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From '' Smell Of Incense ''
Label: HIP – HIS 7001, HIS-7001
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
Country: US
Released: 1968
Tracklist
A1 Smell Of Incense
Written-By – Bob Markley, Ron Morgan
A2 Tomorrow
Written-By – Dan Seals, John Ford Coley
A3 Rock 'N' Roll Woman
Written-By – Stephen Stills
Downtown Woman/Nadine
A4a Downtown Woman
Written-By – John Ford Coley, Dan Seals
A4b Nadine
Written-By – Chuck Berry
B1 All One Big Game
Written-By – Dan Seals, John Ford Coley
B2 On My Mind
Written-By – Dan Seals, John Ford Coley
B3 Bells Of Baytown
Written-By – Dan Seals, John Ford Coley
B4 And Another Thing
Written-By – Dan Seals, John Ford Coley
Arranged By – Southwest F.O.B.
Performer – Dan Seals, John Ford Coley, Shane Keister
Drums – Zeke
Art Direction – Christopher Whorf
Photography By [Cover] – Apple Graphics
Engineer, Liner Notes – Robin Hood Brians
Engineer – Randy Fouts
Producer – GPC Enterprises
Notes
The album has been reissued several times.
In 1997 on P-Vine Records (PCD-5177)
In 1998 on Sundazed Music (SC 11060) and again in 2008 on BeatRocket (BR 144) a a subsidiary of Sundazed Music.
© 1998 Sundazed Music
℗ 1998 Sundazed Music
🎵 [SONG INFO]
"Nadine (Is It You?)" is a song written and recorded by Chuck Berry.
It was released as a single in February 1964 and was the first music that Berry released after finishing a prison term in October 1963.
Composition
After his December 1959 arrest under the Mann Act, Berry eventually served a one-and-a-half-year prison term, from February 1962 to October 1963, for transporting a girl, age 14, across state lines. He had not released a single since "Come On" in October 1961.
"Nadine" was recorded at a November 1963 session at the Chess studio in Chicago, his first after his release from prison. Another song from that session, "You Never Can Tell," would also be released as a single.
The composition resembles Berry's first hit, "Maybellene," similarly featuring lyrics about pursuing a girl, though in "Nadine" the pursuit is not by car but on foot and by taxi. As Berry told Melody Maker, "I took 'Maybellene' and from it got 'Nadine.'"
As William Ruhlmann of Allmusic writes, the lyrics are distinguished by an "unusual use of similes," such as: She moves around like a wayward summer breeze; Moving through the traffic like a mounted cavalier; and I was campaign shouting like a Southern diplomat.
Chart performance
The song was released in February 1964 as a single on Chess (catalogue no.1883), backed with "O Rangutang".
It peaked at no.23 on the Billboard Hot 100, no.7 on the R&B chart, and no.27 on the UK Singles Chart.
Reception
According to Allmusic, the song had a "profound influence" on the songwriting of Bob Dylan: "One need only listen to 'Nadine (Is It You?)', released in February 1964, and then to the 1965 Dylan album Bringing It All Back Home, with its surreal story-songs, to hear the similarities."
Cash Box described it as "a hard-driving, rhythmic pop-blues tear-jerker essayed with authority and feeling."
In the 1987 documentary film Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll (in which Berry performs "Nadine"), Bruce Springsteen praised the song's lyrics. Springsteen singled out the lines, I saw her from the corner when she turned and doubled back / Started walking toward a coffee-colored Cadillac. "I've never seen a coffee-colored Cadillac, but I know exactly what one looks like," Springsteen says in the film.
Later versions
The song has been recorded by numerous artists including:
Steve Forbert,
John Hammond Jr.,
Kevin Dunn,
Waylon Jennings,
Billy Boy Arnold, Dion,
George Thorogood,
New Riders of the Purple Sage,
Juicy Lucy,
Dire Straits,
George Benson,
Michael Nesmith,
Motörhead,
Dicky Lee,
Stan Ridgway
and The Seldom Scene.
