Friendliness (album)

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Friendliness
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ReleasedNovember 1972 (UK)
RecordedAugust 1972
Studio Sound Techniques, London
Genre
Length41:30
Label MCA Records
Demon Records (CD re-issue)
Angel Air (CD re-issue)
Producer Stackridge, Victor Gamm
Stackridge chronology
Stackridge
(1971)
Friendliness
(1972)
The Man in the Bowler Hat
(1974)
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Friendliness is the second album by the British rock group Stackridge. The album was produced by Stackridge and Victor Gamm at Sound Techniques, London. This was the only Stackridge album to be released on the MCA Records label both in the UK and the USA.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Lummy Days" (Davis) 3:22
  2. "Friendliness (Part 1)" (Warren) 2:29
  3. "Anyone for Tennis" (Warren) 2:32
  4. "There is No Refuge" (Warren) 3:24
  5. "Syracuse The Elephant" (Walter, Davis) 8:46
  6. "Amazingly Agnes" (Warren) 3:30
  7. "Father Frankenstein is Behind Your Pillow" (Warren) 3:35 [lower-alpha 1]
  8. "Keep On Clucking" (Walter, Davis) 4:03
  9. "Story of My Heart" (Slater) 2:03
  10. "Friendliness (Part 2)" (Warren) 1:55
  11. "Teatime" (Walter, Davis) 5:51

Bonus Tracks from the 2006 re-issue on Angel Air.

  1. "Everyman" (Davis, Warren) 4:27 (b-side)
  2. "Purple Spaceships Over Yatton" (Walter, Davis) 6:39 (b-side)
  3. "C'est La Vie" (Warren, Davis) 3:21 (b-side)
  4. "Do The Stanley" (Wabadaw, Sleeve) 2:54 (single)

Deluxe version

Friendliness was reissued in 2023 by Esoteric Recordings (through Cherry Red Records). This 2-CD deluxe set includes the complete original album, some of the 2006 additional tracks and a live 'In Concert' recording from 1972. The first CD being the original album and the bonus material contained on the second. [2] Tracks are:

CD 1

  1. "Lummy Days" (Davis)
  2. "Friendliness (Part 1)" (Warren)
  3. "Anyone for Tennis" (Warren)
  4. "There is No Refuge" (Warren)
  5. "Syracuse The Elephant" (Walter, Davis)
  6. "Amazingly Agnes" (Warren)
  7. "Father Frankenstein is Behind Your Pillow" (Warren
  8. "Keep On Clucking" (Walter, Davis)
  9. "Story of My Heart" (Slater)
  10. "Friendliness (Part 2)" (Warren)
  11. "Teatime" (Walter, Davis)

CD 2

  1. "Slark" (single version) (not included on the 2006 reissue) [lower-alpha 2]
  2. "Purple Spaceships Over Yatton" (Walter, Davis) 6:39 [lower-alpha 3]
  3. "Introduction – Hit and Miss" (Theme from Juke Box Jury ) [lower-alpha 4]
  4. "Grande Piano"
  5. "Teatime"
  6. "Lummy Days"
  7. "Amazingly Agnes"
  8. "32 West Mall"
  9. "She Taught Me How to Yodel"
  10. "Four Poster Bed (Let There Be Lids)"
  11. "C'est La Vie" (Warren, Davis) [lower-alpha 5]
  12. "Do The Stanley" (Wabadaw, Sleeve) [lower-alpha 6]

Personnel

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References

  1. "Friendliness – Stackridge | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic .
  2. "Stackridge: Friendliness, 2CD Edition".

Notes

  1. Recorded at De Lane Lea Studios, London
  2. MCA single MKS 5091, May 1972, A-side
  3. MCA single MKS 5091, May 1972, B-side
  4. Tracks 3-10 recorded for BBC Radio One "In Concert", at BBC Paris Theatre, 15 June 1972
  5. MCA single MUS 1128, February 1973, B-side
  6. MCA single MUS 1128, February 1973, A-side