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| Three Week Hero
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| Type
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Studio album
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| Artist
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PJ Proby
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| Release Date
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8 April 1969
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| Recorded
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September 1968 at Olympic Studios, London.
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| Genre
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Rock, blues rock, pop
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| Language
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English
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| Length
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39 min 26 sec
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| Label
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Liberty Records
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| Catalogue
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LBS 83219 (US), LBL 83219 (UK)
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| Producer
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Steve Rowland
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| Engineer
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Mike Weighell
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Three Week Hero is an album released by rock singer PJ Proby on 8 April 1969, by Liberty Records. The album contains a mixture of dramatic pop, blues, rock, and country style songs, a departure from Proby's trademark pop sound of the 1960s. While it did not succeed commercially, it is best remembered today as the first time all four members of Led Zeppelin recorded together in the studio, which revived interest in the recording.[1] Proby recollects:
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Come the last day we found we had some studio time, so I just asked the band to play while I just came up with the words. ... They weren't Led Zeppelin at the time, they were the New Yardbirds and they were going to be my band.[2]
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Members of Led Zeppelin were invited to participate after John Paul Jones had already pre-booked the session as a commitment prior to August 1968.[3] The medley "Jim's Blues/George Wallace Is Rollin' In This Mornin'," features all four members with Plant playing harmonica and tambourine. "Today I Killed a Man" reached number 13 on the Dutch singles chart.[4] The song "Sugar Mama" recorded by Led Zeppelin at Morgan Studios in 1969, is not the same "Sugar Mama" recorded on this album. The album was reissued on CD in October 1993.
| Album information
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Track listing:
- "Three Week Hero" (John Stewart) – 2:56
- "The Day That Lorraine Came Down" (Young) – 3:14
- "Little Friend" (Robin Gair, Peter Mason) – 4:01
- "Empty Bottles" (Albert Hammond, Mike Hazlewood) – 2:53
- "Reflections (of Your Face)" (Amory Kane) - 5:14
- "Won't Be Long" (J Leslie McFarland) - 3:41
- "Sugar Mama" (Woodley, Young) – 2:50
- "I Have a Dream" (Terry Hansley, Alec Wilder) – 4:45
- "It's Too Good to Last" (Baker, Stephens) – 3:14
- "New Directions" (Albert Hammond, Mike Hazlewood) – 3:46
- "Today I Killed a Man" (Roger Cooke, Roger Greenway) - 3:24
- "Medley: It's So Hard to Be a Nigger/Jim's Blues/George Wallace is Rollin' in This Mornin'" (Hillery, traditional) – 7:38
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Chart history
Album
| Chart (1969)
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Peak position
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| US Billboard The 200 Albums Chart
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Singles
| Year
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Single
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Chart
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Position
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| 1969
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"Today I Killed a Man"
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US Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart (Pop Singles)
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| Personnel
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- Musicians:
- PJ Proby - vocals
- Jimmy Page – acoustic, electric, and pedal steel guitar
- Robert Plant – harmonica, tambourine, backing vocals
- John Paul Jones – bass guitar, keyboards, arranger
- John Bonham - drums, conga, percussion
- Amory Kane - acoustic guitar, strings
- Alan Parker - electric guitar
- Alan Hawkshaw - piano
- Clem Cattini - drums
- Stan Barrett - percussion
- Dennis Lopez - percussion
- Production:
- Steve Rowland – producer, arranger
- Mike Weighell - engineer
- Spencer Leigh - liner notes
- Gustav Karl Moody - art direction, cover design
- Steve Thomas - art direction
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Notes
