Tim Hardin Recordings
Below are the albums I own or know about from assorted sources. Some are still available in vinyl or CD format, although access to them will depend on the country you are trying to buy them in. Sadly, although Verve/Polydor has re-released their catalogue on CD, CBS (now Sony) has been a bit slower in bringing out old material by less well known artists, so the best way to get hold of later material by Tim Hardin may be through second hand shops or record fairs. Browse through this section for a track or album you want, then take a look at the Record Values page for details of some links to Internet record sellers - new and second-hand.
Compilations
| Hang On to a
Dream The Verve Recordings |
1994 Polydor CD 314 521 583-2 | ||||
| Don't Make
Promises Green Rocky Road Smugglin' Man How Long While You're on Your Way It'll Never Happen Again Reason to Believe Never Too Far Part of the Wind Ain't Gonna Do Without Misty Roses How Can We Hang on to a Dream If I Were a Carpenter Red Balloon Black Sheep Boy Lady Came From Baltimore Baby Close its Eyes You Upset the Grace of Living When You Lie Speak Like a Child See Where You Are and Get Out It's Hard to Believe in Love for Long Tribute to Hank Williams While You're on Your Way (Alternative ver.) It'll Never Happen Again (Alternative ver.) Airmobile Whiskey Whiskey Seventh Son Danville Dame House of the Rising Sun Bo Diddley I Can't Slow Down Hello Baby Rolling Stone You Got a Reputation Keep Your Hands Off Her Nobody Knows You (When You're Down and Out) Hootchie Kootchie Man So Glad You're Mine You Can't Judge a Book By It's Cover She Ain't Home You Say You Love Me How Time Flies You Can Ruin a Man If I Knew She's Up To Something New Who'll Be The Man First Love Song |
Double CD
containing most of the tracks from the original Verve
studio albums along with other tracks recorded before the
move to CBS that were re-recorded and released on the
Suite for Susan Moore album. Probably the essential CD to
have for all the most popular early material. Tracks 1 - 12 Tim Hardin 1 Tracks 13 - 22 Tim Hardin 2 Tracks 23, 24 Previously unreleased Tracks 25 - 32 Tim Hardin 4 Tracks 33 - 47 Previously unreleased Chronologically, much of the material on Tim Hardin 4 was demo material recorded in May 1964 around the same time as the material that ended up on This Is Tim Hardin. He was unhappy when Verve released this "inferior" material in 1969. The material for Tim Hardin 1 was recorded in July 1966 and for Tim Hardin 2 in April 1967. The musicians involved are: Tim Hardin - piano, guitar John Sebastian - harmonica Gary Burton - vibes Phil Krauss - vibes Buddy Saltzman - drums Earl Palmer - drums Sticks Evans - drums Walter Yost - bass Bob Bushnell - bass Felix Pappalardi - bass Art Butler - strings Produced by Erik Jacobsen |
Reason To BelieveThe Best of Tim Hardin |
1987 Polydor CD 833 954-2 | |
| Reason to
Believe How Can We Hang on to a Dream It'll Never Happen Again Misty Roses Speak Like a Child* Don't Make Promises If I Were a Carpenter* Red Balloon* Black Sheep Boy* Green Rocky Road How Long^ You Upset the Grace of Living When You Lie* Tribute to Hank Williams* Smugglin' Man Lady Came from Baltimore* |
All tracks taken from
Tim Hardin 1, except * (Tim Hardin 2) and ^ (Tim Hardin
IV). Musicians and producer as listed above. |
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| Simple Songs of Freedom The Tim Hardin Collection |
1996 Sony Legacy series CD 485108-2 |
| Simple Song of Freedom Shiloh Town* Turn the Page* Playing Cards/The Magician* First Love Song^ Last Sweet Moments^ If I Knew Hoboin' Andre Johray Southern Butterfly Bird on the Wire Midnight Caller Yankee Lady Till We Meet Again I'll Be Home If I Knew* Thanks to Gideon* |
Track 1 released only as a
