Roman Wall Blues

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Roman Wall Blues
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Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 1969 [1]
Recorded1969
StudioPhilips (Phonogram) Studio, London
Genre
Length39:41
Label Fontana
Producer Brian Shepherd, Alex Harvey
Alex Harvey chronology
The Blues
(1964)
Roman Wall Blues
(1969)
The Joker is Wild
(1972)
Singles from Roman Wall Blues
  1. "Midnight Moses"
    Released: December 1969
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Roman Wall Blues is the first solo album by Alex Harvey made after the Soul Band, and his time in the Hair pit band. This album was released in 1969 and contains one song from Hair ("Donna"), plus some Harvey originals, ("Midnight Moses", "Roman Wall Blues" and "Hammer Song"); that he later re-record with The Sensational Alex Harvey Band. The title track was a couplet sonnet by W.H. Auden about the life of a Roman soldier.

Contents

The album was recorded at Philips (Phonogram) Studio, London.

Track listings

All tracks composed by Alex Harvey, except where indicated.

  1. "Midnight Moses" – 3:30
  2. "Hello L.A., Bye Bye Birmingham" (Delaney Bramlett, Mac Davis) – 2:29
  3. "Broken Hearted Fairytale" (Harvey, Andy McMaster) – 3:41
  4. "Donna" (James Rado, Gerome Ragni, Galt MacDermot) – 2:21
  5. "Roman Wall Blues" (W. H. Auden, Alex Harvey) – 2:50
  6. "Jumping Jack Flash" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards) – 3:14
  7. "Hammer Song" – 3:12
  8. "Let My Bluebird Sing" – 3:40
  9. "Maxine" (A. Foray) – 4:40
  10. "(Down at) Bart's Place" – 4:21
  11. "Candy" – 2:57

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