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Veronique Sanson Veronique Sanson
Elektra EKS 75050 (Stereo)
Released: 1973
Production: Michel Berger
Engineering: Roger Roche
Side 1
- Amoureuse
- Tout est Cassé Tout est Mort
- L'irréparable
- Louis
- Mariavah
- Pour les Michel
Side 2 - Anglophone version
- Pour Qui
- Green Green Green
- I Needed Nobody
- Bahia
- C'est le Moment
- Birds of Summer
Side 2 - Francophone version
- Pour Qui
- Vert Vert Vert
- Besoin de Personne
- Bahia
- C'est le Moment
- Dis-lui (de Revenir)
European copies have a different sleeve to US copies and the album was released in francophone territories, such as Canada and in Europe, with more French songs but with the same catalogue number. The early copies did not have a sleeve title but the disc was later titled 'Amoureuse' to capitalise on the hit opening song and the European sleeve photo was a slightly different pose and with different typography. Note that the disc labels omitted accents from the letters in the French titles.
The New Seekers Best Of The New Seekers
Elektra EKS 75051 (Stereo) EQ 5051 (Quad)
Released: 1973
Production: David MacKay for Leon Henry Productions
Side 1
- Look What They've Done To My Song, Ma
- Beautiful People
- Nickel Song
- Blackberry Way
- A Perfect Love
- Never Ending Song Of Love
Side 2
- I'd Like To Teach World To Sing (In Perfect Harmony)
- Tonight
- Evergreen
- Circles
- Beg, Steal Or Borrow
- Dance, Dance, Dance
Sleeve note says 'Album assembled by Keith Holzman'.
Dana Cooper Dana Cooper
Elektra EKS 75052 (Stereo)
Released: 1973
Production: Stan Farber
Engineering: Bill Schnee, Armin Steiner, Bruce Morgan
Recorded: Elektra Sound Recorders and The Sound Lab, Los Angeles
Side 1
- Lover, Baby, Friend
- Oklahoma Rodeo Queen
- January Hurry
- Someone Came to Listen
- Jesse James
Side 2
- The Singer
- Sweet City Man
- Old K-10 Plus Two
- Grandpa
- Home Again, Home Again
Lyric sheet included in US copies.
Judy Collins True Stories & Other Dreams
Elektra EKS 75053 (Stereo)
Released: 1973
Production: Mark Abramson and Judy Collins
Engineering: Shelly Yakus and Jay Messina
Recorded: The Record Plant, New York
Side 1
- Cook With Honey
- So Begins the Task
- Fishermen Song
- The Dealer (Down and Losin')
- Secret Gardens
Side 2
- Holly Ann
- The Hostage
- Song for Martin
- Ché
I interviewed Judy at the time of this album's release on the final edition of my Fresh Garbage radio programme on BBC Radio London. I had forgotten, but she signed a lovely note on the inner sleeve of my copy.
Billy Mernit Special Delivery
Elektra EKS 75054 (Stereo)
Released: 1973
Production: Jerry Yester for Thorkus Productions
Engineering: Richie Moore (Ben Taylor on two tracks)
Recorded: Tropicana Motel, Elektra Sound Recorders, Wally Heider's and Crystal Studios, Hollywood
Side 1
- Special Delivery
- Here Beside the Water
- Wrong Again
- You've Really Got a Hold on Me
- Ain't no Dancer
- Mad Love
Side 2
- Motel Dawn
- I'm Open
- Everybody Wants Theirs
- I Seen Ya
- If I Could
- You're Great when you get Drunk, Honey
Foldout sheet with photo and lyrics included.
Mickey Newbury Heaven Help The Child
Elektra EKS 75055 (Stereo)
Released: 1973
Production: Russ Miller, Marlin Greene and Dennis Linde
Engineering: Wayne Moss, Stan Agol, Tommy Knox, Charlie Talent
Side 1
- Heaven Help The Child
- Good Morning Dear
- Sunshine
- Sweet Memories
Side 2
- Why You Been Gone so Long
- Cortelia Clark
- Song for Susan
- San Francisco Mabel Joy
Die-cut sleeve showing photo from the inner sleeve or back of the sleeve. 'Frisco Mabel Joy' was produced by Bob Beckham.
