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Released
  
May 10, 1994

Artist
  
Huey Lewis

Producer
  
Stewart Levine

Genres
  
Rock music, Rock and roll

Length
  
48:52

Release date
  
10 May 1994

Label
  
Elektra Records

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Four Chords & Several Years Ago (1994)
  
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Huey Lewis albums, Rock music albums

Four Chords & Several Years Ago is the seventh album by American rock band Huey Lewis and the News, released in 1994. The title is a play on the first sentence in Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address ("Four score and seven years ago ...").

Contents

It is a collection of 1950s and 1960s rhythm & blues covers influential to the members of the group during their early years. It is the last album to feature founding member and bassist, Mario Cipollina, who left the band after the subsequent tour.

Track listing

  1. "Shake, Rattle and Roll" (Charles E. Calhoun) – 3:07
  2. "Blue Monday" (Dave Bartholomew, Fats Domino) – 2:41
  3. "Searching for My Love" (Bobby Moore) – 2:50
  4. "(She's) Some Kind of Wonderful" (John Ellison) – 3:06
  5. "But It's Alright" (J.J. Jackson, Pierre Tubbs) – 2:54
  6. "If You Gotta Make a Fool of Somebody" (Rudy Clark) – 2:32
  7. "Mother in Law" (Allen Toussaint) – 2:43
  8. "Little Bitty Pretty One" (Robert Byrd) – 2:04
  9. "Good Morning Little School Girl" (Sonny Boy Williamson) (credited as "S.L. Hopkins")– 4:02
  10. "Stagger Lee" (Harold Logan, Lloyd Price) – 2:36
  11. "She Shot a Hole in My Soul" (Mac Gayden, Chuck Neese) – 2:38
  12. "Surely I Love You" (James Bracken, Marion Oliver) – 2:51
  13. "You Left the Water Running" (Oscar Franck, Rick Hall, Dan Penn) – 3:06
  14. "Your Cash Ain't Nothin' But Trash" (Charles E. Calhoun) – 2:57
  15. "Function at the Junction" (Edward Holland, Jr. Shorty Long) – 3:13
  16. "Better to Have and Not Need" (Don Covay, Erskin Watts) – 3:32
  17. "Going Down Slow" (St. Louis Jimmy Oden) – 2:00

Personnel

Huey Lewis & The News

  • Huey Lewis - lead vocals, harmonica
  • Mario Cipollina - bass
  • Johnny Colla - rhythm guitar, saxophone, background vocals
  • Bill Gibson - drums, percussion, background vocals
  • Chris Hayes - lead guitar, background vocals
  • Sean Hopper - keyboards, background vocals
  • Additional personnel

  • Marvin McFadden - trumpet
  • Linda Tillery - background vocals
  • Jeanie Tracy - background vocals
  • Production

  • Producer: Stewart Levine
  • Executive producer: Bob Brown
  • Engineer: Daren Klein
  • Assistant engineers: Jim Champagne, Kevin Scott, Jim "Watts" Vereecke
  • Mixing: Daren Klein
  • Mastering: Bernie Grundman
  • Art direction: Robin Lynch
  • Design: JoDee Stringham
  • Photography: Dennis Keeley
  • Charts

    Singles - Billboard (United States)

    Songs

    1Shake Rattle and Roll3:07
    2Blue Monday2:41
    3Searching for My Love2:51

    References

    Four Chords & Several Years Ago Wikipedia