Everybody Knows Mistaken Identity Friends Again 42nd St. Psycho Blues She's Made Of Porcelain Sweet Misery When I Was A Child What Do You Think Of The Dead? Look To The Rain Son Of Love Baby's Blue The basics: Produced by Janis Ian & Carol Hunter, engineered by Phil Ramone; recorded early 1968 at Century Sound, NY; released August 1968 (Verve/Forecast). Richie Havens guests. 5 songs from this album were used in the Paul Leaf film Sunday Father, starring Dustin Hoffman. Sweet Misery is the end title for the film Desert Blue (1999). Inside scoop: Shadow was undergoing serious personal problems at the time and didn't show up for sessions; being only an artist and underage, Janis was often forced to sit idly with the musicians while waiting for him; the record company would neither cancel the session without word from Shadow, nor allow Janis to take over. In the end, production details were renegotiated after the entire budget had been wasted; Janis and Carol Hunter then went in with a drummer and recorded a new album in a couple of weeks. Meanwhile, Janis had moved out of her parents' home and was living in a hotel. She's Made Of Porcelain was written on a dare, when her manager said no one could write a song "to order" in half an hour. Janis wrote it about her manager, leaving it on the desk when she was done. This album uses a very early form of the synthesizer, the ondeoleon. The album cover, which features friends of Janis' wearing masks (everyone from her father to other performers), won several awards. |