This is the first Kinks' first album with both the American and English versions having the same track listing. / * - but the _5th_ LP released in the US / The group Sleater-Kinney, on their 1997 album "Dig Me Out", used the same album cover layout - Click on the Link above, to view the CD cover
A review in 'Rolling Stone' by Ken Barnes was critical of Ray Davies' "tendency toward vaudevillian excess," but overall he rated Preservation as a "highly listenable, enjoyable album.". He singled out "Sitting in the Midday Sun" as a "wistfully irresistible" number. //
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Mick Jagger compared the album favorably to "Sticky Fingers". Jagger reportedly thought the Flamin' Groovies did the better take on the theme of classic blues and rock 'n roll revisited in an early 1970s context.
Time:
5:23
Artist:
Warren Zevon [Jorge Calderón, David Lindell, Waddy Wachtel, WArren Zevon]
In keeping with their sense of humor, album credits read "Recorded at Bearsville Studios, November 1977 (not at Yankee Stadium)". / The FULL STORY - The album cover has photos of NRBQ in an otherwise empty Yankee Stadium; these were taken as a birthday treat for Joey Spampinato, when his bandmates arranged a private visit to the ballpark.
Jerry Wexler signed the group to Warner Brothers. / // Click on the Link above, to read a retrospective review of this album, which also covers her career up to that point
* - it was the follow-up to 'Louie Louie' but The Sonics' recording was probably based on Paul Revere And The Raiders version, which was released in March of 1964, as the B-side of their second CBS single, ' Louie - Go Home'. Though they had no national hits yet, Paul Revere And The Raiders were very popular live in the Pacific Northwest.
The intro is an almost direct copy of the intro of Horace Silver's jazz classic "Song for My Father". This is their final album to feature the full quintet lineup of: Walter Becker, Donald Fagen, Denny Dias, Jim Hodder. . It was the last album to be made and released while they was still an active touring band
The song is about Clapton's unrequited love for Pattie Boyd, then the wife of George Harrison, / #117 on the Rolling Stone list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time", 2003 // Click on the Link above, left, to view the original single.
Time:
6:36
Artist:
John Lennon [Billed on single as: 'John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band']
PERSONNEL: John Lennon - vocals, electric guitar, piano / Klaus Voormann - bass guitar / Bobby Keys - saxophone / Jim Gordon - drums
Rosetta Hightower and others - backing vocals //
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