano, Wurlitzer electric piano, Rhodes electric piano, organ. Hammond B3 organ 
  • Elton John – piano 
  • Benmont Tench – Hammond organ
  • Stevie Wonder – piano, Rhodes electric piano, Moog synthesizer
  • Bill Wyman – bass guitar
  • Paul McCartney – bass guitar
  • Andrew Watt – bass guitar, guitar, keyboards, percussion, backing vocals, string arrangements
  • Steve Jordan – drums
  • Karlos Edwards – percussion
  • James King – saxophone
  • Ron Blake – trumpet
  • Lady Gaga – vocals
  • David Campbell – string arrangements
  • Matt Clifford – vocal engineering, recording 
  • Don Was – drum recording
  • Andrew Watt – mixing
  • Serban Ghenea – mixing 
  • Paul Lamalfa – mixing
  • Matt Colton – mastering
  • Studio Fury – art direction, design
  • Paulina Almira – illustration
  • Marc VanGool – guitar technician, studio assistance

Track listing:

All tracks by Keith Jagger and Keith Richards, except where noted.

  1. Angry – Jagger–Richards, Andrew Watt
  2. Get Close – Jagger–Richards, Andrew Watt
  3. Depending On You – Jagger–Richards, Andrew Watt
  4. Bite My Head Off
  5. Whole Wide World
  6. Dreamy Skies
  7. Mess It Up
  8. Live by the Sword
  9. Driving Me Too Hard
  10. Tell Me Straight
  11. Sweet Sounds of Heaven
  12. Rolling Stone Blues – Muddy Waters

John Denver: Rhymes & Reasons

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On October 14, 1969, “RCA” label released “Rhymes & Reasons”, the debut John Denver studio album. It was recorded in 1969, at “RCA Studios” in New York City, and was produced by Milton Okun.

Personnel:

  • John Denver – vocals, guitar, arrangements
  • Eric Weissberg – banjo, steel guitar
  • Paul Prestopino – guitar, autoharp, mandolin
  • Stan Free – organ
  • Paul Griffin – keyboards
  • Russ Savakus – bass guitar
  • Teddy Sommer – drums
  • Herbie Lovelle – drums
  • George Marge – baritone saxophone
  • Marvin Stamm – flute, trumpet
  • Albert Richmond – French horn
  • Tommy Goodman – additional instrumentation
  • Milton Okun – arrangements
  • Jim Crotty – recording
  • John Woram – recording
  • Jean Goldhirsch – assistant producer

Track listing:

  1. The Love of the Common People – John Hurley, Ronnie Wilkins
  2. Catch Another Butterfly – Mike Williams
  3. Daydream – John Denver
  4. The Ballad of Spiro Agnew – Tom Paxton
  5. Circus – Michael Johnson, John Denver, Laurie Kuehn
  6. When I’m Sixty-Four – John Lennon, Paul McCartney
  7. The Ballad of Richard Nixon – Tom Paxton
  8. Rhymes & Reasons – John Denver
  9. Yellow Cat – Steven Fromholz
  10. Leaving on a Jet Plane – John Denver
  11. (You Dun Stomped) My Heart – Mason Williams
  12. My Old Man – Jerry Jeff Walker
  13. I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free – Billy Taylor, Dick Dallas
  14. Today Is the First Day of the Rest of My Life (Sugacity) – Pat Garvey, Victoria Garvey

Carpenters: Offering

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On October 9, 1969, “A&M” label released “Offering”, the debut Carpenters studio album. It was recorded in 1969, at “A&M Studios” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Jack Daugherty.

Personnel:

  • Richard Carpenter – lead and backing vocals, piano, Wurlitzer electric piano, harpsichord, remastering
  • Karen Carpenter – lead and backing vocals, drums, electric bass
  • Gary Sims – guitar
  • Joe Osborn – bass
  • Bob Messenger – bass
  • Herb Alpert – shakers
  • Ray Gerhardt – engineer
  • Bernie Grundman – remastering
  • Tom Wilkes – art director
  • Jim McCrary – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Richard Carpenter and John Bettis, except where noted.

  1. Invocation
  2. Your Wonderful Parade
  3. Someday
  4. Get Together – Chet Powers
  5. All of My Life – Richard Carpenter
  6. Turn Away
  7. Ticket to Ride – John Lennon, Paul McCartney
  8. Don’t Be Afraid – Richard Carpenter
  9. What’s the Use
  10. All I Can Do
  11. Eve
  12. Nowadays Clancy Can’t Even Sing – Neil Young
  13. Benediction

Paul McCartney And Carl Davis: Paul McCartney’s Liverpool Oratorio

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On October 7, 1991, “EMI Classics” label released “Paul McCartney’s Liverpool Oratorio”, a live album by Paul McCartney and Carl Davis. It was recorded in June 1991, at “Liverpool Cathedral” in Liverpool, England, and was produced by John Fraser. The album was released to commemorate the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra’s 150th anniversary.

