No Dice
album
by Badfinger
compiled by
Tom Brennan
last update:
August 03, 2024
NO
DICE
recorded:
April-August, 1970
at Abbey Road
Studios & Trident Studios, London
produced by: Geoff Emerick (*Mal Evans)
engineered by: John Kurlander & Richard Lush
music director: Harry Robinson (overdubs for "We're For The Dark" and
"I Can't Take It")
thanks to: Fergie, Nick and Bill
original sleeve design by Gene Mahon and Richard LiLello [alternate
cover photo of model]
photographs by Richard DiLello
U.S. release on November 9, 1970 on Apple SKAO-3367
[cover shown above & gatefold shown below]
commerical 4-track stereo reel-to-reel tape on Apple
(manufactured by Ampex)
[front of box
with tape reel | front
of box with top edge shown | back
of box]
Cash Box top 140 album chart: Peaked at #31 on
December 26, 1970 and January 02, 1971. Charted for 14 weeks from
November 28, 1970 to February 27, 1971.
U.K. release on November 27, 1970 on Apple SAPCOR 16 [
back cover | side
1 label | side
2 label ]
click on LP images
above to view larger equivalent CD images
Side One:
I
Can't Take It
I Don't
Mind
Love Me Do
Midnight
Caller
No
Matter What*
Without
You
Side Two:
Blodwyn
Pete Ham : "This is all about love spoons. They make
them in Wales. It's like an ornamental spoon which you give to your
girlfriend as a proposal."
Better
Days
Tom Evans: "It's all about the relationship between
young and old."
It Had To
Be
Watford
John
Believe Me*
We're
For The Dark
Pete Ham lifted the title from Shakespeare's "Anthony
and Cleopatra" play, from Act 5, Scene 2.
excerpt) Iras: "Finish, good lady. The bright day is done, and we
are for the dark."
thanks to Keith James (Badfinger File issue 17, page 16)
Cassette
tape
Apple 4XT-3367
[
Program
1 | Program
2 ]
8-track
tapes
Apple 8XT-3367
Program 1:
I Can't Take It
Love Me Do
Better Days
Program 2:
It Had To Be
Midnight Caller
Without You
Program 3:
Blodwyn
Watford John
No Matter What
Program 4:
I Don't Mind
Believe Me
We're For The Dark
"Pirate"
release - A121
back
with track listings | end
with catalog number
Program 1:
Better Days
Believe
Me
It Had To Be
Program 2:
Love
Me Do
Watford
John
Blodwyn
Program 3:
We're
For The Dark
No Matter What
Midnight
Caller
Program 4:
Without
You
I Don't Mind
I
Can't Take It
U.S. CD release on June
30, 1992 on Apple CDP 7 98698 2.
Reissue digitally mastered and researched by Ron Furmanek
Digitally remastered at Abbey Road Studios, London, England, October
1991
engineered by: Mike Jarratt
mastered from the original 2-track stereo master mix tapes
"Get Down" and "Friends Are Hard To Find" are mixed for stereo from
the 8-track master session tapes by Ron Furmanek and Mike Jarratt
Reissue package by Phil Smee at Waldo's Design
Sleeve notes by Steve Kolanjian
1992 CD Bonus Tracks:
Get Down
[recorded July 25, 1970]
Friends
Are Hard To Find (a.k.a. Photograph)* [recorded April 18,
1970]
Mean Mean Jemima [recorded January 1971]
Loving You [recorded February 1971]
I'll Be The One [recorded January 1971]
U.S. CD release on October 25, 2010 on Apple (5099990580727) [CD
label]
Remastered by Guy Massey, Steve Rooke, Sam Okell from the original
2-track stereo master mix tapes
Abbey Road Project Coordinator: Allan Rouse
Audio Restoration: Simon Gibson
Album Reissue Producers: Andy Davis, Mike Heatley
EMI Project Manager: Guy Hayden
Tea, sympathy and guidance: Jeff Jones, Jonathan Clyde & Garth
Tweedale
Notes by Andy Davis
Special thanks to Joey Molland & Geoff Emerick
Album Re-design: Darren Evans
Apple archive management: Aaron Bremner
Photo & memorabilia research: Carl Bigmore, Dorcas Lynn, Andy
Davis & Jeremy Colebrooke
2010 CD Bonus Tracks:
13. I Can't Take It [previously unreleased extended version] produced
by Geoff Emerick [recorded June 27, 1970]
14. Without You [previously unreleased studio demo version, mono]
produced by Mal Evans [recorded April 18, 1970]
15. Photograph (previously released as Friends Are Hard To Find) [alternate
extended stereo mix]
produced by Mal Evans [recorded April 18, 1970]
16. Believe Me [previously unreleased alternative version]
produced by Mal Evans [recorded April 18, 1970]
17. No Matter What [previously unreleased studio demo version, mono]
produced by Mal Evans [recorded
April 18, 1970]
Download-only bonus tracks:
Love Me Do [instrumental version] produced by Geoff Emerick [recorded July 1970]
Get Down [previously unreleased long version, stereo] produced
by Mal Evans [recorded
April 18, 1970]
