Old Wave
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Old Wave |
| type | Studio album |
| artist | Ringo Starr |
| cover | Oldwave.jpg |
| released | |
| recorded | 23 July 1978 |
| February, 6–16 April, May–July 1982 | |
| studio | Sweet Silence Studios, Copenhagen, Denmark; |
| genre | Rock |
| length | |
| label | Bellaphon (Germany) |
| RCA (Canada) | |
| producer | {{flatlist |
| prev_title | Stop and Smell the Roses |
| prev_year | 1981 |
| next_title | Starr Struck: Best of Ringo Starr, Vol. 2 |
| next_year | 1989 |
| misc | {{Singles |
| name | Old Wave |
| type | Studio album |
| single1 | In My Car |
| single1date | 16 June 1983 (Germany only) |
| single2 | I Keep Forgettin' |
| single2date | 1984 (Mexico only) |
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| name = Old Wave | type = Studio album | artist = Ringo Starr | cover = Oldwave.jpg | alt = | released = | recorded = 23 July 1978 February, 6–16 April, May–July 1982 | venue = | studio = Sweet Silence Studios, Copenhagen, Denmark;
Ascot Sound Studios, Berkshire, England | genre = Rock | length = | label = Bellaphon (Germany) RCA (Canada) | producer = {{flatlist|
- Joe Walsh
- Russ Ballard | prev_title = Stop and Smell the Roses | prev_year = 1981 | next_title = Starr Struck: Best of Ringo Starr, Vol. 2 | next_year = 1989 | misc = {{Singles | name = Old Wave | type = Studio album | single1 = In My Car | single1date = 16 June 1983 (Germany only) | single2 = I Keep Forgettin' | single2date = 1984 (Mexico only) | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = | rev2 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | rev2Score = | rev3 = The Essential Rock Discography | rev3Score = 3/10 | rev4 = MusicHound | rev4Score = 2/5 | rev5 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide | rev5Score = Old Wave is the ninth studio album by the English rock musician Ringo Starr. It was originally released in June 1983, on the label Bellaphon, and is the two-year follow-up to his 1981 album Stop and Smell the Roses. The title is a play on new wave music.
Background and recording
After John Lennon's murder in December 1980, Starr returned home to England to live at Tittenhurst Park, which Starr had purchased from Lennon in 1973. Walsh and Starr had known each other since the mid-1970s, having met and befriended each other in Los Angeles. Walsh immediately agreed to work with Starr and they met at Tittenhurst in February to begin writing material. Recording began shortly afterwards and instrumental backing tracks for seven songs were recorded at Startling Studios, after Starr had previously converted Lennon's recording studio. Engineering duties were handled by Jim Nipor. These sessions were mainly done with a team consisting of Starr on drums and percussion, Walsh on guitar and backing vocals, Mo Foster on bass and both Gary Brooker and Chris Stainton on keyboards.
Sessions came to a halt when Walsh and Nipor went to California on 19 March. On 15 April, Rolling Stone broke the news that Starr was "in London working on a new album with Joe Walsh acting as the producer." Lead vocals were laid down from 19 to 23 April. Sometime in May, Starr requested permission from the Windsor and Maidenhead District Council to build a new building on his Tittenhurst Park land, which he would use for video and recording purposes. Sessions resumed from 31 May until 10 June; the next day, taking the masters recorded up to that point with him, Starr and his wife Barbara Bach flew from London to Los Angeles, and returned on 14 June. The album was finished with a third batch of sessions from 24 June into early July.
"Everybody's in a Hurry But Me" came about from a jam session between the Who bassist John Entwistle, drummer and percussionist Ray Cooper and Eric Clapton. "As Far as We Can Go" was originally recorded at Sweet Silence Studios in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 23 July 1978. From that original rendition, only the vocal was used. Walsh re-recorded an entirely new track using one of the latest technology synthesizers.
Release and aftermath
The album was originally titled It Beats Sleep. The portrait on the album cover was shot in a booth in northern England, As Starr's RCA contract had been cancelled, he needed to find a new label for Old Wave. Although it was just over a decade after the Beatles' dissolution, no major UK or US record company was interested in signing him. Starr would not accept that and was determined to have Old Wave released any way he could. The album was due to be released on the Boardwalk label, but never appeared, due to the death of the label's head, Neil Bogart. RCA Canada ended up distributing the album in June 1983 in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, the Netherlands, Mexico, and Brazil; appeared on Bellaphon but used leftover Boardwalk labels. and the other in Mexico ("I Keep Forgettin'" b/w "She's About a Mover").
