George & James

George & James
Studio album by The Residents
Released March 1984
Recorded October 1983-February 1984
Genre Avant-garde, noise rock
Length 36:24
The Residents chronology

Intermission: Extraneous Music from the Residents' Mole Show (1983) George & James
(1984)		 Whatever Happened to Vileness Fats? (1984)
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George and James is an album by The Residents, released in 1984. It was subtitled American Composer Series - Volume 1. The American Composer Series was originally supposed to be an ongoing project lasting from 1984 until 2000 that profiled a number of different artists. The idea was to "make music about music." Ultimately only two full albums surfaced (Stars and Hank Forever is the other one), although a few tracks from the planned album profiling Sun Ra and Ray Charles have surfaced.

This particular offer includes a side of reworked George Gershwin songs, while side two has the same songs in the same order as side one of James Brown's classic Live at the Apollo.

Unenthusiastic reviews, the transition from vinyl to CD (meaning that the concept of a split album would be spoiled) and re-negotiation of the songwriting fees (making the project financially impossible) scuppered the series.

Track listing

No. Title Length
1. "Rhapsody in Blue"   10:31
2. "I Got Rhythm"   3:04
3. "Summertime"   4:08
4. "Live at the Apollo 18:41
Total length:
 36:24

Bonus Track on British Cassette Release

  1. "It's a Man's Man's Man's World"