Living in the Past (album)
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Living in the Past is a double album
Double album
A double album is an audio album which spans two units of the primary medium in which it is sold, typically records and compact discs....

 quasi-compilation collection by Jethro Tull
Jethro Tull (band)
Jethro Tull are a British rock group formed in 1967. Their music is characterised by the vocals, acoustic guitar, and flute playing of Ian Anderson, who has led the band since its founding, and the guitar work of Martin Barre, who has been with the band since 1969.Initially playing blues rock with...

 which contains album tracks, outtakes, the "Life Is A Long Song" EP, and all of their singles non-lp tracks except "Aeroplane", "Sunshine Day", "One For John Gee", "17" and the original United Kingdom version of "Teacher" (the United States single version, included in the US version of "Benefit
Benefit (album)
Benefit is the third album by Jethro Tull. It was released in April 1970. It was the first album to include pianist and organist John Evan , and the last to include bass guitarist Glenn Cornick. It reached #3 in the UK album charts.The album has more hard rock than its predecessor, Stand Up...

", was included instead). These tracks were all re-released on the "20 Years of Jethro Tull
20 Years of Jethro Tull
-Disc two:Flawed Gems and Other Sides Of Tull-Disc three:The Essential Tull-LP Track listing:The track numbers shown below are for the five LP set...

" in 1988 (and except "Aeroplane" and the UK version of "Teacher" as bonus tracks. The "Benefit" remaster reports that the version of "Teacher" included is the UK mix, but it's the same version appearing on this album), although "17" was shortened by 3 minutes compared to its original single version (which was eventually released on the 40th Anniversary edition of "Stand Up
Stand Up (Jethro Tull album)
2010 Deluxe EditionCD 1: Stand Up# "A New Day Yesterday" [2001 Digital Remaster]# "Jeffrey Goes to Leicester Square" [2001 Digital Remaster]# "Bourée" [2001 Digital Remaster]# "Back to the Family" [2001 Digital Remaster]...

" in 2010). Many of the tracks only appeared as British releases before being compiled on Living in the Past for the first time in the American market. The album was named after the single (released in May 1969). The album was released in an elaborate gatefold packaging that contained a large colour photo booklet with over 50 photos of the band - subsequent CD reissues contain only a fraction of these pictures. Two songs, "By Kind Permission Of" and "Dharma for One," were recorded live at Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park....

.

"Love Story", "A Christmas Song", "Living In The Past", "Driving Song", "Sweet Dream" and "Witches' Promises" were originally released as mono singles, and were remixed for inclusion on the album. To date, of these only "Living In The Past" was released on CD on the above mentioned 40th Anniversary edition of "Stand Up".

Differences in the song selections between the US and the UK editions of the album resulted in several different tracklistings for newer CD versions. A 1994 CD reissue omits several songs from the original in order to reduce running time to fit the album on one disc ("Bouree" and "Teacher" are not present on either the US or the UK editions). However both countries' versions do include "Inside" (which only on the UK vinyl release). The US vinyl version omits "Inside" in favour of "Alive and Well and Living In" (which was previously unreleased in the US. On the American "Benefit" album this track was substituted by a rerecording of "Teacher"), and has "Hymn 43" in place of "Locomotive Breath". A 1997 two-disc Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
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 reissue contains every song selected for the compilation.

The album peaked at #3 on the Billboard 200
Billboard 200
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 charts and went gold
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 not long after its release. The title track from the album became Tull's first top 40 hit in the United States, reaching #11, a full three years after it performed well in Britain.

In the United States, Living in the Past was the first Jethro Tull album to appear on the Chrysalis Records
Chrysalis Records
Chrysalis Records was a British record label that was created in 1969. The name was both a reference to the pupal stage of a butterfly and a combination of its founders names, Chris Wright and Terry Ellis...

 label proper; while each of the band's previous albums were marked as "a Chrysalis Production," the albums were released by Warner Bros. Records
Warner Bros. Records
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' Reprise Records
Reprise Records
Reprise Records is an American record label, founded in 1960 by Frank Sinatra. It is owned by Warner Music Group, and operated through Warner Bros. Records.-Beginnings:...

 subsidiary. Interestingly, early U.S. editions of Living in the Past bore both a Chrysalis catalogue number (2CH 1035) and a Reprise catalogue number (2TS 2106). Warner/Reprise reissued Tull's first five albums on the Chrysalis label (with Chrysalis catalogue numbers) in late 1973, and would continue to distribute Chrysalis product in the U.S. until late 1976.

