The Whole Thing Started with Rock and Roll Now It's Out of Control

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Released 1974 The Whole Thing Started with Rock and Roll & Now It's Out of Control (1974) Carmina Burana (1983) Release date 1974 Label Mercury Records		Length 40:44 Artist Ray Manzarek Producer Bruce Botnick Genre Rock music

Recorded 1974; Sound Labs, Hollywood, California Similar Ray Manzarek albums, Rock music albums

The Whole Thing Started with Rock and Roll Now It's Out of Control is a 1974 album by ex-Doors member Ray Manzarek.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Ray Manzarek; except where indicated

"The Whole Thing Started with Rock and Roll Now It's Out of Control" (Manzarek, Danny Sugerman, Dick Wagner) — 2:39
"The Gambler" (Manzarek, Danny Sugerman) — 5:23
"Whirling Dervish" (Manzarek, Paul Davis) — 5:20
"Begin the World Again" — 6:42
"I Wake Up Screaming" (Manzarek, Danny Sugerman) — 3:36
"Art Deco Fandango" — 2:03
"Bicentennial Blues (Love It or Leave It)" — 7:57
"Perfumed Garden" — 5:54

Ray Manzarek - celesta, clavinet, Fender Rhodes, organ, piano, Wurlitzer, synthesizer, vocals

Flo & Eddie - background vocals on "The Whole Thing Started with Rock and Roll Now It's Out of Control" , "Bicentennial Blues" and "Perfumed Garden"

Joe Walsh - guitar

John Klemmer - saxophone on "Whirling Dervish"

Michael Fennelly - guitar

George Segal - banjo

Steve Forman - percussion

Mike Melvoin - horn arrangements

Mark Pines - guitar

Patti Smith - "poetess" on "I Wake up Screaming"; recites Jim Morrison's "Ensenada" from The New Creatures

Gary Mallaber - drums, percussion, vibraphone

Paul Davis - percussion

Rudy Hill - engineer

Desmond Strobel, John David Moore - art direction

Danny Sugarman - personal management

Bob Brown - Producer

Special thanks: "Guitar Center, the Screamer, Linda Smith, Iggy Pop, Mandi Newall."

1The Whole Thing Started With Rock and Roll - Now It's Out of Control2:35
2The Gambler5:28
3Whirling Dervish5:25

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