Fill Your Head with Rock

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Fill Your Head With Rock
Fill Your Head With Rock cover
Compilation album by Various Artists
Released 1970
Genre Rock
Label CBS Records SPR 39/40
Producer Various
Series chronology
Rock Machine I Love You
(1968)		 Fill Your Head With Rock
(1970)		 Rockbuster
(1970)

(For the 2005 album of the same title by Kim Mitchell, see Fill your head with rock).

Fill Your Head With Rock is a double sampler album from CBS Records, released in the UK in 1970[1]. Continuing the successful trend started by The Rock Machine Turns You On, it introduced the latest albums by CBS' recording artists. Unlike its predecessors and its contemporaries, the album came with an eight-page booklet featuring brief descriptions of the artists, their images, and photographs of the relevant albums[2]. It also included publicity for other CBS Records artists as well as those on related labels such as Dandelion[3], Direction[4], and Straight[5]. The compilation is credited to David Howells, then a marketing executive at CBS; he later became Managing Director of Pete Waterman's PWL label.

Contents

[edit] Track Listing

[edit] Side One

  1. "Listen" (R. Lamm) : Chicago (from the LP Chicago 66221)[6] (3:22)
  2. "Savour"[7] (Santana : Santana (from the LP Santana 63815) (2:46)
  3. "Give A Life, Take A Life" (California/Adler) : Spirit (from the LP Clear 63729) (3:47)
  4. "Passing Through" (K. White) : Steamhammer (from the LP Steamhammer[8] 63694) (5:17)
  5. "Smiling Phases" (S. Winwood-J. Capaldi-C. Wood) : Blood, Sweat and Tears (from the LP Blood, Sweat & Tears 63504) (5:10)

[edit] Side Two

  1. "Tired of Waiting" (Flock[9]) : Flock (from the LP Flock 63733) (4:35)[10]
  2. "Come To The Sabbat" (Clive Jones-Jim Gannon) : Black Widow (from the LP Sacrifice 63948) (4:55)
  3. "Dance In The Smoke" (R. Argent-C. White) : Argent (from the LP Argent 63781) (6:10)
  4. "Gunga Din" (G. Parsons) : The Byrds (from the LP The Ballad of Easy Rider 63795) (3:02)
  5. "Living In Sin" (James) : Skin Alley[11] (from the LP Skin Alley 63847) (4:35)

[edit] Side Three

  1. "Gibsom Street" (L. Nyro) : Laura Nyro (from the LP New York Tendaberry 63410) (4:30)
  2. "You Know Who I Am" (L. Cohen) : Leonard Cohen (from the LP Songs from a Room 63587) (3:22)
  3. "Stomping Ground"[12] (L. Hardin) : Moondog (from the LP Moondog 63906) (2:36)
  4. "The Inbetween Man"[13] (A. Kane) : Amory Kane (from the LP The Inbetween Man 63849) (5:22)
  5. "The Garden of Jane Delawney" (T. Boswell[14]) : Trees (from the LP The Garden of Jane Delawney 63837) (4:05)
  6. "A Small Fruit Song" (Al Stewart) : Al Stewart (from the LP Zero She Flies 63848) (2:00)
  7. "Driving Wheel" (T. Rush[15]) : Tom Rush (from the LP Tom Rush 63940) (5:22)

[edit] Side Four

  1. "Try (Just A Little Bit Harder)" (J. Ragavoy-C. Taylor) : Janis Joplin (from the LP I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!) (4:13)
  2. "One Room Country Shack" (M. D. Walton) : Al Kooper (from the LP Kooper Session 63797) (3:35)
  3. "Six Days On The Road" (C. Montgomery-E.Greene) : Taj Mahal (from the LP Take A Giant Step 66226) (2:55)
  4. "Don't Think About It Baby" (M. Bloomfield) : Mike Bloomfield (from the LP It's Not Killing Me 63652) (3:34)
  5. "Bluesbuster" (C. Allen) : Pacific Gas & Electric (from the LP Pacific Gas and Electric 63822) (2:56)
  6. "I Love Everybody" (J. Winter) : Johnny Winter (from the LP Second Winter) (3:50)

[edit] The Album Cover

The interior of "Fill Your Head With Rock" cover.
The interior of "Fill Your Head With Rock" cover.

For once a sampler album cover showed the featured artists, and even provided a key for identification. Laura Nyro can be seen at the top left, and Al Kooper & Leonard Cohen at the top right. Four of the artists are not shown: Moondog, Amory Kane, Black Widow and Skin Alley. The front cover features Jerry Goodman of The Flock.

[edit] References

  1. ^ The album was released in The Netherlands with the title "Superb Super Pop Session N°2" and featured the same tracks.
  2. ^ The booklet: [1]
  3. ^ Principal Edwards Magic Theatre, Beau, Bridget St. John, Occasional Word, Mike Hart & Siren
  4. ^ Chambers Brothers & Taj Mahal
  5. ^ Captain Beefheart, Alice Cooper, Judy Henske/Jerry Yester, Tim Buckley, & The GTOs
  6. ^ This album was actually titled "Chicago Transit Authority"
  7. ^ On the disc itself, the track had the US spelling "Savor"
  8. ^ Actually titled "Mk II"
  9. ^ Although this was a version of The Kinks' song, which was written by Ray Davies
  10. ^ The violinist pictured on the album cover is Jerry Goodman of Flock
  11. ^ Skin Alley Website [2]
  12. ^ listed as "Stamping Ground" on the label itself. Independent discographies indicate that this is the correct title [3]
  13. ^ appears on the label as "In Between Man"
  14. ^ This is a misprint. The track was written by Tobias (Bias) Boshell
  15. ^ On the source album, this track is credited to David Wiffen and it is assumed that the credit here is a misprint

[edit] External links

For a fan's nostalgic commentary, see [4]