Little Games Sessions and More

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Little Games Sessions & More
Studio album by The Yardbirds
Released August 25, 1992
Recorded De Lane Lea, London, March–May 1967
Genre Blues Rock
Length 91:13
Label Capitol
Producer Adam Block & Mickie Most

This two-CD set assembles the complete Little Games album and all of the usable rehearsals, unmixed backing tracks, and alternate takes associated with it in one place, along with a few Yardbirds-related holdings in the EMI vaults. For a variety of reasons (not all the fault of the band), Little Games was the Yardbirds' least successful album, but it was also their only full-length studio recording featuring guitarist Jimmy Page, who seems to have hung back here in exerting his musical inclinations, in keeping with the desires of producer Mickie Most's quest for a pop/rock tone to the album. The odd B-sides, outtakes, alternate takes, and bonus tracks reveal a high level of virtuosity that Most failed to exploit -- the unanthologized B-sides "Puzzles" and "Think About It," the acoustic version of "White Summer," and the punchier mono mixes of "Little Games" and "Drinking Muddy Water" are superior to much on the finished album; other tracks like the instrumental backing track for "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor" and an alternate version of "Glimpses" merely fill in holes for Page completists. Keith Relf and Jim McCarty's post-Yardbirds acoustic duo, Together, which evolved into the original Renaissance, is also represented on three tracks, doing the brand of folkish soft rock that they favored.

Contents

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[edit] Disc one

  1. "Little Games [Stereo Mix]" (Phil Wainman, Harold Spiro) – 2:39
  2. "Smile On Me" (Jimmy Page, Jim McCarty, Chris Dreja, Keith Relf) – 3:20
  3. "White Summer" (Jimmy Page) – 3:59
  4. "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor [Vocal Version]" (Jimmy Page, Jim McCarty) – 2:53
  5. "Glimpses [Version 1]" (Jimmy Page, Jim McCarty, Chris Dreja, Keith Relf) – 4:23
  6. "Drinking Muddy Water [Stereo Mix]" (Jimmy Page, Jim McCarty, Chris Dreja, Keith Relf) - 2:54
  7. "No Excess Baggage" (Roger Atkins) - 2:39
  8. "Stealing Stealing" (Jimmy Page, Jim McCarty, Chris Dreja, Keith Relf) - 2:36
  9. "Only The Black Rose" (Keith Relf) - 2:50
  10. "Little Soldier Boy" (Jimmy Page, Jim McCarty, Keith Relf) - 2:44
  11. "Puzzles" (Jimmy Page, Jim McCarty, Chris Dreja, Keith Relf) - 2:10
  12. "I Remember The Night [*]" (Anthony Pirollo) - 3:03
  13. "Ha Ha Said The Clown" (Tony Hazzard) - 2:30
  14. "Ten Little Indians (Vocal) [Vocal Version]" (Harry Nilsson) - 2:15
  15. "Goodnight Sweet Josephine [Version 1]" (Tony Hazzard) - 2:44
  16. "Think About It" (Jimmy Page, Jim McCarty, Keith Relf) - 3:45

[edit] Disc two

  1. "Little Games [Mono Mix]" (Phil Wainman, Harold Spiro) - 2:24
  2. "You Stole My Love [*]" (Graham Gouldman) - 2:57
  3. "White Summer [Acoustic Version, *]" (Jimmy Page) - 3:53
  4. "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor [Instrumental, *]" (Jimmy Page, Jim McCarty) - 2:56
  5. "L.S.D. [*]" (Jimmy Page, Jim McCarty, Chris Dreja) - 1:01
  6. "Drinking Muddy Water [Mono Mix]" (Jimmy Page, Jim McCarty, Chris Dreja, Keith Relf) - 2:52
  7. "De Lane Lea Lee [*]" (Jimmy Page, Jim McCarty, Chris Dreja) - 2:35
  8. "Glimpses [*, Version 2]" (Jimmy Page, Jim McCarty, Chris Dreja, Keith Relf) - 4:20
  9. "Never Mind" ( Jimmy Page, Jim McCarty, Chris Dreja) - 2:48
  10. "Ten Little Indians (Instrumental)" (Harry Nilsson) - 2:17
  11. "Goodnight Sweet Josephine" (Tony Hazzard) - 2:44
  12. "Henry's Coming Home [*]" (Jim McCarty, Keith Relf) - 2:59
  13. "Love Mum And Dad [*]" (Jim McCarty, Keith Relf) - 3:50
  14. "Together Now" (Jim McCarty, Keith Relf) - 3:05
  15. "Shining Where the Sun Has Been [*]" (Jim McCarty, Keith Relf)- 2:53
  16. "Great Shakes [US Commercial, *]" - 1:01

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Additional personnel

[edit] Production

  • Producer: Adam Block & Mickie Most
  • Engineer: Kevin Reeves

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