In (The Outsiders album)

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The Outsiders In – also known as simply In or In! – is the third studio album by the Outsiders.

In

Studio Album by the Outsiders

Released:	January 1967
Recorded:	1966
Genres:	Rock and roll · garage rock
Length:	26:31
Label:	Capitol
Producer:	Tom King

Chronology

Album #2
(1966)

In
(1966)

Happening Live!
(1966)

The Outsiders In – also known as simply In or In! – is the third studio album by the Outsiders. It is the first album released by the band that did not make the Billboard charts.^[2]

CONTENTS

Release Data

Cover Art

Notes on the Tracks

Original LP

CD Bonus Tracks

Personnel

Track Listing

Side 1

Side 2

CD Bonus Tracks

References

Release Data

The album was released in the LP format on Capitol in January 1967 in both monaural and stereophonic editions (catalogue numbers T 2636 and ST 2636, respectively).

Although never released individually as a CD, the band’s third and fourth albums were reissued on Liberty Bell as a “two-fer” CD (catalogue number PCD-4366), along with bonus tracks.

Cover Art

The album’s cover uses a photograph from the same photo session as the photos on the front and back cover of Album #2, recognizable from the scenery and the fact that all five band members are wearing the same outfits. Clockwise from the bottom, the members are Sonny Geraci, Mert Madsen, Bill Bruno, Ricky Baker, and Tom King.

Notes on the Tracks

Original LP

The fourth and fifth singles released by the Outsiders are included on this album. “Help Me Girl” was the last Top 40 single by the Outsiders and competed with another version of the song by the Animals that was released in the same time period. The “B” side, “You Gotta Look” was written by Bob Turek, who was now augmenting the songwriting talents of Tom King and Chet Kelley; both sides of the next single, “I’ll Give You Time To Think It Over” and “I’m Not Trying To Hurt You” were written by all three of them, as were two additional tracks on the album, “Haunted by Your Love” and “It’s Your Love”. “I’ll Give You Time” was the first Outsiders single which failed to crack the Billboard Hot 100 and features a haunting tone that differs sharply from their typically upbeat singles.

This album included the second recording (the first was by an all-female band called the Models, in 1966) of “Bend Me, Shape Me“, more than a year before the song became a U.S. hit for the American Breed and a U.K. hit for Amen Corner. In February 1967 – one month after this album was released – “Kind of a Drag” became a number one hit for the Buckinghams.

CD Bonus Tracks

The first two tracks are both sides of the second single that was released by Sonny Geraci for the new band that he organized in Los Angeles; the single was released under the name the Outsiders but was later credited to Climax. The earlier single released in this manner was included in the bonus tracks on the first of the two Liberty Bell CDs. The next two tracks are from a single released by the Outsiders under Tom King‘s direction, when he reorganized the band in Cleveland; the new lead singer replacing Geraci was Jon Simonell. “Waiting for the End to Come” and “Park Preserve” are other selections by Climax, with the latter being the flip side of the band’s hit single “Precious and Few“.

Personnel

Tom King, rhythm guitar, tenor saxophone, vocals, arranger, songwriter
Sonny Geraci, lead vocals
Mert Madsen, bass guitar
Al Austin, lead guitar
Ronnie Harkai, drums
Jimmy Fox, drums
Chet Kelley, songwriter
Mike Geraci, saxophone
Evan Vanguard, horns
Tommy Baker, horns and strings arrangements

Track Listing

All tracks composed by Tom King, Chet Kelley, and Bob Turek except where indicated.

Side 1

“I’m Not Tryin’ to Hurt You”, 1:55
“Help Me Girl” (Scott English, Laurence Weiss), 2:35
“Bend Me, Shape Me” (Scott English, Laurence Weiss), 1:55
“Kind of a Drag” (Jim Holvay), 2:36
“Haunted by Your Love”, 2:44
“Charlena” (Manuel Chavez, Herman Chaney), 2:18

Side 2

“You Gotta Look” (Turek), 2:38
“I’ll Give You Time (to Think it Over)”, 2:33
“Gimme Some Lovin’ ” (Steve Winwood, Muff Winwood, Spencer Davis), 2:45
“I Wanna Be Free” (Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart), 2:04
“It’s Your Love”, 2:28

CD Bonus Tracks

When released by Liberty Bell, the CD included the tracks on this album in the same order as on that LP,
followed by the tracks on Happening Live! in the same order, then these bonus tracks:

“Loving You”
“Think I’m Falling”, solo version
“Tinker Tailer”, feat. Jon Simonell
“You’re Not So Pretty”, feat. Jon Simonell
“Waiting for the End to Come”
“Park Preserve”, full-length stereo version

References

Allmusic review (https://www.allmusic.com/album/r46173).
The Outsiders Billboard charts history (http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-outsiders-p5085/charts-awards), Allmusic. Retrieved October 27, 2011.

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