Posts Tagged ‘Elton’

Prologue (Elton John album) | the albums Elton

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Prologue is an album by Elton John, featuring recordings made in the 1960s. It features four songs with Linda Peters on vocals (who then went on to marry musician Richard Thompson). Elton sings the remaining titles. The CD is a copy of an original vinyl demo album recorded on white label and released in 1970 to publicise the then fledgling Warlock label owned and run by producer Joe Boyd. It seems only 100 of these original vinyl albums were made. Six are known to exist. Elton owns one and the other five are in private hands. The CD is a copy of a rather scratched original and its sound quality is pretty bad. Stylistically, it is very similar to Tumbleweed Connection. The songs are all written by artists signed to Warlock, including Nick Drake and John Martyn.


Track listing

  1. Saturday Sun
  2. Sweet Honesty
  3. Stormbringer
  4. Way To Blue
  5. Go Out And Get It
  6. The Day Is Done
  7. Time Has Told Me
  8. You Get Brighter
  9. This Moment
  10. I Don’t Mind
  11. Pied Pauper

Links

Tags: ,
Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Elton John live in Australia with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra | by Elton John

Saturday, February 16th, 2008

Elton John live in Australia with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra is a live album by Elton John and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra recorded at the Sydney Entertainment Centre on December 14th, 1986. He dressed up as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It is also the last album to feature Elton’s old vocal register prior to his throat surgery which occurred January 5th 1987.


Track listing

  1. Sixty Years On – 5:06
  2. I Need You To Turn To – 2:34
  3. The Greatest Discovery – 3:48
  4. Tonight – 7:26
  5. Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word – 3:30
  6. The King Must Die – 4:58
  7. Take Me to the Pilot – 4:22
  8. Tiny Dancer – 6:06
  9. Have Mercy On The Criminal – 5:28
  10. Madman Across the Water – 6:20
  11. Candle in the Wind – 3:46
  12. Burn Down the Mission – 5:26
  13. Your Song – 3:48
  14. Don’t Let the Sun Go Down On Me – 5:28


Credits

  • Produced by Gus Dudgeon
  • Mastered by Greg Fulginiti US


References

http://www.vex.net/~paulmac/elton/ej1987.html#1987

Links

Elton John’s Greatest Hits Vol. 3 | by Elton John released

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

Elton John’s Greatest Hits Vol. 3 is a compilation album by British singer/songwriter Elton John, released in 1987 only in the United States. It contains some of his biggest hits released from 1979 through 1986. The album was released at a time when Elton John had just moved back to his old U.S. label, MCA Records. Geffen’s last-ditch compilation was met with some disdain from the artist, who resented the competition against his new live album on MCA, which eventually bought Geffen in 1990.

Fully one third of the contents came from the 1983 album Too Low For Zero, the album that had received the strongest critical and commercial response of the era. Elsewhere on the collection, less successful but more recent songs such as “Wrap Her Up” and “Heartache All Over the World” were chosen over older but modestly more successful songs such as 1978’s “Part Time Love” and 1981’s “Nobody Wins”. However, it did include two songs from MCA, 1979’s “Mama Can’t Buy You Love” (actually recorded in 1977) and 1980’s “Little Jeannie”.

In 1992, this album was deleted and replaced with Greatest Hits 1976-1986. MCA had taken over Geffen Records, and control of copyrights had shifted such that 1977’s Greatest Hits Volume II could no longer be presented as before. Two songs from it, “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart ” and “Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word”, were shifted to the new third volume, which also now included 1984’s “Who Wears These Shoes”. To make room for these additions, the 1986 flop “Heartache All Over The World” and 1983’s album-only track “Too Low For Zero” were eliminated.


Track listing

  1. “I Guess That’s Why They Call It The Blues”
  2. “Mama Can’t Buy You Love”
  3. “Little Jeannie”
  4. “Sad Songs (Say So Much)”
  5. “I’m Still Standing”
  6. “Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny)”
  7. “Heartache All Over The World”
  8. “Too Low For Zero”
  9. “Kiss The Bride”
  10. “Blue Eyes”
  11. “Nikita”
  12. “Wrap Her Up”


Credits

  • Album Coordinators John David Kalodner & Robin Rothman
  • Originally Mastered by Greg Fulginiti
  • Art Direction/Design Laura Lipuma
  • Management John Reid

Links

Tags: , ,
Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Baron Elton | the albums Elton

Monday, November 5th, 2007

Baron Elton, of Headington in the County of Oxford, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1934 for the historian Godfrey Elton. As of 2007 the title is held by his son, the second Baron, who succeeded in 1973. He held minor office in the Conservative administrations of Edward Heath and Margaret Thatcher and is one of the ninety elected hereditary peers that remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999.


Barons Elton (1934)

  • Godfrey Elton, 1st Baron Elton (1892-1973)
  • Rodney Elton, 2nd Baron Elton (b. 1930)


References

  • Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett’s Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin’s Press, 1990.
  • Leigh Rayment’s Peerage Page

Tags: , ,
Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Elton Dean | Elton John released

Friday, September 7th, 2007

Elton Dean (born October 28 1945, Nottingham, England; died February 8 2006) was a jazz musician who performed on alto saxophone, saxello (a variant of the soprano saxophone) and occasionally keyboard.

From 1966-67, Dean was a member of the band Bluesology, led by Long John Baldry. The band’s pianist, Reginald Dwight, afterward combined Dean’s and Baldry’s first names for his own stage name, Elton John.

Dean established his reputation as a member of the Keith Tippett Sextet from 1968 to 1970, and in the band Soft Machine from 1969 to 1972. Shortly before leaving Soft Machine he started his own group, Just Us. From 1975 to 1978 he led a nine-piece band called Ninesense, performing at the Bracknell Jazz Festival and similar events. His own groups since then, usually quartets or quintets, have most often worked in the free jazz mode, with little or no pre-composed material. At the same time, he has continued to work with other groups that are very composition-based, such as guitarist Phil Miller’s In Cahoots, drummer Pip Pyle’s Equipe Out, and various projects with former Soft Machine bassist Hugh Hopper.

In 2002, Dean and three other former Soft Machine members (Hugh Hopper, drummer John Marshall, and guitarist Allan Holdsworth) toured and recorded under the name Soft Works. With another former Soft Machine member, guitarist John Etheridge, replacing Holdsworth, they subsequently toured and recorded as Soft Machine Legacy, playing some pieces from the original Soft Machine repertoire as well as new works. Featuring Dean, three albums of theirs have been released: Live in Zaandam (CD, rec. 2005/05/10), New Morning - The Paris Concert (DVD, rec. 2005/12/12) and the studio album Soft Machine Legacy (CD, 2006, rec. 2005).

Dean’s last musical collaborations also included those with Soft Bounds (a quartet comprised of Dean, Hugh Hopper, Sophia Domancich and Simon Goubert), Alex Maguire’s project Psychic Warrior, and Belgian rock-jazz band The Wrong Object.

Dean’s playing style could be equally tonal or atonal; his forays into rock with Soft Machine feature a pioneering use of extreme amplification (particularly the live period between albums Third and Fourth).


External links

  • Discography
  • Extended Biography
  • AllAboutJazz.com: “Former Soft Machine saxophone player Elton Dean dies”
  • Elton Dean - interview for Facelift Magazine.

Tags: , ,
Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »