Paradise with an Ocean View

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Paradise with an Ocean View
Country Joe McDonald's studio album

Publication
(s)

1975

Label (s) Fantasy Records

Format (s)

LP, CD

Genre (s)

Folk rock

Title (number)

9

running time

38:10

production

Jim Stern

Studio (s)

Fantasy Studio, Berkeley

chronology
Country Joe Paradise with an Ocean View Love is a fire
Single releases
Breakfast for Two / Lost My Connection
Save the Whales! / Oh Jamaica

Paradise with an Ocean View is the eighth album that Country Joe McDonald released under his own name. It was released in 1975 and ranked 124 on the Billboard 200, and the single Breakfast for Two reached number 92 on the Billboard 100. The album received 2 out of 5 stars on Allmusic.

It is the first album from Fantasy Records. The recordings took place in the Fantasy Studio in Berkeley, the hometown of McDonald. The album was produced more elaborately than the previous ones with a background choir and string and brass groups.

In terms of content, the album is the beginning of McDonald’s increased ecological orientation. The piece Save the Whales! is dedicated to the Canadian environmental protection group Greenpeace , which was founded a few years earlier , and topics that are dedicated to environmental protection can still be found on the McDonald's homepage.

Track list

(All titles written by Country Joe McDonald unless otherwise noted)

Page 1:

  1. Tear Down the Walls (4:59)
  2. Holy Roller (4:24)
  3. Lost My Connection (3:17)
  4. Save the Whales! (4:13)

Page 2:

  1. Oh, Jamaica , (McDonald, Barthol, Marsh, 5:45)
  2. Lonely on the Road (3:34)
  3. The Limit (4:42)
  4. Tricks (2:31)
  5. Breakfast for Two (4:45)

swell

  1. ↑ Billboard 100, January 10, 1976 , accessed December 2, 2012
  2. ↑ Bill Belmont's McDonald biography on the McDonald homepage , accessed December 2, 2012

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