Baby James Harvest

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Baby James Harvest
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Studio album by
Released10 November 1972
RecordedSeptember 1972
Studio Strawberry Studios
Abbey Road Studios
Genre Progressive rock, Art rock, Symphonic rock
Length37:32(original LP)
1:18:55 (2002 CD)
Label Harvest
Producer Barclay James Harvest
Barclay James Harvest chronology
Barclay James Harvest and Other Short Stories
(1971)
Baby James Harvest
(1972)
Everyone Is Everybody Else
(1974)
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Baby James Harvest is the fourth album by English progressive rock band Barclay James Harvest, released in 1972. [2] [3]

Contents

Track listing

Side one

  1. "Crazy Over (You)" (Les Holroyd) – 4:17
  2. "Delph Town Morn" (John Lees) – 4:48
  3. "Summer Soldier" (Lees) – 10:28

Side two

  1. "Thank You" (Lees) – 4:24
  2. "One Hundred Thousand Smiles Out" (Holroyd) – 6:05
  3. "Moonwater" (Woolly Wolstenholme) – 7:30

Bonus tracks

The album was remastered and reissued by Harvest in 2002 with bonus tracks:

  1. "Child of Man" (single B-side) (Lees) – 3:21
  2. "I'm Over You" (single A-side) (Lees) – 3:53
  3. "When The City Sleeps" (single B-side)† (Lester Forest) – 4:16
  4. "Breathless" (single A-side)† (Terry Bull) – 3:09
  5. "Thank You" (alternative version)▲ (Lees) – 4:27
  6. "Medicine Man" (single version) (Lees) – 4:29
  7. "Rock and Roll Woman" (Holroyd) – 3:18
  8. "The Joker" (Holroyd/Lees) – 3:32
  9. "Child of Man" (BBC session 15 March 1972)▲ (Lees) – 3:37
  10. "Moonwater" (2002 remix) (Wolstenholme) – 7:20

† originally released under the pseudonym "Bombadil"
▲ previously unreleased

Personnel

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References

  1. "Barclay James Harvest – Baby James Harvest". AllMusic . Retrieved 14 July 2021.
  2. "Harvest group still making it beautiful". Arizona Republic. 25 February 1973. p. 178. Retrieved 12 December 2021.
  3. "Album 'unusual'". Progress Bulletin. 10 February 1973. p. 33. Retrieved 12 December 2021.