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Before I Forget (album)

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Released
  
June 28, 1982

Producer
  
Guy Bidmead, Jon Lord

Genre
  
Folk-rock, rock

Before I Forget (1982)
  
Pictured Within (1998)

Recorded
  
September 1981 and February 17 - March 4, 1982 at Britannia Row, London

Label
  
Harvest (original release & 2012 CD reissue) RPM (1994 CD reissue) Purple (1999 CD reissue)

Before I Forget is a 1982 album by Jon Lord, featuring a largely conventional eight-song line-up, no orchestra. The bulk of the songs are either mainstream rock tracks ("Hollywood Rock and Roll", "Chance on a Feeling") or, specifically on Side Two, a series of very English classical piano ballads sung by mother and daughter duo, Vicki Brown and Sam Brown (wife and daughter of entertainer Joe Brown) and vocalist Elmer Gantry. The album also features prolific session drummer (and National Youth Jazz Orchestra alumnus) Simon Phillips, Cozy Powell, Neil Murray, Simon Kirke, Boz Burrell and Mick Ralphs. Lord used synthesizers more than before, principally to retain an intimacy with the material and to create a jam atmosphere with old friends like Tony Ashton.

Contents

Track listing

Side One
  1. "Chance on a Feeling" – 4:06
  2. "Tender Babes" (O Ye Tender Babes) (Thomas Tallis, arr. by Jon Lord) – 4:04
  3. "Hollywood Rock And Roll – 4:06
  4. "Bach Onto This" (Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565) (Johann Sebastian Bach, Jon Lord arr. by Jon Lord)– 7:59
Side Two
  1. "Before I Forget" – 5:04
  2. "Say Its Alright" – 4:47
  3. "Burntwood" – 4:00
  4. "Where Are You?" – 5:00
CD reissue bonus tracks (1999)
  1. "Going Home"
  2. "Pavane"
  3. "Lady"
  4. "For A Friend"
Singles
  1. "Bach Onto This (edit)" / "Going Home" (UK, March 1982)

All songs written by Jon Lord, except for "Say It's Alright" written by Jon Lord and Elmer Gantry, and "Pavane" arranged by Jon Lord.

Personnel

  • Jon Lord: piano, organ, keyboards, mini Moog
  • Vicky Brown: lead (6, 11) and backing (1, 3, 5, 6) vocals
  • Tony Ashton: lead vocals (3)
  • Elmer Gantry: lead vocals (8)
  • Sam Brown: backing vocals (1, 3, 5, 6)
  • Bernie Marsden: guitar (1, 4), lead vocals (1)
  • Mick Ralphs: guitar (3, 6)
  • Neil Murray: bass (1, 2, 4-7)
  • Boz Burrell: bass (3)
  • Ian Paice: drums (1, 5)
  • Simon Phillips: drums (4, 6)
  • Cozy Powell: drums (2)
  • Simon Kirke: drums (3)

    • References

    Before I Forget (album) Wikipedia
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