Product Description

Rick Springfield's 1978 release that never made it out with these musicians and even a never before heard track.This album has songs previously heard on earlier releases but never with this cast of musicians and production. Rick Springfield: The Early Sound City Sessions, captures the then teen-idol, at the very beginning of his rise to the top of the American charts. From 1975 through 1982, Springfield was signed to managers Tom Skeeter and Jonas Gottfried, and their Carman Productions imprint, to produce and deliver his albums for distribution When Rick signed with Carman he was re-launching a career that had already enjoyed a #1 Hit at home in Australia.This album, Rick Springfield: The Early Sound City Sessions was the next album to be recorded in 1977 and 78 under the Carman banner. The songs and the performances showcased Rick s yet unfulfilled promise and has remained in the vaults until now. This album has never been released on CD although several of the songs were re-recorded for his Beautiful Feelings album. But, check this out, Rick Springfield: The Early Sound City Sessions includes a bonus track, Still Got the Magic, which has never been released commercially before.

Track Listing

1. Bruce
2. Just One Look
3. The Solitary One
4. Spanish Eyes
5. Everybody's Cheating
6. Looking For The One
7. Cold Feet
8. Brand New Feeling
9. Beautiful Feelings
10. Guenevere
11. Still Got The Magic

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #60117 in Music
• Released on: 2007-11-20
• Number of discs: 11

Customer Reviews

Anyone could tell by listening to this collection that Rick was heading on to greater pastures
The Good
This collection of early Rick Springfield material was originally recorded between 1977-1978. These particular versions have never been released, but most were re-recorded for one of Springfield's major label releases Beautiful Feelings. However, this collection still features one song that has never been released or re-recorded; "Still Got the Magic." This particular track would fit in well with Rick's early material, even though it has a post-disco feel to it. As for the other tracks, "Bruce" is a clever and humorous track about mistaken identity. In the first verse his lady confuses him with another man. In the second verse it's a record executive confusing him with Springsteen.

"Just One Look" is recognizable from the various cover versions and commercials it's appeared in. Rick's vocals are heartfelt, breathy, and seductive. This may just explain his ravenous female fan base. "Everybody's Cheating" is a piano ballad that is fairly standard for the seventies, with added guitar to give it that rock edge. It sounds like a long lost Billy Joel song. "Cold Feet" is a guitar riff based rocker with a boogie-woogie feel to it. It's not about failing to make it to the alter as you may expect, but it's about not making it with the neighbor's wife. "Gwenevere" is a sweet sounding ballad, but the lyrics are a little cheesy.

The Bad
Rick Springfield had no involvement or knowledge that this was going to be released.

The Verdict
I've never heard the album Beautiful Feelings, so this release was all new to me. I like the early seventies rock sound that Rick was working with at the time. Anyone could tell by listening to this collection that Rick was heading on to greater pastures.

Early Springfield is still Springfield It's all Good
this CD is of the same songs as "Beautiful Feelings" that was released many years ago except this one uses the musicians and arrangements that Rick intended to be on the album not the bogus ones used on the Beautiful Feelings one. The song "Bruce" is worth the whole album for the sheer fun factor. Any true Springfield fan knows how irritating it is for people to mistake Rick for Bruce whats his name? The whole album is a nice piece of work and can show people who only know Jessie's Girl that there is more to Rick Springfield than that. It also includes a track not on any other album which is always a bonus. A must for any true Rick Springfield fan and a nice easy to enjoy album for anyone else.

The Lost 1978 recordings
I was fortunate enough to hear this recording in 1978 when Rick first recorded it. Kim Carnes sings background on many of the tracks. They sound excellent together!! (I also love Kim, and have been her fan ever since first hearing this compilation in 1978.) Rick told me about six months or more ago that the song "Solitary One" he wrote for me. For that, I am VERY happy... and FINALLY get to hear it again in its original form, the way I heard it in 1978 when I was with Rick at Sound City in Van Nuys. I am looking forward to having it arrive in the mail any day now... hopefully it won't be that long. Listen for Kim's backing vocals on "Brand New Feeling." It was crisp and raw, and they sound excellent together. Hopefully, her vocals won't be removed this time how they were on my once good buddy, Joe Gottfried's, when it was released under the name, Beautiful Feelings, on Mercury Records. The treat we'll all be missing is the duet with Kim Carnes, Taxi Dancing; this release doesn't include Kim's version, still it was superb!! I always loved their original version, sorry Randi fans (Hard to Hold version) better with Kim than Randi. Yet another tune not even I heard then, Still Got the Magic, has been tossed in, giving us all something new to replace the original TAXI DANCING. THANKS to whoever released this awesome Rick compilation. I loved it then, and I'm certain I will still love it now. ((From "The Solitary One" in Minnesota, Mary Jo, a Rick fan from the beginning when he first stepped off his flight in Los Angeles in 1972. Loved him ever since. Here it is, nearly 38 years later, and I still love you today, Ricky!.)) TWO THUMBS UP on this compilation!

Rick sang "Looking For The One" on a TV show, Eddie Capra. I taped my cassette microphone to the TV, back when I didn't yet have a video recorder, and now here's a chance for ALL to take a listen to this awesome number in its original form. Some favorites are: of course, Solitary One, a given for me, Brand New Feeling (again, I hope Kim's vocals have been left intact), Beautiful Feelings, Cold Feet (he sang that one live on the Jerry Lewis Telethon, along with "She Called Me Bruce" that same year.) She Called Me Bruce, is always good, and COLD FEET. Don't quote me, but I do believe he wrote CF for his then girlfriend, Diana Davidson. He had a fear of marriage. (Poor bloke!) I bet when he wrote BRUCE he had no clue one day he'd be playing a doctor (on GH). "Doctor, doctor, you gotta help me here... you've gotta make it right for me. You see, this other man's name has been following me around, and it just won't let me be.... you see, he's got his name, and I've got my name, too, and while they're kind of close....." (Ya know the number.) This entire CD ROCKS!!!

Buy it, folks, this CD will NOT let you down. It is EXCELLENT!!! Rick played all the guitar tracks on this original, far better than the orchestrated version released in 1984, Beautiful Feelings, by Jonas Gottfried. (May Jonas rest in peace. He passed away some years ago now, or so I was told. I loved him. He was a dear friend of mine.) This will be the best $12.97 you ever spent on ANY Rick-related music item. TRUST ME!!! -Mary Jo Brunette, Minnesota