single Versions marked * previously unreleased Songs marked ^ recorded "live" (see biography for explanation). Tracks 5,6 taken from Suite for Susan Moore (track 4 also on this album in a different form) Tracks 7,8,9,10,11 taken from Bird on a Wire Tracks 12,13,14,15 taken from Painted Head |
| Person To Person The Essential Classic Hardin 1963-1980 |
2000 Raven Records, Australia RVCD-104 |
| You Got to Have More Than
One Woman DanvilleDame I Can't Slow Down Airmobile How Can We Hang On To A Dream Reason to Believe Misty Roses Don't Make Promises It'll Never Happen Again If I Were a Carpenter Lady Came From Baltimore Red Balloon Black Sheep Boy Tribute to Hank Williams Smugglin' Man Simple Song of Fredom Everything Good Become More True Once Touched by Flame Love Hymn Southern Butterfly Moonshiner Hoboin' Sweet Lady Do The Do Never Too Far Person to Person Speak Like a Child |
1 & 2 from This is Tim
Hardin 3 & 4 from Tim Hardin 4 5 - 9 from Tim Hardin 1 10 - 14 from Tim Hardin 2 15 from Tim Hardin 3 (live album) 16 released only as a single 17 & 18 from Suite for Susan Moore 19 - 22 from Bird on a Wire 23 & 24 from Painted Head 25 & 26 from Nine 27 from Homecoming Concert For composers of the non-Hardin songs, please see studio albums listed below. |
Black Sheep BoyAn Introduction to Tim Hardin |
2002 Polydor CD 589 812-2 | |
| Black Sheep Boy* It'll Never Happen Again Misty Roses Part of the Wind Red Balloon* Baby Close It's Eyes* Speak Like a Child* Never Too Far While You're On Your Way How Can We Hang on to a Dream If I Knew !! You Got a Reputation !! Lady Came from Baltimore* You Upset the Grace of Living When You Lie+ Tribute to Hank Williams* Danville Dame^ Reason to Believe Unforgiven@ |
All tracks taken from
Tim Hardin 1, except * (Tim Hardin 2) + (Tim Hardin 3 - Live in Concert) ^ (Tim Hardin IV) and @ (The Unforgiven). !! - unreleased at the time of recording, but subsequently released on the double CD Hang on to a Dream - The Verve Recordings Musicians and producer as listed above. |
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| Millennium Collection | 2002 Universal CD 440016405-2 | |
| Don't Make
Promises Green Rocky Road Reason to Believe Smugglin' Man Misty Roses How Can We Hang on to a Dream It'll Never Happen Again If I Were a Carpenter* Red Balloon* Black Sheep Boy* Lady Came from Baltimore* You Upset the Grace of Living When You Lie* |
All tracks taken from
Tim Hardin 1, except * (Tim Hardin 2) Musicians and producer as listed above. |
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| The Memorial Album | 1981 Polydor PD-1-6333 Vinyl & cassette |
| If I Were a Carpenter Black Sheep Boy Misty Roses Green Rocky Road How Long Don't Make Promises Smugglin' Man Hello Baby Reason to Believe How Can We Hang On To A Dream Lady Came From Baltimore It'll Never Happen Again |
Album released shortly after Tim's death, whether as a genuine memorial to his work or as a quick cash-in on the publicity surrounding his demise. Ironically, the liner notes express regret that his passing was overshrouded by the murder of John Lennon and so the album probably didn't get the sales that it might have done. |
| The Shock of Grace (a.k.a. State of Grace) | 1981 Columbia PC 37164 Vinyl only |
| Magician Love Hymn First Love Song Everything Good Become More True Yankee Lady Hoboin' Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out Country That I'm Living In If I Knew Bird on the Wire |
Another release to follow on
from Tim's death, this time compiling some of the best
material recorded for CBS/Columbia Tracks 1, 3, 4 & 8 taken from Suite for Susan Moore Tracks 2, 6, 9 &10 taken from Bird on a Wire Tracks 5 & 7 taken from Painted Head |
| The Best of Tim Hardin | 1971 Verve-Forecast FTS 3078 Vinyl |
