Elegy: The Recordings: 1968–1971

Tracklist

• CD 1: Those Who Are About to Die Salute You
• 1
  Walking in the Park
  3:55
• 2
  Plenty Hard Luck
  4:27
• 3
  Mandarin
  4:24
• 4
  Debut
  6:19
• 5
  Beware the Ides of March
  5:36
• 6
  The Road She Walked Before
  2:43
• 7
  Backwater Blues
  7:38
• 8
  Those About to Die
  4:56
  2.0 ★
• 9
  I Can’t Live Without You
  4:14
• 10
  In the Heat of the Night
  4:47
• 11
  Those About to Die (demo)
  4:09
• CD 2: Valentyne Suite
• 1
  The Kettle
  4:28
  4.0 ★
• 2
  Elegy
  3:13
• 3
  Butty’s Blues
  6:46
• 4
  The Machine Demands a Sacrifice
  3:55
• 5
  The Valentyne Suite: January’s Search / Theme Two – February’s Valentyne / Theme Three – the Grass Is Always Greener
  16:58
• 6
  Tell Me Now
  3:40
• CD 3: The Grass Is Greener
• 1
  Jumping Off the Sun
  3:35
• 2
  Lost Angeles
  5:32
• 3
  Elegy
  3:12
• 4
  Butty’s Blues
  6:45
• 5
  Rope Ladder to the Moon
  3:43
• 6
  Bolero
  5:29
• 7
  The Machine Demands a Sacrifice
  2:50
• 8
  The Grass Is Always Greener
  7:37
• CD 4: Daughter of Time
• 1
  Three Score and Ten, Amen
  5:38
• 2
  Time Lament
  6:12
• 3
  Take Me Back to Doomsday
  4:25
  4.5 ★
• 4
  The Daughter of Time
  3:33
• 5
  Theme for an Imaginary Western
  4:06
• 6
  Bring Out Your Dead
  4:19
• 7
  Downhill and Shadows
  6:13
• 8
  The Time Machine
  8:12
• 9
  Bring Out Your Dead (demo)
  4:44
• 10
  Jumping Off the Sun (Chris Farlowe vocal version)
  3:36
• 11
  The Pirate’s Dream
  12:04
• CD 5: Colosseum Live
• 1
  Rope Ladder to the Moon
  9:46
• 2
  Walking in the Park
  8:22
• 3
  Skellington
  14:58
• 4
  I Can’t Live Without You
  7:51
• 5
  Tanglewood ‘63
  10:16
  4.0 ★
• 6
  Encore… Stormy Monday Blues
  7:31
• 7
  Lost Angeles
  15:47
• CD 6: Live Recordings 1971
• 1
  Rope Ladder to the Moon
  10:57
• 2
  Skellington
  14:43
• 3
  I Can’t Live Without You – Time Machine – The Machine Demands a Sacrifice: I Can’t Live Without You / Time Machine / The Machine Demands a Sacrifice
  21:41
• 4
  Stormy Monday Blues
  5:14
• 5
  The Valentyne Suite: January’s Search / Theme Two – February’s Valentyne / Theme Three – the Grass Is Always Greener
  21:20

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Release credits

• Barbara Thompson
  background vocals [1-4], woodwind [1-4]
• Charles Tunnell
  cello [2, 4]
• Chris Farlowe
  lead vocals [1-2, 4-5, 7], vocal [1-2, 5, 7]
• Clem Clempson
  guitar [5.1-3, 5.5, 5.7, 4.1-8], vocal [3]
• Dave Greenslade
  background vocals [6], instrument [1-4], keyboard [4.1-8, 1.1, 1.3-7]
• Derek Wadsworth
  trombone [2, 4]
• Dick Heckstall‐Smith
  saxophone [1.1, 1.3-7, 5.1-3, 5.5, 5.7, 2.1-4, 4.1-8], spoken vocals [1]
• Fred Alexander
  cello [2, 4]
• Gerry Bron
  executive [1-2, 5, 7], producer [4.1-8, 2.1-4, 1.1, 1.3-7]
• Harry Beckett
  brass [2, 4]
• Hedley Leyton
  executive [1-2, 5, 7]
• Henry Lowther
  trumpet [1]
• Jack Rothstein
  violin [2, 4]
• James Litherland
  guitar [1.1, 1.3-6, 2.1-4], lead vocals [7]
• Jim Roche
  guitar [7]
• Jon Hiseman
  drums (drum set) [5.1-3, 5.5, 5.7, 1.1, 1.3-7, 2.1-4], membranophone [1-2, 5, 7], percussion [1-8], producer [1-3, 5, 7]
• Louis Cennamo
  bass guitar [2-4, 6]
• Mark Clarke
  bass [1-3, 5, 7], bass guitar [1, 5, 7]
• Neil Ardley
  brass [2, 4], strings [2, 4]
• Nicholas Kraemer
  viola [2, 4]
• Peter Gallen
  engineer [4.1-8, 5.1-2, 5.5, 5.7], recording [1-3, 5, 7], remixer [1-3, 5, 7]
• Tony Reeves
  bass guitar [1.1, 1.3-7, 2.1-4], producer [1.1, 1.3-7, 2.1-4]
• Trevor Williams
  violin [2, 4]
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Issues

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  Elegy: The Recordings: 1968–1971

  6x CD
  29 March 2024