Track Listing
DISC 1: JANIS IAN:
1. Society's Child
2. Too Old to Go 'Way Little Girl
3. Hair of Spun Gold
4. Then Tangles of My Mind
5. I'll Give You a Stone If You'll Throw It (Changing Tymes)
6. Pro-Girl
7. Younger Generation Blues
8. New Christ Cardiac Hero
9. Lover Be Kindly
10. Mrs. McKenzie
11. Janey's Blues
12. Song For All the Seasons of Your Mind, A
13. Honey D'ya Think
14. Bahimsa
15. Queen Merka & Me
16. There Are Times
17. Lonely One
18. Sunflakes Fall, Snowrays Call
19. Evening Star
20. Shady Acres
21. Insanity Comes Quietly to the Structured Mind
DISC 2: THE SECRET LIFE OF J. EDDY FINK:
1. Everybody Knows
2. Mistaken Identity
3. Friends Again
4. 42nd St. Pschyo Blues
5. She's Made of Porcelain
6. Sweet Misery
7. When I Was a Child
8. What Do You Think of the Dead?
9. Look to the Rain
10. Son of Love
11. Baby's Blue
12. Time on My Hands
13. Love You More Than Yesterday
14. Orphan of the Wind
15. Sea and Sand
16. Galveston
17. Do You Remember?
18. Month of May
19. Calling Your Name
20. And I Did Ma
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Al Kooper, David Friedman, Dick Hyman, Joe Farrell, Marvin Stamm, Richie Havens | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Janis Ian (vocals, guitar, piano, harpsichord, organ, tambourine, sound effects); Carol Hunter (guitar, bass); Vinnie Bell, Al Gorgoni, Sal De Troio, Hugh McCracken, Stu Scharf, Ralph Casale (guitar); Joe Farrell (flute, tenor saxophone); Artie Kaplan (flute); Romeo Pengue (baritone saxophone); Bernie Glow, Marvin Stamm (trumpet); Tony Stud (trombone); Ray Alonge (horns); David Friedman (vibraphone); Artie Butler (piano, harpsichord, organ); Dick Hyman (piano, organ); Al Kooper (organ); Joe Mack, Bob Bushnell, John Miller, Jerry Jemmott (bass); Buddy Saltzman, Bobby Gregg, Al Rogers, Sol Gubin (drums); Richie Havens (congas); Joe Price (bongos); George Devens, Brad Spinney (percussion)
Producers: Shadow Morton, Janis Ian, Charlie Calello.
Compilation producers: Bill Levenson, Jerry Rappaport.
Engineers include: Joe Vennerie, Gene Radice.
Includes liner notes by Scott Schinder.
This two-disc set collects nearly every track from Janis Ian's four Verve albums, recorded between 1967 and 1969, by which time the astonishingly precocious singer/songwriter was all of eighteen years old. The title song, a protest piece about interracial dating and hypocrisy, is by far the strongest thing here; it's still a brave and amazingly sophisticated piece of work, both lyrically (nobody, even the singer, is let of the hook) and musically, for a kid to have written. There's lots of other interesting stuff here, however, including the pleasingly folkish "Hair of Spun Gold" (a Childe Ballad wannabe that was the 12-year-old Ian's first song), and just about all the tracks on disc two have interesting period flourishes a la the Beatles.
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Society's Child - Janis Ian (The Original Record)
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