… Very 'eavy… very' umble
| … Very 'eavy… very' umble | ||||
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| Studio album by Uriah Heep | ||||
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Publication |
1970 |
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| Label (s) | Vertigo, bronze, mercury | |||
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Format (s) |
LP |
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Title (number) |
8th |
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running time |
39:14 |
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Gerry Bron |
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Studio (s) |
Lansdowne Studios, London |
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… Very 'eavy… very' umble is the first studio album by the British rock band Uriah Heep . It first appeared on Vertigo Records in early 1970 .
Although Ken Hensley translated the term LP (Longplayer) as “Large Problem” in the preface to the record to describe the difficulties in creating the record (line-up change), … very 'eavy… very' umble is the one Uriah Heep started his career. The music critic Daevid Jehnzen writes about this beginning of his career: "[...] a heavy, stomp-rock delight."
The album cover with artwork by Robin Nicol (Design Machine) shows the head of Uriah Heep singer David Byron, which is surrounded by cobwebs. In the United States, the album was released under the name Uriah Heep and with a completely different cover artwork - a black and silver drawing of an alien - and had Bird of Prey instead of Lucy Blues on the tracklist.
While Melissa Mills stated in the music magazine Rolling Stone, in view of the first Uriah Heep album, “she would have to commit suicide if this group manages”, Donald A. Guarisco sees the All Music Guide in … very 'eavy… very' umble and the development of his own group sound "a very powerful result between heavy metal and the dramatic arrangements of progressive rock ".
In the UK, Uriah Heep's debut album failed to hit the LP charts. In Germany ... very 'eavy ... very' umble was more successful and at least made it to 22nd place. The US edition Uriah Heep came up to 186th place on the Billboard 200 .
Gypsy was released in some European countries and North America as a single with a running length of just under 3 minutes. In Europe on the B-side was the song Bird of Prey , the first track on the second Uriah Heep album Salisbury . In the United States and Canada, an edited version of Come Away Melinda was the B-side. Gypsy reached number 30 in the German single charts in 1971 and was also the B-side of the successful Uriah Heep singles The Wizard (Great Britain) and Easy Livin ' (Germany), both of which were featured on the album Demons And Wizards (1972 , Bronze Rec.).
Track list
- Gypsy (6:40) ( Mick Box , David Byron )
- Walking in Your Shadow (4:32) (Paul Newton, Byron)
- Come away Melinda (3:48) (Fred Hellerman, Fran Minkoff)
- Lucy Blues (5:10) (Box, Byron)
- Dreammare (4:40) (Newton)
- Real Turned on (3:39) (Box, Byron, Newton)
- I'll Keep on Trying (5:27) (Box, Byron)
- Wake up (Set Your Sights) (6:24) (Box, Byron)
Bonus tracks from the 1996 re-release
- Gypsy (Edit) (2:57) (Box, Byron) (originally released on the single Gypsy )
- Come away Melinda (3:42) * (Hellerman, Minkoff)
- Born in a Trunk (3:45) * (Box, Byron)
Bonus tracks from the 2003 re-release
- Bird of Prey (4:06) (Box, Byron, Newton) (originally released on the US and Canadian editions of the album)
- Born in a Trunk (4:32) * (Box, Byron)
- Come away Melinda (4:16) (Hellerman, Minkoff)
- Gypsy (7:07) (Box, Byron)
- Wake Up (Set Your Sights) (6:32) (Box, Byron)
- Born in a Trunk (Instrumental version) (4:35) * (Box, Byron)
- Dreammare (BBC version) (3:08) (Newton)
- Gypsy (BBC version) (5:14) (Box, Byron)
Bonus CD of the 2016 re-release
- Gypsy (6:57) (Box, Byron)
- Real Turned on (3:47) (Box, Byron, Newton)
- Dreammare (5:10) (Newton)
- Come away Melinda (4:01) (Hellerman, Minkoff)
- Born in a Trunk (4:53) * (Box, Byron)
- Wake up (Set Your Sights) (6:56) (Box, Byron)
- I'll Keep on Trying (5:33) (Box, Byron)
- Walking in Your Shadow (5:11) (Newton, Byron)
- Lucy Blues (5:21) (Box, Byron)
- Born in a Trunk (Instrumental version) (4:47) * (Box, Byron)
- Magic Lantern (7:57) * (Box, Byron)
- Bird of Prey (4:06) (Box, Byron, Newton) (originally released on the US and Canadian editions of the album)
US and Canadian pressing
- Gypsy (6:40) (Box, Byron)
- Walking in Your Shadow (4:32) (Newton, Byron)
- Come away Melinda (3:48) (Hellerman, Minkoff)
- Bird of Prey (4:06) (Box, Byron, Newton)
- Dreammare (4:40) (Newton)
- Real Turned on (3:39) (Box, Byron, Newton)
- I'll Keep on Trying (5:27) (Box, Byron)
- Wake up (Set Your Sights) (6:24) (Box, Byron)
Information about the bonus tracks
- All bonus tracks from the re-releases from 1996 and 2003 as well as all songs from the bonus CD from 2016 are unreleased versions at the time of publication, unless otherwise stated in brackets.
- All tracks marked with an * were recorded when the band was still called Spice.
- The BBC recordings of "Dreammare" and "Gypsy" included on the 2003 re-release were dated May 5, 1970. They were broadcast on May 12, 1970 during the Mike Harding show Sounds of the Seventies . A third song was recorded at this BBC session on May 5, 1970, but this recording has been lost.
useful information
- In the US and Canadian editions of the album, which have a completely different cover artwork, the song "Lucy Blues" has been replaced by "Bird of Prey". This version of "Bird of Prey" is a different version than the one that was released on the next studio album, Salisbury .
- "Come away Melinda" is a Harry Belafonte cover version. The song was originally released on the 1963 album Streets I Have Walked .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Erlewine, Michael (et al.), All Music Guide To Rock . San Francisco, 1995. ISBN 0-87930-376-X
- ^ Rolling Stone, Album Review Uriah Heep, October 1, 1970 ( Memento July 18, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ AMG, Review Very 'eavy… Very' umble
- ↑ Günter Ehnert (Ed.): Hit-Bilanz, Deutsche Chart LP's 1962–1986 . Taurus-Press, Hamburg 1988, ISBN 3-922542-29-8 , p. 120.
- ↑ AMG, Uriah Heep, Charts & Awards, Billboard Pop Albums
- ^ Günter Ehnert (Ed.): Hit-Bilanz, Deutsche Chart Singles 1956-1980 . Taurus-Press, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-922542-24-7 , p. 209.
- ↑ a b c travellersintime.com - BBC Sessions / Part I . Last accessed on April 6, 2020.
- CD-Booklet Castle Essential ESMCD 316 (1996)