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Released
  
October 1969

Length
  
39:41

Release date
  
October 1969

Label
  
Fontana Records

Recorded
  
1969

Artist
  
Alex Harvey

Producer
  
Alex Harvey

Genre
  
Rock music

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Roman Wall Blues(1969)
  
The Joker is Wild(1972)

Similar
  
Alex Harvey albums, Rock music albums

Alex harvey roman wall blues


Roman Wall Blues is an album by Alex Harvey made after the Soul Band, and his time in the Hair pit band. This album was released in 1969 and contains one song from Hair ("Donna"), plus some Harvey originals he would later re-record ("Midnight Moses", "Roman Wall Blues" and "Hammer Song"). The title track was a couplet sonnet by W.H. Auden about the life of a Roman soldier.

Contents

The album was recorded at Philips (Phonogram) Studio, London.

Alex harvey midnight moses original version


Track listings

All tracks composed by Alex Harvey; except where indicated

  1. "Midnight Moses"
  2. "Hello L.A., Bye Bye Birmingham" (Delaney Bramlett, Mac Davis)
  3. "Broken Hearted Fairytale" (Harvey, Andy McMaster)
  4. "Donna" (James Rado, Gerome Ragni, Galt MacDermot)
  5. "Roman Wall Blues" (W. H. Auden, Alex Harvey)
  6. "Jumping Jack Flash" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards)
  7. "Hammer Song" (Alex Harvey)
  8. "Let My Bluebird Sing"
  9. "Maxine" (Foray)
  10. "(Down at) Bart's Place"
  11. "Candy"

Personnel

  • Alex Harvey - Guitar, vocals
  • Leslie Harvey - Guitar
  • Mickey Keene - Guitar
  • Bud Parkes - Trumpet
  • Derek Watkins - Trumpet
  • Derek Wadsworth - Trombone, brass arrangements
  • Frank Ricotti - Alto saxophone, percussion, brass arrangements
  • Ashton Tootell - Baritone saxophone, flute
  • Laurie Baker - Bass guitar, electronics/effects
  • Maurice Cockerill - Keyboard
  • Pete Woolf - Drums
  • David Voyde - engineer
  • Robin Nicol - sleeve design

    • Songs

    1Midnight Moses3:30
    2Hello LA - Bye Bye Birmingham2:29
    3Broken Hearted Fairytale3:42

    References

    Roman Wall Blues Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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