Since 2001, many of the singles and B-sides appear as bonus tracks on the expanded Jethro Tull CDs. The live "By Kind Permission Of" and "Dharma For One" appear on the 40th Anniversary edition of "Stand Up", albeit in longer and slightly remixed versions. The 40th anniversary release of "Aqualung" contains "Wond'ring Again" (in a restored 7-minute version), as well as the "Life Is A Long Song" EP.

Track listing

All songs by Ian Anderson, except as noted.

Side one

  1. "A Song for Jeffrey" – 3:20
  2. "Love Story
    Love Story (Jethro Tull song)
    "Love Story" is the title of the second promotion single for the album This Was by the British progressive rock group Jethro Tull, and their third single overall. It was released in December 1968. It reached No...

    " – 3:02
  3. "Christmas Song" – 3:05
  4. "Living in the Past
    Living in the Past (Jethro Tull song)
    "Living in the Past" is the title of one of British progressive rock group Jethro Tull's best-known songs. It is notable for being written in the unusual 5/4 time signature...

    " – 3:20
  5. "Driving Song" – 2:39
  6. "Bourée" – 3:43 (Bach
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...

     arr. Jethro Tull)

Side two

  1. "Sweet Dream" – 4:02
  2. "Singing All Day" – 3:03
  3. "Teacher" – 4:08
  4. "Witch's Promise" – 3:49
  5. "Inside" - 3:49
  6. "Just Trying to Be" – 1:36

Side three: Recorded live at Carnegie Hall for the benefit of Phoenix House
Phoenix House
Phoenix House is a nonprofit drug and alcohol rehabilitation organization operating in ten states with 150 programs. Programs serve individuals, families, and communities affected by substance abuse and dependency.- History :...

, 4 November 1970

  1. "By Kind Permission Of" – 10:11 (John Evan
    John Evan
    John Evan , played keyboards for Jethro Tull from April 1970 to June 1980. He was educated at King's College London....

    )
  2. "Dharma for One" – 9:45 (Anderson/Clive Bunker
    Clive Bunker
    Clive William Bunker is a British rock drummer. He was the original drummer in the British band Jethro Tull....

    )

Side four

  1. "Wond'ring Again" – 4:12
  2. "Locomotive Breath" – 4:24
  3. "Life Is a Long Song" – 3:18
  4. "Up the 'Pool" – 3:10
  5. "Dr. Bogenbroom" – 2:59
  6. "For Later" – 2:06
  7. "Nursie" – 1:38

Side one

  1. "A Song for Jeffrey" – 3:20
  2. "Love Story
    Love Story (Jethro Tull song)
    "Love Story" is the title of the second promotion single for the album This Was by the British progressive rock group Jethro Tull, and their third single overall. It was released in December 1968. It reached No...

    " – 3:02
  3. "Christmas Song" – 3:05
  4. "Living in the Past
    Living in the Past (Jethro Tull song)
    "Living in the Past" is the title of one of British progressive rock group Jethro Tull's best-known songs. It is notable for being written in the unusual 5/4 time signature...

    " – 3:20
  5. "Driving Song" – 2:39
  6. "Bourée" – 3:43 (Bach
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...

     arr. Jethro Tull)

Side two

  1. "Sweet Dream" – 4:02
  2. "Singing All Day" – 3:03
  3. "Teacher" – 4:08
  4. "Witch's Promise" – 3:49
  5. "Alive and Well and Living In" - 2:45
  6. "Just Trying to Be" – 1:36

Side three: Recorded live at Carnegie Hall for the benefit of Phoenix House
Phoenix House
Phoenix House is a nonprofit drug and alcohol rehabilitation organization operating in ten states with 150 programs. Programs serve individuals, families, and communities affected by substance abuse and dependency.- History :...

