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Posted By: Thomas Stern
22-Feb-18 - 04:13 PM
Thread Name: Obit: Tom Rapp of Pearls Before Swine (1947-2018)
Subject: RE: Obit: Tom Rapp of Pearls Before Swine (1947-2018)
sorry to hear Tom Rapp has died - he wrote some very moving and insightful songs, enjoyed his recordings for years.
Condolences to family, friends and fans.
The DIRTY LINEN No.50, Feb/Mar 1994 interview is available online: http://archive.li/9qLeB#selection-185.0-581.11 Tom Rapp & Pearls Before Swine by Lahri Bond
Below is a list of the recordings I am aware of. Corrections, additions much appreciated. Thanks.
Thomas.
PEARLS BEFORE SWINE / TOM RAPP Recordings E ESP-Disk 1054 One Nation Underground LP 1967 ESP 4554 Morning Song / Drop Out! 45 1967 ADELPHI 4111 Best of Pearls Before Swine 2-LP 1980 ESP 4003 The Complete ESP-Disk Recordings 2-CD 2005
Another Time Playmate Ballad To An Amber Lady (Oh Dear) Miss Morse Drop Out! Morning Song Regions Of May Uncle John I Shall Not Care The Surrealist Waltz
ESP-DISK 1075 Balaklava LP 1968 Stereo ESP 4576 I Saw The World / Images of April 45 1968 FONTANA(UK) STL5503 Balaklava LP 1968 FONTANA(UK) 279 250 TF Suzanne / There Was A Man 45 1969 PINK ELEPHANT PE 877.074 LP 19xx 70's? ADELPHI 4111 Best of Pearls Before Swine 2-LP 1980 GET BACK(It) GET 1010 LP 1998 180gram ESP 4003 The Complete ESP-Disk Recordings 2-CD 2005
Trumpeter Landfrey Translucent Carriages Images Of April There Was A Man I Saw The World Guardian Angels Suzanne Lepers And Roses Florence Nightingale Ring Thing
ESP albums also reissued by BASE(Italy) Lp; ZYX(Germany) CD and others PLEASE PROVIDE Catalog Numbers, Issue date ???????????????
REPRISE RS 6364 PEARLS BEFORE SWINE These Things Too LP 1969 REPRISE 0873 These Things Too / If You Don't Want To 45 1969 WATER MUSIC UPC: 0646315720020 Jewels Were The Stars 4-CD Box 2003 Produced by RICHARD ALDERSON with Jim Fairs A1 Footnote (Rapp-Auden) A2 Sail Away (Tom Rapp) A3 Look Into Her Eyes (Tom Rapp) A4 I Shall Be Released (Bob Dylan) A5 Frog in The Window (Reprise) (Tom Rapp) A6 I'm Going To City (Tom Rapp) A7 Man in the Tree (Tom Rapp) B1 If You Don'T Want To (I Don'T Mind) B2 Green & Blue B3 Mon Amour B4 Wizard Of Is B5 Frog In The Window B6. When I Was A Child B7 These Things Too
REPRISE RS 6405 Pearls Before Swine The Use Of Ashes LP 1970 REPRISE 0949 The Jeweller / Rocket Man 45 1970 WATER MUSIC UPC: 0646315720020 Jewels Were The Stars 4-CD Box 2003
the jeweler from the movie of the same name rocket man god save the child song about a rose tell me why margery the old man riegal when the war began
REPRISE RS 6442 Pearls Before Swine-City of Gold LP 1971 WATER MUSIC UPC: 0646315720020 Jewels Were The Stars 4-CD Box 2003 Thos. Rapp
SONNETT #65 ONCE UPON A TIME RAINDROPS CITY OF GOLD NANCY SEASONS IN THE SUN MY FATHER THE MAN CASABLANCA WEDDING DID YOU DREAM OF UNICORNS
REPRISE RS 6467 Beautiful Lies You Could Live In - Pearls Before Swine LP 1971 WATER MUSIC UPC: 0646315720020 Jewels Were The Stars 4-CD Box 2003 booklet
A1 Snow Queen A2 Life A3 Butterflies A4 Simple Things A5 Everybody's Got Pain B1 Bird On A Wire(Leonard Cohen) B2 Island Lady (Tom Rapp) B3 COme To Me (Tom Rapp) B4 Freedom (Tom Rapp) B5 She's Gone (Tom Rapp) B6 EPitaph (E.E.Houseman-Elizabeth Rapp)
