BBC Sessions (The Yardbirds album)

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BBC Sessions
Live album by The Yardbirds
Released 1997
Recorded 1965-1968
Genre Blues
Label Warner Archives

The Yardbirds Live at the BBC (Warner Archives 2-46694, 1997) compiles 26 recordings made for broadcast from eight different sessions between 1965 and 1968. Eric Clapton left the group shortly before the first recording sessions.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "I Ain't Got You" (Calvin Carter) 1:59
  2. "For Your Love" (Graham Gouldman) 2:18
  3. "I'm Not Talking" (Mose Allison) 1:37 (Tracks 1-3 recorded 3/20/65)
  4. "I Wish You Would" (Billy Boy Arnold) 2:35
  5. "Heart Full of Soul" (Graham Gouldman) 2:19
  6. "I Ain't Done Wrong" (Keith Relf) 2:28 (Tracks 4-6 recorded 6/5/65)
  7. "Too Much Monkey Business" (Chuck Berry) 2:28
  8. "Love Me Like I Love You" (Keith Relf, Paul Samwell-Smith, Jim McCarty, Chris Dreja, Jeff Beck) 2:50
  9. "I'm a Man" (Ellas McDaniel) 2:27
  10. "Evil Hearted You" (Graham Gouldman) 2:16
  11. "Still I'm Sad" (Paul Samwell-Smith, Jim McCarty) 2:54
  12. "Hang on Sloopy" (Bert Russell, Wes Farrell) 3:21 (Tracks 7-12 recorded August 1965)
  13. "Smokestack Lightning" (Chester Burnett) 3:31
  14. "You're A Better Man Than I" (Mike Hugg, Brian Hugg) 3:09
  15. "The Train Kept A-Rollin'" (Tiny Bradshaw, Sidney Nathan, Howie Kay) 2:40 (Tracks 13-16 recorded December 1965)
  16. "Dust My Broom" (Elmore James) 2:30 (recorded February 1966)
  17. "Baby, Scratch My Back" (James Moore) 3:10
  18. "Over Under Sideways Down" (Keith Relf,Paul Samwell-Smith,Jim McCarty,Chris Dreja,Jeff Beck) 2:10
  19. "The Sun Is Shining" (Elmore James) 2:44
  20. "Shapes of Things" (Keith Relf, Paul Samwell-Smith, Jim McCarty, Chris Dreja) (Tracks 17-20 recorded 5/6/66)
  21. "Most Likely You'll Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)" (Bob Dylan) 2:48
  22. "Little Games" (Phil Wainman, Harold Spiro) 2:22
  23. "Drinking Muddy Water" (Keith Relf, Jim McCarty, Chris Dreja, Jimmy Page) 2:41 (Tracks 21-23 recorded 3/17/67)
  24. "Think About It" (Keith Relf, Jim McCarty, Jimmy Page) 3:01
  25. "Goodnight Sweet Josephine" (Tony Hazzard) 2:31
  26. "My Baby" (Mort Shuman, Jerry Ragavoy) (Tracks 24-26 recorded 3/16/68)

[edit] Personnel

The Yardbirds:

v • d • e
The Yardbirds
Original members (1963-68): Keith Relf  · Chris Dreja  · Paul Samwell-Smith  · Top Topham  · Jim McCarty  · Eric Clapton  · Jeff Beck  · Jimmy Page
Rod Demick  · Laurie Garman · Alan Glen · John Idan  · Ben King  · Billy Boy Miskimmin  · Ray Majors  · Gypie Mayo
Albums
Live albums
Five Live Yardbirds (1964)  · Sonny Boy Williamson and The Yardbirds (1966)  · Live Yardbirds: Featuring Jimmy Page (1971)  · Yardbirds Reunion Jam Vol II · Live at B.B. King Blues Club  · BBC Sessions (1997)  · Blueswailing '64 (2003)
Compilations
For Your Love · Having a Rave Up · The Yardbirds Greatest Hits · Ultimate!
UK Singles
(EMI Columbia)
"I Wish You Would" · "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" · "For Your Love" · "Heart Full of Soul" · "Evil Hearted You" · "Shapes of Things"  · "Over Under Sideways Down"  · "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago"  · "Little Games"  · "Goodnight Sweet Josephine"
Other songs
"Boom Boom"  · "My Girl Sloopy" · "I'm a Man"  · "Train Kept A-Rollin'"  · "Ha Ha Said the Clown" · "White Summer" · "Ten Little Indians" · "Think About It" · "Dazed and Confused"
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