Where Do the Children Play (Cat Stevens)Ġ8. I've made much more significant changes to my two acoustic demo collections, "Morgan Studios Demos 1970" and "Morgan Studios Demos 1971." You can find those here:Ġ2. I added one previously unknown original song to my stray tracks collection, "Don't Be Shy." You can find that here:
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This album is 41 minutes long, including the three songs at the end from the French TV show.Īs an aside, thanks to that super deluxe edition, as well as a simultaneous release of a "Tea for the Tillerman" super deluxe edition, I was able to make improvements to three other Cat Stevens albums from this time period. But I came across another mention of a recording from December 8th long before the super deluxe edition came out, so that's my best guess. The super deluxe edition doesn't mention the specific date, though they give dates for all the other live recordings. Stevens played the Troubadour six nights in a row, from December 8th to December 13th. The sound quality is such a step down from everyone else here that I decided to not even include them as bonus tracks.īy the way, I'm not entirely sure what the exact date of this concert is. But unfortunately, the sound quality for those is poor, clearly coming from an audience bootleg that had been publicly available for years. A couple of the songs are different than the ones here, so I was tempted to add them as well. The super deluxe edition contains five songs recorded at another 1970 concert, at the Plumpton Racecourse in Britain in August 1970.
The sound of these are virtually identical to the rest, with acoustic performances in front of small crowds. All three of those come from a French TV show recorded in Paris just one month earlier. So I've added three more songs at the end that also have just become available on the "Mona Bone Jakon" super deluxe edition. In fact, one more song from it was included on a deluxe edition of "Teaser and the Firecat" (with an incorrect date). It's a shame more weren't included, because the concert must have been longer than that. The Troubadour songs on the super deluxe release only add up to 28 minutes. In 19, it seems Stevens played all his concerts in acoustic format, always with second guitarist Alun Davies accompanying him.
This recording sounds fantastic, so I'm sharing it here. It contains a previously unbootlegged and unknown concert recording of Stevens playing at the Troubadour in Los Angeles in December 1970.
But recently (as I write this), a super deluxe version of his 1970 album "Mona Bone Jakon" was released. Even the bootlegs are scanty, with most of those from 1971 and almost nothing good from 1970, 1972 or 1973. In 2009, Stevens accused-and forgave-Coldplay for copying the melody from his 1973 song “Foreigner Suite” for their hit “Viva La Vida,” saying “I have even copied myself without even knowing I have done it.There are surprisingly few publicly available Cat Stevens concert recordings from his prime early 1970s. Last year Haim, Feist, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, and others performed at the virtual CatSong Festival, celebrating the 50th anniversaries of Tea for the Tillerman and Mona Bone Jakon with performances of Cat Stevens songs. The soundtrack itself wouldn’t be released until 2007, 36 years after the film premiered, in a limited edition vinyl package put out by Cameron Crowe’s Vinyl Films label. Those songs would remain unreleased until Stevens’ 1984 greatest hits collection Footsteps in the Dark. It also featured two original songs recorded for the film, “Don’t Be Shy” and “If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out,” which became the film’s unofficial theme. The original film featured seven songs from Cat Stevens’ two 1970 LPs for Island/A&M: Mona Bone Jakon and Tea for the Tillerman. It’s due out February 11 via A&M/Cat-O-Log/ UMe. The LP features Stevens’ nine original songs, as well as dialogue and instrumental music from the film. Yusuf / Cat Stevens has announced a 50th anniversary reissue of his original soundtrack for the 1971 Hal Ashby film Harold and Maude.
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