| Don't Make Promises It'll Never Happen Again Tribute to Hank Williams Misty Roses How Can We Hang On To A Dream If I Were a Carpenter Reason to Believe Black Sheep Boy Red Balloon Smugglin' Man Lady Came From Baltimore |
A Best of album put out by
Verve after Tim moved to Columbia. It features tracks
from the first two albums. The running time was less than
half an hour, suggesting that this was designed to take
away the impact from the release of a studio album -
possibly Bird on a Wire. (Information thanks to Ken Balkow.) |
Studio Albums
| This is Tim Hardin | 1968 Atco (Atlantic) 33 210, 1989 Edsel ED 309 (both vinyl); 1998 Atlantic 80780-2 CD |
| I can't Slow Down Blues on the Ceiling (Fred Neil) Stagger Lee (Traditional) I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man (Willie Dixon) I've Been Working on the Railroad (Traditional) House of the Rising Sun (Traditional) Fast Freight Cocaine Bill (Traditional) You Got to Have More Than One Woman Danville Dame |
No personnel information
available, but believed to be the same musicians as on
Tim Hardin 1. Produced by Erik Jacobsen Believed to have been recorded at CBS studios in 1964 as a demo prior to signing for Verve. Released by Atlantic in 1967, following the success of the two Verve albums. The re-release in 2000 was part of a series of releases to commemorate Atlantic's fiftieth anniversary |
| Tim Hardin 1 | 1966 Verve (vinyl) FTS
3004 1992 Line (CD) LMCD 9.5113 Z |
| Don't Make
Promises Green Rocky Road Smugglin' Man How Long While You're on Your Way It'll Never Happen Again Reason to Believe Never Too Far Part of the Wind Ain't Gonna Do Without Misty Roses Hang on to a Dream |
Tim Hardin -
piano, guitar John Sebastian - harmonica Gary Burton - vibes Phil Krauss - vibes Buddy Saltzman - drums Earl Palmer - drums Walter Yost - bass Bob Bushnell - bass Art Butler - strings Produced by Erik Jacobsen All songs written by Tim Hardin |
| Tim Hardin 2 | 1967 Verve (vinyl) FTS
3022 1992 Line (CD) LMCD 9.51069 Z |
| If I Was a Carpenter Red Balloon Black Sheep Boy Lady Came From Baltimore Baby Close its Eyes You Upset the Grace of Living When You Lie Speak Like a Child See Where You Are and Get Out It's Hard to Believe in Love for Long Tribute to Hank Williams |
No personnel information available, but believed to be similar to those on Tim Hardin 1, as above. |
| Tim Hardin 3 - Live in Concert | 1968 Verve (vinyl) FTS
3049 1992 Line, 1995 Polydor CD 31452 7448 |
| Lady Came From Baltimore Reason to Believe You Upset the Grace of Living When You Lie Misty Roses Turn the Page* Black Sheep Boy Lenny's Tune Don't Make Promises Danville Dame If I Was a Carpenter Red Balloon Tribute to Hank Williams Smugglin' Man If I Knew* Last Sweet Moment* First Love Song* |
Tim Hardin - guitar, piano Warren Bernhardt - piano, clavinet Daniel Hankin - guitar Mike Mainieri - vibes Eddie Gomez - bass Donald McDonald - drums Produced by Gary Klein Recorded live at the Town Hall, New York City on 10 April, 1968. Tracks marked * were not released on the original vinyl album, but are on the CD. |
| Tim Hardin IV | 1969 Verve (vinyl) FTS
3064 1992 Line (CD) LMCD 9.51091 Z |
| Airmobile Whiskey Whiskey Seventh Son How Long Danville Dame Ain't Gonna Do Without (Parts 1 & 2) House of the Rising Sun Bo Diddley I Can't Slow Down Hello Baby |
No personnel information
available, but believed to be similar to those on Tim
Hardin 1 and 2. These tracks were recorded before the release of Tim Hardin 1 (around the same time as This Is Tim Hardin) and were issued against his wishes at the point when Tim moved to CBS. Produced by Erik Jacobsen. |
| Suite For Susan Moore and Damion - We Are One, One, All in One | 1969 CBS (Vinyl) 63571 Columbia CS9787 Now released (1999) on a 2-for-1 CD along with Bird On A Wire on BGO (BGOCD470) |
