~
The Heavy ~ The Glorious Dead
Three hit singles were released from the album: Baby, I Love Your Way, Do You Feel Like We Do and Show Me the Way. The talk box
guitar effect became strongly associated with Frampton when it was
heard on the latter two singles. The Do You Feel Like We Do single
version was edited to 7:19 from the 14:15 album version. But even at
just over seven minutes, it is about twice the length of the average hit
single and one of the longest ever to make the top 40 (longer even than
The Beatles' Hey Jude
which ran 7:11). The B-side of Do You Feel Like We Do, the acoustic
instrumental Penny for Your Thoughts, was the shortest song on Frampton Comes Alive! at just 1:23.
Side 2:
B1 - Do You Feel Like We Do - 13:47
B2 - (I’ll Give You) Money - 6:33
Companies, etc.
Pressed By – Pic Disc
Credits:
Art Direction – Roland Young (3)
Bass Guitar, Vocals – Stanley Sheldon
Design – Stan Evenson
Drums – John Siomos
Engineer [Assistant] – Corky Stasiak, Dave Witman*, Frankie D'Augusta, Jay Messina, Neil Teeman*
Engineer [Live Recording] – Eddie Kramer, Ray Thompson
Engineer [Live Recording], Remix – Chris Kimsey
Guitar, Vocals, Electric Piano [Fender Rhodes Piano], Organ, Grand Piano – Bob Mayo
Liner Notes – Cameron Crowe
Mastered By – Mike Reese
Photography By [Except John Siomos] – Richard E. Aaron
Photography By [John Siomos] – Mike Zagaris*
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Matrix / Runout (Etching Side A): AM PR 4809 PF F1
Matrix / Runout (Etching Side B): AM PR 4809 PF F2
Styrous® ~ Wednesday, January 6, 2021
photo by Richard E. Aaron
detail photo by Styrous®
Forty-five years ago today, on January 6, 1976, Peter Frampton released his U.S. concert album, Frampton Comes Alive!, on the Herb Alpert label, A&M Records.
The original release was a two vinyl LP discs album. The live album had been intended to be a single LP disc, but at the suggestion of A&M Records additional shows were recorded and the album expanded to a two vinyl LP set for release.
The sound quality of picture discs has never been as good as the regular vinyl LP but I have always loved them.
This is number 00848 of a limited edition (I don't know how many were issued) of the Frampton Comes Alive! vinyl LP picture disc.
photo by Richard E. Aaron
detail photo by Styrous®
I have two favorite cuts from the album. The first is his cover of Jumpin' Jack Flash by the Rolling Stones; I love this song. It is an integral part of the plot line in the film by the same name which starred Whoopi Goldberg as Terry Doolittle, a computer operator at a Manhattan bank. A line from the movie that is hysterical is when Doolittle is trying to write
down and interpret the song lyrics, which are almost unintelligible, then in exasperation she says, "Mick, Mick, Mick!
Speak English!" (link below)
My second favorite song is (I’ll Give You) Money because it is the most hard rock of all the cuts and drives, not with speed but dynamics and great guitar work. The singer basically says he'll give anything for the recipient's return of his love. The sentiments would be reflected, sensually but in stronger terms, some 35 years later with the song Be Mine (links below), from the album The Glorious Dead by The Heavy, an English rock band from Bath, Somerset, England.
CD album cover
Frampton Comes Alive! was recorded in the summer and fall of 1975, primarily at Winterland in San Francisco and the Long Island Arena in Commack, New York, as well as a concert on the SUNY Plattsburgh campus in Plattsburgh, New York. The Winterland songs were recorded on a 24-track
master recorder. Other concerts were captured on a 16-track recorder.
Recordings from four shows were used for the original album. Master
tapes were recorded at 15 inches per second using professional Dolby "A" noise reduction.
Peter Frampton was one of the beauties of the rock world; he was known and famous for his dazzling halo of blond hair which was featured in triplicate on the picture disc!
In an interview with Jim Harrington for the Mercury News (link below) he discusses cutting his hair at the suggestion by David Bowie.
Harrington to Frampton, "I have to ask, do you miss those long locks of
hair now?" Frampton replied, "No. And, to be honest, I was kind of glad
to see them go." I think he looked great with shorter hair and he looks really terrific today!
