Fill Your Head with Rock

Infobox Album
Name = Fill Your Head with Rock
Type = Compilation album
Artist = Various Artists


Released = 1970
Recorded =
Genre = Rock
Length =
Label = CBS Records SPR 39/40
Producer = Various
Reviews =
Chronology = Series
Last album = "Rock Machine I Love You"
(1968)
This album = "Fill Your Head With Rock"
(1970)
Next album = "Rockbuster"
(1970)

"Fill Your Head with Rock" is a double sampler album from CBS Records, released in the UK in 1970 [The album was released in The Netherlands with the title "Superb Super Pop Session N°2" and featured the same tracks.] . Continuing the successful trend started by The Rock Machine Turns You On, it introduced the latest albums by CBS' recording artists. Unlike its predecessors and its contemporaries, the album came with an eight-page booklet featuring brief descriptions of the artists, their images, and photographs of the relevant albums [The booklet: [http://www.stanford.edu/~sipma/fillhead2.html] ] . It also included publicity for other CBS Records artists as well as those on related labels such as Dandelion [Principal Edwards Magic Theatre, Beau, Bridget St. John, Occasional Word, Mike Hart & Siren] , Direction [Chambers Brothers & Taj Mahal] , and Straight [Captain Beefheart, Alice Cooper, Judy Henske/Jerry Yester, Tim Buckley, & The GTOs] . The compilation is credited to David Howells, then a marketing executive at CBS; he later became Managing Director of Pete Waterman's PWL label.

Track listing

ide One

#"Listen" (R. Lamm) : Chicago (from the LP "Chicago" 66221) [This album was actually titled "Chicago Transit Authority"] (3:22)
#"Savour" [On the disc itself, the track had the US spelling "Savor"] (Santana : Santana (from the LP "Santana" 63815) (2:46)
#"Give A Life, Take A Life" (California/Adler) : Spirit (from the LP "Clear" 63729) (3:47)
#"Passing Through" (K. White) : Steamhammer (from the LP "Steamhammer" [Actually titled "Mk II"] 63694) (5:17)
#"Smiling Phases" (S. Winwood-J. Capaldi-C. Wood) : Blood, Sweat and Tears (from the LP "Blood, Sweat & Tears" 63504) (5:10)

ide Two

#"Tired of Waiting" (Flock [Although this was a version of The Kinks' song, which was written by Ray Davies] ) : Flock (from the LP "Flock" 63733) (4:35) [The violinist pictured on the album cover is Jerry Goodman of Flock]
#"Come To The Sabbat" (Clive Jones-Jim Gannon) : Black Widow (from the LP "Sacrifice" 63948) (4:55)
#"Dance In The Smoke" (R. Argent-C. White) : Argent (from the LP "Argent" 63781) (6:10)
#"Gunga Din" (G. Parsons) : The Byrds (from the LP "The Ballad of Easy Rider" 63795) (3:02)
#"Living In Sin" (James) : Skin Alley [Skin Alley Website [http://www.progressiveworld.net/skinalley.html] ] (from the LP "Skin Alley" 63847) (4:35)

ide Three

#"Gibsom Street" (L. Nyro) : Laura Nyro (from the LP "New York Tendaberry" 63410) (4:30)
#"You Know Who I Am" (L. Cohen) : Leonard Cohen (from the LP "Songs from a Room" 63587) (3:22)
#"Stomping Ground" [listed as "Stamping Ground" on the label itself. Independent discographies indicate that this is the correct title [http://www.moondogscorner.de/disco/] ] (L. Hardin) : Moondog (from the LP "Moondog" 63906) (2:36)
#"The Inbetween Man" [appears on the label as "In Between Man"] (A. Kane) : Amory Kane (from the LP "The Inbetween Man" 63849) (5:22)
#"The Garden of Jane Delawney" (T. Boswell [This is a misprint. The track was written by Tobias (Bias) Boshell] ) : Trees (from the LP "The Garden of Jane Delawney" 63837) (4:05)
#"A Small Fruit Song" (Al Stewart) : Al Stewart (from the LP "Zero She Flies" 63848) (2:00)
#"Driving Wheel" (T. Rush [On the source album, this track is credited to David Wiffen and it is assumed that the credit here is a misprint] ) : Tom Rush (from the LP "Tom Rush" 63940) (5:22)

ide Four

#"Try (Just A Little Bit Harder)" (J. Ragavoy-C. Taylor) : Janis Joplin (from the LP "I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!") (4:13)
#"One Room Country Shack" (M. D. Walton) : Al Kooper (from the LP "Kooper Session" 63797) (3:35)
#"Six Days On The Road" (C. Montgomery-E.Greene) : Taj Mahal (from the LP "Take A Giant Step" 66226) (2:55)
#"Don't Think About It Baby" (M. Bloomfield) : Mike Bloomfield (from the LP "It's Not Killing Me" 63652) (3:34)
#"Bluesbuster" (C. Allen) : Pacific Gas & Electric (from the LP "Pacific Gas and Electric" 63822) (2:56)
#"I Love Everybody" (J. Winter) : Johnny Winter (from the LP "Second Winter") (3:50)

The Album Cover

For once a sampler album cover showed the featured artists, and even provided a key for identification. Laura Nyro can be seen at the top left, and Al Kooper & Leonard Cohen at the top right. Four of the artists are not shown: Moondog, Amory Kane, Black Widow and Skin Alley. The front cover features Jerry Goodman of The Flock.

References

External links

For a fan's nostalgic commentary, see [http://www.flowerbedmusic.com/Articles/samplers_fyhwr.htm]