Pearls Before Swine

Tom Rapp & Pearls Before Swine

Drop Out!³ / Morning Song³ Rapp (2:40) / Rapp (2:33) ESP 4554, 7/67

	One Nation Underground
	ESP 1054
	10/67 [UK: ?/68]
	Back Cover   2nd Issue Cover   3rd Issiue Color Cover   Poster   UK Back Cover

Side One
Another Time	Rapp	3:05
Playmate	Dowell-Rachel	2:17
Ballad To An Amber Lady	Crissinger-Rapp	5:13
(Oh Dear) Miss Morse	Rapp	1:52
Drop Out!	Rapp	4:07
Side Two
Morning Song	Rapp	4:05
Regions Of May	Rapp	3:25
Uncle John	Rapp	2:52
I Shall Not Care	Teasdale-Tombs-Rapp	5:10
The Surrealist Waltz	Lederer-Crissinger	3:27

Note: The Morse Code spells F-*-C-K
A poster of the Bosch painting came in some of the issues.
This Album Dedicated to: CIRCE, ST. MATTHEW, MIKE MOSSOP (BOGOTA, COLOMBIA), and DICK SUMMER (WBZ-Boston)
 

	Balaklava
	EPS 1075
	11/68 [UK: 7/69]
	Back Cover

Side One
Trumpeter Landfrey...	-	0:33
Translucent Carriages	Herodotus-Harley-Rapp	4:00
Images Of April	Rapp	2:38
There Was A Man	Rapp	2:52
I Saw The World	Rapp	3:24
Guardian Angels	Rapp	3:00
Side Two
Suzanne	Cohen	4:54
Lepers And Roses	Rapp	5:19
Florence Nightingale...	-	0:15
Ring Thing	Tolkien-Rapp	2:20

Note: We wish to dedicate this album to Pvt Edward D Slovik , U.S. Army, deceased
Trumpeter Landfrey is an 1880s recording of the actual bugle call and voice of the trumpeter (Martin Lanfried) at the battle of Balakava.
On Ring Thing, the sounds at the end is the tape spooling back to Trumpeter Landfrey. Some reissues omit this part.
More about Balaklava at Longitudes and the album artwork at wiki
 

I Saw The World / Images Of April Rapp (3:24) / Rapp (2:38) ESP 4576, 11/68

	These Things Too
	Reprise RS-6364
	9/69 BB [UK: 9/69]
	Back Cover

Side One
Footnote	Rapp-Auden	1:16
Sail Away	Rapp	3:06
Look Into Her Eyes	Rapp	4:34
I Shall Be Released	Dylan	3:02
Frog In The Window (reprise)	Rapp	1:36
I'm Going To City	Rapp	2:27
Man In The Tree	Rapp	3:25
Side Two
If You Don't Want To (I Don't Mind)	Rapp	3:20
Green And Blue	Elisabeth	0:22
Mon Amour	Rapp-Elisabeth	2:04
Wizard Of Is	Rapp	3:36
Frog In The Window	Rapp	3:36
When I Was A Child	Rapp	4:44
These Things Too	Rapp	3:24

These Things Too / If You Don't Want To (I Don't Mind) Rapp (3:24) / Rapp (3:20) Reprise 0873, 11/69

Rocket Man / God Save The Child Rapp (3:00) / Rapp (3:03) Reprise 0916, 6/70 Written the day Neil made that small step. Any other moon landing songs around here  ??

	The Use Of Ashes
	Reprise RS-6405
	8/70 [UK: 12/70]
	Back Cover

Side One
The Jeweler	Rapp	2:45
From The Movie Of The Same Name	Rapp	2:20
Rocket Man	Rapp	3:00
God Save The Child	Rapp	3:00
Song About A Rose	Rapp	2:18
Side Two
Tell Me Why	Rapp	3:42
Margery	Rapp	2:57
The Old Man	Rapp	3:20
The Riegal	Rapp	3:05
When The War Began	Rapp	5:02

Note: Rocket Man based on a short story by Ray Bradbury, from his collection: The Illustrated Man
and was written on July 20, 1969 as a guy named Neil was taking a small step.
More about The Hunt Of The Unicorn @ wiki
 

The Jeweller / Rocket Man Rapp (2:45) / Rapp (3:00) Reprise 0949, 9/70

	City Of Gold
	Reprise RS-6442
	4/71 [UK: ?/71]
	Back Cover

Side One
Sonnet #65	Shakespeare, arr Rapp	0:41
Once Upon A Time	Rapp	2:37
Raindrops	Rapp	2:05
City Of Gold	Rapp	2:57
Nancy	Cohen	4:46
Side Two
Seasons In The Sun	Brel-McKuen	2:55
My Father	Collins	2:08
The Man	Rapp	2:23
Casablanca	Rapp	2:23
Wedding	Rapp	1:37
Did You Dream Of	Rapp	2:49

	Beautiful Lies You Could Live In
	Reprise RS-6467
	11/71 [UK: ?/72]
	Back Cover

Side One
Snow Queen	Rapp	4:00
A Life	Rapp	2:57
Butterflies	Rapp	2:46
Simple Things	Rapp	2:56
Everybody's Got Pain	Rapp	2:47
Side Two
Bird On A Wire	Cohen	3:34
Island Lady	Rapp	4:02
Come To Me	Rapp	2:58
Freedom	Rapp	3:03
She's Gone	Rapp	2:12
Epitaph	Rapp	1:25

One more Reprise album (Familiar Songs, 1972) and a couple for Blue Thumb. Tom retired and became a civil rights lawyer.

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