A Song For Me - Original 1970 UK Reprise label 8-track LP

Rare original 1970 UK Reprise Records 8-track LP - British progressive rock bands 3rd album - and their first featuring bassist John Weider and keyboardist Poli Palmer as a substitute for Rick Grech, who had left for Blind Faith, and saxophonist Jim King respectively.

'A song for me' is musically almost equally devided between more potent slightly proggish hard rock and folk-rock styling with a drop of jazz and country influenced tunes.

Vinyl is manufactured with the generic three colour company 'steamboat' labels - includes lyric insert - housed in a gatefold picture cover.

Condition: VG+(+) (Vinyl and labels)/VG++ (Insert)/VG+ (Cover):

Vinyl has a little faint and superficial scuffing - graded Close to Near Mint/Excellent - labels are in close to near perfect condition.

Insert has very minor creasing - the kind you have to look closely to find - otherwise perfect.

Cover centers has faint scuffing only - as for the corners and edges the cover has slight or not so tough upper corner dents followed by light corner creasing - perceiveable when looking at the pictures. Cover has a  very minor lower spine corner dent and discontinued but obvious rubbing to lower seams more apparent a couple of inches towards corners - more to back panel than front panel, Cover has light opening edges rubbing - more apparent towards the middle and corners than otherwise - cover is a very decent and nice VG+ cover.

Tracklisting:

Side 1:
1. Drowned in Wine 4:08
2. Some Poor Soul 2:44
3. Love Is a Sleeper 4:00
4. Stop for the Traffic - Through the Heart of Me 2:09
5. Wheels (John Whitney, Roger Chapman, Ric Grech) 4:38

Side 2:
1. Song for Sinking Lovers 4:04
2. Hey - Let It Rock 1:02
3. The Cat and the Rat 2:30
4. 93's O.K. J (instrumental) (John Whitney, John Weider) 3:57
5. A Song for Me (John Whitney, Roger Chapman, John Weider, Rob Townsend )9:13

All tracks written by John "Charlie" Whitney and Roger Chapman, except where noted.

Recorded late 1969 in Olympic Studios in London

Credits:

Family:
Roger Chapman - vocals, percussion
John "Charlie" Whitney - guitars, banjo, organ
John Weider - guitars, bass, violin, dobro
John "Poli" Palmer - vibes, piano, flute
Robert Townsend - drums, percussion, harp

Additional musicians:
George Bruno - organ

Technical Credits:
Family - production
George Chkiantz - Recording engineer
Dave Bridges, Keith Harwood, Roger Beale - assistant engineer