Released October 1971 Release date October 1971 | Length 44:47 | |
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Recorded 1971, Cinderella Studios, Tennessee Similar Mickey Newbury albums, Country music albums |
Frisco Mable Joy is the 1971 concept album by singer-songwriter Mickey Newbury. This was the second of three albums Newbury recorded at Cinderella Sound. The album includes the original version of "An American Trilogy", which Elvis Presley later performed in his Las Vegas shows with much success. "How Many Times (Must The Piper Be Paid For His Song)" is a dramatically re-imagined version of a song first released on Harlequin Melodies, Newbury's RCA debut. Other standout tracks include "The Future's Not What It Used to Be", "Remember The Good", "Frisco Depot," and "How I Love Them Old Songs." The track "San Francisco Mabel Joy" was not initially part of the album, though it is included on some versions. Frisco Mabel Joy was collected for CD issue on the eight-disc Mickey Newbury Collection from Mountain Retreat, Newbury's own label in the mid-1990s, along with nine other Newbury albums from 1969 to 1981. In 2011, it was reissued again, both separately and as part of the four-disc Mickey Newbury box set An American Trilogy, alongside two other albums recorded at Cinderella Sound, Looks Like Rain and Heaven Help The Child. This release marks the first time that 'Frisco Mabel Joy has been released on CD in remastered form, after the original master tapes (long thought to have been destroyed in a fire) were rediscovered in 2010.
Contents
Track listing
All songs written by Mickey Newbury unless otherwise noted.
- "An American Trilogy" (Newbury/traditional) – 4:50
- "How Many Times (Must the Piper Be Paid for His Song)" – 5:48
- "Interlude" – 1:44
- "The Future's Not What It Used to Be" – 4:14
- "Mobile Blue" – 2:48
- "Frisco Depot" – 3:38
- "You're Not My Same Sweet Baby" – 3:46
- "Interlude" – 1:05
- "Remember the Good" – 2:57
- "Swiss Cottage Place" – 3:10
- "How I Love Them Old Songs" – 5:30
- "San Francisco Mabel Joy" – 5:17
Personnel
Production
Charts
Billboard (North America)
Selected cover recordings
Songs
An American Trilogy4:53
How Many Times (Must the Piper Be Paid for His Song)5:53
Interlude1:32