Length 35:52 Artist The Yardbirds Producer Simon Napier-Bell | Yardbirds
a.k.a. Roger the Engineer
(1966) Remember
(1971) Release date 15 July 1966 | |
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Released 15 July 1966 (1966-07-15) Recorded April – June 1966 at Advision Studios, London Over Under Sideways Down
(1966) The Yardbirds Greatest Hits
(1967) Label Columbia Graphophone Company Genres Rock music, Blues rock, Psychedelic rock, Pop rock Similar The Yardbirds albums, Psychedelic rock albums | ||
Roger the Engineer (UK title: Yardbirds, but commonly referred to as "Roger the Engineer". US, German and French title: Over Under Sideways Down) is an album by English blues rock band The Yardbirds, released in 1966. It was produced by bassist Paul Samwell-Smith and Simon Napier-Bell. It was the only Yardbirds album with all original material. Although the record was officially titled Yardbirds (and still is in authoritative chart sources, such as The Guinness Book of British Hit Albums), it has since been referred to, first colloquially, then semi-officially, as Roger the Engineer, a title stemming from the cover drawing of the record's audio engineer Roger Cameron by band member Chris Dreja.
Contents
- The yardbirds roger the engineer full album
- Recording
- Legacy
- Track listing
- Personnel
- Release history
- Songs
- References
The album was included in Robert Dimery's 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.
In 2012, the album was ranked No. 350 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
The yardbirds roger the engineer full album
Recording
The album was recorded at Advision Studios in London in the spring and summer of 1966, and was produced by Paul Samwell-Smith and Simon Napier-Bell. It was released by Columbia on 15 July 1966.
Legacy
In 2003, the album was ranked No. 349 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
Stephen Thomas Erlewine in a retrospective AllMusic review considers the album to be "the Yardbirds' best individual studio album, offering some of their very best psychedelia", though not "among the great albums of its era".
Track listing
All songs written by Chris Dreja, Jim McCarty, Jeff Beck, Keith Relf, and Paul Samwell-Smith (Dreja and McCarty's last names are misspelled as "Drega" and "McCarthy" on the labels of the US album). All songs are recorded in stereo, except where noted.
Personnel
Release history
The original American versions of this album (issued with a completely different album cover and titled Over Under Sideways Down after the hit song of the same name) omitted the songs "The Nazz Are Blue" (which was sung by Jeff Beck) and "Rack My Mind" and are mixed differently from the British editions. Regardless, record collectors have sought out both the mono (LN 24210) and stereo (BN 26210) versions since several tracks are featured with slight differences in the mixes (see US album listing below). Epic's 1983 reissue (simply titled The Yardbirds) featured the original UK album cover, the two missing tracks, duplication of the British mixing, and two additional tracks, the 1966 single "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago" b/w "Psycho Daisies", both featuring Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page.
Songs
1Lost Woman3:14
2Over Under Sideways Down2:24
3The Nazz Are Blue3:02