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Some Enchanted Evening (Blue Öyster Cult album)

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Some Enchanted Evening (1978)
  
Mirrors (1979)

Release date
  
September 1978

Label
  
CBS Records International

Artist
  
Blue Öyster Cult

Producer
  
Bruce Dickinson

Genres
  
Heavy metal, Hard rock

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Released
  
September 1978 (1978-09)

Recorded
  
December 31, 1977–June 1, 1978

Length
  
36:04, 71:32 (re-issue)

Similar
  
Blue Öyster Cult albums, Heavy metal albums

Some Enchanted Evening is the second live album by the American hard rock band Blue Öyster Cult, released in September 1978 (see 1978 in music). It is Blue Öyster Cult's best selling album, having sold two million copies, including over a million in the United States. The album's seven original tracks were recorded at various locations in the United States and England.

Contents

The album was re-issued on CD in early 2007 on Legacy Recordings and included seven previously unreleased bonus tracks recorded in various locations around the US, along with a DVD entitled Some OTHER Enchanted Evening, which featured a previously unreleased performance videotaped at the Capital Centre in Landover, Maryland in the spring of 1978.

In chronological order the songs were recorded at:

  • Track 8 recorded 12/31/77, Rochester, New York
  • Tracks 10–13 recorded 1/30/78, Detroit, Michigan
  • Track 14 recorded 1/31/78, Boston, Massachusetts
  • Tracks 6 & 9 recorded 4/9/78, Little Rock, Arkansas (track 6 original album)
  • Tracks 1 & 4 recorded 4/13/78, Atlanta, Georgia (original album)
  • Tracks 2-3 recorded 4/11/78, Columbus, Georgia (original album)
  • Tracks 5 & 7 recorded 6/1/78, Newcastle, England (original album)

    • Some OTHER Enchanted Evening (DVD)

  • Filmed in 1978 at the Capital Centre, Largo, Maryland

    • Personnel

    Blue Öyster Cult

  • Eric Bloom – lead vocals on tracks 1-4, 7-9, 11, 13-14, stun guitar, keyboards
  • Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser – lead guitar, lead vocals on tracks 5-6
  • Allen Lanier – keyboards, guitar, mixing
  • Joe Bouchard – bass, lead vocals on track 10
  • Albert Bouchard – drums, guitar, backing vocals

    • Production

  • Sandy Pearlman – producer, mixing
  • Murray Krugman – producer
  • Corky Stasiak – engineer, mixing
  • Jay Krugman – engineer
  • George Geranios – live sound, DVD live mix
  • Bruce Dickinson – re-issue producer
  • Vic Anesini – remastering

    • Songs

    1RU Ready 2 Rock6:07
    2ETI (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence)5:17
    3Astronomy8:27

    References

    Some Enchanted Evening (Blue Öyster Cult album) Wikipedia
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