''Hallelujah'' is the fourth
album
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by
Canned Heat
Canned Heat is an American band formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1965. The group is noted for its efforts to promote interest in blues music and its original artists and rock music. It was founded by two blues enthusiasts Alan Wilson and Bob ...
, released in 1969. It was re-released on CD in 2001 by MAM productions with four bonus tracks. It was the last album to feature classic lineup mark 1, as Vestine left the band prior to ''
Future Blues''.
Track listing
Side One
#"Same All Over"
(Canned Heat) – 2:51
#* Bob Hite - lead vocals
#* Alan Wilson - guitar
#* Henry Vestine - guitar
#* Larry Taylor - bass
#* Fito De la Parra - drums
#* Elliot Ingber - backing vocals
#* Javier Batise- backing vocals
#* Skip Diamond - backing vocals
#*
Ernest Lane - organ, piano
#"Change My Ways"
( Alan Wilson) – 2:47
#* Alan Wilson - lead vocals, whistling, guitar
#* Henry Vestine - guitar
#* Larry Taylor - bass
#* Fito De la Parra - drums
#"Canned Heat"
(Robert Hite, Jr. – ''actually by'' Tommy Johnson) – 4:22
#* Bob Hite - lead vocals
#* Alan Wilson - guitar
#* Henry Vestine - guitar
#* Larry Taylor - bass
#* Fito De la Parra - drums
#"Sic 'em Pigs"
(Robert Hite, Jr.; Booker T. White) – 2:41
#* Bob Hite - lead vocals
#* Alan Wilson - guitar
#* Henry Vestine - guitar
#* Larry Taylor - bass, backing vocals
#* Fito De la Parra - drums
#"I'm Her Man"
(A. Leigh – ''actually by'' Bob Hite
Robert Ernest Hite (February 26, 1943 – April 5, 1981) was the co-lead vocalist of the American blues and rock band Canned Heat, from 1965 to his death in 1981. His nickname was "The Bear".
Biography
Hite was introduced to Alan Wilson ...
) – 2:55
#* Bob Hite - lead vocals
#* Alan Wilson - guitar, harmonica
#* Henry Vestine - guitar
#* Larry Taylor - bass
#* Fito De la Parra - drums
#* Mark Naftalin - organ, piano
#"Time Was"
(Alan Wilson) – 3:21
#* Alan Wilson - guitar, lead vocals
#* Henry Vestine - guitar
#* Larry Taylor - bass
#* Fito De la Parra - drums
Side Two
#"Do Not Enter"
(Alan Wilson) – 2:50
#* Alan Wilson - guitar, lead vocals, harmonica
#* Larry Taylor - bass
#* Fito De la Parra - drums
#"Big Fat (The Fat Man)"
(Dave Bartholomew
David Louis Bartholomew (December 24, 1918 – June 23, 2019) was an American musician, bandleader, composer, arranger, and record producer. He was prominent in the music of New Orleans throughout the second half of the 20th century. Originally ...
, Fats Domino
Antoine Dominique Domino Jr. (February 26, 1928 – October 24, 2017), known as Fats Domino, was an American pianist, singer and songwriter. One of the pioneers of rock and roll music, Domino sold more than 65 million records. Born in New O ...
; adapted by Robert Hite, Jr.) – 1:57
#* Bob Hite - lead vocals, harmonica
#* Alan Wilson - guitar
#* Henry Vestine - guitar
#* Larry Taylor - bass
#* Fito De la Parra - drums
#"Huautla"
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) – 3:33
#* Alan Wilson - harmonica
#* Henry Vestine - guitar
#* Larry Taylor - bass
#* Fito De la Parra - drums
#* Mike Pacheco - bongos, congas
#"Get Off My Back"
(Alan Wilson) – 5:10
#* Alan Wilson - guitar, lead vocals
#* Henry Vestine - guitar
#* Larry Taylor - bass
#* Fito De la Parra - drums
#"Down in the Gutter, But Free"
(Canned Heat) – 5:37
#* Bob Hite - lead vocals
#* Alan Wilson - harmonica
#* Henry Vestine - bass
#* Larry Taylor - guitar
#* Fito De la Parra - drums
#* Skip Diamond - backing vocals
#* Elliot Ingber - backing vocals
#* Mark Naftalin - organ, piano
Bonus tracks from 2001 CD release
#"Time Was" – Single Version
(Wilson) – 2:34
#"Low Down"
(Canned Heat) – 2:30
#"Poor Moon"
(Wilson) – 2:43
#"Sic 'em Pigs" – Single Version
(Hite, White) – 1:54
Personnel
[LP Liberty LST-7618]
;Canned Heat
*
Bob Hite
Robert Ernest Hite (February 26, 1943 – April 5, 1981) was the co-lead vocalist of the American blues and rock band Canned Heat, from 1965 to his death in 1981. His nickname was "The Bear".
Biography
Hite was introduced to Alan Wilson ...
– vocals, harmonica
(on track 8)
*
Alan Wilson – slide guitar, vocals, harmonica, whistling
(on track 2)
*
Henry Vestine
Henry Charles Vestine (December 25, 1944 – October 20, 1997) a.k.a. "The Sunflower", was an American guitar player primarily known as a member of the band Canned Heat. He was with the group from its start in 1966 to July 1969. In later years ...
– lead guitar, public service announcement
(on track 4), bass
(on track 11)
*
Larry Taylor
Samuel Lawrence Taylor (June 26, 1942 – August 19, 2019) was an American bass guitarist, best known for his work as a member of Canned Heat from 1967. Before joining Canned Heat he had been a session bassist for The Monkees and Jerry Lee Le ...
– bass, guitar
(on track 11)
*
Fito de la Parra A unit prefix is a specifier or mnemonic that is prepended to units of measurement to indicate multiples or fractions of the units. Units of various sizes are commonly formed by the use of such prefixes. The prefixes of the metric system, such a ...
– drums
;Additional Personnel
*Ernest Lane – piano
(on track 1)
*
Mark Naftalin
Mark Naftalin (born August 2, 1944) is an American blues keyboardist, recording artist, composer, and record producer. He appears on the first five albums by Paul Butterfield Blues Band in the mid 1960s as a band member, and as such was inducted ...
– organ, piano
(on tracks 5, 11)
*Javier Batiz – group vocals
(on track 1)
*Skip Diamond – group vocals
(on tracks 1, 11)
*
Elliot Ingber
Elliot Ingber (born August 24, 1941) is an American guitarist. In 1966, he joined Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention and was featured on their debut album ''Freak Out!'' After being fired from the band by Zappa following an incident onstage where h ...
– group vocals
(on tracks 1, 11)
*Mike Pacheco – bongos and congas
(on track 9)
;Production
*Produced by Skip Taylor and Canned Heat
*Engineered by Richard Joseph Moore
*Recorded at I. D. Sound Recorders, Hollywood, California
January, February, March, April, and May, 1969
References
* Fito De La Parra, ''Living The Blues. Canned Heat's story of Music, Drugs, Death, Sex and Survival'' (2000)
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1969 albums
Canned Heat albums
Liberty Records albums
Albums produced by Bob Hite
Albums produced by Alan Wilson (musician)
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Albums produced by Larry Taylor
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