Pete Townshend: I Am Happy Birthday With Love
 
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Trystar / Brilliant Road BRD002
Compare with;
Pete Townshend: I Am, Happy Birthday, With Love (CD) (Trystar / Brilliant
Road BRD002)
Venue: Studio
Recording: Soundboard
Comments: This is a Double CD set of the 3 privately issued PT Meher Baba LP's
released through the Meher Baba (Oceanic) Association LTD. in the early 1970's.
The original LP's were reissued sometime in the late 70's / early 80's with the original covers and tracks but without all of the original inserts that came with some of the
LP's. It appears these discs are identical copies of these hard-to-find LP's and now
hopefully available to a wider audience. Though PT does not play or sing on all of the
tracks, these are still considered to be very collectable not only because of their
scarcity, but also because of the uniqueness of the LP's. Though some tracks have
subsequently been released on PT's Scoop LP's and various PT bootleg's, several
have not. One of which is a really beautiful PT song that has not been available on|
any other releases (to the best of my know ledge) entitled Day Of Silence, in which
Pete pays tribute to the Sufi practice of observing a "day of silence" in which one is
encouraged to "listen to the wireless". On the "With Love" CD, it appears to have
ommitted "Hail Avatar Meher Baba", a short prayer / chant recorded at the 1972
Amartithi Celebration, Last Quawali Group. Content, Evolution, Meditation(?) and
The Seeker(?)are contained on PT's 1972 solo LP Who Came First. Begin The
Beguine was included on PT's Another Scoop. Baba O'Riley has been included on
several LP and CD bootlegs. O'Parvardigar is contained on PT's first solo LP Who
Came First as well as the PT bootleg CD Odds 'N' Sods Vol II, though sung in Ger-
man but of poor sound quality. Compare with the CD listed above.
The track listings immediately above the CD titles are taken from the back CD cover.
The credits next to the song titles I pulled from the actual LP's for a bit more exact-
ness.
Happy Birthday (1970)
Tracks 1-3, 5, 7, 8, 10 performed by Pete Townshend
Tracks 4, 6, 9, 11 performed by Meher Baba's Universal Players
Track 2, With Ronnie Lane, long version
Track 9, Instrumental by Pink Floyd associate Ron Geesin
Track 11, Poetry by Mike Da Costa
1. Content (Poem by Maud Kennedy, sung by Pete Townshend)
2. Evolution (Words and music Ronnie Lane)
3. Day Of Silence (Words and music Pete Townshend)
4. Allan Cohen Speaks #1 (Allen Cohen Speaks)
5. Mary Jane (Words: Michael Westlake, music: Pete Townshend)
6. Allan Cohen Speaks #2 (Allen Cohen Speaks)
7. The Seeker (Words and music Pete Townshend)
8. Begin the Begin (sic Begin The Beguine) (By Cole Porter, sung by Pete Townshend)
9. With A Smile Up His Nose They Entered (Composed specially for album by Ron
Geesin)
10. The Love Man (sic The Loved Man) (Words and music Pete Townshend)
11. Meditation (Poem By Mike Da Costa)
I Am (1972)
Tracks 1, 3, 4, 8, Performed by Pete Townshend
Tracks 2, 6, 7, Performed by Meher Baba's Universal Players
Track 5, Performed by Billy Nichols
Track 2, Poetry perfomed by Mike Da Costa
Track 3, Pete on guitar and drums, Ronnie Lane on bass, Ian Mclagen on piano,
Mike Da Costa on vocals and sax
Track 5, Pete on synthesized ARP flute
1. Forever No Time At All (sic Forever's No Time At All)
Words: Kate Mcinnernery
Music: Billy Nichols
Accoustic guitar and vocals Billy Nichols
drums, bass and electric guitars: Caleb Quaye
2. How To Transcend Duality and Infruence People (sic How To Transcend Duality
And Influence People)
(Note, the CD and LP song titles list "Duality", the record label states "Quality")
3. Affirmation
Words: Mike Da Costa
Music: Spontaneous
sax and vocal: Mike Da Costa
bass guitar: Ronnie Lane
guitars and drums: Peter Townshend
piano: Ian Mclagen
4. Baba O'Riley (9:48 minute version)
Music & instruments played by: Pete Townshend
Synthesizer by: Baba....it played itself?
5. This Song Is Green
Words: Billy Nichols
guitar and vocals: Billy Nichols
synthesized flute: Pete Townshend
6. Everywhere I Look This Morning
Words, music & arrangement by Hank Mindlin
violes: Connie Ehmke, David Lawson
cello: Loel Miller
flute: Stephanie Getz
clarinet: Littler Remer
piano: Bernie Schwartz
bass guitar: George Turner
drums: Dave Overton
voices: Judy Ardine, Neal Crockett, Carol Leigh, Duce, Sonya Lawson, Mary
Lewis
7. Dragon
Words and music: Dave Hastlow
guitar and vocals: Dave Hastlow
synthesizers: Dave Hastlow and Pete Townshend
organ: Roger Seiji
8. Parvardigar (sic O'Parvardigar)
Adapted from "The Master's Prayer", by Pete Townshend
music and instruments: Pete Townshend
With Love (1976)
Tracks 3, 6, 7, 9, 11, Performed by Pete Townshend
Tracks 4,5, Performed By Meher Baba's Universal Players
Tracks 1,2, 8, Performed by Billy Nichols
Track 4, With Ronnie Land (sic Ronnie Lane) and Ron Wood
Track 6, With Hope Evance (sic Hope Evans) Medicine Head
This is Peter-Hope Evans from the band Medicine Head
1. Give It Up (Billy Nicholls / Steve Humphries) (sic Billy Nichols)
2. Without Your Love (Billy Nicholls) (sic Billy Nichols)
3. His Hands (Pete Townshend)
4. Just For A Moment (Ronnie Lane) (with Ron Wood and Bruce Rowland)
5. Baba Blues (Lol Benbow)
6. Meher (Paul Wyld) (with Pete Townshend, Greg Shaehan, Gus Fenwick, Rob
McKenie)
7. Contact (Peter Hope Evans) (Medicine Head)
8. Gotta Know Ya (Billy Nicholls / Steve Humphries) (sic Billy Nichols) (with
Sammy Mitchell and George Butler)
9. Sleeping Dog (Pete Townshend)
10. All God's Mornings (Sydney Foxx)
11. Lantern Cabin (Pete Townshend)
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