Ride a Rock Horse

Ride a Rock Horse
Studio album by Roger Daltrey
Released 4 July 1975 (1975-07-04)[1]
Recorded November 1974-February 1975
Studio Ramport and CBS Studios
Genre
Length 37:57
Label MCA (US)
Track (UK)
Producer Russ Ballard
Roger Daltrey chronology
Daltrey
(1973)Daltrey1973		 Ride a Rock Horse
(1975)		 One of the Boys
(1977)One of the Boys1977
Singles from Ride a Rock Horse
  1. "Come and Get Your Love"
    Released: 30 May 1975[2]

Ride a Rock Horse is the second solo album by The Who's lead singer, Roger Daltrey. It was first released in 1975.[3] Songs were recorded during Daltrey's filming commitments for Ken Russell's film Lisztomania. The album's cover, which is photographed and designed by Daltrey's cousin Graham Hughes, is known as remarkable for depicting the singer as a rampant centaur.[4]

The song "Come and Get Your Love" reached number 68 on the Billboard Hot 100 and the album reached number 14 in the UK and number 28 in the US.[5]

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Track listing

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Come and Get Your Love"Russ Ballard3:46
2."Hearts Right"Paul Korda3:02
3."Oceans Away"Phillip Goodhand-Tait3:17
4."Proud"Ballard4:54
5."World Over"Korda3:11
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
6."Near to Surrender"Ballard2:35
7."Feeling"Korda4:38
8."Walking the Dog"Rufus Thomas4:37
9."Milk Train"Dominic Bugatti, Frank Musker3:21
10."I Was Born to Sing Your Song"Chris Neal, Donny Marchand4:36[6]

Non-album material

  1. "You Put Something Better Inside Me" (Gerry Rafferty, Joe Egan) (B-side of the 1977 single "One Of The Boys"; this version is an alternate outtake)
  2. "Dear John" (David Courtney) (B-side of the 1977 single "Written On The Wind"; the liner notes to the reissue CD state that this was an outtake from the Ride a Rock Horse sessions)
  3. "Oceans Away (alternate version)" (Goodhand-Tait)

Singles

  • "Come and Get Your Love/World Over" (released May 1975; did not chart in the UK, and not released in the US)
  • "Walking the Dog/Proud" (released August 1975; did not chart in the UK, and not released in the US)
  • "Come and Get Your Love/Hearts Right" (released October 1975; #68 in the US)
  • "Oceans Away/Feeling" (released January 1976; did not chart in the US, and not released in the UK)[3]

Personnel

  • Roger Daltrey - vocals
  • Russ Ballard - guitar, keyboards
  • Clem Clempson - guitar solo on "Feeling"
  • Dave Wintour - bass guitar
  • Stuart Francis - drums
  • John Barham - string and brass arrangements
  • Paul Korda - piano, backing vocals
  • Henry Spinetti - drums[3]
  • Tony Meehan - congas, strings, horns, reeds
  • Alan Wicket - shakers on "Walking the Dog"
  • Phil Kenzie - saxophone
  • Nick Newall - alto saxophone
  • Alan Brown - trumpet
  • Kokomo, Paul Gorda, Russ Ballard, Sweedies - backing vocals
Technical
  • John Jansen, Will Reid-Dick - engineer
  • Graham Hughes - photography, art direction

Release history

Region Date Label Format Catalog
United Kingdom 4 July 1975[1] Polydor Records stereo LP Polydor 2442 135
United States 26 July 1975[1] MCA Records stereo LP MCA 2147

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Neill, Andrew; Kent, Matthew; Roger Daltrey; Chris Stamp (2009). Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere: The Complete Chronicle of the Who 1958-1978. Sterling. p. 298. ISBN 978-1-4027-6691-6. Retrieved 2011-05-03.
  2. ↑ Neill, Andrew; Kent, Matthew; Roger Daltrey; Chris Stamp (2009). Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere: The Complete Chronicle of the Who 1958-1978. Sterling. p. 262. ISBN 978-1-4027-6691-6. Retrieved 2011-05-03.
  3. 1 2 3 "Roger Daltrey Discography". Archived from the original on 6 December 2014.
  4. ↑ Roger Daltrey#cite note-27
  5. ↑ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 138. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
  6. ↑ "Amazon listing".
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