Garden Party (album)

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Garden party
Studio album by Rick Nelson

Publication
(s)

1972

Label (s) Decca

Format (s)

LP

Genre (s)

Country rock

Title (number)

10

occupation
  • Vocals / guitar: Rick Nelson
  • Lead guitar / backing vocals: Allen L. Kemp
  • E-bass / backing vocals: Stephen A. Love
  • Steel guitar: Tom Brumley
  • Drums: Patrick Shanahan
  • Flute: Don Nelson

production

Rick Nelson

Studio (s)

United, Hollywood

chronology
Rudy The Fifth
(1971) 		Garden party Windfall
(1974)

Garden Party is a music album by Rick Nelson And The Stone Canyon Band.

Garden Party was released in 1972 by Decca Records and is assigned to the country rock genre. The album was recorded in Hollywood at United Studios with a 24-tape machine, the sound engineer was Michael "Nemo" Shields. It was Rick Nelson's last LP that made it to the top 100 in the charts, and the disconnected title track was last in the top 40 of the US singles charts.

The album, first recorded in December 1972, reached number 32 on the Billboard LP charts and stayed in the top 200 for 18 weeks.

The composers / lyricists are given in brackets.

  1. Let It Bring You Along (Stephen A. Love) - 4:12
  2. Garden Party (Rick Nelson) - 3:45
  3. So Long Mama (Rick Nelson) - 3:25
  4. I Wanna Be with You (Allen L. Kemp, Randy Meisner) - 2:15
  5. Are You Really Real? (Rick Nelson) - 3:25
  6. I'm Talking About You (Chuck Berry) - 3:55
  7. Nighttime Lady (Rick Nelson) - 3:50
  8. A Flower Opens Gently By (Rick Nelson) - 3:08
  9. Don't Let Your Good Bye Stand (Richard Stekol) - 3:17
  10. Palace Guard (Rick Nelson) - 5:10

Nelson’s turn to country and his attempt to merge country music and rock 'n' roll began in the mid-1960s with the albums Bright Lights and Country Music (1966) and Country Fever (1967), on which he covered traditional country songs . Both albums were unsuccessful, but with them Nelson created his own style of music, which can be described as the forerunner of country rock . From 1969 albums were released under the artist name "Rick Nelson And The Stone Canyon Band", and their own compositions were increasingly played. While there were three foreign tracks on the previous LP Rudy the Fifth , two by Bob Dylan and one by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards , on Garden Party only I'm Talking About You by Chuck Berry is not specially composed for the album.

Ricky Nelson

The album cover was designed by Nelson's wife Kristin with photos of Martin S. Martin, it shows Rick Nelson on the front cover with shoulder-length hair in a typical rock 'n' roller sack, who, looking defiantly, clutched his Gibson's neck with both hands - Les Paul - holding guitar. The inside cover on the left shows a photo of the Stone Canyon Band on which the guitarists hold their instruments in the same way as Nelson does on the front cover. On the inside cover on the right is a portrait of Nelson, on the back cover there is a photograph of the handwritten draft of the text for Garden Party . The color scheme of the cover only includes black, white and shades of gray, all photos are surrounded by a wide, black border.

Apart from the more gentle country rock title Garden Party , harder rock 'n' roll dominates the majority of titles such as I'm Talking About You , I Wanna Be with You , Don't Let Your Good-bye Stand or Let It Bring You Along . Janet Maslin writes in her Rolling Stone album review that Nelson sounds like he wishes he could scream rock 'n' roll.

The album was Nelson’s first Top 40 hit in the LP charts since 1964. The album Garden Party hit the US LP charts on December 9, 1972, reached number 32 and stayed in the charts for 18 weeks.

Two singles were released from the album:

  • Before the album was released, the title song Garden Party was released as a single in July 1972 and became Nelson's last hit. Nelson composed this song after being whistled at a rock 'n' roll revival concert in New York's Madison Square Garden in 1971 for not playing his old hits, just his new songs. In the text of the song Nelson reflects on his turning away from rock 'n' roll, which is no longer up to date, and his turn to a new, individual style of music. The statement in the text culminates in the sentence that he would rather work as a bus driver than just play his old hits at some revival concerts. In particular, he makes fun of Chuck Berry in the song, who still makes music and looks like he used to, in order to meet the expectations of the audience. Garden Party peaked at number 6 on the US charts, and Nelson earned a gold record for the single .
  • The second single, Palace Guard , was released in early 1973 , the single only reached number 65 on the charts and was Nelson's last listing on the US Hot 100.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Decca catalog number 75391; in Europe the LP was published by MCA, for Great Britain with catalog number MDKS 8009, for the German market with catalog number MAPS 6422; see. Tilch, KD: Rock LPs. Vol 3: MS . 3rd expanded edition Hamburg: Taurus Press, 1990, p. 1146.
  2. ^ Whitburn, Joel: Top Pop Albums 1955-1996 . Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Ltd., 1996, p. 556
  3. ^ Graf, Christian: Rockmusik Lexikon. America, Vol. 2 . Hamburg: Taurus Press, 1989, p. 709.
  4. ↑ Janet Maslin : Garden Party by Rick Nelson. In: Rolling Stone. 15th February 1973.
  5. ^ Whitburn, Joel: Top LPs 1945-1972 . Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Ltd., 1973, p. 107.
  6. ↑ Decca catalog number 32980
  7. ^ Graf, Christian: Rockmusik Lexikon. America, Vol. 2 . Hamburg: Taurus Press, 1989, p. 710.
  8. ^ "Out stepped Johnny B. Goode, playing guitar like ringing the bell, looking like he should"
  9. ^ Whitburn, Joel: Top Pop Singles 1955-1993 . Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Inc., 1994, p. 425 and Laufenberg, Frank / Hake, Ingrid: Rock and Pop Lexicon. Vol. 2. Düsseldorf / Vienna: Econ Verlag, 1994, p. 1081; Notwithstanding this, Ehnert, Günter (Ed.) noted: Hit Guide. US Chart Singles 1971 - 1980. Hamburg: Taurus Press, 1989, p. 136. 4th place.
  10. ^ Joel Whitburn: Top Pop Singles 1955-1993 . Menomonee Falls / Wisconsin: Record Research Inc., 1994, p. 426.

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