There's Gonna Be a Storm: The Complete Recordings 1966–1969

Compilation album by The Left Banke

Released

1992

Recorded

1966-1969

Genre

Baroque pop

Length

74:08

Label

Mercury Records

The Left Banke chronology

Strangers on a Train
(1986)

There's Gonna Be a Storm: The Complete Recordings 1966–1969
(1992)

There's Gonna Be a Storm: The Complete Recordings 1966-1969 is a compilation album by New York pop band The Left Banke, released on Mercury Records in 1992. It contains the entirety of the band's two 1960s albums Walk Away Renée/Pretty Ballerina and The Left Banke Too, with an additional four tracks having appeared on singles only and one previously unreleased track. It is currently out of print. The band enjoyed cult status in the 1990s and beyond as a definitive example of mid-1960s baroque pop.

1 Track listing
2 Personnel
- 2.1 Additional personnel
3 External links

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Walk Away Renée"	Brown, Tony Sansone, Bob Calilli	2:40
2.	"I Haven't Got the Nerve"	George Cameron, Steve Martin Caro	2:13
3.	"Pretty Ballerina"	Michael Brown	2:32
4.	"She May Call You Up Tonight"	Michael Brown, Steve Martin-Caro	2:18
5.	"I've Got Something on My Mind"	Brown, Martin-Caro, Cameron	2:46
6.	"Barterers and Their Wives"	Michael Brown, Tom Feher	2:56
7.	"Let Go of You Girl"	Brown, Martin-Caro, Cameron	2:53
8.	"What Do You Know"	Michael Brown, Tom Feher	2:57
9.	"Evening Gown"	Michael Brown, Tom Feher	1:46
10.	"Lazy Day"	Michael Brown, Steve Martin-Caro	2:24
11.	"Shadows Breaking Over My Head"	Michael Brown, Steve Martin-Caro	2:34
12.	"Ivy Ivy" (Smash single 2089)	Michael Brown, Tom Feher	3:11
13.	"Men Are Building Sand" (previously unreleased)	Michael Brown, Bert Sommer	2:19
14.	"Desirée"	Michael Brown, Tom Feher	2:42
15.	"Dark is the Bark"	Cameron, Finn, Martin-Caro	3:28
16.	"My Friend Today"	Tom Feher	3:03
17.	"Sing Little Bird Sing"	Tom Finn	3:09
18.	"And Suddenly" (Smash single 2089b)	Michael Brown, Bert Sommer	2:05
19.	"Goodbye Holly"	Tom Feher	2:56
20.	"In the Morning Light"	Michael Brown, Tom Feher	2:50
21.	"Bryant Hotel"	Tom Feher	3:24
22.	"Give the Man a Hand"	Marvin Potocki	2:33
23.	"Nice to See You"	Tom Finn	2:41
24.	"There's Gonna Be a Storm"	Tom Finn	4:16
25.	"Pedestal" (Smash single 2243)	Tom Kaye, Marty Joe Kupersmith	3:45
26.	"Myrah" (Smash single 2243b)	Michael Brown, Steve Martin-Caro	3:21

Personnel

Steve Martin Caro — lead vocals; drums (on "Goodbye Holly"), tambourine (on "Nice To See You"), bass (on "Bryant Hotel")
Michael Brown — piano, harpsichord, Clavinet, organ; lead vocals (on "What Do You Know")
Tom Finn — bass, guitar, backing vocals; lead vocals (on "Nice to See You" & "There's Gonna Be A Storm")
George Cameron — drums, percussion, backing vocals; lead vocals (on "I Haven't Got The Nerve", "Goodbye Holly" & "Bryant Hotel")
Warren David-Schierhorst — drums
Jeff Winfield — electric guitar
Rick Brand — electric guitar, banjo
Bert Sommer — lead vocals, guitar (on "Ivy, Ivy", "And Suddenly" & "Men Are Building Sand")
Michael McKean — guitar (on "Ivy, Ivy", "And Suddenly" & "Men Are Building Sand")
Tom Feher — piano; guitar (on "Sing Little Bird" & "Bryant Hotel")

Additional personnel

Steve Tallarico — backing vocals
Paul Griffin — keyboards
Paul Leka — piano, string arrangements
Hugh McCracken — guitar
Al Gorgoni — guitar
George "Fluffer" Hirsh — guitar
Marvin Potocki — guitars
John Abbott — bass, guitar, string and horn arrangements
Seymour Barab — bass, cello
Joe Mack — bass
Chet Amsterdam — bass
Al Rogers — drums
Buddy Saltzman — drums
Bobby Gregg — drums
Artie Schroek — vibraphone, drums, string arrangements
Paul Leka — string arrangements
Harry Lookofsky — violin
George Marge — oboe
Ray Alonge — french horn
Marvin Stamm — trumpet
George Young — woodwinds

There's Gonna Be a Storm: The Complete Recordings 1966–1969

Contents

Track listing

Personnel

Additional personnel

External links