Apr 1, 2010

JACKIE LOMAX - IS THIS WHAT YOU WANT? (APPLE 1969) Jap mastering cardboard sleeve + 5 bonus




...In early 1962, Jackie Lomax left Dee and the Dynamites to join Merseybeat band The Undertakers. They followed the same route as The Beatles through local venues before setting out for Hamburg, Germany and finally securing a record deal. From that point onwards, they were dogged by ill-luck and lack of success. They signed with Pye Records and released four singles which only managed to place one week on the British charts between them. In 1965 they moved to America to try their luck there.
After two years in America with The Undertakers and a couple of other groups, Jackie Lomax's latest band, The Lomax Alliance, were taken back to Britain in 1967 by Brian Epstein to showcase them at the Saville Theatre in London. He arranged for a single and an album to be recorded and they signed to CBS. Epstein's untimely death ruined the plans for the band. During that period CBS released two Lomax Alliance singles and one solo Jackie Lomax single. More than enough tracks for an album were recorded but it was never released.
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As 1968 opened, however, opportunity beckoned for Jackie Lomax, with the founding of Apple Records by the Beatles. George Harrison remembered the singer well from the other end of the decade in Liverpool, and in March of that year, the Beatles guitarist recorded Lomax on a pair of songs, "Little Yellow Pills" and "Won't You Come Back." He was happy enough with the session to have Lomax back to record a song he'd written specifically for him in India, called "Sour Milk Sea," in what amounted to a busted Beatles session featuring Harrison and Lomax on rhythm guitars, Eric Clapton on lead, Paul McCartney on bass, Ringo Starr at the drum kit, and Nicky Hopkins on piano. Backed with Lomax's "The Eagle Laughs at You," the song came out in August of 1968. Buoyed by positive reviews and an enthusiastic response on the radio, it seemed to herald great things for Lomax, so much so that Harrison recorded three additional songs with him in London during August and September, and six more songs in Los Angeles in October, this time availing themselves of Hal Blaine, Larry Knechtel, and Joe Osborn as session musicians. The result was the Jackie Lomax LP Is This What You Want?, issued in March of 1969 -- the latter never charted but, thanks to the single, good word-of-mouth, and the presence of an all-star lineup, it did sell gradually and steadily. In March of 1969, Paul McCartney took over producing Lomax on a cover of the Coasters' song "Thumbin' a Ride" and a Lomax original, "Going Back to Liverpool." And in April of 1969, Lomax produced himself on his own "New Day," which became the A-side of "Thumbin' a Ride." All of these records attracted attention but none charted, and following one last Harrison-produced single, "How the Web Was Woven," in October of 1969, Lomax's history with Apple came to an end...
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10 comments:

Julio Murillo Llerda said...

Hello, Georgie...

Thanks again for this new post (I have a blog roll with small covers in my blog and I can see all your updates). If I´m not wrong, I had this LP in the seventies, but the true is that I can´t remember the songs. I will hear it with great pleasure.

Warm regards to you and my devotion to your land. I´m greek in spirit and a fan of your history (Classic Greece, V Century BC). I´m a novelist, a couple of my books ("The tear of the City", about the siege and fall of Constantinople, and "The Water and The Earth", about the Persian Wars, Themistokles, Leonidas, Platea, and so on...) were bought and translate to greek by Enalios.

My best!

Julio
www.thatwasmusic.blogspot.com

Georgie Hirezola said...

Don't know what to say...I'm really impressed!!! I just looked to your profile & blogs!!Oh man I had no idea!
Of course it's not the right place here to start a conversation about things that happened here during the past 3.000 years or who was right or wrong...suppose I'm doing some kind of music sharing here...hahahahahahaaa!!!
"The tear of the CITY" really impressed me...It's my book.I can not wait to read it!
Greek Middle Ages (East Roman Empire) is my cup of tea!
I have read many books (by Greek Academics), I walked the ruins, heard stories & legends in my childhood & I'm very curious not only to read your novel but also to see how you describe the glory & the fall, the feelings & the pain of those hard times...
my regards.....
Georgie++++++++

gregory said...