Bread Best of Bread
Elektra EKS 75056 (Stereo) EQ 5056 (Quad)
Released: 1973
Production: David Gates
Engineering: Armin Steiner
US version
Side 1
- Make It With You
- Everything I Own
- Diary
- Baby I'm-A Want You
- It Don't Matter To Me
- If
Side 2
- Mother Freedom
- Down On My Knees
- Too Much Love
- Let Your Love Go
- Look What You've Done
- Truckin'
Non-US version
Side 1
- Make it With You
- Too Much Love
- If
- Let Your Love Go
- Everything I Own
- Been Too Long on the Road
Side 2
- Baby I'm-A Want You
- Down on my Knees
- It Don't Matter to Me
- Mother Freedom
- Look What You've Done
- Truckin'
Two different versions of this disc. The US (North American) version with the straight portrait cover (and a gatefold sleeve) and another version for other territories with the band photographed in a wood. The track listings are slightly different as well.
The quad version follows the US version and eventually so did the non-US territories.
Don Agrati Homegrown
Elektra EKS 75057 (Stereo)
Released: 1973
Production: Don Agrati
Recorded: 'At home'
Side 1
- Bloodstream
- Love, Come my Way
- Rocky Mountain Bear Hunt
- Heather Ann
- Story
- One Man Woman
Side 2
- Hollywood Song
- Sunny Day
- I Was a Man
- Protoplasm Blues
- Two Bit Afternoon
Perhaps better known as an actor - Agrati played the role of Robbie Douglas (using a stage name of Don Grady) in the long-running US comedy 'My Three Sons'.
Stardrive with Robert Mason Intergalactic Trot
Elektra EKS 75058 (Stereo) EQ 5058 (Quad)
Released: 1973
Production: Robert W Zachary Jr
Engineering: Jay Messina and Fritz Richmond
Recorded: Elektra Sound Recorders
Side 1
- Rushes
- Strawberry Fields Forever
- Star drive
Side 2
- Dr Tandem (Takes a Ride)
- Want to Take you Higher
- Everything at Once
- Intergalactic Trot
The sleeve notes say that "Robert Mason has built the world's first multi-voiced synthesizer that can be played like a real keyboard instrument" and it was played "live" on this recording.
Capital City Rockets Capital City Rockets
Elektra EKS 75059 (Stereo)
Released: July 1973
Production: Michael Rosa
Engineering: Fritz Richmond
Recorded: Elektra Sound Recorders, Los Angeles
Side 1
- Ten Hole Dollars
- Grab Your Honey
- Little Bit O' Fun
- Come Back Baby
- People are Losing
Side 2
- Breakfast in Bed
- Newcomer Blues
- My Orange Tie
- Searchlight
- Still Kicking
Courtland Pickett Fancy Dancer
Elektra EKS 75060 (Stereo)
Released: 1973
Production: Pete Carr
Engineering: Jerry Masters, Steve Melton, Stan Agol, Pete Carr
Recorded: Muscle Shoals Sound Studios, Alabama
Side 1
- Make it Good & Make it Last
- You're Not There
- The Homecoming
- You Don't Grow Old
- Fancy Dancer
Side 2
- It's All Over Now
- Sad Thing
- Oh, Little Darlin'
- Alabama Smile
- Softly Saying
Programming by Jac Holzman.
Ian Matthews Valley Hi
Elektra EKS 75061 (Stereo)
Released: July 1973
Production: Michael Nesmith
Engineering: Terry Dunavan, Fritz Richmond
Recorded: The Countryside Studio, Los Angeles
Side 1
- Keep on Sailing
- Old Man at the Mill
- Shady Lies
- These Days
- Leaving Alone
Side 2
- 7 Bridges Road
- Save Your Sorrows
- What Are You Waiting For
- Propinquity
- Blue Blue Day
Ian had been tempted over to Los Angeles to record with Michael Nesmith. Lyrics on the inside of the gate-fold sleeve.
