Blue Moves

Tracklist

• SHM-CD 1
• 1
  Your Starter For
  1:22
  2.5 ★
• 2
  Tonight
  7:52
  2.8 ★
• 3
  One Horse Town
  5:56
  2.8 ★
• 4
  Chameleon
  5:27
  3.0 ★
• 5
  Boogie Pilgrim
  6:05
  2.5 ★
• 6
  Cage the Songbird
  3:26
  3.0 ★
• 7
  Crazy Water
  5:42
  3.0 ★
• 8
  Shoulder Holster
  5:08
  2.4 ★
• SHM-CD 2
• 1
  Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word
  3:48
  3.4 ★
• 2
  Out of the Blue
  6:14
  2.4 ★
• 3
  Between Seventeen and Twenty
  5:17
  2.2 ★
• 4
  The Wide Eyed and Laughing
  3:27
  3.0 ★
• 5
  Someone's Final Song
  4:10
  2.8 ★
• 6
  Where's the Shoorah?
  4:10
  2.5 ★
• 7
  If There's a God in Heaven (What's He Waiting For?)
  4:24
  2.8 ★
• 8
  Idol
  4:08
  2.8 ★
• 9
  Theme From a Non-Existent TV Series
  1:19
  2.2 ★
• 10
  Bite Your Lip (Get Up and Dance!)
  6:42
  2.5 ★

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Release credits

• Bruce Johnston
  arranger [4], background vocals [1.3-4, 1.4, 1.7, 2.3, 2.5]
• Caleb Quaye
  12 string guitar [4], acoustic guitar [1.1, 1.4, 1.6, 2.4, 2.9], electric guitar [1.3-4, 1.4, 1.7, 2.2-3, 2.7, 2.10], solo [1.3, 2.2, 2.7]
• Carl Fortina
  accordion [1]
• Cidny Bullens
  background vocals [1.3-4, 1.7, 2.3]
• Clark Burroughs
  background vocals [5]
• Cornerstone Institutional Baptist Choir
  choir vocals [2.6, 2.10, 1.5]
• Curt Becher
  background vocals [2.3, 2.5, 1.3-4]
• Daryl Dragon
  background vocals [7]
• Davey Johnstone
  acoustic guitar [6], electric guitar [2.2, 2.7, 1.3, 1.7], guitar [10], hammered dulcimer [6], mandolin [1], sitar [4, 7], slide guitar [2.10, 1.5], solo [10]
• David Crosby
  background vocals [1.6, 2.4]
• David Sanborn
  saxophone [8], solo [8]
• Earle Mankey
  engineer [1.4, 1.6-7, 2.4-5]
• Elton John
  harmonium [6], harpsichord [9], lead vocals [2.1, 2.3-8, 2.10, 1.2-8], piano [2.1-2, 2.5-8, 2.10, 1.1-5, 1.7-8], vocal [3]
• Gene Morford
  background vocals [3-4, 7]
• Graham Nash
  background vocals [2.4, 1.6]
• Gus Dudgeon
  engineer, producer
• James Newton Howard
  accordion [1], clarinet [7], conductor [2.1, 2.10, 1.2], electric piano [1.3, 2.1, 2.5, 2.9], mellotron [6], orchestrator [2.10, 1.2], organ [1.5, 2.3, 2.7], strings [1], synthesizer [1.1, 1.3, 1.6, 2.2, 2.4-5, 2.9-10]
• Joe Chemay
  background vocals [3, 5]
• John Kurlander
  engineer [2-3]
• John Stewart
  producer
• Jon Joyce
  background vocals [1.4, 1.7, 2.3]
• Kenny Passarelli
  bass [4], bass guitar [2.2-4, 2.7-10, 1.1, 1.3-5, 1.7-8], electric bass guitar [1]
• London Symphony Orchestra
  performing orchestra [2]
• Mark Howlett
  engineer [1.5, 2.1, 2.6, 2.8, 2.10], producer [8]
• Michael Hurwitz
  cello [3], solo [3]
• Paul Buckmaster
  conductor [1.3, 2.7], orchestrator [2.7, 1.3]
• Ray Cooper
  bell tree [6], congas [1.7, 2.3, 2.7, 2.10], finger cymbals [6], glockenspiel [2.9, 1.1], gong [3], marimba [1.1, 2.9], percussion [4], shakers [1.4, 1.6, 2.3], tambourine [1.3, 1.5, 1.7-8, 2.3, 2.7], triangle [6], tubular bells [3], vibraphone [2.1, 1.3-4, 1.4]
• Rev. James Cleveland
  chorus master [1.5, 2.6, 2.10]
• Roger Pope
  drums (drum set) [1.1, 1.3-5, 1.8, 2.2, 2.4, 2.7-10], membranophone [2.3, 1.4, 1.7]
• Ron Hicklin
  background vocals [3-4, 7]
• Southern California Community Choir
  choir vocals [2.6, 2.10, 1.5]
• The Brecker Brothers
  performer [1.5, 1.8, 2.8]
• The Gene Page Strings
  performing orchestra [10]
• The Martyn Ford Orchestra
  performing orchestra [1.3, 2.7]
• Toni Tennille
  background vocals [2.5, 1.3-4, 1.7]
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Issues

• 

  B
  (Combined release view)
• 

  B
  Blue Moves

  2x 12" Vinyl
  22 October 1976
• 

  B
  Blue Moves

  2x 12" Vinyl
  28 October 1976
• 

  B
  Blue Moves

  CD
  1988
• 

  B
  Blue Moves

  2x CD (Remaster)
  3 June 1996
• B
  Blue Moves

  2x CD
  1997
• 

  B
  Blue Moves

  2x CD
  1997
• 

  B
  Blue Moves

  2x Digital Media
  30 April 2007
• 

  B
  Blue Moves

  2x SHM-CD
  24 February 2010
• 

  B
  Blue Moves

  2x SHM-CD
  7 August 2019
• 

  B
  Blue Moves

  CD
• B
  Blue Moves

  2x CD