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If I Could Do It Again Lyrics Caravan

1970 studio album past Caravan

If I Could Practise Information technology All Over Again,
I'd Do It All Over Y'all
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Studio album by

Caravan
Released 4 September 1970
Recorded February 1970
Studio Tangerine Studios, Dalston, London
Genre Progressive rock, Canterbury scene
Length 47:40
Label Decca
Producer Terry Rex
Caravan chronology
Caravan
(1968) 		If I Could Do It All Over Once more,
I'd Do It All Over You lot
(1970) 		In the Country of Grey and Pink
(1971)

If I Could Practice It All Over Over again, I'd Practice It All Over You is the second album by Canterbury scene band Caravan, released in September 1970. It was the predecessor to their all-time-known album In the State of Grey and Pink (1971). The album is representative of the Canterbury scene genre, featuring representative organ solos and melodic vocals typical of the band'southward style. The album was released on Decca Records, as was the title track as a single release.

Background [edit]

Caravan had released their debut album, Caravan in 1968, achieving some live success and had appeared on UK and High german television in early 1969. Unfortunately, their label, Verve Records shut downward their British operations and dropped the ring. Guitarist Pye Hastings afterward recalled "that state of affairs really left us in limbo".[1] The band regrouped and continued performing live, eventually finding a managing director Terry King. David Hitchcock, an employee of Decca Records' art department, saw the band perform at the London Lyceum and recommend that his boss, Hugh Mendl sign them.[2]

Sessions for the album started at Tangerine Studios on Balls Pond Road, Dalston, London in September 1969, with the band self-producing and Robin Sylvester engineering science. Hastings recalled that this caused bug, as every fellow member of the band wanted his musical instrument to exist louder than the others. The band recorded a few tracks, but these were abandoned while the band went out on tour, having become popular on the university excursion in U.k. and Europe.[three] They regrouped in February the post-obit year[4] and recorded the songs on the album mostly live onto 8-track record. The highlight of the sessions was a fourteen-minute jazz-stone slice assembled from various sections contributed by the band, called "For Richard".[5] Keyboardist David Sinclair composed the basic structure, while bassist Richard Sinclair wrote the main tune. Hastings invited his brother Jimmy to invitee on saxophone and flute, which would go a regular characteristic of Caravan's studio work.[6]

The album title and championship rail is a quote often attributed to Spike Milligan but as possibly deriving from a bootlegged Bob Dylan song "All Over Y'all" ("Well, if I had to practise it all over again/Babe, I'd do information technology all over you"), subsequently released on The Homemade Serial, Vol 9: The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964.

The embrace was shot in The netherlands Park, London and was photographed by David Jupe.[half-dozen]

Release and reception [edit]

Professional ratings
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AllMusic [7]

"Hello Hello", backed with the championship rail, was released as a single in August 1970, which led to an appearance on the BBC's Top of the Pops.[7] The anthology was released the following month in the UK, and in March 1971 in the US.[8] According to AllMusic, "If I Could Do Information technology All Once again contains significant progressions over the first anthology."[vii]

"For Richard" became a staple of alive Caravan shows and was typically heard as the gear up closer.[5] A fully orchestrated, alive version tin can be heard on the 1974 release Caravan and the New Symphonia.

The CD was remastered in 2001, with the improver of bonus tracks, including the abandoned September 1969 sessions, and the out-have "A Day in the Life of Maurice Haylett", written almost the band'south route manager.[9]

Track listing [edit]

All songs by Richard Coughlan, Pye Hastings, Richard Sinclair and Dave Sinclair.

Side one
No. Championship Length
1. "If I Could Do It All Over Once more, I'd Practice Information technology All Over You" 3:07
ii. "And I Wish I Were Stoned"
"Don't Worry"		 8:xx
three. "As I Feel I Die" 5:06
4. "With an Ear to the Ground You Can Arrive"
"Martinian"
"Only Cox"
"Reprise"		 nine:54
Side two
No. Title Length
1. "Hello Hullo" 3:45
2. "Asforteri 25" 1:21
iii. "Can't Be Long Now"
"Françoise"
"For Richard"
"Warlock"		 14:21
iv. "Limits" i:35
Bonus tracks on 2001 CD rerelease
No. Title Length
1. "A Day in the Life of Maurice Haylett" ([10]) 5:07
2. "Why? (And I Wish I Were Stoned, Demo version)" ([xi]) 4:22
three. "Clipping the 8th (Hello Hello, Demo version)" ([xi]) three:13
4. "As I Experience I Die, Demo version" ([xi]) four:39

Personnel [edit]

Caravan
  • Pye Hastings – vocals, half-dozen- and 12-cord electric guitars, half-dozen cord acoustic guitar, claves, percussion (worn leather strap, ashtrays), vocalization (impersonation of a friendly gorilla)
  • Richard Sinclair – vocals, bass guitar, tambourine, hedge clippers
  • David Sinclair – Hammond organ, piano, harpsichord[1]
  • Richard Coughlan – drums, congas, bongos, maracas, finger cymbals
Additional personnel
  • Jimmy Hastings – saxophone, flute
  • Robin Sylvester – engineer
  • David Jupe – photography and graphics
  • Terry King – manager
  • Maurice Haylett – route manager[12]

References [edit]

Citations

  1. ^ a b Powell 2001, p. 3.
  2. ^ Powell 2001, p. 4.
  3. ^ Powell 2001, p. 5.
  4. ^ Powell 2001, p. 6.
  5. ^ a b Powell 2001, p. seven.
  6. ^ a b Powell 2001, p. 8.
  7. ^ a b c Planer, Lindsay. "If I Could Exercise It All Over Over again I'd Do Information technology All Over You – Caravan | AllMusic". AllMusic.com . Retrieved 23 June 2011.
  8. ^ Powell 2001, p. 9.
  9. ^ Powell 2001, p. 2.
  10. ^ Out-take
  11. ^ a b c Demo version, previously unreleased
  12. ^ Powell 2001, p. 12.

Sources

  • Powell, Mark (2001). If I Could Practice It All Over Once again, I'd Practice Information technology All Over Y'all (Media notes). Universal / Decca. 8829682.

External links [edit]

  • Caravan - If I Could Do Information technology All Over Over again, I'd Exercise Information technology All Over Yous (1970) anthology review by Lindsay Planer, credits & releases at AllMusic.com
  • Caravan - If I Could Do It All Over again, I'd Practice It All Over You (1970) anthology releases & credits at Discogs.com
  • "Ground and Sky review: Caravan – If I Could Practise It All Over Once more, I'd Exercise It All Over Yous". www.progreviews.com. Archived from the original on 24 January 2009. Retrieved 17 May 2009.

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