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Barclay James Harvest (album)

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Genre
  
Progressive rock

Producer
  
Norman Smith

Length
  
39:42

Released
  
June 5, 1970 (1970-06-05)

Recorded
  
November 8, 1969 - January 26, 1970 at E.M.I. Studios, Abbey Road, London

Label
  
Harvest (UK) Sire (USA)

Barclay James Harvest is the first album released by Barclay James Harvest.

Contents

Track listing

On the original vinyl LP all songs were credited to Holroyd/Lees/Pritchard/Wolstenholme. The list below shows the actual composers.

Side one

  1. "Taking Some Time On" (John Lees) – 5:31
  2. "Mother Dear" (Lees) – 3:20
    Arranged and conducted by Norman Smith
  3. "The Sun Will Never Shine" (Woolly Wolstenholme) – 5:07
  4. "When the World Was Woken" (Les Holroyd) – 5:50

Side two

  1. "Good Love Child" (Lees) – 5:10
  2. "The Iron Maiden" (Wolstenholme) – 2:43
  3. "Dark Now My Sky" (Lees) – 12:01

Bonus tracks

Barclay James Harvest was remastered and reissued by Harvest in 2002 as Their First Album with several bonus tracks:

  1. "Early Morning" (Holroyd, Lees, Mel Pritchard, Wolstenholme) – 2:34
  2. "Mister Sunshine" (Wolstenholme) – 2:54
  3. "So Tomorrow" (Holroyd, Lees, Pritchard, Wolstenholme) – 3:28
  4. "Eden Unobtainable" (Holroyd) – 3:10
  5. "Night" (Wolstenholme) – 3:20
  6. "Pools of Blue" (Lees) – 3:29
  7. "Need You Oh So Bad" (Wolstenholme) – 1:18
  8. "Small Time Town" (Lees) – 2:12
  9. "Dark Now My Sky" (Lees ) – 3:43
  10. "I Can't Go on Without You" (Wolstenholme) – 2:13
  11. "Eden Unobtainable" (Holroyd) – 3:04
  12. "Poor Wages" (Wolstenholme) – 2:34
  13. "Brother Thrush" (Lees) – 3:06

Personnel

Barclay James Harvest
  • John Lees – vocals, guitars, recorder
  • Les Holroyd – vocals, bass guitar, guitar, cello
  • Stuart "Woolly" Wolstenholme – vocals, mellotron, keyboards, guitar, harmonica
  • Mel Pritchard – drums, percussion
    • Additional personnel
  • Jim Litherland – guitar on "Taking Some Time On"
  • The Barclay James Harvest Symphony Orchestra
  • Orchestra Leader: Gavin Wright
  • Conductor and Musical Director: Robert Godfrey
  • Engineer: Phil McDonald

    • Cover

    The original gatefold cover was designed by Ian Latimer, with photography by Richard Dunkley.

    References

    Barclay James Harvest (album) Wikipedia
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