Walsh's 1987 album Got Any Gum? included a cover of "In My Car", which was released as a single and became a moderate hit. Four tracks from the album appeared on Starr's US compilation Starr Struck: Best of Ringo Starr, Vol. 2 in 1989.|group="nb"}} Both CD and cassette deluxe editions included a bonus track,
Track listing
| headline = Side one | title1 = In My Car | length1 = 3:13 | writer1 = {{flatlist|
- Richard Starkey
- Joe Walsh
- Mo Foster
- Kim Goody | title2 = Hopeless | length2 = 3:17 | writer2 = {{flatlist|
- Starkey
- Walsh}} | title3 = Alibi | length3 = 4:00 | writer3 = {{flatlist|
- Starkey
- Walsh}} | title4 = Be My Baby | length4 = 3:44 | writer4 = Walsh | title5 = She's About a Mover | length5 = 3:52 | writer5 = Doug Sahm | total_length = | headline = Side two | title1 = I Keep Forgettin | length1 = 4:18 | writer1 = {{flatlist|
- Jerry Leiber
- Mike Stoller}} | note1 = | title2 = Picture Show Life | length2 = 4:21 | writer2 = {{flatlist|
- John Reid
- John Slate}} | title3 = As Far as We Can Go | length3 = 3:52 | writer3 = Russ Ballard | title4 = Everybody's in a Hurry But Me | length4 = 2:35 | writer4 = {{flatlist|
- Starkey
- Walsh
- John Entwistle
- Eric Clapton
- Chris Stainton | title5 = Going Down | length5 = 3:34 | writer5 = {{flatlist|
- Starkey
- Walsh}} ;Bonus track on the 1994 re-issue | title11 = As Far as We Can Go | note11 = original version | length11 = 5:33 | writer11 = Ballard
Personnel
Track numbering refers to CD and digital releases of the album.
- Ringo Starr – lead vocals (all tracks), drums (1–4, 7, 9, 10), percussion (1–4, 6, 7, 10), backing vocals (10)
- Joe Walsh – guitar (all tracks), backing vocals (1–8, 10), synthesizer (8), harmonica (10)
- Waddy Wachtel – guitar (7, 10), harmonica (10)
- Eric Clapton – guitar (9)
- Kal David – guitar (5)
- Sherwood Ball – guitar (5)
- Chris Stainton – keyboards (1–4, 6, 7, 9, 10)
- Gary Brooker – keyboards (1–4, 6, 7, 10), backing vocals (10)
- Joe Vitale – piano (8), backing vocals (8)
- Bruce MacPherson – Hammond organ (5)
- Mo Foster – bass guitar (1–4, 6–8, 10), backing vocals (10)
- Freebo – tuba (5), bass guitar (5)
- John Entwistle – bass guitar (9)
- Kenny Edwards – bass guitar (10)
- Peter Bunetta – drums (5)
- Russ Kunkel – drums (6)
- Ray Cooper – percussion (6, 9)
- Sam Clayton – percussion (5)
- Joe Lala – percussion (5)
- Jocko Marcellino – percussion (5)
- David Wooford – saxophone (5)
- Lee Thornburg – trumpet (5)
- Garrett Adkins – trombone (5)
- Mark Easterling – backing vocals (1, 7)
- Steve Hess – backing vocals (1, 7)
- Patrick Maroshek – backing vocals (1, 7)
- Barbara Bach – backing vocals (10)
References
Footnotes
Citations
References
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- Larkin, Colin. (2011). "The Encyclopedia of Popular Music'' (5th edn)''". Omnibus Press.
- Strong, Martin C.. (2006). "The Essential Rock Discography". Canongate.
- Gary Graff & Daniel Durchholz (eds), ''MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide'', Visible Ink Press (Farmington Hills, MI, 1999; {{ISBN. 1-57859-061-2), p. 1083.
- Brackett, Nathan, with Hoard, Christian (eds) (2004). ''The New Rolling Stone Album Guide'' (4th edn). New York, NY: Fireside. p. 777. {{ISBN. 0-7432-0169-8.
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- taken before Starr had joined the Beatles.Jeff Lancaster quoted by Graham Calkin : http://www.jpgr.co.uk/t229675.html
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