Dennis Linde Dennis Linde
Elektra EKS 75062 (Stereo)
Released: 1973
Production: Dennis Linde
Engineering: Chip Young, Wayne Moss
Recorded: 'At home'; Youngun Sound, Murtreesboro, Tennessee; Cinderella Sound Studio, Madison, Tennessee;
Side 1
- Hello, I am Your Heart
- Ridin' High
- I Had a Dream
- The Longer You're Gone
- East St Louis Nights
Side 2
- DR-31
- Don't Leave me Here all Alone
- Some Songs
- All I Want to do is be Your Man
- Burning Love
- Just a Song
Linda Hargrove Music Is Your Mistress
Elektra EKS 75063 (Stereo)
Released: July 1973
Production: Pete Drake
Engineering: Pete Drake, Stan Kesler, David West, Linda Hargrove
Recorded: Pete's Place ('Fallen Angel' at Columbia Studio B, Nashville)
Side 1
- Fallen Angel
- New York City Song
- Let It Shine
- Sing, Feelin', Sing
- My Secret Self
- The Farmer's Former Wife
Side 2
- Music Is Your Mistress
- I Feel Free Now
- Couples
- Don't Let It Bother You
- A Song I Was Too Foolish To Believe
- When He Leads His Lambs Away
Lyrics inside the gate-fold sleeve.
Queen Queen
Elektra EKS 75064 (Stereo)
Released: September 1973
Production: John Anthony, Roy Baker and Queen for Neptune Productions
Engineering: Roy Baker, Mike Stone, Ted Sharpe, Dave Hentschel
Recorded: Trident Studios, London ('The Night Comes Down' recorded by Louie Austin at De Lane Lee Studios)
Side 1
- Keep Yourself Alive
- Doing All Right
- Great King Rat
- My Fairy King
Side 2
- Liar
- The Night Comes Down
- Modern Times Rock 'n' Roll
- Son and Daughter
- Jesus
- Seven Seas Of Rhye
US Promo copies included an insert card saying 'British Rock in the Royal Tradition'. Early US copies of this album (possibly just the first 1000) had a gold embossed cover. A Quad edition (EQ 5064) is listed by Goldmine but I have no firm evidence that it exists. Please correct me if I'm wrong. UK release (on EMI) released 13/07/1973 but with a slightly different cover.
Harry Chapin Short Stories
Elektra EKS 75065 (Stereo)
Released: 1973
Production: Paul Leka
Engineering: Billy Rose II / Stan Agol
Recorded: Connecticut Recording Studios / Elektra Sound Recorders
Side 1
- Short Stories
- W•O•L•D
- Song for Myself
- Song Man
- Changes
Side 2
- They Call Her Easy
- Mr Tanner
- Mail Order Annie
- There's a Lot of Lonely People Tonight
- Old College Avenue
Lyrics inside the gate-fold sleeve.
David Gates First
Elektra EKS 75066 (Stereo) EQ 5066 (Quad)
Released: 1973
Production: David Gates
Engineering: Bruce Morgan and Armin Steiner
Side 1
- Sail Around The World
- Sunday Rider
- Soap (I Use The)
- Suite: Clouds, Rain
Side 2
- Help is on the Way
- Ann
- Do You Believe He's Comin'
- Sight & Sound
- Lorilee
There's a note on the sleeve of this LP that says 'This album is dedicated to Jac Holzman, I shall miss him'. Lyrice inside the gate-fold sleeve.
Dennis Coulson Dennis Coulson
Elektra EKS 75067 (Stereo)
Released: 1973
Production: Coulson, Gallagher, Lyle and Harwood for HMM Productions
Engineering: Keith Harwood
Recorded: Stargroves
Side 1
- Yesterday's Dream
- Job on the Tyne
- SS Man
- Lady of Fortune
- Neurosis USA
Side 2
- What Went Wrong
- Let it Shine
- Only Friend
- Mississsippi
- Is it me
- Sunset Song
Lyrics in the gatefold sleeve.
