VH1 Storytellers | ||||
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Released | 20 October 1998 | |||
Recorded | 13 May 1998 | |||
Genre | Rock | |||
Length | 51:56 | |||
Label | Mercury | |||
Producer | Mark Hudson | |||
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [1] |
Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [2] |
Entertainment Weekly | B [3] |
The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [4] |
VH1 Storytellers is a live and video album by Ringo Starr recorded and released for the popular music program in 1998. Unlike his previous live recordings, this release places Starr in an intimate environment where, as per the show's requirement, he tells the genesis of the songs being performed.
Recorded a month before the release of Starr's new studio album Vertical Man – and performed in promotion for it – VH1 Storytellers features Starr's contemporary musical collaborator Mark Hudson (who produced the album) and Starr's current band, dubbed "the Roundheads". Aside from songs that appeared on Vertical Man, much of the set is devoted to Starr's Beatles and early solo successes.
This marked the last time a Ringo Starr album was released on cassette in the United States, according to journalist Peter Palmiere. However, some countries in the Far East still issue cassettes of recent Ringo Starr material including Ringo Rama , Choose Love , and Photograph: The Very Best of Ringo Starr .
VH1 Storytellers was released by Mercury Records in the US on 20 October 1998. [nb 1] [5] The album failed to chart. Entertainment Weekly 's reviewer wrote: "It's his yarns, though, that are most engaging … A nice retrospective of an under appreciated composer." [3]
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "With a Little Help from My Friends" | Lennon–McCartney | 4:18 |
2. | "It Don't Come Easy" | Richard Starkey | 3:18 |
3. | "I Was Walkin'" | Starkey/Mark Hudson/Dean Grakal | 4:21 |
4. | "Don't Pass Me By" | Starkey | 5:40 |
5. | "Back Off Boogaloo" | Starkey | 3:40 |
6. | "King of Broken Hearts" | Starkey/Hudson/Steve Dudas/Grakal | 7:42 |
7. | "Octopus's Garden" | Starkey | 2:51 |
8. | "Photograph" | Starkey/George Harrison | 4:10 |
9. | "La De Da" | Starkey/Hudson/Dudas/Grakal | 5:04 |
10. | "What in the... World" | Starkey/Hudson/Dudas/Grakal | 5:31 |
11. | "Love Me Do" | Lennon–McCartney | 3:42 |
12. | "With a Little Help from My Friends (Reprise)" | Lennon–McCartney | 1:19 |
13. | "I've Got Blisters..." | 0:13 | |
14. | "The End" | 0:03 |
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