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Ringo Starr - GOODNIGHT VIENNA (Apple SW-3417) − logo


 Label (Company)
Apple Records
 Country
USA
 Format
12" LP
 Number of records
1
 Catalogue number
SW-3417
 Catalogue number of side 1
SW-1-3417
 Catalogue number of side 2
SW-2-3417
 Matrix number of side 1
SW2-3417-Z3*   [hand etched]
 Matrix number of side 2
SW2-3417-Z4*   [hand etched]
 Mono or Stereo
Stereo
 Rotation speed, rpm
33 1/3
 First release date
November 18, 1974

* − At the end of the matrix number there may be various digital values after Z,
additional symbols and marks from different factories.

* − В окончании матричного номера могут быть различные цифровые значения после Z,
дополнительные символы и метки разных фабрик.



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COVER

ОБЛОЖКА


Ringo Starr - GOODNIGHT VIENNA (Apple SW-3417) - cover, front side   Ringo Starr - GOODNIGHT VIENNA (Apple SW-3417) - cover, back side

Cover, front side

Обложка, лицевая сторона

 

Cover, back side

Обложка, задняя сторона


Ringo Starr - GOODNIGHT VIENNA (Apple SW-3417) – sticker
Hype sticker on the shrink wrap size approximately 8,4 x 3,2 cm (3,3" x 1,25")

Рекламный стикер на термоусадочной плёнке размером примерно 8,4 x 3,2 см (3,3 x 1,25 дюйма)


Ringo Starr - GOODNIGHT VIENNA (Apple SW-3417) - spine

Spine - the front side of the cover up

Корешок - обложка расположена лицевой стороной вверх


Ringo Starr - GOODNIGHT VIENNA (Apple SW-3417) - cover, front side, fragment (left upper corner)

Cover, front side - fragment with catalogue number
of the USA release (left upper corner)

Обложка, лицевая сторона - фрагмент с каталожным номером
американского издания (левый верхний угол)


Ringo Starr - GOODNIGHT VIENNA (Apple SW-3417) - cover, back side, fragment (central lower part)

Cover, back side - fragment (central lower part)

Обложка, задняя сторона - фрагмент (центральная нижняя часть)


Ringo Starr - GOODNIGHT VIENNA (Apple SW-3417) – cover, back side, fragment (left upper corner) Ringo Starr - GOODNIGHT VIENNA (Apple SW-3417) – cover, back side, fragment (right upper corner)

Cover, back side - fragments with country specify,
Apple logo and catalogue number (left and right lover corners)

Обложка, задняя сторона - фрагменты с указанием страны,
логотипом фирмы "Apple" и каталожным номером (левый и правый нижние углы)




INNER SLEEVE

ВНУТРЕННИЙ ПАКЕТ


Ringo Starr - GOODNIGHT VIENNA (Apple SW-3417) - inner sleeve, front side   Ringo Starr - GOODNIGHT VIENNA (Apple SW-3417) - inner sleeve, back side

Inner sleeve, front side
(Winchester Plant for example)

Внутренний пакет, лицевая сторона
(на примере завода в Винчестере)

 

Inner sleeve, back side
(Winchester Plant for example)

Внутренний пакет, задняя сторона
(на примере завода в Винчестере)


Ringo Starr - GOODNIGHT VIENNA (Apple SW-3417) - inner sleeve, back side (fragment)

Inner sleeve, back side - fragment with Apple logo,
catalogue number and country specify, (central lower part)

Внутренний пакет, задняя сторона - фрагмент с логотипом фирмы "Apple",
каталожным номером и указанием страны (центральная нижняя часть)




LABELS

ЭТИКЕТКИ


Ringo Starr - GOODNIGHT VIENNA (Apple SW-3417) - label, side 1   Ringo Starr - GOODNIGHT VIENNA (Apple SW-3417) - label, side 2

Label, side 1

Этикетка, сторона 1

 

Label, side 2

Этикетка, сторона 2





SIDE 1

N

Titles and authors

Time

Comments

1

 (It's All Da-Da-Down To) Goodnight Vienna (John Lennon)

2:35

 Featuring John Lennon on opening count-in and piano and Billy Preston on clavinet.