WILDCAT WCD0815 LIVE PEARLS 1971 CD 2008, 2010 ??? YOUTUBE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB5aKR68PIc live at Exit Coffeehouse, Yale University, New Haven, CT., 1971 Recorded by Walter Wagoner restored, mixed and mastered by Joe Phillips, WildCat Records Produced by Joe Phillips
1 Introduction 2 Another Time 3 Island Lady 4 Sign On The Window Written-By – B. Dylan* 5 Freedom Written-By – N. Young* 6 Margery 7 Bird On A Wire Written-By – L. Cohen* 8 I Shall Be Released Written-By – B. Dylan* 9 The Jeweler 10 The Riegal 11 Simple Things 12 Did You Dream 13 There Was A Man 14 Okie From Musgokee Written-By – M. Haggard* 15 There's A Broken Heart 16 When The War Began 17 A Life 18 Rocket Man 19 Suzanne Written-By – L. Cohen*
REPRISE MS 2969 FAMILIAR SONGS LP 1972 REPRISE CD 2003
Grace Street (3:05) The Jeweler (3:26) Rocket Man (3:01) Snow Queen (3:42) If You Don't Want To (I Don't Mind) (3:14) Charley And The Lady (3:19) Margery (3:08) Medley: Full Phantom Five; I Shall Not Care (2:54) These Things Too (3:37) Sail Away (3:45)
BLUE THUMB BTS-44 Stardancer LP 1972 BLUE THUMB 222 Marshall / Why Should I Care? 45 1972 LEMON(CHERRY RED RECORDS, UK) CDLEM 128 CD 2009 Producer: Peter H. Edmiston
1. Stardancer 2. Marshall 3. Why Should I Care [from the Entertainer] 4. Touch Tripping 5. Ans, Les 6. Fourth Day of July 7. For the Dead in Space 8. Baptist, The 9. Summer of '55 10. Tiny Song
BLUE THUMB BTS-56 Sunforest LP 1972 EDSEL (UK) EDCD 548 CD 1998 LEMON (Cherry Red, UK) CDLEM 129 CD 2009 Tom Rapp - Pearls Before Swine
1. Comin' Back 2. Prayers of Action 3. Forbidden City 4. Love/Sex 5. Harding Street 6. Blind River 7. Someplace to Belong 8. Sunforest 9. Sunshine & Charles
ADELPHI 4111 Best of Pearls Before Swine 2-LP 1980 reissue of ESP 1054, 1075 DETAILS LISTED ABOVE
PTOLEMAIC TERRASCOPE Magazine POT-15 7" EP 1993 The Cowboy Who Ate Vietnam Ring Thing (alt.)
PTOLEMAIC TERRASCOPT Magazine POT-21 7" EP 1996 "Blind" Master Pete Capitol And His Magic
MAGIC EYE SINGLES MES-012 CD 1997 For The Dead In Space - V/A Pearls Before Swine TRIBUTE Interpretations of the work of Tom Rapp and Pearls Before Swine
01 Tono-Bungay - Morning Song Footnote 02 Flying Saucer Attack - Space (The Man Who Fell To Earth) 03 Metronome - Green And Blue 04 Fit & Limo - Surrealist Waltz 05 Carl Edwards - There Was A Man 06 Townies - (Oh Dear) Miss Morse 07 Masaki Batoh - Images Of April 08 Alchemysts - Drop Out! 09 Damon & Naomi - Translucent Carriages 10 Bevis Front - Lepers And Roses 11 Kitchen Cynics - Stardancer 12 Towei Recordings - I Saw The World 13 Shy Camp - Love Sex 14 Mourning Cloak - I Shall Not Care 15 Tom Rapp - Hopelessly Romantic UNRELEASED 1971 16 Half Calf With Plexorjet - For The Dead In Space 17 Shy Camp - Another Time
BIRDMAN BMR-021 CD 1999 Pearls Before Swine ?– Constructive Melancholy - 30 Years Of Pearls Before Swine
