Released June 28, 1982 | Genre Folk-rock, rock | |
Recorded September 1981 and February 17 - March 4, 1982 at Britannia Row, London | ||
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
- "Chance on a Feeling" – 4:06
- "Tender Babes" (O Ye Tender Babes) (Thomas Tallis, arr. by Jon Lord) – 4:04
- "Hollywood Rock And Roll – 4:06
- "Bach Onto This" (Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565) (Johann Sebastian Bach, Jon Lord arr. by Jon Lord)– 7:59
- "Before I Forget" – 5:04
- "Say Its Alright" – 4:47
- "Burntwood" – 4:00
- "Where Are You?" – 5:00
- "Going Home"
- "Pavane"
- "Lady"
- "For A Friend"
- "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.