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FAMILY
old songs new songs
Disco LP 33 giri ,reprise , RS 9007 , 1970, italia, first press
OTTIME CONDIZIONI, vinyl ex++/NM , cover ex++.
I Family sono un’importante formazione per l’evoluzione del rock psichedelico di fine sessanta-inizio settanta. Nati nel 1967, sono tra i primi gruppi britannici a coniare e sviluppare il progressive rock e a privilegiare l’album a 33 giri piuttosto che il più breve 45 giri. Il loro stile è variopinto (partendo da forti influenze di folk acido e passando per jazz, blues-rock e ritmi esotici), caratterizzato dalla voce possente di Roger Chapman, dal violino di Ric Grech e dagli spunti esotici del chitarrista Charlie Whitney. I primi tre album (e soprattutto Family Entertainment del 1969)
delineano e condensano le nuove idee in un repertorio di canzoni
atipiche ma bellissime, dai toni accesi, raffinati ed emozionanti. Il
gruppo orginale ha avuto numerosi cambi di formazione, che includono
tra gli altri John Wetton che andrà in seguito nei King Crimson e Poli Palmer e Jim Cregan, seppur per poco tempo, provenienti dai Blossom Toes.
OLD SONGS, NEW SONGS
March 1971
COMPILATION FEATURING PREVIOUSLY RELEASED
MATERIAL AND REMIXED AND RERECORDED TRACKS PRODUCED BY FAMILY, JOHN
GILBERT, DAVE MASON
Old Songs New Songs is a compilation album of ten previously released songs and one remake from the British progressive rock band Family, released in March 1971. The title is taken from the title of a song that appeared on the band’s 1968 debut album Music in a Doll’s House, although that song does not appear on this record.
Highlights of this package were songs previously released on 45rpm
records only, marked by an asterisk. This album is notable for
featuring a remake of “Observations From a Hill” with Roger Chapman on
lead vocals, rather than Jim King
from the original recording as well as very different mixes of “Hung Up
Down” and “Weaver’s Answer.” (Band members were quoted in the chapter
devoted to them in the excellent book “The Road To Rock” stating how
much they hated the mix on the second album, so they re-recorded a
number of vocals and elements and remixed those tracks.)
Personnel
- John Weider – bass, violin
- John Whitney – guitar
- Poli Palmer – keyboards
- Rob Townsend – drums, percussion
- Roger Chapman – vocals
- Ric Grech – bass and/or cello where indicated by +
- Jim King – saxophone and/or harmonica where indicated by ^
Etichetta: reprise records
Catalogo: RS 9007
- Supporto:vinile 33 giri
- Tipo audio: stereo
- Dimensioni: 30 cm.
- Facciate: 2
- Copertina laminata / laminated sleeve, steambot mustard label, poly inner sleeve
Track listing
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- Side One
- “Hung Up Down”+
- “Today*”
- “Observations From A Hill”+^
- “Good Friend Of Mine*”^
- “Drowned In Wine“
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- Side Two
- “Peace Of Mind”+^
- “Hometown*”+^
- “The Cat And The Rat”
- “No Mule’s Fool*”^
- “See Through Windows”+^
- “The Weaver’s Answer“+^
All selections by Whitney/Chapman except “Today,” by Whitney/Chapman/Weider.
| This album, a hybrid best-of/singles/remix record, was put together by Family to promote a planned U.S. tour. When the tour was cancelled, the album was released in the U.K. in March, 1971. Songs from the first three albums are included, along with four non-album singles. Special treatment was given to “Hung up Down,” “Observations from a Hill,” “Weaver’s Answer” and “Hometown; ” instrumental tracks were re-recorded for these numbers, due to the band’s dissatisfaction with the original mixes. The album was an unusual mid-career release, and it filled the gap between the stylistically opposed Anyway and Fearless. Roger Chapman has If you haven’t seen Chapman for some time, you are possibly This gig is a Now then, if you have stumbled on this page and don’t |
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