, 4 November 1970

  1. "By Kind Permission Of" – 10:11 (John Evan
    John Evan
    John Evan , played keyboards for Jethro Tull from April 1970 to June 1980. He was educated at King's College London....

    )
  2. "Dharma for One" – 9:45 (Anderson/Clive Bunker
    Clive Bunker
    Clive William Bunker is a British rock drummer. He was the original drummer in the British band Jethro Tull....

    )

Side four

  1. "Wond'ring Again" – 4:12
  2. "Hymn 43" – 3:17
  3. "Life Is a Long Song" – 3:18
  4. "Up the 'Pool" – 3:10
  5. "Dr. Bogenbroom" – 2:59
  6. "For Later" – 2:06
  7. "Nursie" – 1:38

Disc one

  1. "A Song for Jeffrey" – 3:20
  2. "Love Story" – 3:02
  3. "Christmas Song" – 3:05
  4. "Living in the Past" – 3:20
  5. "Driving Song" – 2:39
  6. "Bourée" – 3:43 (Bach
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...

     arr. Jethro Tull)
  7. "Sweet Dream" – 4:02
  8. "Singing All Day" – 3:03
  9. "Teacher" – 4:08
  10. "Witch's Promise" – 3:49
  11. "Inside" – 3:49
  12. "Alive and Well and Living In" – 2:45
  13. "Just Trying to Be" – 1:36

Disc two

  1. "By Kind Permission Of" (Live at Carnegie Hall) – 10:11 (John Evan
    John Evan
    John Evan , played keyboards for Jethro Tull from April 1970 to June 1980. He was educated at King's College London....

    )
  2. "Dharma for One" (Live at Carnegie Hall) – 9:45 (Anderson/Clive Bunker
    Clive Bunker
    Clive William Bunker is a British rock drummer. He was the original drummer in the British band Jethro Tull....

    )
  3. "Wond'ring Again" – 4:12
  4. "Hymn 43" – 3:17
  5. "Locomotive Breath
    Locomotive Breath
    "Locomotive Breath" is a song by the English progressive rock band Jethro Tull from their 1971 album, Aqualung. It is notable for a long bluesy piano introduction and its flute solo by rock flute virtuoso Ian Anderson...

    " – 4:24
  6. "Life Is a Long Song" – 3:18
  7. "Up the 'Pool" – 3:10
  8. "Dr. Bogenbroom" – 2:59
  9. "For Later" – 2:06
  10. "Nursie" – 1:38

American single-disc reissue

  1. "A Song for Jeffrey" – 3:20
  2. "Love Story" – 3:02
  3. "Christmas Song" – 3:05
  4. "Living in the Past" – 3:20
  5. "Driving Song" – 2:39
  6. "Sweet Dream" – 4:02
  7. "Singing All Day" – 3:03
  8. "Witch's Promise" – 3:49
  9. "Inside" – 3:49
  10. "Alive and Well and Living In" – 2:45
  11. "Just Trying to Be" – 1:36
  12. "By Kind Permission Of" (Live at Carnegie Hall) – 10:11 (John Evan
    John Evan
    John Evan , played keyboards for Jethro Tull from April 1970 to June 1980. He was educated at King's College London....

    )
  13. "Dharma for One" (Live at Carnegie Hall) – 9:45 (Anderson/Clive Bunker
    Clive Bunker
    Clive William Bunker is a British rock drummer. He was the original drummer in the British band Jethro Tull....

    )
  14. "Wond'ring Again" – 4:12
  15. "Hymn 43" – 3:17
  16. "Life Is a Long Song" – 3:18
  17. "Up the 'Pool" – 3:10
  18. "Dr. Bogenbroom" – 2:59
  19. "For Later" – 2:06
  20. "Nursie" – 1:38

UK single-disc reissue

  1. "A Song for Jeffrey" – 3:20
  2. "Love Story
    Love Story (Jethro Tull song)
    "Love Story" is the title of the second promotion single for the album This Was by the British progressive rock group Jethro Tull, and their third single overall. It was released in December 1968. It reached No...

