Discographical Accounts Part 2 (1971-1972)

WNET recording flyer from Electric Lady Studios

Electric Lady Recording Sessions For Shelved Solo LP

In early 1971, Jobriath had taken up residence in New York City, where he was picked up by former Jimi Hendrix manager, Mike Jeffrey. Studio sessions were supervised by producer, Eddie Kramer, and featured a pre-'Looking For Mr. Goodbar', Richard Gere, and a teenaged Vicki Sue Robinson amidst the vast choir of backup singers. Studio time for the proposed album was documented in the New York WNET documentary series, 'Vibrations,' while the television crew were working on a piece about Electric Lady Studios. A reel of finished demos was completed on May 17, and included the following recordings:

1.) Little Dreamer
 2.) As The River Flows
 3.) Amazing Dope Tales
 4.) As The River Flows (2nd Version)
5.) Ducky Lullabye
 6.) City Freak
7.) Miss Arkansas

Following the demo cuts, a full album went into production, under the title, 'Creatures of the Street', dated June 9, 1972, with the following track listing:

In 2001, two reels of demos for the Electric Lady sessions were auctioned on Ebay and bought by Record executive, Lisa Fancher. Twelve years later, in late 2013, songs recorded during that time, finally received a proper commercial release from a small independent record label, Eschatone. A three-track EP entitled 'Amazing Dope Tales' came about as a primer for a full-length album, 'As The River Flows', which appears to have included most, if not all of the archived studio work at Electric Lady.

Amazing Dope Tales EP

On October 29, 2013, a small independent record label by the name of Eschatone Records, issued a limited edition, three track vinyl EP of demo recordings from Jobriath's never-before-released studio sessions at Electric Lady studios, circa mid 1971. This material has only a dash of the Broadway stylized glitter rock that the singer would become better identified with, and can be more appropriately linked to the denim strands of rootsy psychedelia personified by the New York production of his stint in the hippie musical, 'Hair.'

In 2001, the demo reel containing songs from the unreleased Electric Lady LP were auctioned and sold on Ebay, to record executive Lisa Fancher (source: The Jobriath Fan Collective, March 31, 2004 archive)

The B-side of this EP contains songs from a soulful, independent band who go by the name of The Sevendys.

All photos appearing in this blog entry were originally uploaded to Facebook on November 29, 2013.