2

 Occapella (Allen Toussaint)

2:55

 Featuring Dr. John on piano and backing vocals.

3

 Oo-Wee (Vinni Poncia - Richard Starkey)

3:45

 Featuring Dr. John on piano.

4

 Husbands And Wives (Roger Miller)

3:34

 Featuring Carl Fortina on accordion.

5

 Snookeroo (Elton John - Bernie Taupin)

3:27

 Featuring Elton John on piano and Robbie Robertson on guitar.

SIDE 2

N

Titles and authors

Time

Comments

1

 All By Myself (Vinni Poncia - Richard Starkey)

3:21

 Featuring John Lennon on guitar.

2

 Call Me (Richard Starkey)

4:07

 Featuring Klaus Voormann on bass guitar, Steve Cropper on electric guitar, David Foster on piano.

3

 No No Song (Hoyt Axton - David Jackson)

2:33

 Featuring Harry Nilsson on backing vocals and Nicky Hopkins on electric piano.

4

 Only You (And You Alone) (Buck Ram - Ande Rand)

3:26

 Featuring John Lennon on guitar, Steve Cropper on guitar, Billy Preston on electric piano and Harry Nilsson on backing vocals.

5

 Easy For Me (Harry Nilsson)

2:20

 Featuring Lincoln Mayorga on piano.

6

 Goodnight Vienna Reprise (John Lennon)

1:20

 Featuring John Lennon's intro, "OK, with gusto, boys, with gusto!".


NOTE


(It's All Da-Da-Down To) GOODNIGHT VIENNA
Ringo Starr - Lead vocals, drums
Jim Keltner - Drums
John Lennon - Piano and inspiration
Billy Preston - Clavinet
Lon Van Eaton - Guitar
Jesse Ed Davis - Guitar
Trevor Lawrence - Horn
Steve Madaio - Horn
Bobby Keyes - Horn
Lon Van Eaton - Horns
Clydie King - Backing vocals
The Blackberries and the Masst Alberts - Backing vocals
Carl "Weddings and Barmitzvahs" Fortina - Accordion

OCCAPELLA
Ringo Starr - Lead vocals, drums
Jim Keltner - Drums
Dr. John - Electric piano
Lon Van Eaton - Guitar
Jesse Ed Davis - Guitar
Klaus Voorman - Bass
Trevor Lawrence - Horn
Bobby Keyes - Horn
Steve Madaio - Horn
Lou McCreery - Horn
Jimmy Gilstrap - Backing vocals
Joe Greene - Backing vocals
Clydie King - Backing vocals
Ira Hawkins - Backing vocals

OO-WEE
Ringo Starr - Lead vocals, drums
Jim Keltner - Drums
Dr. John - Piano
Dennis Coffey - Guitar
Klaus Voorman - Bass
Vini Poncia - Harmony vocal
Trevor Lawrence - Horn
Steve Madaio - Horn
Bobby Keyes - Horn
Lou McCreery - Horn
Clydie King and the Blackberries - Backing vocals

HUSBANDS AND WIVES
Ringo Starr - Lead vocals
Lon Van Eaton - Acoustic guitar
Vini Poncia - Acoustic guitar, harmony vocal
Richard Bennett - Electric guitar solo
Tom Hensley - Electric piano
Carl Fortina - Accordion

SNOOKEROO
Ringo Starr - Lead vocals, drums
Jim Keltner - Drums
Elton John - Piano
Robbie Robertson - Guitar
Klaus Voorman - Bass
James Newton Howard - Synthesizer
Trevor Lawrence - Horn
Steve Madaio - Horn
Bobby Keyes - Horn
Chuck Finley - Horn
Linda Lawrence - Backing vocals
Clydie King - Backing vocals
Joe Greene - Backing vocals
  ALL BY MYSELF
Ringo Starr - Lead vocals, drums
Jim Keltner - Drums
Dr. John - Piano
John Lennon - Guitar
Alvin Robinson - Guitar
Klaus Voorman - Bass
Trevor Lawrence - Horn
Bobby Keyes - Horn
Lou McCreery - Horn
Steve Madaio - Trumpet solo
Richard Perry (Bass) - Backing vocals
Vini Poncia - Backing vocals
Clydie King - Backing vocals
Linda Lawrence - Backing vocals
Joe Greene - Backing vocals

