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Re: RE-Happy Birthday Album





Derick Bhupsingh wrote:

>  Hi All, To the best of my recollection, Happy Birthday was...
> [snip]  However,
> I did hear someone once say that He had heard it was similar in
> content to Who came First, Pete's first solo LP. (Official).

Happy Birthday was the first of Townshend's tribute albums to Meher
Baba, released February 1970, according to Dave Marsh's Before I Get
Old.  The I Am album was released the following year.  Happy Birthday
included "Day of Silence," the demo for "Seeker," "The Love Man," and
a cover of "Begin the Beguine" (a favorite of Baba's), as well as music

from Ronnie Lane and others.  (I Am featured only a 9-minute version of

"Baba O'Riley" and "Parvardigar," a prayer written by Baba.  Pete set
it to
music.  Pete also played on several of the non-Townshend tracks on I
am.)

For  Who Came First, Pete used demos of "Pure and Easy", "Let's See
Action" (retitled "Nothing Is Everything), new songs "Sheraton Gibson"
and "Time Is Passing", threw in "Parvardigar" and a poem by Maud
Kennedy set to music titled "Content.  He also threw in a cover of the
Jim Reeves tune "There's a Heartache following Me", Baba's favorite
Western (!) song.  Also included in WCF were Ronnie Lane's "Evolution,"

and "Forever's No Time At All" with lyrics by Kate McInnerney and
music by Billy Nicholls.

Long Live Rock!

Howard P.