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The Neon Philharmonic (album)

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Released
  
1969 (1969)

Artist
  
The Neon Philharmonic

Label
  
Warner Bros. Records

Length
  
28:12

Release date
  
1969

Genre
  
Pop music

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The Neon Philharmonic, subtitled Dedicated to the Baroness d'A, is the eponymous second album by The Neon Philharmonic, again consisting of songs written by Tupper Saussy and sung by Don Gant. "You Lied" and "No One Is Going To Hurt You" were released as a single in July 1969.

Contents

Each song has a brief parenthetical description of the intent of the song.

Track listing

Side One:

  1. Are You Old Enough to Remember Dresden? (Questionnaire)
  2. Forever Hold Your Peace (Burning Bridges)
  3. You Lied (Going Away)
  4. Harry (Letter to a Friend)

Side Two:

  1. No One Is Going To Hurt You (A Promise)
  2. Long John the Pirate (Allegory)
  3. F. Scott Fitzgerald & William Shakespeare (You Can't Go Home Again)
  4. The Mordor National Anthem (A National Anthem for Rent to Emerging Nations)

Reissue

The album was reissued on the same disc as their first album, The Moth Confesses on Brilliant Colors: The Complete Warner Bros. Recordings in 2003.

Personnel

  • Don Gant (singer, producer)
  • Tupper Saussy (conductor, piano, harpsichord, pirate voice, producer)
  • Pierre Menard, Lillian, Brenton, George, Dick, Sadao, Harold, Marvin, Gary (Neon's Scrapers [i.e. string section])
  • Chuck Watt and Walter (Neon's winds)
  • Chip (guitar)
  • Putt (electric bass)
  • Jim (drums)
  • Carole, Winnifred, Ricky, Delores, Hershel, Joe (chorus)
  • Baroness d'A (condign patience and effort)
  • Ronald Gant (engineer)
  • Bob McCluskey (executive producer)
  • Ed Thrasher (cover photography and art direction)

    • Recorded in Acuff-Rose's tiny studio in Nashville on Ampex by Wesley Rose.

    References

    The Neon Philharmonic (album) Wikipedia
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