1 I Saw The World/Another Time 4:56 2 Rocket Man 3:03 3 The Jeweler 2:47 4 From The Movie Of The Same Name 2:17 5 Raindrops 2:02 6 Love/Sex (Radio Show 1972) 2:30 7 Look Into Her Eyes 4:34 8 Sail Away 3:07 9 The Old Man 3:16 10 The Wizard Of Is 3:34 11 Once Upon A Time 2:35 12 Sonnet 65 0:44 13 Casablanca 2:26 14 City Of Gold 3:00 15 Miss Morse Update 0:41 16 Froggle 1:21 17 Everybody´s Got Pain 2:46 18 Song About A Rose 2:20 19 She´s Gone 2:12 20 The Wedding 1:41 21 Margery 2:58 22 Snow Queen 3:56 23 If You Don´t Want To, I Don´t Mind 3:19 24 The Riegal 3:10 25 These Things Too 3:30 26 Green & Blue 0:26
RUBRIC RU 04 CD 1999 WORONZOW(UK) WOO 35 LP, CD 2000 A Journal Of The Plague Year
Silver Apples (A Cappella) The Swimmer (For Kurt Cobain) Blind Space Mars Hopelessly Romantic Running In My Dream Wedding Song Silver Apples II (For Simeon)
SECRET EYE 2-CD 2003 For The Dead In Space, Vols. 2 & 3 DISC 1 1. Ballad to an Amber Lady - Marissa Nadler 2. Suojelusenkeli - Kemialliset Ystavat 3. Blind River - The Olivetree 4. Uncle John - Bardo Pond 5. From the Movie of the Same Name - Aquarium Poppers 6. Snow Queen - Gentle Tasaday 7. Regions of May - Noxagt 8. When I Was a Child - Makoto Kawabata 9. Sail Away - Oren Ambarchi 10. Prayers of Action - Prydwyn 11. Epitaph - Fursaxa 12. Wizard of Is - Black Forest/Black Sea 13. Les Ans - Kitchen Cynics 14. City of Gold - James Jackson Toth
DISC 2: 1. Frog in the Window - David Rapp 2. These Things Too - Aspera 3. Look Into Her Eyes - Bevel 4. Riegal - Monster Island 5. Rocket Man - Ron Chelsvig 6. Mars - Adrian Shaw 7. Fourth Day of July - Thurston Moore/Mike Watt 8. Everybody's Got Pain - Alastair Galbraith 9. Raindrops - Green Crown 10. Song About a Rose - Dead Raven Choir 11. Rign Thing - Stone Breath 12. Man in the Tree - Cauldron 13. Forbidden City - Mutter 14. Translucent Carriages - Pearls Before Swine
WATER MUSIC UPC: 0646315720020 Jewels Were The Stars 4-CD Box 2003 booklet reissue of REPRISE albums 1969-1971, 'These Things Too','The Use Of Ashes','City Of Gold', 'Beautiful Lies You Could Live In'. book of photos, posters and liner notes by Lenny Kaye, Savage Pencil, Byron Coley, Joe Phillips, Mitch Myers and interviews with Tom Rapp and Elisabeth. includes 70p booklet, 20p booklet in each CD. DETAILS SEE ABOVE.
WATER MUSIC UPC: 64631 57136 26 The Wizard Of Is 2-CD 2004 rarities and live recordings from 1967-1976 Disc 1 1. Where Is Love 2. Butterflies 3. Love, You Are Not Alone 4. Grace Street 5. Translucent Carriages 6. Space 7. Sail Away 8. City of Gold 9. Song About a Rose 10. For Free 11. Roadside Hotel 12. Prisoner of War 13. Wizard of Is 14. Oh Sister 15. Lincoln Dream, The 16. Can't Go Back 17. Mary Mary 18. Going to the City 19. Rocket Man 20. Riegal 21. Just Let the Grass Grow
Disc 2 1. Everybody's Got Pain 2. Amber Lady / I Saw The World 3. Crawling Towards Bethlehem 4. Translucent Carriages 5. Miss Morse 6. There's No Other 7. Island Lady 8. Frog in the Window 9. Morning 10. Riegal 11. Full Fathom Five / I Shall Not Care 12. Marshall 13. Footnote / When War Began 14. Jesus 15. Anothertyme 16. Rocket Man 17. Crewman 18. Suzanne 19. Prayers Of Action / Candle 20. Lesson of the 60s 21. Rocket Man 22. Jeweler, The 23. If You Don't Want to (I Don't Mind)
WILDCAT WCD0815 CD 2008, 2010 ??? YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB5aKR68PIc Live Pearls live at Exit Coffeehouse, Yale University, New Haven, CT., 1971 details LISTED ABOVE