Phoenix

Original Release Date: September 1972
Label: Capitol
Catalog number: SMAS-11099
Original Format: LP
Highest Chart Position: 
RIAA Awards:
GOLD - 10/12/72
PLATINUM

Adding Craig Frost on keyboards, this was the first album that GFR produced themselves. Recorded in Nashville, Tennessee during the summer of 1972.

Guest appearance by Country Music legend Doug Kershaw.

Credits:

Don Brewer: Drums, Congas, Percussion, Vocals
Mark Farner: Guitar, Organ, Harmonica, Vocals
Mel Schacher: Bass
Craig Frost: Organ, Clavinet, Harpsichord, Piano
Doug Kershaw: Violin
Engineer: Gene Eichelberger
Assistants: Bill Sherrill, Steve Graf
Producer: Grand Funk
Album Concept and Design: Pacific Eye & Ear
Album Illustration: Joe Garnett
Album Photo: Lorrie Sullivan

Track Listing:

  1. Flight Of The Phoenix
  2. Trying To Get Away
  3. Someone
  4. She Got To Move Me
  5. Rain Keeps Fallin'
  6. I Just Gotta Know
  7. So You Won't Have To Die
  8. Freedom Is For Children
  9. Gotta Find Me A Better Day
  10. Rock & Roll Soul**

** Released as a single

Discography:

Format: LP
Label: Capitol
Catalog number: SMAS-11099
Release Date: September 1972

Format: CD (Import - Japanese)
Label: PID
Catalog number: 296842
Release Date: 05/19/98

Format: CD (Import - Japanese)
Label: EMI
Catalog number: TOCP-3286
Release Date: 10/02/98

 

 

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Singles:

Title: Rock 'N Roll Soul
B Side:  Flight Of The Phoenix
Format: 7"
Label: Capitol
Catalog number:  3363
Import Catalog number: CL 15738
Release Date:  September 1972
Highest Chart Position: 29 (11/04/72)