- MySongBook is a library of tabs written by professional musicians. What you will find in it are new, previously unreleased arrangements for stringed instruments (guitar, ukulele, bass, and banjo), as well as full scores that include the complete transcriptions of every track in the original pieces.
- Cary has been playing music for over 14 years. He has logged over 1000 stage performances as a solo act and with multiple bands. As an acoustic solo act (guitar, ukulele, harmonica, kick drum) he has performed at bars, clubs, private functions, weddings, and colleges. His library of over 700 songs cover the gamut from rock to funk to folk, to pop.
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Foot Loose & Fancy Free | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | 4 November 1977 | |||
Recorded | 1976–1977 | |||
Genre | Rock | |||
Length | 44:06 | |||
Label | Riva, Warner Bros. | |||
Producer | Tom Dowd | |||
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Singles from Foot Loose & Fancy Free | ||||
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Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [1] |
Christgau's Record Guide | B–[2] |
Rolling Stone | (mixed)[3] |
The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [4] |
Foot Loose & Fancy Free is Rod Stewart's eighth album, released in November 1977 on Riva Records in the UK and Warner Bros in the US.
The album is the final album in a string of Stewart's acclaimed 1970s albums, beginning with Atlantic Crossing and including the platinum-selling A Night on the Town. The album contains elements of hard rock ('Hot Legs'), funk rock ('You're Insane'), and progressive rock via Motown ('You Keep Me Hanging On'), as well as Stewart's usual ballads ('You're in My Heart'). 'I Was Only Joking', a tale about regret and the care-free minds of the young, has become one of Stewart's most loved compositions.
Track listing[edit]
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Side one (Fast Side)
- 'Hot Legs' (Rod Stewart, Gary Grainger) – 5:14
- 'You're Insane' (Stewart, Phil Chen) – 4:48
- 'You're in My Heart (The Final Acclaim)' (Stewart) – 4:30
- 'Born Loose' (Stewart, Grainger, Jim Cregan) – 6:02
Side two (Slow Side)
- 'You Keep Me Hangin' On' (Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Eddie Holland) – 7:28
- '(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right' (Homer Banks, Carl Hampton, Raymond Jackson) – 5:23
- 'You Got A Nerve' (Stewart, Grainger) – 4:59
- 'I Was Only Joking' (Stewart, Grainger) – 6:07
Personnel[edit]
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- Rod Stewart – lead and backing vocals[5]
- Fred Tackett - Acoustic guitar (A3)
- Steve Cropper – guitar
- David Foster – keyboards
- Gary Grainger – guitar, backing vocals
- Billy Peek – guitar, backing vocals
- Phil Chen – bass guitar, drums, backing vocals
- Nicky Hopkins – synthesizer
- Jim Cregan – guitar, backing vocals
- Carmine Appice – drums, backing vocals
- Roger Bethelmy – drums ( A3. B2 )
- John Jarvis – keyboards, backing vocals
- Paulinho Da Costa, Tommy Vig – percussion
- John Mayall – harmonica on 'Born Loose'
- Phil Kenzie – saxophone
- Richard Greene – violin
- Mark Stein – background vocals on 'You Keep Me Hangin' On'
- Andy Johns – background vocals, engineering and mixing
- Wally Heider – engineering
- John Naslen – engineering
- Sy Potma – engineering
- Lee Hulko – mastering
Charts[edit]
Weekly charts[edit]
Chart (1977/78) | Peak position |
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Australia (Kent Music Report)[6] | 1 |
The Netherlands | 3 |
United States (Billboard 200) | 2 |
Year-end charts[edit]
Chart (1977) | Peak position |
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Australia (Kent Music Report)[7] | 10 |
Chart (1978) | Peak position |
Australia (Kent Music Report)[8] | 16 |
Certifications[edit]
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Australia | -- | 100,000[9] |
Canada (Music Canada)[10] | 4× Platinum | 400,000^ |
Hong Kong (IFPI Hong Kong)[11] | Platinum | 20,000* |
New Zealand (RMNZ)[12] | Platinum | 15,000^ |
United Kingdom (BPI)[13] | Platinum | 300,000^ |
United States (RIAA)[14] | 3× Platinum | 3,000,000^ |
* Sales figures based on certification alone. ^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
References[edit]
- ^AllMusic review
- ^Christgau, Robert (1981). 'Consumer Guide '70s: S'. Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN089919026X. Retrieved 13 March 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
- ^Rolling Stone review
- ^Rolling Stone Album GuideArchived 5 January 2013 at the Wayback Machine
- ^https://www.allmusic.com/album/foot-loose-fancy-free-mw0000196052/credits
- ^Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. ISBN0-646-11917-6.
- ^Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 429. ISBN0-646-11917-6.
- ^Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 430. ISBN0-646-11917-6.
- ^'WEA on Top Down Under'. Billboard. 17 December 1977. p. 80. Retrieved 3 May 2020 – via Google Books.
