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The Grass Is Greener (album)

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Released
  
January 1970

Length
  
38:30

Release date
  
January 1970

Producers
  
Recorded
  
Summer/Winter 1969

Artist
  
Label
  
Dunhill Records

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The Grass Is Greener(1970)
  
Genres
  
Rock music, Progressive rock, Jazz

Similar
  
Colosseum albums, Jazz albums

Colosseum jumping off the sun


The Grass Is Greener is an album by Colosseum, released in January 1970. In contrast to other albums by Colosseum, The Grass Is Greener was released only in the United States, on the Dunhill label, distributed by ABC. It was conceived as a U.S. alternative to November 1969's Valentyne Suite, complete with a muted, blue-green variation of the aforementioned album's cover. It features four tracks recorded with then-new guitarist/vocalist Dave "Clem" Clempson in the winter of 1969 ("Jumping Off The Sun," "Lost Angeles," "Rope Ladder To The Moon," "Bolero"); three tracks from the 1969 Vertigo LP Valentyne Suite but with vocal and guitar parts provided by Clempson ("Butty's Blues," "The Machine Demands A Sacrifice," "The Grass Is Greener") instead of James Litherland; and one track, "Elegy," that appears to be the same as the original from Valentyne Suite, including Litherland's vocal. The record was remastered and released as a bonus disc in Sanctuary Records' 2003 deluxe CD edition of Valentyne Suite.

Contents

Track listing

Side 1

  1. "Jumping Off the Sun" (Mike Taylor, Dave Tomlin) – 3:00
  2. "Lost Angeles" (Dave Greenslade, Dick Heckstall-Smith) – 5:30
  3. "Elegy" (James Litherland) – 3:26
  4. "Butty's Blues" (Litherland) – 6:45

Side 2

  1. "Rope Ladder to the Moon" (Pete Brown, Jack Bruce) – 3:42
  2. "Bolero" (Maurice Ravel) – 5:28
  3. "The Machine Demands a Sacrifice" (Brown, Jon Hiseman, Litherland) – 2:48
  4. "The Grass Is Greener" (Heckstall-Smith, Hiseman) – 7:31

Personnel

  • Dave Greenslade - Organ, Keyboards, Vocals
  • Dick Heckstall-Smith - Saxophone
  • Jon Hiseman - Drums
  • Dave "Clem" Clempson - Guitar, Vocals
  • Tony Reeves - Bass
  • James Litherland - Vocals (on "Elegy")
  • Songs

    1Jumping Off the Sun3:33
    2Lost Angeles5:32
    3Elegy3:11

    References

    The Grass Is Greener (album) Wikipedia


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