Four More Respected Gentlemen

"Four More Respected Gentlemen" (Reprise/Warner Bros. Records RS 6309) [Schwann catalog, December 1968.] is an unreleased album by the British rock group The Kinks. Most of the songs were recorded in 1968, the year the album was assembled for the US market. This album would have been released in parallel with a Europe-only 12-song early version of The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society. Instead, manufacture of the 12-song album was stopped (where possible) and a 15-song version of The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society—combining the better parts of both albums and adding newly recorded songs—was released instead, in both the UK and USA.

Track listing

All songs by Ray Davies

ide A

#"She's Got Everything"**
#"Monica"*
#"Mr. Songbird"***
#"Johnny Thunder"*
#"Polly"**
#"Days"**

ide B

#"Animal Farm"*
#"Berkeley Mews"**
#"Picture Book"*
#"Phenomenal Cat"*
#"Misty Water"***

These songs are available on:(*) "The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society" (Pye, 1968/Reprise, 1969); (**) "The Kink Kronikles" (Reprise, 1972); (***) "The Great Lost Kinks Album" (Reprise, 1973)

Additional tracks

When originally sent to Reprise, the album was also to include the following tracks:

# "Autumn Almanac"**
# "Did You See His Name"**
# "There Is No Life Without Love"***
# "Susannah’s Still Alive"**There songs, however, were pulled from the album before the final master was compiled.

References

External links

* [http://www.earcandymag.com/rrcase-kinks4more.htm Article discussing the history of the album]
* [http://www.c-player.com/ac10702/message/200406?page=5&format=time Side break described here]
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=0OQ_-qGDX_sC&pg=PA31&dq=%22Four+More+Respected+Gentlemen%22+kinks&sig=pI915pMijIhXiA1jLRn2YgS4T2Q]