Vigil (album)
| Falling Off The Edge Of The World |
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Studio album by The Easybeats
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| Released |
October 1968 |
| Genre |
Rock |
| Length |
35:13 |
| Label |
United Artists Records |
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The Easybeats US albums chronology |
Friday On My Mind
(1967) |
Falling Off The Edge Of The World
(1968) |
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Singles from Falling Off The Edge Of The World
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- "Falling Off The Edge Of The World"/"Remember Sam"
Released: September 1967
- "Hello, How Are You"/"Falling Off The Edge Of The World"
Released: July 1968
- "Gonna Have A Good Time (Good Times)"/"Lay Me Down And Die"
Released: January 1969
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Vigil is a studio album by Australian rock band The Easybeats, released in May 1968. This would be the second and final album by the band released on the United Artists Records label.
During mid 1967 the band were working on the follow-up to their Good Friday album with producer Glyn Johns at Olympic Recording Studios. According to John Tait's book Vanda & Young: Inside Australia's Hit factory, the album was to be titled Good Times. However, due to legal issues between the band and its Australian production company Albert Productions, that album was permanently shelved. Some of the surviving tracks ("Good Times", "Land of Make Believe"), as well as newly recorded ones, would be used on what was now titled Vigil (so titled as tribute to the fans who held vigil for the album's long release). Other songs from the original Good Times album would eventually be released on The Shame Just Drained compilation in 1977.
Tracks from the scrapped album included:
Work continued on recordings after the band returned from their US tour in September 1967. During this period, the group worked with arrangers Bill Shepherd and Alan Tew. In late 1967, they released two singles that would later appear on the released album: "Falling off the Edge of the World" in the US and "The Music Goes Round My Head"/"Come in You'll Get Pneumonia" in the UK. Their next single "Hello, How Are You" marked a change in musical direction for the group with its soft pop/adult contemporary sound. The song reached #20 in the UK Charts in March 1968. However, the band have always felt the change in sound might have hurt their standing with the public. The song's co-writer, George Young, later reflected in Rolling Stone Australia: "The people in the industry dig it and it skidded in and out of the Top 20. But it was a classic mistake from our point of view. We were a rock 'n' roll band and what was a rock band doing with this corn-ball, schmaltz shit? We shouldn't have done that".
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