''Got You on My Mind'' is a

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William Galison William Alexander Galison (born February 19, 1958) is an American harmonica player. Early life Galison was born and raised in New York City. As a child, he started to study piano, but at the age of eight he decided to switch to guitar, having bee ...

and Madeleine Peyroux, recorded in 1999, and later compiled into an

by Galison alone in 2003. Seven of its eleven tracks are by the two collaborators, the remainder are by Galison alone. The album is made up of a wide variety of material, ranging from jazz standards like

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and

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' "The Way You Look Tonight" to

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s like

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's "Jealous Guy"; and containing two originals by Galison and one by Galison and Peyroux. The instrumentation is also varied, with Galison himself playing six different instruments. Some of the songs are early demo recordings of songs Peyroux later released on ''

Careless Love "Careless Love" is a traditional song, with several popular blues versions. It has been called a "nineteenth-century ballad and Dixieland standard". The death referenced in an old version was the son of a Kentucky governor. Although published ac ...

''.

Controversy

Tha album has a controversy-ridden history. In late 2005 it became known that Peyroux and her

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had been sued for $1 million by her former boyfriend and musical collaborator Galison, who asserted he had produced and co-created ''Got You on My Mind''. According to Galison, in 2003 Peyroux told him she was negotiating a deal with Rounder Records for the album that became ''Careless Love''. Rounder Records did not want the recording Peyroux was making with him to be in stores when the Rounder album came out. Peyroux's contract prohibited her from selling the seven tracks she made with Galison except at live performances. When Galison tried to market the record with another label, both Rounder Records and Peyroux's lawyers threatened to sue him and his distributor for

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. After Galison's potential distributors dropped him, Galison sued Peyroux and her lawyers for libel and

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. Galison also sued Rounder Records, but later dropped their name from the suit. Rounder Records commented that Galison may be using the legal dispute as an "ill-advised attempt ... to trade on the name and reputation of Ms Peyroux to boost his career by passing off an inferior version of a Madeleine Peyroux album." They also asserted that they had obtained "directly and from Ms Peyroux, evidence of numerous incidents of physically and verbally abusive behaviour by Mr Galison against Ms Peyroux"; Galison denied the abuse allegations and characterized them as libellous.

Track listing

All songs written by

, unless otherwise noted # "

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" ( Billy Rose,

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) - 2:34 # "J'ai deux amours" (

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, Géo Koger, Henri Vanna) - 3:17 # "Flambée montalbanaise" (

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) - 3:03 # "Got You on My Mind" (Joe Thomas, Howard Biggs) - 4:18 # "

Jealous Guy "Jealous Guy" is a song written and originally recorded by English rock musician John Lennon from his 1971 album '' Imagine''. Not released as a single during Lennon's lifetime, it became an international hit in a version by Roxy Music issued ...

" (

) - 3:41 # "

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) - 3:04 # "Rag for Madi" - 3:19 # "Playin'" (Galison, Peyroux) - 4:42 # "Shoulda Known" - 5:09 # "Heaven to Me" (Ernest Schweikart, Frank Reardon) - 4:05 # "Heaven Help Us All" ( Ron Miller) - 4:32 Recorded at Excello,

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in March 2003 by Hugh Pool, and mixed by Ted Spencer at Ted Spencer Studio, New York, in January and February 2004, except track 3, recorded and mixed at Tonstudio Schlag in 1999 by Wolfgang Lohmeier.

Personnel

* Madeleine Peyroux —

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or withou ...

, rhythm guitar (except tracks 3, 5, 7, 9) *

— Acoustic and

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and dobro (exc. tracks 2, 3, 10), harmonica (exc. 1, 4, 8, 11),

(4, 5, 9, 11), bass harmonica,

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and

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Ex ...

(9) * Conrad Korsch — double bass,

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

(exc. tracks 3, 5, 7, 9) * James Wormworth — drums, percussion (exc. tracks 3, 5, 7, 9) * Brian Mitchell —

Wurlitzer electric piano The Wurlitzer electronic piano is an electric piano manufactured and marketed by Wurlitzer from the mid-1950s to mid-1980s. Sound is generated by striking a metal reed with a hammer, which induces an electric current in a pickup. It is concept ...

(tracks 5, 7, 9), organ (5) * Tony Garnier —

double bass The double bass (), also known simply as the bass () (or by other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed (or plucked) string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra (excluding unorthodox additions such as the octobass). Similar i ...

(tracks 5, 7, 9) *

Shawn Pelton Shawn Pelton is an American drummer and percussionist. He has recorded with a wide range of artists and has been a first call player since moving to New York in the late 1980s. Shawn has recorded with artists such as Sheryl Crow, Shawn Colvin, ...

— drums, percussion (tracks 5, 7, 9) * Brad Terry — clarinet (track 7) * Elaine Caswell —

backing vocals A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are ...

(track 9) * Carly Simon — spoken voice (track 9) *Dan Reyser — tambourine, shaker (tracks 6, 8, 11) * Jean Baptiste Bocle — Hammond organ (tracks 8, 11) *Quadro Nuevo (track 3): :*Mulo Franzl — saxophone :*Heinz Jeromin — accordion :*Robert Wolf — guitar :*D.D. Lowka — bass

References

External links

"Still 'Got You On My Mind': Madeleine Peyroux and William Galison's Star-Crossed Duet"
— by Andrea Canter for ''Jazz Police'' {{Authority control 2004 albums Madeleine Peyroux albums