Rain Dances

Rain Dances
Studio album by Camel
Released September 1977
Recorded 1977
Genre Progressive rock
Length 44:57
Label Deram Records
Producer Rhett Davies and Camel
Camel chronology
Moonmadness
(1976)		 Rain Dances
(1977)		 A Live Record
(1978)
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Progrography review [2]
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Rain Dances is the fifth studio album by English progressive rock band Camel. It was released in 1977, with Deram Records, and brought a major change to the band's lineup, by replacing bassist Doug Ferguson with ex-Caravan Richard Sinclair and by adding saxophonist Mel Collins, former King Crimson member.

Contents

Track listing

Side One

  1. "First Light" (Peter Bardens, Andrew Latimer) – 5:01
  2. "Metrognome" (Bardens, Latimer) – 4:15
  3. "Tell Me" (Bardens, Latimer) – 4:06
  4. "Highways of the Sun" (Bardens, Latimer) – 4:29

Side Two

  1. "Unevensong" (Bardens, Latimer, Andy Ward) – 5:33
  2. "One of These Days I'll Get an Early Night" (Bardens, Mel Collins, Latimer, Richard Sinclair, Ward) – 5:53
  3. "Elke" (Latimer) – 4:26
  4. "Skylines" (Bardens, Latimer, Ward) – 4:24
  5. "Rain Dances" (Bardens, Latimer) – 2:53
  6. "Highways of the Sun" (Bardens, Latimer) (single edit; CD-Bonus Track) – 3:57

Bonus tracks on 2009 remaster

  1. "Highways of the Sun" (Single Version) – 4:00
  2. "First Light" (live; taken from BBC "Sight and Sound" in Concert October 1st, 1977) – 5:01
  3. "Metrognome" (live; taken from BBC "Sight and Sound" in Concert October 1st, 1977) – 4:55
  4. "Unevensong" (live; taken from BBC "Sight and Sound" in Concert October 1st, 1977) – 5:47
  5. "Skylines" (live; taken from BBC "Sight and Sound" in Concert October 1st, 1977) – 5:36
  6. "Highways of the Sun" (live; taken from BBC "Sight and Sound" in Concert October 1st, 1977)> – 4:59
  7. "One of these days I'll get an early night" (live; taken from BBC "Sight and Sound" in Concert October 1st, 1977) – 4:12

Note: On the back of the 2009 Remastered Edition as well as in the track list of the booklet both studio and live version of "Highways of the sun" are wrongly named "Highways to the sun". In the accompanying text by Mark Powell though the song is named correctly.

Personnel

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Other credits

Release details

References

  1. ^ Plichta, Mathew (2011 [last update]). "Rain Dances - Camel | AllMusic". allmusic.com. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r3169. Retrieved 24 June 2011. 
  2. ^ "RAIN DANCES". connollyco.com. http://www.connollyco.com/discography/camel/rain.html. Retrieved 24 June 2011. 
Camel
Andrew Latimer · Colin Bass · Denis Clement · Ton Scherpenzeel
Doug Ferguson · Peter Bardens · Andy Ward · Richard Sinclair · Mel Collins · Jan Schelhaas · Kit Watkins · Paul Burgess · Dave Stewart · Guy LeBlanc
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