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ROIO of the Week [Recordings
of Indeterminate Origin]
Prime
Time
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Don
McLean
12-28-71
[no label, 1CD]
Live
at A & R Studios, NYC, a WPLJ monthly concert.
A year earlier Elton
John and his band had come to the A&R Studios to rock the crowd. The
performance was thought to be so outrageous for the young English singer-songwriter
and piano player that his record company decided to release the show [11-17-70]
to sway music fans that Elton was the future. McLean, however, used the
opportunity to hark back to an earlier period, slowly fading.
He mixed in between
the songs from Tapestry and American Pie, some very obscure but brilliant
tunes. From the 1927 stage production of Mr Cinders, McLean offered the
very literate On The Amazon with its twists and turns in a list of malapropisms:
On the Amazon,
the prophylactics prowl.
On the
Amazon, the hypodermics howl.
On the Amazon, you'll hear a scarab scowl and sting
Zodiacs on the wing.
He also played his
version of the Stanley Brothers murder ballad, Pretty Polly, and also
Josh White's wry Where Were You Baby?, a modern folk blues on breaking
up. These were the songs where a young Don McLean drew influences from.
American Pie, the
album, was released in October 1971. McLean was promoting his second album
at the time of this concert. By this time American Pie, the single, was
already a hit. It was also released October 1971 and reissued the next
month with American Pie Pt II as the new b-side. By January 1972, it was
Number 1 in the US.
There is a fantastic
complete live performance of American Pie at this show with McLean starting
with the popular chorus first. Subsequently, he would only sing a short
version of this modern evergreen.
While Elton's outgoing
personality made him more suitable for pop, and he lavished even more
attention on his stage antics and lifestyle, McLean tried his best to
play down American Pie, the song. In 1972, McLean released the socially-conscious
Don McLean with the single Dreidel. If ever a song was not meant to be
a hit, it was Dreidel.
Later he made his
first folk-political album Homeless Brother in 1974 before retreating
to standard album fare. This paragraph from donMcLean.com says it all
about his "career":
"Subsequent records
like 1972's self-titled effort and 1974's Playin' Favorites deliberately
avoided any attempts to recreate the "American Pie" flavor; not surprisingly,
his sales plummeted, and the latter release even failed to chart. After
1974's Homeless Brother and 1976's Solo, United Artists dropped McLean
from his contract; he resurfaced on Arista the next year with Prime Time,
but when it too fared poorly, he spent the next several years without
a label."
McLean was uncomfortable
with celebrity. Like his folk heroes, he was a travelling troubadour.
But the new business equation of album sales and contracts didn't suit
him. He now has his own website and label and you can support him by buying
his albums at the site.
This concert at the
A&R studio in New York has many of the songs from Don McLean's first
two albums in excellent stereo. The source is Jerry Moore's FM reel master.
It was shared on the losslesslegs torrent site by Rob Berger. All thanks
to them.
- Professor Red 
Click
on the highlighted tracks to download the MP3s (these are high quality,
stereo MP3s - sample rate of 192 kibit/s). As far as we can ascertain,
this recording has never been officially released.
These tracks are no longer available for download. Kindly email us at
mybigo@bigozine.com if you want
to download these tracks at a later time.
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| Track
01 |
7-Up
[ad] (2.7MB) |
| Track
02 |
Castles
In The Air (4.9MB) |
| Track
03 |
Winterwood
(7.3MB) |
| Track
04 |
Where
Were You Baby? [Josh White] (4.0MB) |
| Track
05 |
Three
Flights Up (9.0MB) |
| Track
06 |
Talk
(4.0MB) |
| Track
07 |
Banjo
[inst] (6.2MB) |
| Track
08 |
Babylon
(10.8MB) |
| Track
09 |
Pretty
Polly [trad] (5.6MB) |
| Track
10 |
Magdalene
Lane (5.5MB) |
| Track
11 |
Tapestry
(6.0MB) |
| Track
12 |
On
The Amazon (7.3MB)
[amazing love song from a 1927 musical, Mr Cinders,
written by Vivian Ellis, Richard Myers, Clifford Grey, Greatrex Newman
and Leo Robin] |
| Track
13 |
Vincent
(5.4MB) |
| Track
14 |
American
Pie (14.2MB) |
| Track
15 |
7-Up
[ad] (2.3MB) |
| Track
16 |
Crossroads
(6.2MB) |
Lineage:
Technics rs-1500>Tascam
hd-p2 24/48>cd wave>Adobe Audition 2.0>flac
reel baked* transferred
and seeded to Lossless Legs by Rob Berger
Notes: Sony pr-150
master reel baked at 120 degrees for nine hours in a GE convection oven
- totally removed a harsh squeel previously heard on this 36-year-old
uncirculated gem.
American Pie remains Don McLean's finest hour. If you can, find the LP-sleeved
2003 CD reissue with a couple of bonus tracks and some notes about the
songs penned by McLean. Buy on the link to buy Don McLean albums.
For more... email mybigo@bigozine.com
with the message, "Put me on your mailing list."
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