CALL ME
Ringo Starr - Lead vocals, drums
Steve Cropper - Guitar
Klaus Voorman - Bass
David Foster - Piano
Lon & Derrek Van Eaton - Backing vocals
Vini Poncia - Backing vocals
Richard Perry - Backing vocals
Klaus Voorman - Backing vocals
"Sweet" Cynthia Webb (who also doubles as a model)
- Backing vocals

NO NO SONG
Ringo Starr - Lead vocals, drums, percussion
Nicky Hopkins - Electric piano
Jesse Ed Davis - Electric guitar
Klaus Voorman - Bass
Trevor Lawrence - Horn
Bobby Keyes - Horn
Harry Nilsson - Backing vocals

ONLY YOU (And You Alone)
Ringo Starr - Lead vocals, drums
Jim Keltner - Drums
John Lennon - Acoustic guitar
Billy Preston - Electric piano
Jesse Ed Davis - Electric guitar
Steve Cropper - Electric guitar
Harry Nilsson - Backing vocals

EASY FOR ME
Ringo Starr - Lead vocals
Lincoln Mayorga - Piano
Trevor Lawrence - String arrangement
Vini Poncia - String arrangement
Richard Perry - String conductor

GOODNIGHT VIENNA REPRISE
Ringo Starr - Lead vocals, drums
Jim Keltner - Drums
John Lennon - Piano and inspiration
Billy Preston - Clavinet
Lon Van Eaton - Guitar
Jesse Ed Davis - Guitar
Trevor Lawrence - Horn
Steve Madaio - Horn
Bobby Keyes - Horn
Lon Van Eaton - Horns
Clydie King - Backing vocals
The Blackberries and The Masst Alberts - Backing vocals
Carl "Weddings and Barmitzvahs" Fortina - Accordion

Produced by Richard Perry.

Recording and Remix Engineer: Bill Schnee.

Disc Cutting Engineer: Doug Sax, The Mastering Lab.

Horns arranged by: Trevor Lawrence.
Production Assistance: Vini Poncia.

Art Direction: Roy Kohara.

Photography (Inner Sleeve): Larry Emerine.

Recorded at Sunset Sound (Los Angeles) and Producer's Workshop.

Engineering Assistant: Galen Senogles.
Remixed at Sound Labs, Inc.
Engineering Assistant: Larry Emerine.

A Richard Perry Production.

Thanks to Nancy, Gwen, Una, May and Vini's nurse.

Yet again, more thanks to Hillary Garrard, Mai Evans, and Vini "The Thrush" Poncidearo.

Special thanks to Gene Autry and Hef P.S. Buy a Terry Southern book.

John Lennon appears courtesy of Apple, E.M.I., Capitol and his fight against deportation.
Elton John appears courtesy of MCA Records.
Dr. John appears courtesy of Atlantic Records.
Billy Preston appears courtesy of A&M Records.
Robbie Robertson appears courtesy of Capitol Records.
Harry Nilsson appears courtesy of RCA Records.
Lon and Derrek Van Eaton appear courtesy of A&M Records.
Nicky Hopkins appears courtesy of Mercury Records.
Clydie King appears courtesy of Chelsea Records.
Sherlie Mathews, Venetta Fields and Flora Williams (The Blackberries) appear courtesy of A&M Records.
James Newton Howard appears courtesy of Buddah Records.

Ringo Starr's fourth solo album GOODNIGHT VIENNA was released in USA on November 18, 1974. The album title has double sense. On the Liverpool slang it designates a phrase "Let's get outta here".

The records of this album were pressed on three factories: Jacksonville, Los Angeles and Winchester. The printing was almost the same for all three factories with the exception of the top edge of the inner sleeves. Straight top have Los Angeles copies, and rounded top on Jacksonville and Winchester copies.
Records between factories can be distinguished only by the inscriptions in the runout area, where, in addition to the matrix number, there was a stamp of a specific plant.

Some Apple Records copies have a blue oval sticker on the shrink wrap promoting the inclusion of two singles in album.