    " – 3:02
  3. "Christmas Song" – 3:05
  4. "Living in the Past
    Living in the Past (Jethro Tull song)
    "Living in the Past" is the title of one of British progressive rock group Jethro Tull's best-known songs. It is notable for being written in the unusual 5/4 time signature...

    " – 3:20
  5. "Driving Song" – 2:39
  6. "Sweet Dream" – 4:02
  7. "Singing All Day" – 3:03
  8. "Witch's Promise" – 3:49
  9. "Inside" – 3:49
  10. "Just Trying to Be" – 1:36
  11. "By Kind Permission Of" (Live at Carnegie Hall) – 10:11 (John Evan
    John Evan
    John Evan , played keyboards for Jethro Tull from April 1970 to June 1980. He was educated at King's College London....

    )
  12. "Dharma for One" (Live at Carnegie Hall) – 9:45 (Anderson/Clive Bunker
    Clive Bunker
    Clive William Bunker is a British rock drummer. He was the original drummer in the British band Jethro Tull....

    )
  13. "Wond'ring Again" – 4:12
  14. "Locomotive Breath
    Locomotive Breath
    "Locomotive Breath" is a song by the English progressive rock band Jethro Tull from their 1971 album, Aqualung. It is notable for a long bluesy piano introduction and its flute solo by rock flute virtuoso Ian Anderson...

    " – 4:20
  15. "Life Is a Long Song" – 3:18
  16. "Up the 'Pool" – 3:10
  17. "Dr. Bogenbroom" – 2:59
  18. "For Later" – 2:06
  19. "Nursie" – 1:38

Personnel

  • Ian Anderson
    Ian Anderson (musician)
    Ian Scott Anderson, MBE is a Scottish singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, best known for his work as the leader and flautist of British rock band Jethro Tull.-Early life:...

     - 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...

    , voice
    Voice
    Voice may refer to:* Human voice* Voice control or voice activation* Writer's voice* Voice acting* Voice vote* Voice message-In film:* Voice , a 2005 South Korean film* The Voice , a 2010 Turkish horror film directed by Ümit Ünal...

    , mandolin
    Mandolin
    A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It descends from the mandore, a soprano member of the lute family. The mandolin soundboard comes in many shapes—but generally round or teardrop-shaped, sometimes with scrolls or other projections. A mandolin may have f-holes, or a single...

    , tin whistle
    Whistle
    A whistle or call is a simple aerophone, an instrument which produces sound from a stream of forced air. It may be mouth-operated, or powered by air pressure, steam, or other means...

    , guitar
    Guitar
    The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

     (12 string
    Twelve string guitar
    The twelve-string guitar is an acoustic or electric guitar with 12 strings in 6 courses, which produces a richer, more ringing tone than a standard six-string guitar...

     on "Sweet Dream" and acoustic
    Acoustic guitar
    An acoustic guitar is a guitar that uses only an acoustic sound board. The air in this cavity resonates with the vibrational modes of the string and at low frequencies, which depend on the size of the box, the chamber acts like a Helmholtz resonator, increasing or decreasing the volume of the sound...

     on "Just Trying to Be," "Wond'ring Again," "Life Is a Long Song," "Up the 'Pool" and "Dr. Bogenbroom"), balalaika
    Balalaika
    The balalaika is a stringed musical instrument popular in Russia, with a characteristic triangular body and three strings.The balalaika family of instruments includes instruments of various sizes, from the highest-pitched to the lowest, the prima balalaika, secunda balalaika, alto balalaika, bass...

    , Hammond organ
    Hammond organ
    The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond in 1934 and manufactured by the Hammond Organ Company. While the Hammond organ was originally sold to churches as a lower-cost alternative to the wind-driven pipe organ, in the 1960s and 1970s it became a standard keyboard...

     on "Singing All Day", and violin
    Violin
    The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....

    .
  • Clive Bunker
    Clive Bunker
    Clive William Bunker is a British rock drummer. He was the original drummer in the British band Jethro Tull....