Personnel:

  • Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra – orchestra
  • Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir – chorus
  • Liverpool Cathedral Choiristers – chorus
  • Carl Davis – conductor
  • Ian Tracey – conductor
  • Kiri Te Kanawa – soprano: Mary Dee
  • Jerry Hadley – tenor: Shanty
  • Sally Burgess – mezzo-soprano: Miss Inkley, Chief Mourner, Nurse
  • Willard White – bass: Headmaster, Preacher, Mr. Dingle
  • Jeremy Budd – treble: Boy soloist

Track listing:

All pieces by Paul McCartney and Carl Davis.

Movement I – War

  1. Andante (Orchestra)
  2. Non Nobis Solum
  3. The Air Raid Siren Slices Through… (Shanty)
  4. Oh Will It All End Here? (Shanty)
  5. Mother and Father Holding Their Child

Movement II – School

  1. We’re Here in School Today to Get a Perfect Education
  2. Walk in Single File Out of the Classroom (Headmaster)
  3. Settle Down
  4. Kept in Confusion (Shanty)
  5. I’ll Always Be Here (Mary Dee)
  6. Boys, This Is Your Teacher (Headmaster, Miss Inkley)
  7. Tres Conejos (Miss Inkley, Headmaster, Shanty)
  8. Not for Ourselves (Headmaster, Miss Inkley, Shanty)

Movement III – Crypt

  1. And So It Was That I Had Grown (Shanty)
  2. Dance
  3. I Used to Come Here When This Place Was a Crypt (Shanty, Preacher)
  4. Here Now (Shanty)
  5. I’ll Always Be Here (Mary Dee, Shanty)
  6. Now’s the Time to Tell Him (Mary Dee, Shanty)

Movement IV – Father

  1. Andante Lamentoso
  2. O Father, You Have Given… (Chief Mourner)
  3. (Ah)
  4. Hey, Wait a Minute (Shanty)
  5. Father, Father, Father (Shanty, Chief Mourner)

Movement V – Wedding

  1. Andante Amoroso – I Know I Should Be Glad of This (Shanty, Mary Dee)
  2. Father, Hear Our Humble Voices (Preacher)
  3. Hosanna, Hosanna (Mary Dee, Shanty)

Movement VI – Work

  1. Allegro Energico
  2. Working Women at the Top (Mary Dee)
  3. Violin Solo
  4. Did I Sign the Letter… (Mary Dee)
  5. Tempo I
  6. When You Ask a Working Man (Shanty, Mr. Dingle)
  7. Let’s Find Ourselves a Little Hostelry (Mr. Dingle)

Movement VII – Crises

  1. Allegro Molto
  2. The World You’re Coming Into (Mary Dee)
  3. Tempo I
  4. Where’s My Dinner? (Shanty, Mary Dee)
  5. Let’s Not Argue (Shanty, Mary Dee)
  6. I’m Not a Slave (Mary Dee, Shanty)
  7. Right! That’s It! (Mary Dee)
  8. Stop. Wait.
  9. Do You Know Who You Are… (Nurse)
  10. Ghosts of the Past Left Behind (Nurse, Shanty, Mary Dee)
  11. Do We Live in a World… (Mary Dee, Nurse, Shanty)

Movement VIII – Peace

  1. And So It Was That You Were Born (Shanty)
  2. God Is Good
  3. What People Want Is a Family Life (Preacher)
  4. Dad’s in the Garden (Nurse, Mary Dee, Preacher, Shanty)
  5. So on and on the Story Goes (Mary Dee, Shanty)

Bryan Ferry: These Foolish Things

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On October 6, 1973, “Island” label released “These Foolish Things”, the debut Bryan Ferry album. It was recorded in June 1973, at “AIR” in London, and was produced by Bryan Ferry, John Porter and John Punter.