Cyrus Faryar Islands
Elektra EKS 75068 (Stereo)
Released: 1973
Production: John Simon
Engineering: Johnny Horton, John Simon, Cyrus Faryar, Tony May
Recorded: Generation Sound
Side 1
- Medley: Bright Island, So We Sailed, On the Sea
- Dolphins
- Good Feeling
Side 2
- Livin' in a Land O' Sunshine
- Ghosts
- Paradise
- At Sunset
Back cover photo by Jac Holzman who is also credited as 'Album concept and guidance counselor'
Melba Montgomery Melba Montgomery
Elektra EKS 75069 (Stereo)
Released: September 1973
Production: Pete Drake
Engineering: Stan Kesler and Scotty Moore
Recorded: Pete's Place, Nashville
Side 1
- Wrap Your Love Around Me
- Papa was Kind
- See no Evil
- Hands Off
- I Love Him Because He's That Way
- Blood Red and Goin' Down
Side 2
- Country Written Up and Down Her Face
- Keep Me Warm
- Let Me Show You How I Can
- Hell Come Home
- Satin Sheets
- Why Me
Jobriath Jobriath
Elektra EKS 75070 (Stereo)
Released: 1973
Production: Jobriath and Edwin H Kramer
Side 1
- Take Me I'm Yours
- Be Still
- World Without End
- Space Clown
- Earthling
- Movie Queen
Side 2
- I'm a Man
- Inside
- Morning Star Ship
- Rock of Ages
- Blow Away
Painter Painter
Elektra EKS 75071 (Stereo)
Released: 1973
Production: Danny Lowe for Clean Air Productions
Engineering: Jim Gaines
Recorded: Kaye/Smith Studios, Seattle
- West Coast Woman
- Tell Me Why
- Song For Sunshine
- Goin Home To Rock 'n' Roll
- Space Truck
- Kites and Gliders
- Oh! You
- Slave Driver
- For You
- Crazy Feeling
- Going Down The Road
The band's name in this photograph is a sticker, presumably because the real logo for the band was obscure enough that a dim DJ might call them panther, or something similar.
Casey Kelly For Sale
Elektra EKS 75072 (Stereo)
Released: 1974
Production: Norbert Putnam and Richard Sanford Orshoff
Engineering: Steve Ham, Richard Sanford Orshoff and David Devore
Side 1
- Jus' Enjoy all you can Stand
- Bayou Country
- All I Could Do
- Airport Song
- Reach out for Me
Side 2
- It's Too Late to Change What's Happened
- I Wish I Knew
- Honey Wait for Me
- Sometimes I Think I Love You More
- And I'm Home
Skymonters Skymonters With Hamid Hamilton Camp
Elektra EKS 75073 (Stereo)
Released: 1973
Production: Stephen Chapin and Skymonters
Engineering: Ben Taylor
Recorded: Syncron Sound Studios, Wallingford, Connecticut
Side 1
- Gypsy
- Kings
- Steal Away
- Disaster
- All I Need
Side 2
- Long River
- Time
- Shadows on the Wall
- Laksmi's Song
- The Dalang
A reappearance on Elektra for Hamilton Camp after a long absence.
Atomic Rooster IV
Elektra EKS 75074 (Stereo)
Released: 1973
Production: Vincent Crane
Engineering: Dave Hanschel and Mike Cooper
Recorded: Trident and Command Studios, London
Side 1
- All Across the Country
- Save Me
- Voodoo In You/Jackie Avery
- Moods
Side 2
- Take One Toke
- Can't Find a Reason
- Ear in the Snow
- What You Gonna Do
Cover art by Pam Wall. This was a retitled and re-sleeved version of the UK album 'Nice & Greasy' (Dawn DNLS 3049) which was actually their fifth album ... but the first, eponymous, one wasn't released in the US.
Alan Hull Pipedream
Elektra EKS 75075 (Stereo)
Released: 1974
Production: Micky Sweeney and Alan Hull
Engineering: Ken Scott and Mike Stone
Side 1
- Breakfast
- Justanothersadsong
- Money Game
- STD 0632
- United States of Mind
- Country Gentleman's Wife
Side 2
- Numbers (Travelling Band)
- For the Bairns
- Drug Song
- Song for a Windmill
- Blue Murder
- I Hate To See You Cry
The STD (Subscriber Trunk Dialing) code of 0632, which would now be 01632, is reserved for use in film and TV programmes and doesn't actually exist as a real telephone area code.