     - Drum
    Drum
    The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments, which is technically classified as the membranophones. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with the player's hands, or with a...

    s, percussion and backing vocals on "Dharma for One."
  • Glenn Cornick
    Glenn Cornick
    Glenn Douglas Barnard Cornick was the bespectacled, first bass guitar player in the progressive rock band, Jethro Tull....

     - Bass guitar
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

     and Hammond organ on "Singing All Day."
  • Mick Abrahams
    Mick Abrahams
    Michael Timothy 'Mick' Abrahams was the original guitarist for Jethro Tull. He recorded the album This Was with the band in 1968, but conflicts between Abrahams and Ian Anderson over the musical direction of the band led Abrahams to leave once the album was finished...

     - Electric guitar on "A Song for Jeffrey
    Jeffrey Hammond
    Jeffrey Hammond sometimes credited as Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond, is a former bass guitar player for the progressive rock band Jethro Tull....

    ," and "Love Story."
  • Martin Barre
    Martin Barre
    Martin Lancelot Barre is an English rock musician.Barre has been the guitarist for rock band Jethro Tull since 1969. He has appeared on every Jethro Tull album except their debut This Was...

     - Electric guitar, acoustic guitar on "Witch's Promise" and "Life Is a Long Song", percussion on "Dharma for One" and backing vocals on "Dharma for One."
  • Jeffrey Hammond
    Jeffrey Hammond
    Jeffrey Hammond sometimes credited as Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond, is a former bass guitar player for the progressive rock band Jethro Tull....

     - (As Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond): Bass guitar on "Hymn 43," "Life Is a Long Song," "Up the 'Pool," "Dr. Bogenbroom" and "For Later."
  • Barriemore Barlow
    Barriemore Barlow
    Barrie "Barriemore" Barlow is an English musician, best known as the drummer and percussionist for the rock band Jethro Tull, from May 1971 to June 1980....

     - Drums on "Life Is a Long Song," "Up the 'Pool," "Dr. Bogenbroom" and "For Later."
  • John Evan
    John Evan
    John Evan , played keyboards for Jethro Tull from April 1970 to June 1980. He was educated at King's College London....

     - Piano
    Piano
    The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...

    , Hammond organ, mellotron
    Mellotron
    The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical, polyphonic tape replay keyboard originally developed and built in Birmingham, England in the early 1960s. It superseded the Chamberlin Music Master, which was the world's first sample-playback keyboard intended for music...

    , harpsichord
    Harpsichord
    A harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It produces sound by plucking a string when a key is pressed.In the narrow sense, "harpsichord" designates only the large wing-shaped instruments in which the strings are perpendicular to the keyboard...

    , celeste
    Celesta
    The celesta or celeste is a struck idiophone operated by a keyboard. Its appearance is similar to that of an upright piano or of a large wooden music box . The keys are connected to hammers which strike a graduated set of metal plates suspended over wooden resonators...

    , percussion on "Dharma for One", backing vocals on "Dharma for One."
  • David Palmer
    Dee Palmer
    Dee Palmer is an English composer arranger and keyboardist best known for having been a member of the rock group Jethro Tull.Palmer studied composition at the Royal Academy of Music with Richard Rodney Bennet,winning the Eric Coates Prize and The Boosey and Hawkes Prize...

     - String
    String instrument
    A string instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by means of vibrating strings. In the Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of musical instrument classification, used in organology, they are called chordophones...

     and orchestra
    Orchestra
    An orchestra is a sizable instrumental ensemble that contains sections of string, brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments. The term orchestra derives from the Greek ορχήστρα, the name for the area in front of an ancient Greek stage reserved for the Greek chorus...

     conductor arrangement and conductor on "Christmas Song" and "Sweet Dream."
  • Lou Toby - String arrangement and conductor on "Living in the Past
    Living in the Past (Jethro Tull song)
    "Living in the Past" is the title of one of British progressive rock group Jethro Tull's best-known songs. It is notable for being written in the unusual 5/4 time signature...

    ."

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