Earth & Fire* – Memories
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Polydor – 2050 179 |
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Country: |
Netherlands |
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Genre: |
Rock |
Style: |
Prog Rock |
Tracklist
| A | Memories | |
| B | From The End Till The Beginning |
Companies, etc.
- Produced For – Red Bullet Productions
- Published By – Dayglow Music
- Pressed By – Phonodisc B.V.
- Lacquer Cut At – Phonodisc B.V.
Credits
- Engineer – Jan Schuurman
- Music By – G.Koerts* (tracks: A)
- Producer – Jaap Eggermont
- Words By – H.W. Ziech*
Notes
Label variation 1: see pictures.
For label variation 2 ; Earth And Fire - Memories
LP van Earth And Fire In Prachtige Klaphoes
Song Of The Marching Children
bestelnummer 2925 003
Earth And Fire on the labels
The runouts are stamped
For label variation 2 ; Earth And Fire - Memories
LP van Earth And Fire In Prachtige Klaphoes
Song Of The Marching Children
bestelnummer 2925 003
Earth And Fire on the labels
The runouts are stamped
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Rights Society (Boxed): STEMRA
- Matrix / Runout (Label side A): 2050 179-1W
- Matrix / Runout (Label side B): 2050 179-2W
- Matrix / Runout (Label side A): 2050 179 A
- Matrix / Runout (Label side B): 2050 179 B
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 1): AA 2050 179 1W 2 670 119 06
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 1): AA 2050 179 2W 1 670 11 06
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 2): AA 2050 179 1W 2 670 114 06
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 2): AA 2050 179 2W 1 670 1111 06
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 3): AA 2050 179 1W 2 670 1 06
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 3): AA 2050 179 2W 1 670 1 06
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 4): AA 2050 179 1W 2 670 1115 06
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 4): AA 2050 179 2W 1 670 1120 06
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 5): AA 2050 179 1W 1 670 113 06
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 5): AA 2050 179 2W 1 670 11 2 06
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 6): AA 2050 179 1W 2 670 118 06
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 6): AA 2050 179 2W 1 670 11 22 06
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 7): AA 2050 179 1W 2 670 113 06
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 7): AA 2050 179 2W 1 670 11 9 06
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, variant 8): AA 2050 179 1W 2 670 1111 06
- Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, variant 8): AA 2050 179 2W 1 670 11 06
Other Versions (5 of 16)
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Memories (7", Single, 45 RPM) | Polydor | 2050 179 | Belgium | 1972 | ||
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Memories (7", 45 RPM, Single, Stereo) | Polydor | 2050 179 | 1972 | |||
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Memories (7", 45 RPM, Single) | Polydor | 2121 122 | 1972 | |||
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Memories (7", 45 RPM, Single, Push-out Center) | Polydor | 2050 179 | Netherlands | 1972 | ||
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New Submission
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Memories (7", 45 RPM, Single, Big center hole, injection label) | Polydor | 2121 122 | Portugal | 1972 |
Recommendations
Reviews
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I am generally a person who don't buy singles, but I would if it includes non-album cuts (Rare Bird's "Sympathy" includes "Devil's High Concern", a non-album cut, which is why I bought that one too). At least with Earth & Fire, many of their non-album singles have ended up on compilations and CD reissues so you don't have to go without if you don't own a turntable or don't collect singles. "Memories" is one of those non-albums singles Earth & Fire released. I have to say "Memories" is simply one of their finest singles ever. It was even a number one Dutch hit. I really love this song, with those wonderful Mellotron ages, plus Jerney Kaagman's voice. It's also very catchy, no wonder why this did so well in Holland! Of course, there's that uniquely Dutch feel to their music that wouldn't fly over too well in America. Living in America, I have tell people they are not to be confused with Earth, Wind & Fire, they might have similar names, but they're hardly the same (EW&F is American, and the only thing both E&F and EW&F had in common was their exploration into disco in the late '70s, although E&F's style was more like ABBA by that time than anything EW&F would come up with). Check out the flip side, "From the End 'till the Beginnig". This is much further into King Crimson territory. The vocals start off not unlike something off Islands, and there is just a ton of insane use of Mellotron playing from Gerard Koerts, including pitch bending. In the world of prog, when Mellotron gets brought up when keyboardists are concerned, Mike Pinder is brought up, naturally, Tony Banks, Rick Wakeman, Robert Fripp (and also Ian McDonald), perhaps Thomas Johnson of Anglagard, but never Gerard Koerts. One listen to this, or their following LP, Atlantis and you'll see that Chris Koerts sure gave some killer Mellotron work. While most prog rock fans have an aversion to singles, thinking it's much more commercially-inclined, Earth & Fire's singles at that time were very much in line what they were doing on LP, and "Memories" proves that.
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