''Two Weeks Last Summer'' is the first solo album by

Dave Cousins Dave Cousins (born David Joseph Hindson; 7 January 1945) is an English musician who has been the leader, singer and most-active songwriter of Strawbs since 1967. Career Cousins is a founder member of the Strawbs, which started out as the Str ...

, singer and guitarist from the Strawbs. It was released in 1972 on A&M Records.

Track listing

All songs written by Dave Cousins #"Two Weeks Last Summer" – (3:07) #"October to May" – (2:27) #"Blue Angel" – (9:48) #:"Divided" #:"Half Worlds Apart" #:"At Rest" #"That's the Way It Ends" (including "The World") – (3:00) #"The Actor" – (4:28) #"When You Were a Child" – (3:02) #"Ways and Means" – (4:22) #"We'll Meet Again Sometime" – (4:48) #"Going Home" – (3:24) on the CD, the tracks "The World" and "That's the Way It Ends" are listed separately with timings of 1:45 and 1:15 respectively.

Personnel

– lead vocal, guitars, piano * Dave Lambert – guitars, backing vocals * Miller Anderson – lead guitar, slide guitar *

Jon Hiseman Philip John Albert "Jon" Hiseman (21 June 1944 – 12 June 2018) was an English drummer, recording engineer, record producer, and music publisher. He played with the Graham Bond Organisation, with John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers and later for ...

– drums, percussion *

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– bass guitar *

Tom Allom Thomas James Allom is an English record producer and sound engineer. His best-known work was in the 1970s and 1980s, working with artists such as Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, Krokus, Loverboy, Def Leppard, Kix and Rough Cutt. Allom is a memb ...

– organ, backing vocals * Rick Wakeman – organ, piano * Tom Newman – backing vocals * The

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Wind Septet The track "Going Home" is credited with personnel "Lampoon". The track had originally been planned as a Dave Lambert single before he joined Strawbs. Cousins replaced Lambert's vocals with his own and released it as a single. It is believed that the other musicians were

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on keyboards,

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on bass guitar and Richard Hudson on drums. This would have been the first time that this new Strawbs line-up recorded together.

Recording

*Dave Cousins – producer *Tom Allom – producer, engineer Recorded at The Manor,

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in June 1972.

Release history

References

''Two Weeks Last Summer'' on Strawbsweb
*Liner notes to CD SDRCD 010 ''Two Weeks Last Summer'' 1972 debut albums Albums produced by Tom Allom A&M Records albums Dave Cousins albums {{1970s-album-stub