Peter Frampton
date & photographer unknown
date & photographer unknown
Frampton Comes Alive! reached number one on the Billboard 200
the week ending April 10, 1976, and was in the top spot for a total of
10 weeks. It was the best-selling album of 1976, selling over 8 million
copies in the US and becoming one of the best-selling live albums to
date, with estimated sales of 11 million worldwide.
It was voted "Album Of The Year" in the 1976 Rolling Stone readers poll. It stayed on the chart for 97 weeks and was still No. 14 on the Billboard 1977 year-end album chart. It was ranked No. 41 on the Rolling Stone "50 Greatest Live Albums of All Time" list. Readers of Rolling Stone ranked it No. 3 in a 2012 poll of all-time favorite live albums.
Tracklist:
Side 1:
Side 1:
A1 - Show Me The Way - 4:35
A2 - Baby, I Love Your Way - 4:37
A3 - Shine On - 3:29
A4 - Jumping Jack Flash - 7:21
A2 - Baby, I Love Your Way - 4:37
A3 - Shine On - 3:29
A4 - Jumping Jack Flash - 7:21
Side 2:
B1 - Do You Feel Like We Do - 13:47
B2 - (I’ll Give You) Money - 6:33
Companies, etc.
Pressed By – Pic Disc
Credits:
Art Direction – Roland Young (3)
Bass Guitar, Vocals – Stanley Sheldon
Design – Stan Evenson
Drums – John Siomos
Engineer [Assistant] – Corky Stasiak, Dave Witman*, Frankie D'Augusta, Jay Messina, Neil Teeman*
Engineer [Live Recording] – Eddie Kramer, Ray Thompson
Engineer [Live Recording], Remix – Chris Kimsey
Guitar, Vocals, Electric Piano [Fender Rhodes Piano], Organ, Grand Piano – Bob Mayo
Liner Notes – Cameron Crowe
Mastered By – Mike Reese
Photography By [Except John Siomos] – Richard E. Aaron
Photography By [John Siomos] – Mike Zagaris*
Producer, Arranged By – Peter Frampton
Notes:
Includes a small numbered card.
"This record is meant to be a collectors' item. The sound quality of this record is not equal to that of conventional records."
℗ 1976 A&M Records, Inc.
© 1978 A&M Records, Inc.
Notes:
Includes a small numbered card.
"This record is meant to be a collectors' item. The sound quality of this record is not equal to that of conventional records."
℗ 1976 A&M Records, Inc.
© 1978 A&M Records, Inc.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Matrix / Runout (Etching Side A): AM PR 4809 PF F1
Matrix / Runout (Etching Side B): AM PR 4809 PF F2
Peter Frampton – Frampton Comes Alive!
Label: A&M Records – PR 3703
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Numbered, Picture Disc
Country: US
Released: 1978
Genre: Rock
Style: Rock & Roll, Pop Rock
Label: A&M Records – PR 3703
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Numbered, Picture Disc
Country: US
Released: 1978
Genre: Rock
Style: Rock & Roll, Pop Rock
Viewfinder links:
Net links:
Best Classic Bands ~ Frampton: Still Very Much Alive! interview
Click America ~ Frampton: how he finally found success
Peter Frampton ~ (I’ll Give You) Money lyrics
LA Times ~ Frampton Comes Alive! One more time
Mercury News ~ Why was Frampton Comes Alive recorded in the Bay Area?
RareRecords ~ Picture Discs – Records With an Image
Rock Pop Gallery ~ Frampton Comes Alive by Richard E. Aaron
RollingStone ~ The 10 Best Live Albums of the 1970s
Times Argus ~ Peter Frampton on the demise of albums
Ultimate Classic Rock ~ Frampton Comes Alive Hits #1
Vinyl District ~ Graded on a Curve: Frampton Comes Alive!
YouTube links:
Peter Frampton ~ Frampton Comes Alive! ~
Frampton Comes Alive! (complete album)
Baby, I Love Your Way Do You Feel Like We Do (14 mins., 16 sec.)
Do You Feel Like We Do (Live ) (10 mins., 39 sec.)
Whoopi Goldberg ~ Deciphering Mick Jagger (movie clip)
The Heavy ~ Be Mine
Peter Frampton
photo by Austin Lord
photo by Austin Lord
"I was pretty pleased that now they can’t be coming
to see me because of my hair – because it’s gone."
~ Peter Frampton
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