Gasolin' (English album)

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Gasolin'
Gasolin' cover
Studio album by Gasolin'
Released Early 1974 (1974)
Recorded August 1973 and January 1974 at Rosenberg studio, Copenhagen
Genre Rock
Length 34:34
Language English
Label CBS
Producer Roy Thomas Baker
Gasolin' chronology
Gasolin' 3
(1973)		 Gasolin'
(1974)		 Stakkels Jim
(1974)
Singles from Gasolin'
  1. "Lucky Linda"
    Released: 1974 (Germany)

Gasolin' is the first album with English lyrics by rock band Gasolin' in an attempt to win the band recognition outside their native Denmark. It is almost identical to their third Danish album, Gasolin' 3 and was was released in some Western European countries in the beginning of 1974 on CBS. It failed to make impact on the charts anywhere, but didn't stop Gasolin' from issuing three more albums in English in the period from 1974 to 1978.

Contents

[edit] History

After the artistic and commercial success of Gasolin' 2, Kim Larsen left the band due to his unhappiness with too many of his new songs being rejected by the band. Poul Bruun, the director of CBS in Denmark, afraid to see band disappear resolved the situation by letting Larsen record a solo album (Værsgo) and Gasolin' make their next album in two versions, one in Danish for the home market and one with English lyrics to be released in Europe. To provide the right international sound, the record company brought Englishman Roy Thomas Baker to Copenhagen to produce the album in August 1973. Baker, a hot name in the record industry thanks to his recent success with Queen had already worked as engineer on the bands debut album Gasolin' in 1970 and was happy to work with them again.[1] After finishing Gasolin' 3, the band teamed up with Leonard "Skip" Malone, an American living in Denmark at the time, who helped the band translate the Danish lyrics into English. The lyrics were re-recorded in January 1974 and the resulting album released shortly after.[2]

[edit] Track listing

All titles are written by Gasolin' / Gasolin', Skip Malone except where otherwise noted.

[edit] Side one

  1. "Lucky Linda" – 5:02
  2. "If You Dare" (Trad. / Gasolin', Malone) – 3:15
  3. "Quasimodo's Song" – 4:05
  4. "Lilli-Lilli" – 4:55

[edit] Side two

  1. "It Was Inga, Katinka And Groovy Charlie On His Harley" (Tommy Pedersen / Gasolin', Malone) – 2:51
  2. "The Big Hullabaloo" – 2:28
  3. "The Cat" – 2:50
  4. "Stark Raving Mad" – 3:15
  5. "Sju-Bi-Du-Bi-Man" – 5:53

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Gasolin'

[edit] Additional musicians

[edit] Production

[edit] Release history

Region Title Date Label Format Catalog [3]
Western Europe Gasolin' Early 1974 (1974) CBS stereo LP CBS 80099
Scandinavia A Foreign Affair[4] 1997 (1997) Columbia double CD Columbia 487177 2

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Bundgaard (2003) p.54
  2. ^ Bundgaard (2003) pp.67-69
  3. ^ Min Gasolin' samling (Danish). Retrieved on 2008-04-08.
  4. ^ Reissue bundled with Killin' Time

[edit] References


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Gasolin'
Kim Larsen · Franz Beckerlee · Wili Jønsson · Søren Berlev
Bjørn Uglebjerg
Studio albums
Gasolin' (1971) • Gasolin' 2 (1972) • Gasolin' 3 (1973) • Stakkels Jim (1974) • Gas 5 (1975) • Efter endnu en dag (1976) • Gør det noget (1977)
Gasolin' (1974) • The Last Jim (1974) • What a Lemon (1976) • Killin' Time (1978)
Live albums
Live sådan (1976) • Live i Skandinavien (1978) • Derudaf Forever (1993)
Compilation albums
Supermix 1 (1980) • Rabalderstræde Forever (1991) • A Foreign Affair (1997) • Gasolin' Forever (1999) • The Early Years (2000) • A Foreign Affair II (2002) • The Black Box (2003)
Videos and DVDs
Gasolin' (2006)
Languages