Revolution
Original Motion Picture Score
Release date:1968
Record label / catalog #: UA UAS 5185
Country: USA Format: 12" vinyl LP (album), 33 1/3 RPM
Release type: Regular release
Tracks
1. Mother Earth Revolution 2:56 (N. Martin - J. O'Connell)
2. QMS Codine 5:20 (Buffy St. Marie)
3. Steve Miller Band Superbyrd 4:37 (S. Miller)
4. Steve Miller Band Your Old Lady 5:50 (K. Isley - E. Glick - K. Curtis)
5. QMS Babe I'm Gonna Leave You 5:03 (E. Darling - P. Bennett - A. Bredon)
6. Mother Earth Without Love 4:37 (D. Small)
7. Steve Miller Band Mercury Blues 2:20 (S. Miller - K. C. Douglas)
8. Mother Earth Stranger In My Own Shoes 5:09 (P. Mayfield)
Even by the middle of 1967, when almost all of their cotemporaries had signed contracts (and Jefferson Airplane had had two Top Ten singles), Quicksilver still refused to fall into line, wary of making the mistake that the Charlatans had with Kama Sutra, Big Brother had with Mainstream and (arguably) the Grateful Dead had with Warner Brothers. They did, however, agree to appear in "Revolution", a classic love/peace/sex/drugs film, and a one-off deal was negotiated with United Artists for the soundtrack album. However, by the time recording began (October 1967) Jim Murray had left, and the two tracks ("Codine" and "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You") which appear on the resulting album are therefore the first by the four-piece group. Both are excellent, among the best things the band ever recorded, and they give a valuable glimpse of some of their material which was a vital part of their live set.
"Revolution" also marked the debut recordings of the Steve Miller Band and Mother Earth, which meant that the album doubled as some kind of sampler of 'the San Francisco Sound' - a fact not lost on British U.A. Two Separate pressings of the LP exist, in different sleeves: the first was simply the soundtrack album, while the later and rarer issue stressed the historical importance of the tracks and carried biographies of each of the groups.
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See Also:
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