Happy Easter to all of you...
Τζώρτζη χρόνια πολλά, καλή Ανάσταση.

Sixtus said...

That's one fine piece of music!
Thank you very much, Georgie!

Jackies voice reminds me of (please don't kill me ;-) ) Mick Jagger singin' Beatles-songs. Interesting thought.

Julio Murillo Llerda said...

Hi Georgie...

I´m sure "The Tear of the City" will please you. A friend of mine, a girl that teaches greek in Madrid, told me that the translation is quite good. The original title (in spanish) was "The tears of Karseb" but Enalios decided to change it for "The Tear of the City" (sorry, I can´t translate to greek although I studied so many years ago greek). The novel took me almost two years (2003-2004) of work, and win a prize in Spain. What a glorious 52 days of courage and resistence before the fall. God bless Constantino XI. Each time I read his final speech to knights and people after the liturgy in the basilica, I cry...

I´m sure this site in Internet will delight you. A team of people spent years and years reconstructing Contantinople, street by street, church by church, walls, palaces, etc... ¡It´s extraordinary! Have a look:

http://www.byzantium1200.com/

Greetings. We will keep in contact.
I give you my email. You´re right: here we share MUSIC,jajajaja !!!

Julio

juliomurillollerda@gmail.com
thatwasmusic@gmail.com

Georgie Hirezola said...

I wish a "HAPPY EASTER" to all of you guys!
thank you for your visits & comments. It's a pleasure...
.........
ΚΑΛΟ ΠΑΣΧΑ ΜΕ ΥΓΕΙΑ ΣΕ ΟΛΟΥΣ!!!!
ΠΡΟΣΟΧΗ ΜΕ ΤΟ ΦΑΓΟΠΟΤΙ ΚΑΙ ΚΥΡΙΩΣ ΜΗΝ ΟΔΗΓΕΙΤΕ ΠΙΩΜΕΝΟΙ!!!!
Georgie+++++++

snakeboy said...

Georgie:
Just found your blog(s) via PNFblog. I just wanted to say thanks for the posts and all of the hard work and effort.
Tony

Glenn said...

I'm looking forward to hearing this. I bought the American release of this in '69 on the strength of the musicians and hearing one of the cuts on "underground" radio. I loved it and wore out the vinyl. When I first heard it was released on CD I couldn't wait to hear it. I was disappointed to hear "A New Day" was mixed differently. The call and response was kind of flat on the digital version. I hope this will be more faithful to the original vinyl release. Thanks so much for posting this and so much other wonderful music.
Peace

Glenn said...

A follow up to my original post. This is good, but the version of "New Day" is not the version I hoped for. On this it is a bonus cut. On the American release on vinyl in '69 it was track 3, side A. When Jackie sang "There's a new day coming" he went beyond the reach of his voice. On the UK version he probably more wisely took a stepped, measured approach that came across as more speaking than singing. Maybe I'm biased because that was the version I first heard, but I still prefer it; he took more of a chance and it had more of an emotional impact. Still, it's good to have a clear, clean version of this forgotten classic. Thanks again.

Cy at Pck said...

Hello Georgie....
I wrote you last on my old pc....which gave up the ghose on 4th January 2010....I'm back on line and I send this to thank you for keeping the music alive....like many I love blogs like yours enabling me to rehear music once owned but long since traded away within the Record Collecting Market Place....I recall this along with James Taylor and the Flying Machine....as one of the ways that music should go forward.....I recall hearing this along with the White Trash single that came out around the same time.....the early Apple stuff (originals) are hard to come by and this is probably the best way for us to rehear these gems....all the best from NE Scotland.....
this posting has generated some interesting comments and I'll check out some of the links....
take care