The Choir (EP)

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The Choir
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Compilation album by The Choir
Released 1976
Recorded 1966 - 1969
Genre Garage rock, rock and roll
Label Bomp!

The Choir is a retrospective EP by The Choir that has been released only in 12" format. The cover features the same photograph as Choir Practice , although it has been cropped and is much grainier. There are actually five songs on the record, even though the cover says that there are only four.

<i>Choir Practice</i> 1994 compilation album by The Choir

Choir Practice is a retrospective album by the Choir that has been released in both LP and CD format.

Contents

Release data

This record was released in 1976 by Bomp! Records (catalogue number BOMP-104) as a 12" 45-rpm EP.

Bomp! Records is a Los Angeles-based record label formed in 1974 by fanzine publisher and music historian Greg Shaw and Suzy Shaw.

Notes on the tracks

This was the first album or EP that included any songs by The Choir. Even their classic "It's Cold Outside" would not be reissued until 1979 (on Pebbles, Volume 2 ). All of the songs on this EP were previously unreleased when this album was issued and would not be otherwise available until the release of the more comprehensive Choir Practice almost 20 years later.

Its Cold Outside (song)

"It's Cold Outside" is a song by the American garage rock band the Choir, written by the Choir's drummer, Dan Klawon, and first released on Canadian-American Records in September 1966. It is considered a classic of the musical genre of garage rock, and became the group's only national hit. The song has since been featured on several compilation albums.

<i>Pebbles, Volume 2</i> album

Pebbles, Volume 2 is a compilation album featuring American underground psychedelic and garage rock musical artists from the 1960s. It is the second installment of the Pebbles series and was released on BFD Records in 1979.

Track listing

  1. "Anyway I Can"
  2. "Don't Change Your Mind"
  3. "I'd Rather You Leave Me"
  4. "Treeberry"
  5. "I Only Did It 'Cause I Felt So Lonely"

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