- ^'Canadian album certifications – Rod Stewart – Foot Loose & Fancy Free'. Music Canada. Retrieved 17 October 2019.
- ^'IFPIHK Gold Disc Award − 1979'. IFPI Hong Kong. Retrieved 17 October 2019.
- ^'New Zealand album certifications – Rod Stewart – Foot Loose & Fancy Free'. Recorded Music NZ. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
- ^'British album certifications – Rod Stewart – Foot Loose And Fancy Free'. British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 17 October 2019.Select albums in the Format field.Select Platinum in the Certification field.Type Foot Loose And Fancy Free in the 'Search BPI Awards' field and then press Enter.
- ^'American album certifications – Rod Stewart – Foot Loose & Fancy Free'. Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved 17 October 2019.If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Album, then click SEARCH.
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What is this songbook?
This is a curated collection of songs I like to play on acoustic guitar or piano,with useful performance notes, generally written with a mediocre-at-best malevoice in mind.
Where do I get it?
The html version is almost definitely what you want.
The “split” html version breaks each page into a separate HTML file, useful if the massive HTML file is making your phone sad.
The html version,styled for mobile devices (some weird layout issues, but it’s the best I can do).
The “split” html version breaks each page into a separate HTML file, useful if the massive HTML file is making your phone sad.
The html version,styled for mobile devices (some weird layout issues, but it’s the best I can do).
I’m stuck in 2008 and I really want a PDF.
The pdf version (paginated for printing)
A pdf versionstyled for kindle (some weird layout issues, but it’s the best I can do)
A pdf versionstyled for kindle (some weird layout issues, but it’s the best I can do)
I’m indecisive and that’s too many songs to pick from.
I’ve organized some acoustic jams around themes and have packaged sub-songbooks accordingly; more ideas are welcome. Here are the ones we’ve done so far:
Songs released between 1955 and 1965Songs released between 1966 and 1975
Songs released between 1976 and 1979
(See below if you’re wondering why I picked those weird boundaries..)
Songs of the ‘60sSongs of the ‘70s
Songs of the ‘80s
Songs of the ‘90s
Songs of the 21st century
Billy Joel songs
Movie and TV themes
My personal “set list” (guitar)
My personal “set list” (piano)
Can I change keys?
Yes, the little arrows next to each song title transpose the song.
Can you send me all the mp3s?
Obviously not. However, I can point you to this Spotify playlist:
Spotify Web link
Spotify URI
Spotify URI
.. Reinstall lastpass from chrome. that I try to keep up to date.
What are the little buttons in the corner of the HTML version?
The “?” button takes you to a random song (great for icebreaking at jams when no one wants to commit to anything). The “home” button takes you back to the table of contents. The “play” button starts the screen scrolling, after which you can use the “>>” and “<<” buttons to scroll faster or slower.
You can also press the space bar to start/stop scrolling, and while scrolling you can use the right and left arrows to scroll faster and slower. Pressing ‘R’ will get you a random song. I’ve found that in the heat of the jam, the keyboard is usually easier to operate than the mouse.
How did you make it?
The songs are all in Chordproformat, with a few extra tags that I’ve added to make it easy to puttogether the songbook. In particular, I use the “preferred_key”tag as an indicator to my parsing stuff that a song should be transposed to aparticular key. I wrote some code (can share on request) to do some reorganization of the text files, to sanity-check for consistency on things like punctuation and capitaliation, and to generate a songbook file with theright keys. I then use the awesome program Songsheet generator toprint html and pdf files. Some more C# code uses pdfclown topost-process the html a bit, generate the mobile and key-specific versions,and open up the pdf file and re-paginate it so that if you printdouble-sided, you won’t have to turn pages in the middle of a song. Then I take it to Kinko’s and pay $5 to have it spiral-bound. (Sidebar: I recently learned that the fact that I still say “Kinko”s” is one of many ways people know I’m old).
The mobile version is a good idea, but the layout is quirky.
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I know. If you have suggestions re: css, printing format, better ways totell the html how to paginate, etc., please email me.
The Kindle version is a good idea, but it’s out of date wrt the HTML version.
I know. I only use the HTML version, and the Kindle version requires a bit of manual intervention to print, so I basically only update the Kindle version when someone emails me. Even the non-Kindle PDF is lagged by about a month.
If I notice mistakes, should I tell you?
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Why the weird year boundaries for the smaller songbooks?
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I started organizing casual jam sessions around themes, usually “songs from this era”, where an “era” is around a decade. At first I was going to start with “songs of the ‘50s”, and not only did I not have enough ‘50s songs, but I also found that a more natural style boundary fell at 1955-1965, putting songs I think of as “pre-rock-era oldies” together. Then the next one logically had to be the decade after that, ending at 1975. But then the ‘80s made more coherent sense, so I went back to mod100 boundaries.