Four Chords & Several Years Ago

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Four Chords & Several Years Ago
Studio album by Huey Lewis & the News
Released	November 1, 1994
Genre	Rock & Roll
Length	48:52
Label	Elektra
Producer	Stewart Levine
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Huey Lewis & the News chronology
Hard at Play (1991) Four Chords & Several Years Ago (1994) Time Flies... The Best of (1996)

Four Chords & Several Years Ago is the seventh album by American rock band Huey Lewis & the News, released in 1994 (see 1994 in music). The title is a play on the first sentence in Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address ("Four score and seven years ago ...").

It is a collection of 1960s rhythm & blues covers influential to the members of the group during their early years. It is the last album to feature founding member bassist Mario Cipollina, who left the band after the subsequent tour.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Shake, Rattle and Roll" (Calhoun) – 3:07
2. "Blue Monday" (Bartholomew, Domino) – 2:41
3. "Searching for My Love" (Moore) – 2:50
4. "(She's) Some Kind of Wonderful" (Ellison) – 3:06
5. "But It's Alright" (Jackson, Tubbs) – 2:54
6. "If You Gotta Make a Fool of Somebody" (Clark) – 2:32
7. "Mother in Law" (Toussaint) – 2:43
8. "Little Bitty Pretty One" (Byrd) – 2:04
9. "Good Morning Little School Girl" (Williamson) (credited as "S.L. Hopkins")– 4:02
10. "Stagger Lee" (Logan, Price) – 2:36
11. "She Shot a Hole in My Soul" (Gayden, Neese) – 2:38
12. "Surely I Love You" (Bracken, Oliver) – 2:51
13. "You Left the Water Running" (Frank, Hall, Penn) – 3:06
14. "Your Cash Ain't Nothin' But Trash" (Calhoun) – 2:57
15. "Function at the Junction" (Holland, Long) – 3:13
16. "Better to Have and Not Need" (Covay, Watts) – 3:32
17. "Going Down Slow" (Oden) – 2:00

[edit] Personnel

Huey Lewis & the News

• Huey Lewis - harmonica, vocals
• Mario Cipollina - bass
• Johnny Colla - saxophone, vocals
• Bill Gibson - percussion, drums, vocals
• Chris Hayes - guitar, vocals
• Sean Hopper - keyboard, vocals

Additional personnel

• Marvin McFadden - trumpet
• Linda Tillery - background vocals
• Jeanie Tracy - background vocals

[edit] Production

• Producer: Stewart Levine
• Executive producer: Bob Brown
• Engineer: Daren Klein
• Assistant engineers: Jim Champagne, Kevin Scott, Jim "Watts" Vereecke
• Mixing: Daren Klein
• Mastering: Bernie Grundman
• Art direction: Robin Lynch
• Design: JoDee Stringham
• Photography: Dennis Keeley

[edit] Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Singles - Billboard (North America)