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Blue Cheer (album)

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Recorded
  
1969

Length
  
36:15

Genre
  
Hard rock blues rock

Label
  
Philips

Released
  
December 1969 (1969-12)

Studio
  
Wally Heider Studios, San Francisco, California

Blue Cheer is the fourth album by Blue Cheer, released in 1969 on Philips Records. Gary Lee Yoder contributed songwriting for the opening and closing tracks and would later join the group as guitarist on their next album The Original Human Being (1970).

Contents

Side one

  1. "Fool" (Gary R. Grelecki, Gary Lee Yoder) – 3:26
  2. "You're Gonna Need Someone" (Mayell, Stephens) – 3:31
  3. "Hello LA, Bye Bye Birmingham" (Delaney Bramlett, Mac Davis) – 3:29
  4. "Saturday Freedom" (Stephens) – 5:47
  5. "Ain't That the Way (Love's Supposed to Be)" (Kellogg, Peterson) – 3:11

Side two

  1. "Rock and Roll Queens" (Kellogg, Peterson) – 2:44
  2. "Better When We Try" (Kellogg) – 2:48
  3. "Natural Man" (Kellogg, Peterson) – 3:36
  4. "Lovin' You's Easy" (Stephens) – 3:50
  5. "The Same Old Story" (Grelecki, Yoder) – 3:53

The 2007 Japanese mini-LP sleeve reissue of Blue Cheer contains the mono non-LP single "All Night Long" (Kellogg) b/w "Fortunes" (Peterson) along with the single versions of "Fool" and "Ain't That The Way" as Bonus Tracks.

Personnel

  • Bruce Stephens – guitar, backing and lead (2, 4, 7, 9) vocals
  • Dickie Peterson – bass, lead vocals (1, 3, 5, 6, 8, 10)
  • Ralph Burns Kellogg – keyboards
  • Norman Mayell – drums
    • Production
  • Eric Albronda – producer, backing vocals

    • References

    Blue Cheer (album) Wikipedia
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