Can I Have My Money Back?
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| Studio album by Gerry Rafferty | ||||
| Released | 1971 | |||
| Recorded | London, Morgan Studios | |||
| Genre | Rock, folk rock | |||
| Length | 40:23 | |||
| Label | Transatlantic | |||
| Producer | Hugh Murphy | |||
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Can I Have My Money Back? is the first solo album by Gerry Rafferty. The distinctive cover design was by John Patrick Byrne and was the start of a long working relationship between Rafferty and the playwright. The LP was well received, but performed poorly in charts and sales, in part because Rafferty had just left a well known band, The Humblebums. The album also saw Joe Egan come on board, and the pair formed Stealers Wheel shortly afterwards.
The album was subsequently re-issued on digitally remastered compact disc (CD) in an expanded version, with the same title (albeit subtitled "The Best of Gerry Rafferty") and a different cover design, by Castle Music, Ltd. (UK) in 2000 (Serial# ESMCD-879). Released only in the United Kingdom, it features an additional 12 tracks taken from his 1974 eponymous compilation album, Gerry Rafferty.
Track listing
All tracks composed and arranged by Gerry Rafferty; except where indicated
- "New Street Blues"
- "Didn't I?"
- "Mr. Universe"
- "Mary Skeffington"
- "The Long Way Round"
- "Can I Have My Money Back?"
- "Sign on the Dotted Line" (Rafferty, Joe Egan)
- "Make You, Break You"
- "To Each and Everyone"
- "One Drink Down" (Rafferty, John Byrne)
- "Don't Count Me Out"
- "Half a Chance"
- "Where I Belong"
Single: "Can I Have My Money Back?" b/w "So Bad Thinking"
Castle Music, Ltd. (UK, 2000) (CD) Expanded Re-Issue Bonus Tracks:
(Length: 79:29)
- "Look Over the Hill and Far Away"
- "Patrick"
- "Rick Rack"
- "Her Father Didn't Like Me Anyway"
- "Please Sing a Song for Us"
- "Blood and Glory"
- "I Can't Stop Now"
- "All the Best People Do It"
- "Steamboat Row"
- "Shoeshine Boy"
- "Keep It to Yourself"
- "My Singing Bird"
Personnel
- Gerry Rafferty - vocals, keyboards, acoustic guitar
- Joe Egan - background vocals
- Rab Noakes - vocals, acoustic guitar
- Roger Brown - electric guitar, vocals
- Zed Jenkins - electric guitar
- Rod King - steel guitar
- Hugh Murphy - tambourine, vocals
- Alan Parker - guitar
- Tom Parker - harmonium, harpsichord
- Henry Spinetti - drums
- Andrew Steele - drums
- Johnny VanDerrick - fiddle, violin
- Tom Lasker - piano
- Gary Taylor - bass, vocals
- John Whitehead - production co-ordination
- Patrick - artwork
References
External links
- Can I Have My Money Back? at Discogs (list of releases)