Cold Spring Harbor (album)

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Cold Spring Harbor
Studio album by Billy Joel
Released	1971
Recorded	July, 1971 at Record Plant Studios, Los Angeles, CA and Ultrasonic Recording Studios, Hempstead, NY
Genre	Piano rock
Length	29:53
Label	Columbia
Producer(s)	Artie Ripp
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Rolling Stone Album Guide, 3rd Edition
Billy Joel chronology
	Cold Spring Harbor (1971)	Piano Man (1973)

Cold Spring Harbor was Billy Joel's first solo album, and was released in 1971. He had already released several albums as a member of the bands The Hassles (1966 to 1969) and Attila (1970). This was his first solo effort. It was released by Family Productions, but through an error in the album's mastering, the songs were slightly too fast, up one half step, causing Joel's voice to sound high and reedy.

Artie Ripp, owner of Family Productions and hence of the original master tapes, re-mixed and re-released an updated version of the album in 1983 on Columbia Records, without any involvement by Billy Joel. Ripp had originally signed the unknown and struggling young "Piano Man" to an unheard-of 10-record contract. As a result he was able to continue collecting fat royalties on sales of Joel's biggest hit records long after Joel's acrimonious departure from Family Productions, despite Joel's constant efforts to buy back his contract. Shortly after Joel released his tenth album - the last on which Ripp could collect royalties - Ripp decided a re-release of Cold Spring Harbor could keep the royalty checks coming a little while longer.

While the 1983 version is at the correct speed, it is stripped of quite a bit of the original orchestration by Jimmie Haskell. Instead, Ripp added several new drum tracks performed by Mike McGee as well as synthesizers and keyboards in an attempt to give the record a more updated feel. The engineer for the re-recording and re-mixing sessions was so outraged by the results that he refused to allow his name to be used on the album, which is why Artie Ripp is given engineering credit.

The album is named after a village of the same name, in the Town of Huntington, a seaside community near Joel's hometown.

Contents 1 Track listing 2 Personnel 3 Production 4 Charts

[edit] Track listing

All songs by Billy Joel

1. "She's Got a Way" – 2:49 (2:40 Original LP)
2. "You Can Make Me Free" – 2:56 (5:40 Original LP)
3. "Everybody Loves You Now" – 2:48 (2:40 Original LP)
4. "Why Judy Why" – 2:56 (3:46 Original LP)
5. "Falling of the Rain" – 2:38 (2:24 Original LP)
6. "Turn Around" – 3:04 (3:20 Original LP)
7. "You Look So Good to Me" – 2:27 (2:26 Original LP)
8. "Tomorrow Is Today" – 4:40 (4:47 Original LP)
9. "Nocturne" – 2:46 (2:37 Original LP)
10. "Got to Begin Again" – 2:49 (2:47 Original LP)

[edit] Personnel

• Billy Joel - organ, harmonica, piano, harpsichord, keyboards, Hammond organ, vocals
• Richard Bennett - guitar
• Rhys Clark - drums
• Sal De Troia - guitars
• Don Evans - guitar
• Emory Gordy - bass
• Jimmie Haskell - conductor
• Sneaky Pete Kleinow - steel guitar
• Larry Knechtel - bass
• Mike McGee - drums
• Joe Osborn - bass
• Artie Ripp - conductor
• Denny Siewell - drums
• Mike McGee - drums on "Everybody Loves You Now" and "Turn Around"
• Al Campbell - keyboards on "Turn Around"
• L. D. Dixon - Fender Rhodes piano on "Turn Around"

[edit] Production

• Producer: Artie Ripp
• Executive producer: Irwin Mazur
• Engineers: Larry Elliott, John Bradley,Artie Ripp
• Second engineer: Michael Stone
• Assistant engineer: Gordon Watanabe
• Mixing & Remixing: Artie Ripp
• Mastering: Bob Huges
• Remastering: Ted Jensen
• Editing: Artie Ripp, Larry Elliott
• Director: Artie Ripp
• Arrangers: Jimmie Haskell, Artie Ripp

[edit] Charts

Album

Year	Chart	Position
1984	The Billboard 200	158

Singles

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1982	"She's Got a Way"	Adult Contemporary	4
1982	"She's Got A Way"	Pop Singles	23

v • d • e Billy Joel Albums
Studio Albums
Cold Spring Harbor – Piano Man – Streetlife Serenade – Turnstiles – The Stranger – 52nd Street – Glass Houses The Nylon Curtain – An Innocent Man – The Bridge – Storm Front – River of Dreams – My Lives
Greatest Hit Collections
Greatest Hits, Vols. 1 & 2 – Billy Joel - The Ultimate Collection – The Essential Billy Joel – Greatest Hits, Vol. 3 The Complete Hits Collection: 1973–1997 – Piano Man: The Very Best of Billy Joel
Live Albums
Songs in the Attic – КОНЦЕРТ – 2000 Years: The Millennium Concert – 12 Gardens Live
Other Albums and Projects
Fantasies & Delusions (performed by Richard Joo) – Movin' Out
See also: Billy Joel