Hammond, Albert | It Never Rains/Free Electric B | CD/DVD

Albert Hammond is a British singer and composer, born on 18 May 1944 in London. He grew up in Gibraltar, moved back to England at the age of 18, and in the early 1970s moved to Los Angeles to continue his career as a musician. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame on 19 June 2008, and he is the father of Albert Hammond Jr. of The Strokes.

This is a one-disc CD compilation released by BGO Records in 2004, combining two original albums on a single disc. The albums are It Never Rains In Southern California, originally released as an LP in 1972, and The Free Electric Band, originally released as an LP in 1973. Albert Hammond and Don Altfeld are credited as producers, and Michael Omartian as arranger and conductor.

Track List

1. Listne To The World
2. If You Gotta Break Another Heart
3. From Great Britain to L.A.
4. Brand New Day
5. Anyone Here In The Audiences
6. It Never Rains in Southern California
7. Names, Tags, Numbers And Labels
8. Down By the River
9. The Road to Understanding
10. The Air That I Breathe
11. Smokey Factory Blues
12. The Peacemaker
13. Woman of the World
14. Everything I Want to Do
15. Who's for Lunch Today?
16. The Free Electric Band
17. Rebecca
18. The Day the British Army Lost the War
19. For the Peace of All Mankind
20. I'll Think I'll Go That Way