A Way of Life (album)

A Way of Life
Studio album by The Family Dogg
Released November 1, 1969
Recorded April – May 1969 at
IBC Studios, London;
Chappell Studios, London;
Landsdowne Studios, London
Genre Pop rock
Folk rock
Length 55:01
Label Bell Records
Producer Steve Rowland
The Family Dogg chronology

A Way of Life
(1969)
The View from Rowlands Head
(1971)
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A Way of Life is the début album by British vocal harmony and folk-rock group The Family Dogg. It featureds singer-songwriter Albert Hammond, and a session group includes Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page, and John Bonham. Elton John may have played piano on the title track. Released by the UK subsidiary of Bell Records in November, 1969, the album was reissued in 1995 as a CD with bonus tracks, which included B-sides and songs found on other compilation and sampler records.

Track listing

  1. "Julie's Just Gone" (Mark Jordan) – 3:20
  2. "All the Best Songs and Marches" (Terry Stamp) – 2:31
  3. "In the Ghetto" (Mac Davis) – 3:06
  4. "Today I Killed a Man I Didn't Know" (Roger Cook, Roger Greenaway) – 4:13
  5. "Pattern People" (Jimmy Webb) – 2:40
  6. "Save the Life of My Child" (Paul Simon) – 4:45
  7. "Love Minus Zero/No Limit" (Bob Dylan) – 2:54
  8. "Reflections 'Of Your Face'" (Amory Kane) – 4:05
  9. "Run Run Run Fly Fly Fly" (Ben Findon) – 2:47
  10. "Moonshine Mary" (Albert Hammond, Mike Hazlewood) – 3:26
  11. "You Were On My Mind" (Traditional; arranged by Kane, Rowland, Hammond, Hazlewood) – 4:37
  12. "Place in the Sun" (Bryan Wells, Ronald Miller) – 4:55
  13. "A Way of Life" (Roger Cook, Roger Greenaway) – 4:04

Personnel

Chart positions

Album

Year Chart Position
1969 Billboard Pop albums (Billboard 200)
1969 UK Albums Chart

Singles

Year Single Chart Position
1969 "A Way of Life" Billboard Hot 100
1969 "A Way of Life" UK Singles Chart No. 6
1969 "Arizona" UK Singles Chart

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