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Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Little Games - (stereo mix)
2. Smile on Me
3. White Summer
4. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor - (vocal)
5. Glimpses - (version 1)
6. Drinking Muddy Water - (stereo mix)
7. No Excess Baggage
8. Stealing Stealing
9. Only the Black Rose
10. Little Soldier Boy
11. Puzzles
12. I Remember the Night
13. Ha Ha Said the Clown
14. Ten Little Indians - (vocal)
15. Goodnight Sweet Josephine - (version 1)
16. Think About It
DISC 2:
1. Little Games - (mono mix)
2. You Stole My Love - (previously unreleased)
3. White Summer - (previously unreleased, acoustic version)
4. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor - (previously unreleased, instrumental version)
5. L.S.D. - (previously unreleased)
6. Drinking Muddy Water - (mono mix)
7. De Lane Lea Lee - (previously unreleased)
8. Glimpses - (previously unreleased, alternate overdub)
9. Never Mind - (previously unreleased)
10. Ten Little Indians - (previously unreleased, instrumental version)
11. Good Night Sweet Josephine - (version 2)
12. Henry's Coming Home - (with Together)
13. Love Mum and Dad - (with Together)
14. Together Now - (with Together)
15. Shining Where the Sun Has Been - (previously unreleased, with Jim McCarty/Keith Relf)
16. Great Shakes - (radio spot)
Album Notes
LITTLE GAMES SESSIONS & MORE includes a 28-page booklet with extensive liner notes, photos, track annotations and discography.
The Yardbirds: Keith Relf (vocals); Jimmy Page (guitar); Chris Dreja (bass); Jim McCarty (drums).
Producers: Mickie Most, Paul Samwell-Smith.
Compilation producer: Ron Furmanek.
Recorded at De Lane Lea Studios, Olympic Studios and Abbey Road Studios, London, England in 1967 & 1968. Includes liner notes by Greg Russo.
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
By the time Jeff Beck left the Yardbirds in late 1966, the group was down to a four-piece, with former session-man Jimmy Page left to handle the guitar duties. As the group disintegrated over the next year and a half, Page would end up taking the remnants of this group and turning it into Led Zeppelin.
This two-disc set includes LITTLE GAMES, the final Yardbirds project, as well as outtakes, and a few singles by Together, a group featuring Jim McCarty and Keith Relf. Despite the commercial problems facing the Yardbirds at the time, LITTLE GAMES showed a good deal of experimentation--with psychedelia ("Glimpses"), social commentary ("Little Soldier Boy") and with the group's beloved blues ("Drinking Muddy Water"). Page's influence resonates throughout, particularly on the acoustic "White Summer," which later had parts recycled in the Zeppelin classics "Over The Hills And Far Away" and "Black Mountain Side." The historical importance of "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor" lay in the fact that it was the first time Jimmy Page employed the bowing technique which he became renowned for later in his career.
Industry Reviews
..boasts a somewhat academic excavation of illuminating, if esoteric, rarities and outtakes.. - Rating: B
Entertainment Weekly (09/18/1992)
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