Rock Machine I Love You Explained
Rock Machine - I Love You was a bargain priced sampler album, released by CBS Records in the UK in 1968.
It followed its equally successful predecessor, The Rock Machine Turns You On. Rock Machine - I Love You entered the UK Albums Chart in June 1969, several months after its first release, rising to no. 15,[1] and was estimated to have sold over 90,000 copies.[2]
CBS followed it up again in 1970 with two double sampler albums - Fill Your Head with Rock and Rockbuster.
Track listing
Side 1
- "More and More" - Blood, Sweat & Tears - from the LP Blood Sweat & Tears
- "Stoned Soul Picnic" - Laura Nyro - from the LP Eli and the Thirteenth Confession
- "Stop" - Mike Bloomfield & Al Kooper - from the LP Super Session
- "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" - The Byrds - from the LP Sweetheart of the Rodeo
- "Somebody to Love" - Grace Slick and The Great Society - from the LP Conspicuous Only in its Absence
- "Brandenburg Concerto No 3 in G Major", 2nd movement - Wendy Carlos - from the LP Switched-On Bach
- "Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye" - Leonard Cohen - from the LP The Songs of Leonard Cohen
Side 2
- "America" - Simon & Garfunkel - from the LP Bookends
- "My Name is Jack" - John Simon - from the Original Soundtrack recording You Are What You Eat
- "See To Your Neighbour" - The Electric Flag - from the LP The Electric Flag
- "The Tihai", excerpt - Don Ellis and his Orchestra - from the LP Shock Treatment
- "Turtle Blues" - Big Brother and the Holding Company - from the LP Cheap Thrills (listed on the cover/record as "Ball and Chain")
- "Time" - Dino Valente - from the LP Dino Valente
- "Ain't That a Lot of Love" - Taj Mahal - from the LP The Natch'l Blues
Notes and References
- http://www.chartwatch.co.uk/TopTen/labels/lab127.htm Chartwatch.co.uk: CBS albums
- https://books.google.com/books?id=PCgEAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22fill+your+head+with+rock%22&pg=PA65 Billboard, 28 February 1970, p.65
