Babe Ruth - First Base (1972)
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"Wells Fargo" (Alan Shacklock) – 6:14
"The Runaways" (music: Alan Shacklock, words: David Whiting) – 7:12
"King Kong" (Frank Zappa) – 6:40, recorded in one take, no overdubs
"Black Dog" (Jesse Winchester) – 8:03
"The Mexican" (Alan Shacklock) – 5:45, interpolates Per Qualche Dollaro in Piu (For a Few Dollars More, music by Ennio Morricone)
"Joker" (Alan Shacklock) – 7:42
"Wells Fargo" (single version, CD only; Shacklock) – 3:35
"Theme from For a Few Dollars More" (CD only; Morricone) – 2:19
Babe Ruth Band Members / Musicians
Alan Shacklock - guitar, Hammond organ, percussion, vocals
Janita "Jennie" Haan - vocals
Dave Hewitt - bass guitar
Dick Powell - drums, percussion
Dave Punshon - electric piano, keyboards
Gasper Lawal - conga, bongo, cabasa
Brent Carter - saxophone
Harry Mier - oboe
Peter Halling - cello
Clive Anstee - cello
Manny Fox - cello
Boris Rickleman - cello
Jeff Allen - drums on "The Runaways"
First Base is an album by the rock music group Babe Ruth. Produced by Alan Shacklock and Nick Mobbs, and engineered by Tony Clark at the EMI's Abbey Road Studios between June and September 1972, it was released that year.
The album track "Wells Fargo" — a hard rock song named after the cash-transporting stagecoach line of the American Old West, with lyrics evoking the era's cowboy legend — was released as a single and became an FM radio hit.
Babe Ruth are a rock band from Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England. They were initially active in the 1970s and reformed in 2005.
Babe Ruth Band Members / Musicians
Ed Spevock (born Edmund Anthony Spevock, 14 December 1946, London) – drums (1973–present)
Jenny Haan (born Janita Haan, 9 May 1953, Edgware, Middlesex, now Janita Haan Morris) – lead vocals (1970–1975, 2005–present)
Dave Hewitt (born David John Hewitt, 4 May 1950, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire) – bass, backing vocals (1970–1975, 2005–present)
Alan Shacklock (born Alan Albert Shacklock, 20 June 1950, London) – guitars, backing vocals, organ, percussion, string arrangements (1970–1975, 2005–present)
Dave Punshon – keyboards, piano (1971–1973, 2005–present)
Jeff Allen (born Jeffrey Allen, 23 April 1946, Matlock, Derbyshire) – drums (1970–1971)
Dick Powell – drums, percussion (1971–1973)
Chris Holmes (born Christopher Noel Holmes, 12 September 1945, Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire) – keyboards (1973–1975)
Steve Gurl – keyboards (1975–1976)
Bernie Marsden (born Bernard John Marsden, 7 May 1951, Buckingham, Buckinghamshire) – guitars (1975–1976)
Ellie Hope – lead vocals (1975–1976)
Ray Knott – bass (1975–1976)
Simon Lambeth – guitars, backing vocals (1976)
Babe Ruth Discography Full
First Base (1972)
Amar Caballero (1973)
Babe Ruth (1975)
Stealin' Home (1975)
Kid's Stuff (1976)
Qué Pasa (2009)
Qué Pasa (2021) (Renaissance Records Reissue) (Vinyl)
