If You Listen

If You Listen
Studio album by Françoise Hardy
Released 1972 (France)
Recorded
Genre Folk rock
Length 37:28
Language English
Label Kundalini
Producer Françoise Hardy (Kundalini Editions[1])
Françoise Hardy chronology
Et si je m'en vais avant toi
(1972)		 If You Listen
(1972)		 Message personnel
(1973)
French reissue (2000)
CD digipak cover

If You Listen is a studio album of the French popular singer Françoise Hardy. That is her fourth and final album in English (an exception: "Brûlure" (B1) is in French-language). Like many of Hardy's earlier albums, it was released with no title, except for her name on the cover. It was released in France in septembre 1972, on LP, Kundalini (KUN 65057); since its French reissue in 2000, it bears the title of its most commercially successful song: "If You Listen".

Background

Tracklist

Side A
No. TitleLyricsMusic Length
1. "If You Listen"  Tommy Brown & Micky JonesTommy Brown & Micky Jones 3:34
2. "Ocean" (original title: The Ocean[2])Beverly MartynBeverly Martyn 3:50
3. "Until It's Time for You to Go"  Buffy Sainte-MarieBuffy Sainte-Marie 2:57
4. "The Garden of Jane Delawnay" (original title: The Garden of Jane Delawney[3])Bias BoshellBias Boshell 3:34
5. "Sometimes"  Miles WoottonAllan Taylor[4] 3:10
6. "Let My Name Be Sorrow" (original title: Quand je te regarde vivre[5])Martine HabibBernard Estardy 3:05
Total length:
 20:17
Side B
No. TitleLyricsMusic Length
1. "Brûlure"  Françoise HardyFrançoise Hardy 2:52
2. "Can’t Get The One I Want"  Beverly Martyn[2]Beverly Martyn 2:50
3. "I Think It's Going to Rain Today"  Randy NewmanRandy Newman 2:41
4. "Take My Hand for A While"  Buffy Sainte-Marie[6]Buffy Sainte-Marie 2:58
5. "Bowm Bowm Bowm" (original title: Bown, Bown, Bown[7])Tommy Brown & Micky JonesTommy Brown & Micky Jones 3:50
6. "Till The Morning Comes"  Neil Young[8]Neil Young 1:32
Total length:
 17:11

Editions

LP records: first editions in anglosphere

Reissues on CD


References

  1. ↑ Publishing company created by Françoise Hardy to the end 1969.
  2. 1 2 First performers: John Martyn & Beverley Martyn, album Stormbringer!, Island Records (1970).
  3. ↑ First performers: Trees, album The Garden of Jane Delawney, CBS Records (1970).
  4. ↑ First performers: album Sometimes, United Artists Records (1971).
  5. ↑ Song written by Georges Chatelain et Gilles Marchal (sung by Gilles Marchal on SP, Disc AZ (1970)). Mary Hopkin sang the English adaptation on SP, Apple Records (1971).
  6. ↑ First performer, album I'm Gonna Be a Country Girl Again, Vanguard Records (1968).
  7. ↑ First performer: Françoise Hardy in Portuguese on words of Nara Leão, for a record exclusively distributed in Brazil, SP, Philips Records (1971).
  8. ↑ First performer, album After the Gold Rush, Reprise Records (1970).
  9. ↑ An compilation containing album’s songs and also those album: One-Nine-Seven-Zero.
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