THE MUSIC PEOPLE

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Boxset/Compilation, released in 1972

Songs / Tracks Listing

UK Release
1. Jumpin' Jack Flash - Johnny Winter
2. Hallelujah! - Sweathog
3. Tramp - Home
4. Glory Be - Arrival
5. Situation - Jeff Beck Group
6. 157 Riverside Avenue - REO Speedwagon
7. Grand Coulee Dam - Bob Dylan
8. Too Many Mondays - Barry Mann
9. Silence - Jake Holmes
10. She Loves the Way They Love Her - Colin Blunstone
11. The Nest - Jimmie Spheeris
12. Love Song - Lesley Duncan
13. Go Down Gamblin' - Blood Sweat &Tears
14. Calico Baby - Dreams
15. So Many People - Chase
16. Sleepless Nights Wayne Cochran & The CC Riders
17. Monkey Time - Boz Scaggs Band
18. Magnificent Sanctuary Band - David Clayton Thomas
19. Cool Fool - Edgar Winter's White Trash
20. Hoedown - Poco
21. Hello Mary Lou - New Riders of the Purple Sage
22. Bugler - Byrds
23. To Make a Woman Feel Wanted - Loggins & Messina
24. Amsterdam - Al Stewart
25. Little Girl Lost - Kris Kristofferson
26. Stealin' - Taj Mahal
27. Dawn - Mahavishnu Orch
28. While the Sun Still Shines - Fields
29. Para los Rumberos - Santana
30. Chelsea - Girls Spirit
31. No Word for Glad - It's A Beautiful Day
32. Hold Your Head Up - Argent
33. Underbird - Titantic
34. Hint of A Freeze - Fishbaugh Fishbaugh & Zorn
35. Sun Never Shines on the Lonely - Redbone
36. White Lies - Grin
37. I Call That True Love - Dr Hook
38. What Kind of Man Are You - Genya Ravan
39. Strange Is This World - Nieman
40. Just A Thought - Jonathan Swift

US Release
1. Para los Rumberos - Santana
2. Hoedown - Poco
3. Hello Mary Lou - New Riders of the Purple Sage
4. Stealin' - Taj Mahal
5. Hallelujah! - Sweathog
6. What Kind of Man Are You - Genya Ravan
7. Celebration of Life - Chambers Brothers
8. 157 Riverside Avenue - REO Speedwagon
9. Too Many Mondays - Barry Mann
10. Country Song - Compost
11. Go Down Gamblin' - Blood Sweat &Tears
12. Magnificent Sanctuary Band - David Clayton Thomas
13. Sun Never Shines on the Lonely - Redbone
14. Chelsea Girls - Spirit
15. No Word For Glad - It's A Beautiful Day
16. Monkey Time - Boz Scaggs Band
17. Silence - Jake Holmes
18. The Nest - Jimmie Spheeris
19. I Call That True Love - Dr Hook
20. My Impersonal Life - Blue Rose
21. Grand Coulee Dam - Bob Dylan
22. Jumpin' Jack Flash - Johnny Winter
23. Situation - Jeff Beck Group
24. So Many People - Chase
25. Bugler - Byrds
26. Calico Baby - Dreams
27. Dawn - Mahavishnu Orch
28. I'm on the Lamb But I Ain't No Sheep - Blue Oyster Cult
29. Holy Smoke Doo Dah Band - Mylon Le Fevre
30. She Loves the Way They Love Her - Colin Blunstone
31. High Priest of Memphis - Bell & Arc
32. Baby Won't You Let Me Rock 'n Roll You - Ten Years After
33. Little Girl Lost - Kris Kristofferson
34. Cool Fool - Edgar Winter's White Trash
35. To Make a Woman Feel Wanted - Loggins & Messina
36. White Lies - Grin
37. Asalone Dream - Pamela Polland
38. Sleepless Nights - Wayne Cochran & The CC Riders
39. I'm Funky - Grootna
40. While the Sun Still Shines - Fields

Line-up / Musicians

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Releases information

UK CBS Records 66315 (1972) 3 LP
US Columbia 31280 (1972) 3 LP

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Review by Easy Livin
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The ultimate sampler

In 1972, CBS (Columbia in the US) released what is arguably the ultimate sampler. "The music people" is a sprawling 3 LP set, which sold then for �2:29, the price of a single album. There are some 40 tracks by a diverse range of artists, including a number listed on this site. The UK and US versions of the album had different contents, this review being based on the British version.

The presentation is immaculate, the sleeve presenting a brief synopsis of each artist and the specific album from which the selected track is taken.

From a prog perspective, the artists of interest include Mahavishnu Orchestra, It's A Beautiful Day, Home, Argent, Spirit, and Santana. To these can readily be added Blood Sweat and Tears and Chase, two jazz rock bands who have crossed over into prog. Other bands who demonstrate definite prog tendencies here are Fields, Titanic, Jimmy Spheeris (a wonderfully performed song called "The nest"), Niemen, and Al Stewart. There are many other artists who have no relationship with prog, but when people of the calibre of Bob Dylan, Jeff Beck, The Byrds, Lesley Duncan, and Poco are added to the mix you will get no complaints from me.

"The music people" naturally sold in vast numbers. Many of those buying it would have been attracted by names such as those just mentioned. The album therefore served to introduce such people (not least of whom myself) to bands and artists they had little or no familiarity with and thus this album helped to spread the good word of prog quicker than might otherwise have been the case.

These days, "The music people" really serves as a historical document. Should you chance on the opportunity to obtain it though, it is well worth doing so. It will undoubtedly introduce you to some fine music you may have missed.

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