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John Lennon - Clock

Label: Sky
Part No.: sky 101; on CD: S.I.A.E. 96-08-101712/01
Country of origin probably Italy
Release date: November 1996
Total time 28:29
No. Title Time Notes by Evelyn Schwarz
1 Aisumasen (I'm Sorry) / Shazam! 5:34 listed as "Aisamussen" on cover, version 1 1:53, interrupted by phone "Who's calling please.." 0:18 + version 2 breakdown 0:23, chat "That's alright.." 0:07, version 3 1:35 ,Yoko speaks in background on the phone, tape drop out at 2:25, Aisumasen 1-3 + chat [4:18] is unbooted, followed by Duane Eddy Jam "Shazam!" [1:16], 25" longer start + 3" longer fade out as on CD "Look At Me" & LP "Lost Lennon Tapes Vol. 20" [LLT20] 28" unbooted

2 Honey Don't 2:43 tape drop out at 0:52, 11" longer fade out as on CD "Look At Me" & LP LLT20 + additional 10" chat 'exactly 22 glitter cigarettes..', 21" unbooted, followed by instrumental which fades in/belongs to 'Glad All Over', 12" longer at start as on CD "Look At Me" & LP LLT20

3 Glad All Over 0:33 together w/jam 1:06, 6" longer at end (4" fade out + 2" chat) as on CD "Look At Me" & LP LLT20, 18" unbooted

4 Lend Me Your Comb 1:26 1" longer at start und 0:03 longer fade out as on CD "Look At Me" & LP LLT20, 4" unbooted

5 NYC (New York City) 0:33 15" ac-guitar instrumental, 3" chat 'You're gonna be in the frame...', 15" ac-guitar instrumental, the instrumental parts are only guitar noodling, hardly the "New York City" song, unbooted

6 Wake Up Little Susie 1:05 0:38 song + 0:27 phone interrupt & chat John 'Hey que pasa?..', unbooted

7 Baby I Don't Care (You're So Quare) 2:03 21" chat 'That's what happened a quarter to.."/glass brokes, 1:42 song, unbooted

8 Vacation Has Just Begun 2:20 song w/long guitar outro, unbooted

9 Heartbeat 1:12 not listed on cover, was already on LP LLT8

10 Peggy Sue Got Married 1:14 was already on LP LLT8

11 Peggy Sue 1 & 2 2:33 0:50 song pt. 1, 0:24 phone interupt/chat 'Who's speaking?', 1:08 song pt. 2, was already on LP LLT8, but the following 3" pause + 10" chat at end 'Now we'd like to change the mood a litte..' are new, 13" unbooted

12 Maybe Baby 2:19 not listed on cover, was already on LP LLT8, but has here 0:11 longer intro, a breakdown at 2:10 [after.'wait and see..' w/new start] 0:10 which were cut out on the LP LLT8 version + 4" more chat at end, 25" unbooted

13 Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues 2:48 not listed on cover, Yoko speaks in background on the phone, was already on LP LLT8, but here 0:03 more chat at start + 0:10 longer fade out, 13" unbooted

14 Rave On 2:02 not listed on cover, 1:13 Song , was already on LP LLT8, but here followed by instrumental jam w/count-in & breakdown at end, jam, 49" unbooted

Comments by Evelyn Schwarz
Sound quality is good to very good. The material is more for the die-hard Lennon-collector with historical interest than the one who wants a piece for joyfull listening. The tracks were recorded in mid-September 1971 in a suite of the St. Regis Hotel, NYC. The cover notice "June 1971" is wrong. It's the soundtrack for the film "Clock". In which one can see an hour passing by on a watch on the hotel wall. The soundtrack consists of Yoko's phone calls, who just compiled exponates for her exhibition "This Is Not Here" in Everson Arts Museum in Syracuse/New York in October 1971. You can hear her permanently chatting on the phone in the background while John plays some of his fave songs from the 50's on acoustic guitar. The film premiered at the Everson exhibtion.
This CD - albeit very short - is very interesting. The material comes from a tape source (film?) and contains some new tracks of this soundtrack, not known by name 'till now. And in comparison to the already available tracks on other bootlegs, there are longer intros & outros and more chat on this CD. Those tracks, said to belong to this soundtrack: "Send Me Some Lovin' " (CD Dreaming Of The Past bzw. LP LLT10, "J. J. (Angela)" (CD Serve Yourself bzw. LP LLT21), "New York City" (LP LLT10) sound very different in their hole 'picture". Even "Not Fade Away" (on LP LLT8) sounds slightly different. IMO they don't belong to this tape. Maybe they were at the film soundtrack, but not from the same recording situation. The tape offers half an hour, with a mention of "that's what happened to a quarter to..." during track 7, so it seems to be the 2nd half of the filmed hour. The first half has not appeared 'till now. (ev - 96/12)

Track listing, scan, track analysis and comments courtesy Evelyn Schwarz and BEATLEMANIA, the bi-monthly German magazine.