Buzz Rabin Cross Country Cowboy
Elektra EKS 75076 (Stereo)
Released: 1974
Production: Pete Drake
Engineering: Stan Kesler
Recorded: Pete's Place, Nashville
Side 1
- Cross Country Cowboy (Pt I)
- Roads and Other Reasons
- Angels in Red
- Little Darlin's 1 Through 6
- Death of a Derelict
- The Drifter
Side 2
- Beaucoups of Blues
- Man and Wife Time
- I Believe in an Old Fashioned Jesus
- This I Know
- There's a Jekyll Under Everybody's Hyde
- Cross Country Cowboy (Pt II)
Lindisfarne Roll On Ruby
Elektra EKS 75077 (Stereo)
Released: 1974
Production: Roy T Baker in conjunction with Mick Sweeney and Lindisfarne
Recorded: Trident Studios, London
Side 1
- Taking Care of Business
- North Country Boy
- Steppenwolf
- Nobody Loves You Anymore
- When the War is Over
Side 2
- Moonshine
- Lazy
- Roll on River
- Tow the Line
- Goodbye
Licensed from Charisma Records (UK). The US version has a different typography on the sleeve.
Ian Matthews Some Days You Eat The Bear
Elektra EKS 75078 (Stereo)
Released: 1974
Production: Ian Matthews
Engineering: Fritz Richmond
Recorded: Elektra Sound Recorders, Hollywood
Side 1
- Ole 55
- I Don't Wanna Talk About it
- A Wailing Goodbye
- Keep on Sailing
- Tried so Hard
Side 2
- Dirty Work
- Do I Still Figure in Your Life
- Home
- Biloxi
- The Fault
Lyrics, photo and track info on an insert.
Melba Montgomery No Charge
Elektra EKS 75079 (Stereo)
Released: 1974
Production: Pete Drake
Engineering: Stan Kesler
Recorded: Pete's Place, Nashville
Side 1
- No Charge
- I Think I'd Like to Love Again
- Then to Now
- My Feel Good Sure Feels Fine
- Loving You (Was All I Ever Needed)
- How are Things in Tulsa
Side 2
- Hickman County Blues
- Country Child
- Stay 'Til I Don't Love You Any More
- I Can't Move no Mountain
- I'll Give You All of Me Then
- Love, I Need You
Mickey Newbury I Came to Hear the Music
Elektra EKS 75080 (Stereo)
Released: 1974
Side 1
- I Came To Hear The Music
- Breeze Lullaby
- You Only Live Once (In A While)
- Yesterday's Gone
- If You See Her
Side 2
- Dizzy Lizzy
- If I Could Be
- Organized Noise
- Love Look (At Us Now)
- Baby's Not Home
- 1 X 1 Ain't 2
- (Interlude)
This album was actually released as 7E-1007 but a matrix number for EKS 75080 is visible on early American copies.
Randy Lee Soakin' With Tears
Elektra EKS 75081 (Stereo)
Released: 1974
Production: Pete Drake
Engineering: Stan Kesler
Recorded: Pete's Place, Nashville
Side 1
- Soakin' With Tears
- Say Love (Or Don't Say Anything At All)
- Super Holdin' Power
- Love is What I Am
- When You Turn on the Love
- Lovers and Friends
Side 2
- No Piece Better Than An Old Piece
- Humpty Dumpty World
- Mister Brown
- Give Me Wings Lord
- Endin' Time
Queen Queen II
Elektra EKS 75082 (Stereo)
Released: April 1974
Production: Roy Thomas Baker and Queen
Engineering: Mike Stone
Recorded: Trident Studios, London
Side 1
- Procession
- Father to Son
- White Queen (As it Began)
- Some Day One Day
- The Loser in the End
Side 2
- Ogre Battle
- The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke
- Nevermore
- The March of the Black Queen
- Funny How Love Is
- Seven Seas of Rhye
UK release (on EMI) issued on 03/03/1974. Interesting that the sleeve image looks like a shot from the Bohemian Rhapsody video (it isn't) ... which doesn't appear on this album. This is the final album issued in the 5000 series.