461 Ocean Boulevard

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461 Ocean Boulevard
461 Ocean Boulevard cover
Studio album by Eric Clapton
Released July 1974
Recorded April–May 1974
Genre Blues-rock
Length 43:21
2:22:5 (deluxe edition)
Label RSO
Producer Tom Dowd
Professional reviews
Eric Clapton chronology
Rainbow Concert
(1972)		 461 Ocean Boulevard
(1974)		 There's One in Every Crowd
(1975)

461 Ocean Boulevard is a 1974 album by blues rock musician Eric Clapton. In creating his first album after quitting heroin and his second after the dissolution of Derek & the Dominos, Clapton was under pressure during the recording of 461 Ocean Boulevard, but the album received rave reviews upon its release.[citation needed]

On later pressings of the album and the Polygram CD, "Give Me Strength" was pulled because a songwriter claimed she was the composer and had not been credited (Clapton was originally listed as composer). It was replaced with the track "Better Make It Through Today",(dropped from the re-release) which was recorded in September 1974 and originally released on the "There's One in Every Crowd" album in April 1975.

In 2004 a remastered two-disc "deluxe edition" of 461 Ocean Boulevard was released. The second disc included in the packaging features a live concert which was recorded at Hammersmith Concert Hall (formerly the Hammersmith Odeon). The first disc also has a few new added tracks which are various studio jam sessions.

The title of the album was the address of a house on Golden Beach in Miami, Clapton was living in at the time. The house is also the one featured on the cover. In 2003, the album was ranked number 409 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Side one

  1. "Motherless Children" (Traditional, arranged by Clapton/Radle)
  2. "Give Me Strength" (Clapton)
  3. "Willie and the Hand Jive" (Otis)
  4. "Get Ready" (Clapton/Elliman)
  5. "I Shot the Sheriff" (Marley)

[edit] Side two

  1. "I Can't Hold Out" (James)
  2. "Please Be With Me" (Boyer)
  3. "Let It Grow" (Clapton)
  4. "Steady Rollin' Man" (Johnson)
  5. "Mainline Florida" (Terry)

[edit] Deluxe edition

[edit] Disc one

The Original Album

  1. "Motherless Children" (Traditional, arranged by Clapton/Radle)
  2. "Give Me Strength" (Clapton)
  3. "Willie and the Hand Jive" (Otis)
  4. "Get Ready" (Clapton/Elliman)
  5. "I Shot the Sheriff" (Marley)
  6. "I Can't Hold Out" (James)
  7. "Please Be With Me" (Boyer)
  8. "Let It Grow" (Clapton)
  9. "Steady Rollin' Man" (Johnson)
  10. "Mainline Florida" (Terry)

Bonus Tracks

  1. "Walkin' Down the Road" (Musgrave & Levine)
  2. "Ain't That Loving You" (Reed)
  3. "Meet Me (Down At The Bottom)" (Dixon)
  4. "Eric After Hours Blues" (Clapton)
  5. "B-Minor Jam" (Clapton)

[edit] Disc two

All songs recorded live December 4 and December 5, 1974 at the Hammersmith Odeon, London, England.

  1. "Smile" (Chaplin, Parsons, & Phillips)
  2. "Let It Grow" (Clapton)
  3. "Can't Find My Way Home" (Winwood)
  4. "I Shot The Sheriff" (Marley)
  5. "Tell The Truth" (Clapton/Whitlock)
  6. "The Sky Is Crying/Have You Ever Loved A Woman/Rambling On My Mind" (James, Robinson, & Lewis/Myles/Johnson)
  7. "Little Wing" (Hendrix)
  8. "Singin' The Blues" (McCreary)
  9. "Badge" (Clapton/Harrison)
  10. "Layla" (Clapton/Gordon)
  11. "Let It Rain" (Bramlett & Clapton)

[edit] Personnel

  • Eric Clapton - Dobro, guitar, vocals, arranger
  • Yvonne Elliman - vocals, background vocals
  • Albhy Galuten - organ, synthesizer, piano, clavichord, electric piano
  • Tom Bernfeld - vocals, background vocals
  • Dick Sims - keyboards
  • George Terry - guitar, background vocals
  • Carl Radle - bass, arranger
  • Jamie Oldaker - percussion & drums
  • Al Jackson, Jr. - drums
  • Jim Fox - drums
  • Karl Richardson - engineer
  • Steve Klein - assistant engineer
  • Bob Defrin - art direction
  • David Gahr - photography

[edit] Chart positions

[edit] Album

Year Chart Position
1974 Billboard 200 1

[edit] Singles

Year Single Chart Position
1974 "I Shot the Sheriff" Pop Singles 1
"Willie and the Hand Jive" 26
"I Shot the Sheriff" Black Singles 33
Preceded by
Back Home Again by John Denver		 Billboard 200 number-one album
August 17 - September 13, 1974		 Succeeded by
Fulfillingness' First Finale by Stevie Wonder
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