On the front cover is a still from the 1951 science-fiction film "The Day the Earth Stood Still" [see Pic. 1, 2] with Ringo's head superimposed over the head of Michael Rennie. That science-fiction classic featured the human-like Klaatu and his robot assistant, Gort. In that movie, "Klaatu barada nikto" is a phrase that is used to prevent Gort from destroying the planet in the event that harm befell Klaatu. The authors did not translate it. Poster and sticker promoting the Goodnight Vienna album [see Pic. 3] urged people to remember that phrase. The cityscape and moon behind Ringo were not part of the original movie still, and of course, artists added a star to Klaatu's costume.

On the labels two song titles are listed not in full:


On the sleeve
(titles in full)

On the labels
(titles not in full)

 (It's All Da-Da-Down To) GOODNIGHT VIENNA   GOODNIGHT VIENNA 
 ONLY YOU (And You Alone)  ONLY YOU


Ringo Starr - GOODNIGHT VIENNA (Apple SW-3417) − original still from the science fiction film The Day the Earth Stood Still  Ringo Starr - GOODNIGHT VIENNA (Apple SW-3417) − advertising poster for the company Capitol Records
Pic. 1-2. Original still from the science fiction film The Day the Earth Stood Still (left) and advertising poster for the company Capitol Records (right)

Рис. 1-2. Оригинальный кадр из научно-фантастического фильма "День, когда Земля остановилась" (слева) и рекламный плакат компании "Capitol Records " (справа)


Ringo Starr - GOODNIGHT VIENNA (Apple SW-3417) − a sticker promoting the Goodnight Vienna album
Pic. 3. A sticker promoting the Goodnight Vienna album

Рис. 3. Наклейка, рекламирующая альбом Goodnight Vienna



ПРИМЕЧАНИЕ

Четвёртый по счёту сольный альбом Ринго Старра GOODNIGHT VIENNA вышел в США 18 ноября 1974 года. Дословно его название переводится на русский язык как "Спокойной ночи, Вена". Однако, на самом деле, в названии альбома скрывается жаргонное ливерпульское выражение типа "Пора сваливать отсюда".

Пластинки этого альбома печатались на трёх фабриках: в Джексонвилле, Лос-Анджелесе и Винчестере. Полиграфия была практически одинакова для всех трёх фабрик за исключением верхнего обреза внутренних пакетов. Прямой верх был у экземпляров фабрики Лос-Анджелеса, а закругленный у фабрик Джексонвилла и Винчестера.
Пластинки между фабриками можно различить только лишь по надписям на сбеге дорожек перед этикеткой, где помимо матричного номера стояло клеймо конкретного завода.

Некоторые экземпляры Apple Records имеют на термоусадочной пленке синюю овальную наклейку, рекламирующую включение в альбом двух синглов.

На лицевую сторону обложки был помещён монтаж, составленный на основе кадра из научно-фантастического фильма The Day the Earth Stood Still ("День, когда Земля остановилась") 1951 года [см. Рис. 1, 2], на котором робот Горт и инопланетянин Rlaatu (с головой Ринго вместо актёра Майкла Рэнни) выходят из летающей тарелки. В этой классической научной фантастике фигурировали человекоподобный Клаату и его робот-помощник Горт. В этом фильме "Klaatu barada nikto" — это фраза, которая используется, чтобы не дать Горту уничтожить планету в случае, если Клаату постигнет беда. Авторы не переводили его. Плакат и наклейка, рекламирующие альбом Goodnight Vienna [см. Рис. 3], призывали людей запомнить эту фразу. Городской пейзаж и луна за спиной Ринго еще не были частью оригинального фильма, и, конечно же, художники добавили звезду к костюму Клаату.

На этикетках названия двух песен указаны не полностью:


На обложке
(полные названия)

На этикетках
 (не полные названия) 

 (It's All Da-Da-Down To) GOODNIGHT VIENNA 

 GOODNIGHT VIENNA

 ONLY YOU (And You Alone)

 ONLY YOU


Все исходные данные по альбому (авторы композиций, музыканты, благодарности и т.д.) приведены на языке оригинала в англоязычной части примечания.





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