Old Wave

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Old Wave
Ringo Starr's studio album

Publication
(s)

June 16, 1983

Label (s) RCA (Canada) / The Right Stuff-Capitol Records (USA) / Bellaphon (Germany)

Format (s)

LP , MC , CD

Genre (s)

pop

Title (number)

LP: 10 / CD: 11

running time

LP: 36 min 56 s
CD: 42 min 31 s

occupation
  • Mo Foster - bass , guitar
  • Russ Kunkel - drums
  • Steve Hess - backing vocals
  • Mark Easterling - backing vocals
  • Patrick Maroshek - backing vocals

production

Joe Walsh

Studio (s)

  • Startling Studios , Ascot, Berkshire (UK)
  • Santa Barbara Sound Recording, Santa Barbara (USA)
chronology
Stop and Smell the Roses
1981 		Old Wave Starr Struck: Best of Ringo Starr, Vol. 2
1989

Old Wave is the tenth album or the ninth studio album by Ringo Starr after the Beatles split up . It was released in Germany on June 16, 1983. The album was not released in the USA and Great Britain. The first release in the USA took place in September 1994 with the appearance of the album in CD format.

History of origin

After the release of his last album Stop and Smell the Roses in November 1981, the promotional work dragged on until January 1982; then Ringo Starr planned to record a studio album again. Ringo Starr hired Joe Walsh , a member of the Eagles , to produce.

The recordings for the album lasted from March 7th to April 23rd, 1982 in Ringo Starr's own recording studio , Startling Studios , which he acquired in September 1973 through the purchase of John Lennon's titshurst Park property. It was in this studio that John Lennon recorded the album Imagine in 1971 .

Entrance gate from Tittenhurst Park

Joe Walsh made further work on the album with a time delay at Santa Barbara Sound Recording in California (USA) until August 30th. Joe Walsh contributed a composition to the album and composed five other songs with Ringo Starr and others. In addition to two other so-called oldies (I Keep Forgettin ' and She's About a Mover) , two more songs by third-party composers were recorded for the album: Picture Show Life and a new recording of As Far as We Can Go; the original was in July 1978 in Copenhagen ( Denmark ) in the Sweet Silence Studios added.

According to the CD booklet, there should be another but incomplete recording of the song Love Letters . After the death of the president of the record company Boardwalk Records , Ringo Starr's record deal in the USA was over. RCA only released the album in Canada , Australia , New Zealand , Japan and parts of South America. In Germany, Old Wave was distributed by Bellaphon .

Ringo Starr's next studio album, Time Takes Time , was not released until nine years later, in June 1992 .

Cover design

The cover was designed by Jeff Lancaster. The cover photos were taken by Ron Slenzak (back cover) and with a photo booth (front cover) in the early 1960s.

Track list

Page 1:

  1. In My Car ( Joe Walsh , Richard Starkey ∗ , Mo Foster, Kim Goody) - 3:13
  2. Hopeless (Walsh, Starkey) - 3:19
  3. Alibi (Walsh, Starkey) - 4:02
  4. Be My Baby (Walsh) - 3:48
  5. She's About a Mover ( Doug Sahm ) - 3:53

Page 2:

  1. I Keep Forgettin ' ( Jerry Leiber , Mike Stoller ) - 4:20
  2. Picture Show Life (John Reid, John Slate) - 4:18
  3. As Far as We Can Go ( Russ Ballard ) - 3:51
  4. Everybody's in a Hurry But Me (Joe Walsh, Richard Starkey, John Entwistle , Eric Clapton , Chris Stainton ) - 2:34
  5. Going Down (Walsh, Starkey) - 3:34

Bonus title 1994:

  • As Far as We Can Go (Original Version) (Russ Ballard) - 5:33
∗ Richard Starkey is the birth name of Ringo Starr

Re-releases

  • It was first released in CD format in the United States in September 1994 on Capitol Records with a bonus track. The CD comes with a 16-page booklet that contains information on the songs and the album by Matt Hurwitz. The CD release from 1994 has not yet been remastered .
  • To promote the (re) release of the Stop and Smell the Roses and Old Wave albums, Right Stuff released a promotional CD containing six songs: Wrack My Brain , Dead Giveaway , Private Property (longer previously unreleased version), Be My Baby, In My Car and She's About a Mover .

Single releases

In My Car

The first single In My Car / As Far as We Can Go was released on June 16, 1983 exclusively in Germany.

In November 1994, on the occasion of the CD release, the single In My Car / She's About a Mover was released as a 7 ″ jukebox single on yellow vinyl.

I Keep Forgettin '

In Mexico, the single I Keep Forgettin ' / She's About a Mover was released in 1984 .

Chart placements

Neither the album nor the singles could place in the charts.

Others

The title of the album Old Wave is an allusion to the popular New Wave music movement of the time .

literature

  • Chip Madinger and Mark Easter: Eight Arms To Hold You - The Solo Compendium . 44.1 Productions 2000, ISBN 0-615-11724-4 (p. 522).
  • CD booklet for re-publication in 1994

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Promotion CD: Old Wave / Stop and Smell the Roses
  2. ↑ In My Car - Single
  3. ↑ Jukebox 7 ″ vinyl single In My Car / She's About a Mover - Single
  4. ↑ I Keep Forgettin ' - Single