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First Base (album)
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| First Base | ||||
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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 | |||
| Babe Ruth chronology | ||||
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| Singles from First Base | ||||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| Christgau's Record Guide | C+[2] |
| Creem | B−[3] |
| The Rolling Stone Record Guide | [4] |
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.
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 an FM radio hit.[5]
The album went gold in Canada (#87[6]), 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.
- ^ a b c "First Base - Babe Ruth - Songs, Reviews, Credits - AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
- ^ a b Christgau, Robert (1981). "Babe Ruth: First Base". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved 31 August 2018.
- ^ Christgau, Robert (November 1973). "The Christgau Consumer Guide". Creem. Retrieved 31 August 2018.
- ^ The Rolling Stone Record Guide. Random House. 1979. p. 18.
- ^ Luhrssen, David; Larson, Michael (2017). Encyclopedia of Classic Rock. ABC-CLIO. p. 11. ISBN 1440835144.
- ^ "RPM Top 100 Albums - July 27, 1974" (PDF).
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