Cold Spring Harbor (album)

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Cold Spring Harbor
Studio album by Billy Joel

Publication
(s)

November 1971

Label (s) Family Productions USA (1971)
Quality Records Canada (1971)
Philips UK (1971)
Columbia Records (1983)

Format (s)

LP, CD

Genre (s)

skirt

Title (number)

10

running time

33:07 (original)
29:53 (new edition)

occupation

production

Artie Ripp

Studio (s)

Record Plant Studios, Los Angeles , California
Ultrasonic Recording Studios, Hempstead , New York

chronology
- Cold Spring Harbor Piano Man
(1973)

Cold Spring Harbor is the first solo album by the American musician Billy Joel .

background

Joel had previously released several albums with the bands The Hassles and Attila when his first solo album, "Cold Spring Harbor", was released. The record was released in November 1971 by the Family Productions label. Due to a mistake in the mastering process , the tracks on the LP were released too quickly, a mistake that was not fixed until 1983 when Artie Ripp , owner of Family Productions, reissued the album without Joel's collaboration on his later label Columbia Records published.

Ripp signed the unknown artist for ten publications in 1971. After the release of "Cold Spring Harbor" Billy Joel tried to break the contract with Family Productions. Although he changed the music label in 1972, Ripp continued to receive royalties until the artist's tenth album was released . In the subsequent new edition of "Cold Spring Harbor", the producer renounced part of the original orchestral background and replaced this with drum bars recorded by Mike McGee and a new keyboard background to give the album a new look. The technician involved at the time is said to have been so dissatisfied with the result that he refused to mention his name on the album and for this reason Ripp is listed as the technician.

The title of the plate refers to Cold Spring Harbor , a small community on the north coast of Long Island near Joel's hometown of Levittown . The lyrics of the song "Tomorrow Is Today" originated from a note Joel wrote when he had tried to kill himself some time before by drinking furniture polish.

publication

After its release, Cold Spring Harbor was a failure, also due to its poor mix, whereupon Joel tried to part with his record label. While Joel said he was making music in various bars under the pseudonym "Bill Martin", his new agency Columbia Records tried to break the contract with Family Productions.

The new edition of the album from 1982 was only partially successful and only took 158th place in the US album charts.

Track list

  1. She's Got a Way - 2: 40/2: 49
  2. You Can Make Me Free - 5:40/2:56
  3. Everybody Loves You Now - 2:40/2: 48
  4. Why Judy Why - 2:46/2:56
  5. Falling of the Rain - 2: 24/2: 38
  6. Turn Around - 3: 20/3: 04
  7. You Look So Good to Me - 2:26/2:27
  8. Tomorrow Is Today - 4: 47/4: 40
  9. Nocturne - 2:37/2:46
  10. Got to Begin Again - 2: 47/2: 49

Times: original LP / new edition
Both the music and the lyrics of all titles are from Billy Joel.