Hallelujah is the fourth album by Canned Heat , released in 1969. It was re-released on CD in 2001 by MAM productions with four bonus tracks. It was the last album to feature classic lineup mark 1, as Vestine left the band prior to Future Blues .
Track listing
Side One "Same All Over" (Canned Heat) – 2:51Bob Hite - lead vocals Alan Wilson - guitar Henry Vestine - guitar Larry Taylor - bass Fito De la Parra - drums Elliot Ingber - backing vocals Javier Batise- backing vocals Skip Diamond - backing vocals Ernest Lane - organ, piano "Change My Ways" (Alan Wilson ) – 2:47Alan Wilson - lead vocals, whistling, guitar Henry Vestine - guitar Larry Taylor - bass Fito De la Parra - drums "Canned Heat" (Robert Hite, Jr. – actually by Tommy Johnson ) – 4:22Bob Hite - lead vocals Alan Wilson - guitar Henry Vestine - guitar Larry Taylor - bass Fito De la Parra - drums "Sic 'em Pigs" (Robert Hite, Jr.; Booker T. White) – 2:41Bob Hite - lead vocals Alan Wilson - guitar Henry Vestine - guitar Larry Taylor - bass, backing vocals Fito De la Parra - drums "I'm Her Man" (A. Leigh – actually by Bob Hite [3] ) – 2:55Bob Hite - lead vocals Alan Wilson - guitar, harmonica Henry Vestine - guitar Larry Taylor - bass Fito De la Parra - drums Mark Naftalin - organ, piano "Time Was" (Alan Wilson) – 3:21Alan Wilson - guitar, lead vocals Henry Vestine - guitar Larry Taylor - bass Fito De la Parra - drums
Side Two "Do Not Enter" (Alan Wilson) – 2:50Alan Wilson - guitar, lead vocals, harmonica Larry Taylor - bass Fito De la Parra - drums "Big Fat (The Fat Man)" (Dave Bartholomew , Fats Domino ; adapted by Robert Hite, Jr.) – 1:57Bob Hite - lead vocals, harmonica Alan Wilson - guitar Henry Vestine - guitar Larry Taylor - bass Fito De la Parra - drums "Huautla" (V. Wolf – actually by Fito de la Parra [4] ) – 3:33Alan Wilson - harmonica Henry Vestine - guitar Larry Taylor - bass Fito De la Parra - drums Mike Pacheco - bongos, congas "Get Off My Back" (Alan Wilson) – 5:10Alan Wilson - guitar, lead vocals Henry Vestine - guitar Larry Taylor - bass Fito De la Parra - drums "Down in the Gutter, But Free" (Canned Heat) – 5:37Bob Hite - lead vocals Alan Wilson - harmonica Henry Vestine - bass Larry Taylor - guitar Fito De la Parra - drums Skip Diamond - backing vocals Elliot Ingber - backing vocals Mark Naftalin - organ, piano
Bonus tracks from 2001 CD release "Time Was" – Single Version (Wilson) – 2:34 "Low Down" (Canned Heat) – 2:30 "Poor Moon" (Wilson) – 2:43 "Sic 'em Pigs" – Single Version (Hite, White) – 1:54
Personnel [5]
Canned Heat Additional Personnel Ernest Lane – piano (on track 1) Mark Naftalin – organ, piano (on tracks 5, 11) Javier Batiz – group vocals (on track 1) Skip Diamond – group vocals (on tracks 1, 11) Elliot Ingber – group vocals (on tracks 1, 11) Mike Pacheco – bongos and congas (on track 9) Production Produced by Skip Taylor and Canned Heat Engineered by Richard Joseph Moore Recorded at I. D. Sound Recorders, Hollywood, California January, February, March, April, and May, 1969
References Fito De La Parra, Living The Blues. Canned Heat's story of Music, Drugs, Death, Sex and Survival (2000) ISBN 0-9676449-0-9