| First Love Song Everything Good Becomes More True Question of Birth* Once-Touched by Flame Last Sweet Moments Magician Loneliness She Knows* The Country I'm Living In One, One, the Perfect Sum Susan* |
Tim Hardin - keyboards,
guitar Warren Bernhardt - keyboards Gary Klein - keyboards Donald McDonald - drums Monte Dunn - guitar Produced by Gary Klein All songs and poems written by Tim Hardin * Spoken word, with musical accompaniment . |
| Bird on a Wire | 1971 CBS (Vinyl) 64335 Now released (1999) on a 2-for-1 CD along with Suite For Susan Moore on BGO (BGOCD470) |
| Bird on the Wire (Leonard
Cohen) Moonshiner Southern Butterfly A Satisfied Mind (Hayes/Rhodes) Soft Summer Breeze Hoboin' (John Lee Hooker) Georgia On My Mind (Hoagy Carmichael) Andre Johray If I Knew Love Hymn |
Keyboards - Warren
Bernhardt, Joe Zawinul, Bill Chelf, Paul Horsnby Guitar - Tim Hardin, Joe Rudd, Sam Brown, Ralph Towner, Monte Dunn, Ed Freeman Bass - Tony Levin, Robert Popwell,, Glen Moore, Miroslav Vitous, Robbie Rothstein Drums & percussion - Al Mouzon, Natoga, Steve Haas, Bill Stewart, Ralph McDonald, Robert Popwell Vibes - Mike Mainieri, Colin Wolcott Produced by Ed Freeman Songs, unless indicated, by Tim Hardin |
| Painted Head | 1973 CBS (Vinyl) 65209 Columbia KC31764 Never released on CD |
| You Can't Judge a Book by
the Cover (Dixon) Midnight Caller (Ham) Yankee Lady (Winchester) Lonesome Valley (Trad. Arr. Hardin) Sweet Lady (Dino/Sambello) Do the Do (Willie Dixon) Perfection (Ham) Till We Meet Again (Heppard) I'll Be Home (Randy Newman) Nobody Loves You When You're Down and Out (Cox) |
Guitars - Peter Frampton,
Alun Davies, Tim Hardin, Alan Ross, Jeff Schwartz Keyboards - Jean Roussel, Neil Shepherd, Tony Meehan Bass - Chris Stewart Harmonica - Don Brooks Fiddle - Larry Packer Drums & percussion - Bruce Rolands, Tony Meehan, Tristan Fry, Tony Carr, Rod Murfield, Dennis Lopez, Reebop Kwakubaah Produced by Tony Meehan |
| Nine | 1974 GM/Antilles (Re-released on Marquee 1990 MQCLP/MQCCD 003 and on See For Miles 1992 SEECD 335) |
| Shiloh Town (traditional) Never Too Far Rags & Old Iron (Curtis/Brown) Look Our Love Over Person to Person Darling Girl (Albequerque) Blues on my Ceiling Is There No Rest for the Weary (Troiano) Fire and Rain (Taylor) While You're on Your Way Judge and Jury (Previously released as a single & not on Marquee version, but on CD) |
Produced by Jimmy Horowitz Keyboards - John Mealing Jimmy Horowitz Guitars - Bob Cohen, Peter Frampton Bass Andy Brown Drums Mike Driscoll Vocal chorus Lesley Duncan, Liza Strike, Madelaine Bell, Susan Glover |
| The Homecoming Concert | 1981 Kamera Records (Re-released 1987 Line Records CD LICD 9.00040 O) |
| Black Sheep Boy Misty Roses Reason to Believe Lady Came from Baltimore Old Blue Jeans Hang On to a Dream If I Were a Carpenter Tribute to Hank Williams Smugglin' Man Speak Like a Child Red Balloon Amen |
Recorded and produced by Phil Freeman Concert held in the Community Centre for the Performing Arts, Eugene Oregon on 17 January, 1980, eleven months before his death. Tim Hardin - guitar, piano, vocals All songs written by Tim Hardin except Amen (traditional, arr. Hardin) |
| The Unforgiven | 1981 San Francisco Sound/Warrior Records (vinyl only) SFS 1081 |
| Unforgiven Luna Cariba Mercy Wind If I Were Still With You Judge & Jury Partly Yours Sweet Feeling Secret |
Tim Hardin - guitar, piano, vocals Johnny Lee - guitar Peter Grant - pedal steel guitar Reginald Butler - bass Ricky Fatar, Denny Seiwell - drums Jim Cuomo - piano, dombra, Nicky Hopkins, Ken Lauber - piano Produced by Don & Caroline Rubin |
