Fanny - First Time In A Long Time: The Reprise Recordings (Box Set, Remastered) (2002)

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Artist: Fanny
Title: First Time In A Long Time: The Reprise Recordings
Year Of Release: 2002
Label: Rhino Records RHM2 7734
Genre: Pop Rock
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue,log,scans) / 320 kbps
Total Time: 05:10:51
Total Size: 1.97 GB / 838 MB
WebSite: Album Preview

It's amazing that this four-CD box set exists in the first place, considering not only that Fanny never had a Top 100 album, but that they've never had a particularly big cult following either. But here it is, albeit in a limited edition of 5,000 (sold in North America only). And all the stops were certainly pulled to assemble material, including not only all four of their early-'70s Reprise albums, but dozens of extras, many of them unreleased. Non-LP singles, single-only versions, home and studio demos (the earliest of them dating from July 1969, when they were still known as Wild Honey), alternate versions, outtakes: they're all here. Plus there's more: the tracks on the Canadian version of their debut album (which included three alternate versions never released elsewhere, as well as some cuts that only came out in the U.S. as non-LP singles) that didn't make it onto the U.S. configuration; seven songs from an April 1973 Philadelphia concert; four tracks from a live April 1972 Cleveland performance; six cuts from a demo session for the Mother's Pride album; even four Reprise radio commercials. Not to mention a 52-page booklet with extensive interview quotes from June Millington, Jean Millington, and Alice de Buhr. By definition any serious fan of any act is going to be pleased with such thoroughness. But all the bells and whistles don't act as convincing evidence that Fanny were any more than an ordinary, at times mundane, early-'70s rock band, leaving aside their pioneering status as an all-woman group on a major label that played their own instruments and wrote most of their material. The loads of non-LP and unreleased material aren't all that different than from what ended up on the four proper albums, though sometimes they show a more explicitly soul direction, as on the cover of Maxine Brown's "One Step at a Time" and the unreleased take of the Supremes' "Back in My Arms Again." The live recordings do prove that the band could rock convincingly and tightly on stage, and the fidelity on those is decent, though on the Cleveland cuts in particular it probably wouldn't have been judged up to release standard. Some of the demos are a mite folkier and more singer/songwriter-oriented than the albums, though that might be due more to the more basic arrangements than the material. Note that this doesn't include absolutely everything Fanny did; there's nothing from their post-Reprise album for Casablanca, and an archival live album of 1972 stuff done in Cleveland contains music not on this box.

Tracklist:

CD1

01. Come And Hold Me (from ''Fanny'' LP - 1970) (2:46)
02. I Just Realized (from ''Fanny'' LP - 1970) (4:01)
03. Candlelighter Man (from ''Fanny'' LP - 1970) (3:35)
04. Conversation With A Cop (from ''Fanny'' LP - 1970) (3:10)
05. Badge (from ''Fanny'' LP - 1970) (3:01)
06. Changing Horses (from ''Fanny'' LP - 1970) (3:48)
07. Bitter Wine (from ''Fanny'' LP - 1970) (3:17)
08. Take A Message To The Captain (from ''Fanny'' LP - 1970) (3:31)
09. It Takes A Lot Of Good Lovin' (from ''Fanny'' LP - 1970) (4:26)
10. Shade Me (from ''Fanny'' LP - 1970) (4:39)
11. Seven Roads (from ''Fanny'' LP - 1970) (4:20)
12. Charity Ball (First Version) (from the erroneously released Canadian edition of the ''Fanny'' LP) (2:52)
13. Place In The Country (First Version) (from the erroneously released Canadian edition of the ''Fanny'' LP) (3:34)
14. Changes (from the erroneously released Canadian edition of the ''Fanny'' LP) (2:16)
15. One Step At A Time (from the erroneously released Canadian edition of the ''Fanny'' LP - also issued as
Reprise single 938) (3:03)
16. Nowhere To Run (from the erroneously released Canadian edition of the ''Fanny'' LP - also issued as
Reprise single 938) (3:20)
17. Seven Roads (Second Version) (from the erroneously released Canadian edition of the ''Fanny'' LP)
(3:48)
18. Lady's Choice (from the erroneously released Canadian edition of the ''Fanny'' LP - also issued as Reprise
single 901) (2:48)
19. New Day (from the erroneously released Canadian edition of the ''Fanny'' LP - also issued as Reprise
single 901) (3:44)
20. I Find Myself ('Wild Honey demo session 07.11.1969) (4:04)
21. Queen Aretha ('Wild Honey demo session 07.11.1969) (4:20)
22. Flame Tree ('Wild Honey demo session 07.11.1969) (3:11)
23. Fanny Reprise Records Promo 1 (0:23)
24. Fanny Reprise Records Promo 2 (0:23)
25. Fanny Reprise Records Promo 3 (0:32)