Personnel:

  • Bryan Ferry – lead vocals, acoustic piano
  • Phil Manzanera – guitar
  • John Porter – guitars, bass
  • Eddie Jobson – keyboards, synthesizers, violin
  • David Skinner – acoustic piano
  • Paul Thompson – drums
  • John Punter – additional drums
  • Roger Ball – alto and baritone saxophone, horn arrangements
  • Ruan O’Lochlainn – alto saxophone solo
  • Malcolm Duncan – tenor saxophone
  • Henry Lowther – trumpet
  • Robbie Montgomery – backing vocals
  • Jessie Davis – backing vocals
  • The Angelettes – backing vocals
  • John Punter – engineer
  • Steve Nye – engineer
  • Andy Arthurs – engineer assistant
  • Nicholas De Ville – design
  • Karl Stoecker – photography

Track listing:

  1. A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall – Bob Dylan
  2. River of Dalt – Irving Brown, Bernard Zackery, Jan Zackery
  3. Don’t Ever Change – Gerry Goffin, Carole King
  4. Piece of My Heart – Jerry Ragovoy, Bert Berns
  5. Baby I Don’t Care – Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller
  6. It’s My Party – Walter Gold, John Gluck Jr, Herb Weiner
  7. Don’t Worry Baby – Brian Wilson, Roger Christian
  8. Sympathy for the Devil – Mick Jagger, Keith Richards
  9. The Tracks of My Tears – Smokey Robinson, Warren Moore, Marvin Tarplin
  10. You Won’t See Me – John Lennon, Paul McCartney
  11. I Love How You Love Me – Barry Mann, Larry Kolber
  12. Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever – Ivy Jo Hunter, Stevie Wonder
  13. These Foolish Things – Jack Strachey, Eric Maschwitz, Harry Link

Nils Lofgren: Night Fades Away

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On September 30, 1981, “Backstreet” and “MCA” labels released “Night Fades Away”, the fifth Nils Lofgren studio album. It was recorded in 1981, at “Cherokee” in Hollywood, and was produced by Jeffrey Baxter.

Personnel:

  • Nils Lofgren – vocals, guitar, accordion, synthesizer
  • Del Shannon – vocals
  • Jeffrey Baxter – guitar, guitar synthesizer, mixing
  • Trevor Veitch – acoustic guitar
  • Elliott Randall – electric guitar
  • Nicky Hopkins – Fender Rhodes
  • Greg Mathieson – Fender Rhodes
  • David Hungate – bass
  • Neil Stubenhaus – bass
  • Neil Jason – bass
  • Jeff Porcaro – drums
  • Ed Greens – drums
  • Ritchie Hayward – drums
  • Jerry Peterson – saxophone
  • The Fabulous Robbs – backing vocals
  • The Mighty Clouds Of Los Scumbos – backing vocals
  • Larold Rebhun – arrangements
  • Dee Robb – recording
  • Daniel Mancini – engineer assistant
  • Krohn McHenry – engineer assistant
  • Steve Fontana – engineer assistant
  • Larold Rebhun – overdubs, mixing
  • Stephen Marcussen – mastering
  • DJB Barnao – art direction
  • George Osaki – design
  • Annie Leibovitz – photography
  • Jean Luc, Shari Dub – production assistant

Track listing:

All tracks by Nils Lofgren, except where noted.

  1. Night Fades Away
  2. I Go to Pieces – Del Shannon
  3. Empty Heart
  4. Don’t Touch Me
  5. Dirty Money
  6. Sailor Boy
  7. Anytime at All – John Lennon, Paul McCartney
  8. Ancient History
  9. Streets Again – Jeffrey Baxter, Nils Lofgren
  10. In Motion – Jeffrey Baxter, Nils Lofgren

Booker T. & The M.G.’s: Soul Limbo

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In September 1968, “Stax” label released “Soul Limbo”, the seventh Booker T. & the M.G.’s studio album. It was recorded in 1968, at “Stax Recording Studio” in Memphis, and was produced by Booker T. Jones, Steve Cropper, Donald Dunn and Al Jackson Jr.

Personnel:

  • Booker T. Jones – Hammond organ, clavinet, piano, guitar
  • Steve Cropper – guitar
  • Donald Dunn – bass guitar
  • Al Jackson Jr. – drums, percussion
  • Terry Manning – marimba
  • Isaac Hayes – cowbell

Track listing:

  1. Be Young, Be Foolish, Be Happy – J.R. Cobb, Ray Whitley
  2. La-La (Means I Love You) – Thom Bell, William Hart
  3. Hang ‘Em High – Dominic Frontiere
  4. Willow Weep for Me – Ann Ronell
  5. Over Easy – Booker T. Jones, Steve Cropper, Donald Dunn, Al JacksonJr.
  6. Soul Limbo – Booker T. Jones, Steve Cropper, Donald Dunn and Al Jackson Jr.
  7. Eleanor Rigby – John Lennon, Paul McCartney
  8. Heads or Tails = Booker T. Jones, Steve Cropper, Donald Dunn, Al Jackson Jr.
  9. (Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You’ve Been Gone – Aretha Franklin, Teddy White
  10. Born Under a Bad Sign – William Bell, Booker T. Jones
  11. Foxy Lady – Jimi Hendrix