AOTW: Roger Kellaway - THE CENTER OF THE CIRCLE (SP-3040)

[Captain Bacardi]

Roger Kellaway
THE CENTER OF THE CIRCLE
A&M SP-3040

Released 1972

Format: Vinyl

Produced by Stephan Goldman

Songs:

• 1. Our Gang Blues - 4:15
  2. La Cookeria - 3:08
  3. On Your Mark, Get Set; Blues #1 - 2:39
  4. Blujahn Boogie - 3:50
  5. On Your Mark, Get Set; Blues #2 - 2:28
  6. Lay Karma Lay - 2:56*
  7. Center Of The Circle (Melanie Safka) - 3:21
  8. Stereospecificautocatalytic - 2:08
  9. On Your Mark, Get Set; Blues #3 - 3:24
  10. Landscape - 4:09
  11. On Your Mark, Get Set; Blues #4 - 1:41
  12. Song Of The Earth (Roger Kellaway/Arthur Hamilton) - 3:04
  
  All selections written by Roger Kellaway except where noted.
  Arranged and Conducted by Roger Kellaway
  * - Not suitable for AM airplay

No personnel listed

Recorded at A&M Records, Hollywood, Cailfornia
Engineered by Tommy Vicari
Second Engineer: Steve Mitchell
Mastered by Bernie Grundman
Mixed at Sound Labs, Inc. Hollywood, California

Art Direction: Roland Young
Design: John Cabalka
Includes a letter from Alan Metter to producer Stephan Goldman



Capt. Bacardi

 

[Michael Hagerty]

Actually, Lay Karma Lay wasn't suitable for FM airplay, either.....

 

[audiofile]

Why?

P.S. Is this album any good?

 

[Michael Hagerty]

Why?

P.S. Is this album any good?

The chorus:

Oh can't you see

You have blown

My f---ing mind (backup singers repeat "my f---ing mind")

Even on FM, even in 1972, that would have been asking the FCC to re-examine your fitness as a licensee.

From what I recall, a pretty good LP.

 

[Dave]

The closest Kellaway could come to making more of a rock LP... An outing that recalls his appearance on JJ Johnson & Kai Winding's Betwixt & Between (where the clavinette should have been his "main instrument", here...!)...

And it helps, as arranger for Melanie Safka, to at least name this album after one of her songs, which Roger wisely covers...



Dave