🔗 [LINKS]
Available on Spotify:
open.spotify.com/album/3oV24upgeYPaWj4xDxwJaY
Apple Music:
music.apple.com/us/album/smell-of-incense/1468580584
and bandcamp:
southwestfob.bandcamp.com/album/smell-of-incense
#progrock
#progressiverock
From '' Smell Of Incense ''
Label: HIP – HIS 7001, HIS-7001
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
Country: US
Released: 1968
Tracklist
A1 Smell Of Incense
Written-By – Bob Markley, Ron Morgan
A2 Tomorrow
Written-By – Dan Seals, John Ford Coley
A3 Rock 'N' Roll Woman
Written-By – Stephen Stills
Downtown Woman/Nadine
A4a Downtown Woman
Written-By – John Ford Coley, Dan Seals
A4b Nadine
Written-By – Chuck Berry
B1 All One Big Game
Written-By – Dan Seals, John Ford Coley
B2 On My Mind
Written-By – Dan Seals, John Ford Coley
B3 Bells Of Baytown
Written-By – Dan Seals, John Ford Coley
B4 And Another Thing
Written-By – Dan Seals, John Ford Coley
Arranged By – Southwest F.O.B.
Performer – Dan Seals, John Ford Coley, Shane Keister
Drums – Zeke
Art Direction – Christopher Whorf
Photography By [Cover] – Apple Graphics
Engineer, Liner Notes – Robin Hood Brians
Engineer – Randy Fouts
Producer – GPC Enterprises
Notes
The album has been reissued several times.
In 1997 on P-Vine Records (PCD-5177)
In 1998 on Sundazed Music (SC 11060) and again in 2008 on BeatRocket (BR 144) a a subsidiary of Sundazed Music.
© 1998 Sundazed Music
℗ 1998 Sundazed Music
🎵 [SONG INFO]
"Nadine (Is It You?)" is a song written and recorded by Chuck Berry.
It was released as a single in February 1964 and was the first music that Berry released after finishing a prison term in October 1963.
Composition
After his December 1959 arrest under the Mann Act, Berry eventually served a one-and-a-half-year prison term, from February 1962 to October 1963, for transporting a girl, age 14, across state lines. He had not released a single since "Come On" in October 1961.
"Nadine" was recorded at a November 1963 session at the Chess studio in Chicago, his first after his release from prison. Another song from that session, "You Never Can Tell," would also be released as a single.
The composition resembles Berry's first hit, "Maybellene," similarly featuring lyrics about pursuing a girl, though in "Nadine" the pursuit is not by car but on foot and by taxi. As Berry told Melody Maker, "I took 'Maybellene' and from it got 'Nadine.'"
As William Ruhlmann of Allmusic writes, the lyrics are distinguished by an "unusual use of similes," such as: She moves around like a wayward summer breeze; Moving through the traffic like a mounted cavalier; and I was campaign shouting like a Southern diplomat.
Chart performance
The song was released in February 1964 as a single on Chess (catalogue no.1883), backed with "O Rangutang".
It peaked at no.23 on the Billboard Hot 100, no.7 on the R&B chart, and no.27 on the UK Singles Chart.
Reception
According to Allmusic, the song had a "profound influence" on the songwriting of Bob Dylan: "One need only listen to 'Nadine (Is It You?)', released in February 1964, and then to the 1965 Dylan album Bringing It All Back Home, with its surreal story-songs, to hear the similarities."
Cash Box described it as "a hard-driving, rhythmic pop-blues tear-jerker essayed with authority and feeling."
In the 1987 documentary film Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll (in which Berry performs "Nadine"), Bruce Springsteen praised the song's lyrics. Springsteen singled out the lines, I saw her from the corner when she turned and doubled back / Started walking toward a coffee-colored Cadillac. "I've never seen a coffee-colored Cadillac, but I know exactly what one looks like," Springsteen says in the film.
Later versions
The song has been recorded by numerous artists including:
Steve Forbert,
John Hammond Jr.,
Kevin Dunn,
Waylon Jennings,
Billy Boy Arnold, Dion,
George Thorogood,
New Riders of the Purple Sage,
Juicy Lucy,
Dire Straits,
George Benson,
Michael Nesmith,
Motörhead,
Dicky Lee,
Stan Ridgway
and The Seldom Scene.
🔗 [LINKS]
Available on Spotify:
open.spotify.com/album/3oV24upgeYPaWj4xDxwJaY
Apple Music:
music.apple.com/us/album/smell-of-incense/1468580584
and bandcamp:
southwestfob.bandcamp.com/album/smell-of-incense
#progrock
#progressiverock