CD2

01. Charity Ball (from ''Charity Ball'' LP - July 1971) (2:29)
02. What Kind Of Lover (from ''Charity Ball'' LP - July 1971) (2:58)
03. Cat Fever (from ''Charity Ball'' LP - July 1971) (3:23)
04. A Person Like You (from ''Charity Ball'' LP - July 1971) (2:59)
05. Special Care (from ''Charity Ball'' LP - July 1971) (4:23)
06. What's Wrong With Me? (from ''Charity Ball'' LP - July 1971) (1:44)
07. Soul Child (from ''Charity Ball'' LP - July 1971) (3:52)
08. You're The One (from ''Charity Ball'' LP - July 1971) (4:10)
09. Thinking Of You (from ''Charity Ball'' LP - July 1971) (3:26)
10. Place In The Country (from ''Charity Ball'' LP - July 1971) (3:09)
11. A Little While Later (from ''Charity Ball'' LP - July 1971) (5:41)
12. Charity Ball (Single Version) (2:30)
13. True Blue (from ''The Kitchen Tapes'' demos for ''Fanny Hill'' LP - circa 1970) (1:04)
14. Candlelighter Man (from ''The Kitchen Tapes'' demos for ''Fanny Hill'' LP - circa 1970) (2:55)
15. Summer Song (from ''The Kitchen Tapes'' demos for ''Fanny Hill'' LP - circa 1970) (4:07)
16. Tomorrow (from ''Fanny Hill'' sessions - December 1971) (2:15)
17. Rock Bottom Blues (Backing Track - from ''Fanny Hill'' sessions - December 1971) (3:09)
18. Ain't That Peculiar (from ''Fanny Hill'' LP - February 1972) (4:06)
19. Knock On My Door (from ''Fanny Hill'' LP - February 1972) (3:20)
20. Blind Alley (from ''Fanny Hill'' LP - February 1972) (4:36)
21. You've Got A Home (from ''Fanny Hill'' LP - February 1972) (3:47)
22. Wonderful Feeling (from ''Fanny Hill'' LP - February 1972) (3:19)
23. Borrowed Time (from ''Fanny Hill'' LP - February 1972) (3:27)

CD3

01. Hey Bulldog (from ''Fanny Hill'' LP - February 1972) (3:55)
02. Think About The Children (from ''Fanny Hill'' LP - February 1972) (4:11)
03. Rock Bottom Blues (from ''Fanny Hill'' LP - February 1972) (3:08)
04. Sound And The Fury (from ''Fanny Hill'' LP - February 1972) (3:05)
05. The First Time (from ''Fanny Hill'' LP - February 1972) (4:57)
06. Rock Bottom Blues (Original Vocal - from ''Fanny Hill'' sessions, 12-1971) (3:15)
07. Wonderful Feeling (Single Version) (3:17)
08. Young And Dumb (Single Version) (3:33)
09. Hey Bulldog (live at the Bijou Cafe, Philadelphia, PA - recorded 04.21.1973) (4:41)
10. Summer Song (live at the Bijou Cafe, Philadelphia, PA - recorded 04.21.1973) (4:45)
11. It Takes A Lot Of Good Lovin' (live at the Bijou Cafe, Philadelphia, PA - recorded 04.21.1973) (3:52)
12. Badge (live at the Bijou Cafe, Philadelphia, PA - recorded 04.21.1973) (3:31)
13. Young And Dumb (live at the Bijou Cafe, Philadelphia, PA - recorded 04.21.1973) (4:54)
14. Last Night I Had A Dream (live at the Bijou Cafe, Philadelphia, PA - recorded 04.21.1973) (4:58)
15. Ain't That Peculiar (live at the Bijou Cafe, Philadelphia, PA - recorded 04.21.1973) (4:36)
16. Borrowed Time (live in Cleveland - recorded 04.11.1972) (3:30)
17. Place In The Country (live in Cleveland - recorded 04.11.1972) (3:39)
18. Knock On My Door (live in Cleveland - recorded 04.11.1972) (5:06)
19. Charity Ball (live in Cleveland - recorded 04.11.1972) (5:47)

CD4

01. Lonesome Pine (from ''Mother's Pride'' demo session - 11.08.1972) (4:44)
02. Beside Myself (from ''Mother's Pride'' demo session - 11.08.1972) (4:06)
03. I'll Never Be The Same (from ''Mother's Pride'' demo session - 11.08.1972) (4:09)
04. All Mine (from ''Mother's Pride'' demo session - 11.08.1972) (4:26)
05. Old Milwaukee (from ''Mother's Pride'' demo session - 11.08.1972) (3:12)
06. Long Road Home (from ''Mother's Pride'' demo session - 11.08.1972) (3:30)
07. Back In My Arms Again (Previously Unissued recording from 04-1973) (3:43)
08. No Deposit, No Return (Previously Unissued recording from 1971) (2:27)
09. Last Night I Had A Dream (from ''Mothers Pride'' LP - February 1973) (3:56)
10. Long Road Home (from ''Mothers Pride'' LP - February 1973) (2:55)
11. Old Hat (from ''Mothers Pride'' LP - February 1973) (4:14)
12. Solid Gold (from ''Mothers Pride'' LP - February 1973) (2:55)
13. Is It Really You? (from ''Mothers Pride'' LP - February 1973) (5:24)
14. All Mine (from ''Mothers Pride'' LP - February 1973) (3:25)
15. Summer Song (from ''Mothers Pride'' LP - February 1973) (3:12)
16. Polecat Blues (from ''Mothers Pride'' LP - February 1973) (3:14)
17. Beside Myself (from ''Mothers Pride'' LP - February 1973) (3:54)
18. Regular Guy (from ''Mothers Pride'' LP - February 1973) (2:25)
19. I Need You Need Me (from ''Mothers Pride'' LP - February 1973) (4:56)
20. Feelings (from ''Mothers Pride'' LP - February 1973) (1:59)
21. I'm Satisfied (from ''Mothers Pride'' LP - February 1973) (3:09)
22. Fanny Reprise Records Promo 4 (1:04)
23. 'Till Then (from ''Mother's Pride'' demo session - 11.08.1972) (0:19)