Keep the Customer Satisfied (album)
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Keep the Customer Satisfied is a 1970 live album
Live album
A live album is a recording consisting of material recorded during stage performances using remote recording techniques, commonly contrasted with a studio album...

 by Buddy Rich
Buddy Rich
Bernard "Buddy" Rich was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. Rich was billed as "the world's greatest drummer" and was known for his virtuosic technique, power, groove, and speed.-Early life:...

 and his big band, recorded at the Tropicana Resort & Casino
Tropicana Resort & Casino
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 in Las Vegas.

Track listing

LP
LP record
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 side A
  1. "Keep the Customer Satisfied" (Paul Simon
    Paul Simon
    Paul Frederic Simon is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.Simon is best known for his success, beginning in 1965, as part of the duo Simon & Garfunkel, with musical partner Art Garfunkel. Simon wrote most of the pair's songs, including three that reached number one on the US singles...

    ) – 6:40
  2. "Long Day's Journey" (Don Piestrup) – 4:42
  3. Midnight Cowboy
    Midnight Cowboy
    Midnight Cowboy is a 1969 American drama film based on the 1965 novel of the same name by James Leo Herlihy. It was written by Waldo Salt, directed by John Schlesinger, and stars Dustin Hoffman and newcomer Jon Voight in the title role. Notable smaller roles are filled by Sylvia Miles, John...

     Medley: "He Quit Me Man"/"Everybody's Talkin'
    Everybody's Talkin'
    "Everybody's Talkin" is a folk rock song released by Fred Neil in 1966 that became a global success for Harry Nilsson in 1969, reaching #2 and #6 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart and Pop Singles chart respectively and winning a Grammy after it was featured on the soundtrack for the film...

    "/"Tears" (Warren Zevon
    Warren Zevon
    Warren William Zevon was an American rock singer-songwriter and musician noted for including his sometimes sardonic opinions of life in his musical lyrics, composing songs that were sometimes humorous and often had political or historical themes.Zevon's work has often been praised by well-known...

    )/(Fred Neil
    Fred Neil
    Fred Neil was an American folk singer-songwriter in the 1960s and early 1970s. He did not achieve commercial success as a performer, and is mainly known through other people's recordings of his material – particularly "Everybody's Talkin'", which became a hit for Harry Nilsson after being...

    ) – 11:12

LP side B
  1. "Celebration" (Piestrup) – 3:35
  2. "Groovin' Hard" (Don Menza
    Don Menza
    Don Menza is an American saxophonist, arranger, composer, session musician, and jazz educator noted for his many contributions to American jazz and big band music. -Early years:...

    ) – 5:25
  3. "The Juicer Is Wild" (Neil, Roger Neuman) – 4:32
  4. "Winning the West" (Bill Holman) – 7:30

Bonus tracks on CD re-issues:
  1. "Body and Soul
    Body and Soul (song)
    "Body and Soul" was recorded as a duet by Tony Bennett and Amy Winehouse in 2011. It was the final recording made by Winehouse before her death on July 23, 2011. The single was released worldwide on September 14, 2011 on iTunes, MTV and VH1....

    " (Frank Eyton
    Frank Eyton
    Frank Eyton was an English popular music lyricist best known for co-writing the lyrics of Johnny Green's "Body and Soul" with Edward Heyman and Robert Sour....

    , Johnny Green
    Johnny Green
    Johnny Green was an American songwriter, composer, musical arranger, and conductor. He was given the nickname "Beulah" by colleague Conrad Salinger. His most famous song was one of his earliest, "Body and Soul"...

    , Edward Heyman
    Edward Heyman
    Edward Heyman was an American musician and lyricist, best known for his compositions "Body and Soul", "When I Fall in Love", and "For Sentimental Reasons". He also contributed many songs for films.-Biography:...

    , Robert Sour
    Robert Sour
    Robert Sour was a lyricist and composer, and the president of Broadcast Music Incorporated .In 1940 Sour worked for Broadcast Music as its lyrics editor, and by 1966 had risen through company ranks to become BMI's president. Two years later he had become the company's vice chairman and was...

    ) – 4:54
  2. "Happy Time" (Mike Hughes) – 3:57
  3. "The Nitty Gritty" (Lincoln Chase) – 4:07
  4. "Straight and Narrow" (Piestrup) – 4:17
  5. "Groovin' Hard" (Menza) – 5:54
  6. "Cornerstone" (Ted Pease) – 4:45

Personnel

The Buddy Rich
Buddy Rich
Bernard "Buddy" Rich was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. Rich was billed as "the world's greatest drummer" and was known for his virtuosic technique, power, groove, and speed.-Early life:...

 big band:
  • Bob Suchoski - baritone saxophone
  • Rick Laird - double bass
  • Buddy Rich
    Buddy Rich
    Bernard "Buddy" Rich was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. Rich was billed as "the world's greatest drummer" and was known for his virtuosic technique, power, groove, and speed.-Early life:...

     - drum
    Drum kit
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    s
  • Richie Cole - flute
    Flute
    The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...

    , alto saxophone
    Alto saxophone
    The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented by Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in 1841. It is smaller than the tenor but larger than the soprano, and is the type most used in classical compositions...

  • Jimmy Mosher
  • Don Englert - flute, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone
  • Tony Lada - trombone
    Trombone
    The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player’s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate...

  • Rick Stepton
  • John Madrid - trumpet
    Trumpet
    The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...

  • Mike Price
  • George Zonce
  • Roger Neuman - arranger
    Arrangement
    The American Federation of Musicians defines arranging as "the art of preparing and adapting an already written composition for presentation in other than its original form. An arrangement may include reharmonization, paraphrasing, and/or development of a composition, so that it fully represents...

  • Bill Holman
  • Michael Hughes
  • Don Menza
    Don Menza
    Don Menza is an American saxophonist, arranger, composer, session musician, and jazz educator noted for his many contributions to American jazz and big band music. -Early years:...

  • Ted Pease
  • Don Piestrup
  • Joe Sample

Production
  • Ron Wolin - cover design
  • Reice Hamel - engineer
  • Paul Wertheimer - liner notes
  • Joel Moss - mixing
  • Ron Waller - photography
  • Richard Bock - producer
  • Bob Belden - reissue producer, mixing
  • Dean Pratt - reissue producer
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