First Base (album)
1972 studio album by Babe Ruth / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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First Base is the debut album by English rock band Babe Ruth. Produced by guitarist 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 November that year.
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Released | November 1972 | |||
Recorded | June–September 1972 EMI Studios, London | |||
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Length | 41:36 | |||
Label | Harvest EMI (Capitol Records in the US) | |||
Producer | Alan Shacklock, Nick Mobbs | |||
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Singles from First Base | ||||
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 a FM radio hit.[6]
The album went gold in Canada (#87[7]), sold well in the US, but had disappointing sales by comparison in the UK. The song "The Mexican" has been covered and remixed many times. Among them, it was covered in 1984 by John "Jellybean" Benitez with vocals by Janita Haan. "The Mexican" was also mixed into the third track of The Dirtchamber Sessions Volume One by Liam Howlett of The Prodigy in 1999 and covered by GZA in 2015.
The sleeve design, painting and photography were by Roger Dean.