| This final album was recorded shortly before his death and only a few tracks were completed. It is obvious from the sound quality that some tracks were recorded at home - the piano is not properly miked up - and more work ought to have been done before release. However, it shows the route that Tim was taking and the desire to get back into the public eye. The title track was subsequently recorded by Joe Cocker and released as a single. Although the album has never made it to CD (and probably never will), the title track is available on the Polydor compilation CD Black Sheep Boy. | |
Video
| Reason to Believe - the Interview How Can We Hang On to a Dream - the Songs |
1980/2000 Americam, Seattle |
| Hang On to a Dream* Misty Roses Lady Came From Baltimore Reason to Believe Black Sheep Boy If I Were a Carpenter Tribute to Hank Williams Hooked on You* |
This video was recorded 11 months before
his death It consists of an interview by Phil Hartman,
with some songs interspersed, then a performance of 8
songs recorded in a rehearsal studio in preparation for
his Homecoming Concert. Although it may have been broadcast quality video equipment that was used, there was only a single camera and so the whole thing is fairly static. After the fascinating Hardin interview, Hartman talks to Don Rubin, who produced several albums, including The Unforgiven. Rubin tends to offer a different interpretation of events. * Tim accompanies himself on piano - on all other tracks, he plays guitar. |
DVD
| Woodstock Diaries | 2002 Direct Video Distribution DVDSV3001D |
| If I Were a Carpenter + 30 tracks performed by various artists. |
Performances by a whole range of people who appeared at Woodstock, including this unique chance to see Tim, who was not seen in the original edit of the movie. |
Singles
1966 - Hang on to a Dream /Reason to Believe
1967 - Don't Make Promises/Misty Roses
1967 - Hang on to a Dream/Misty Roses; Forecast 5031 (reached #50 in UK charts)
1967 - Never Too Far/Green Rocky Road
1967 - Black Sheep Boy/Misty Roses
1967 - The Lady Came From Baltimore/Black Sheep Boy
1967 - The Lady Came From Baltimore / Don't Make Promises; Verve PB 3078 (TH2 / TH1)
1968 - Tribute to Hank Williams/You Upset the Grace of Living
1968 - Don't Make Promises/Smugglin' Man
1968 - Smugglin' Man/Reason to Believe
1969 - Once Touched By Flame/Question of Birth
1969 - Simple Song of Freedom/Question of Birth; Columbia 4-44920 (reached #50 in US charts) (Unrel/Suite)
1971 - Bird on the Wire/Bird on the Wire; Columbia 4-45426 (BotW)
1973 - Do the Do/Sweet Lady
1990 - Fire and Rain/Do the Do; Marquee
Tim appears on the 1973 Reading Festival live album (See For Miles CD, 1992), performing Hang On to a Dream & Person to Person.
He's on the sampler, "The Greater Antilles Sampler", performing Never Too Far.
He also appears on the 1994 CD Woodstock Diary, performing If I Were a Carpenter. The same song appears on the 4 CD boxed set of Woodstock. He can be seen (if you don't blink) on the movie Woodstock - the Director's Cut, walking through the crowd, guitar in hand. Sadly, his performance was not retained for the movie. However, a DVD was released in June 2002, called Woodstock Diaries (DVDSV3001D) which contains Tim's performance of If I Were a Carpenter. This is a unique opportunity to see him.
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A Tribute To Tim Hardin
- Various Artists A CD of covers of Tim Hardin songs has been released in Holland. The songs are all by Dutch singers. and the performances are in a fascinating range of styles, as one would expect with a tribute album. If you want to get hold of a copy of this CD (only a limited edition of 500 copies were made) you should try sending an e-mail to this address: info@lawaaizone.nl The CD is beautifully packaged, with full lyrics - recommended. |
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