Aerial Pandemonium Ballet
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| Aerial Pandemonium Ballet | ||||
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| Released | June 1971 | |||
| Recorded | Late 1966–1968 (new vocals and remix, 1971) | |||
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| Length | 29:58 | |||
| Label | RCA Victor | |||
| Producer | Harry Nilsson Rick Jarrard | |||
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Aerial Pandemonium Ballet is a 1971 album by Harry Nilsson which reimagined recordings from his early albums Pandemonium Shadow Show (1967) and Aerial Ballet (1968). It is one of the first-ever remix albums.
With the successes of "Everybody's Talkin'" and The Point! creating demand for Nilsson recordings, a reissue of his first two RCA Victor albums (Pandemonium Shadow Show and Aerial Ballet), then out of print, was considered. Nilsson thought that his early albums already sounded somewhat dated by 1971, so he returned to the studio with the master tapes, remixed, tweaked, and re-recorded vocals, and came up with a new consolidation that he titled Aerial Pandemonium Ballet.
Aerial Pandemonium Ballet includes four songs from Pandemonium Shadow Show ("1941", "Without Her", "River Deep - Mountain High", and "Sleep Late, My Lady Friend") and eight songs from Aerial Ballet ("Daddy's Song", "Good Old Desk", "Don't Leave Me", "Mr. Richland's Favorite Song", "Together", "Everybody's Talkin'", "One", and "Bath").
The songs from Pandemonium Shadow Show not included in Aerial Pandemonium Ballet are "Ten Little Indians", "Cuddly Toy", "She Sang Hymns Out of Tune", "You Can't Do That", "She's Leaving Home", "There Will Never Be", "Freckles", and "It's Been So Long". The songs from Aerial Ballet not included in Aerial Pandemonium Ballet are "Little Cowboy", "I Said Goodbye to Me", "Little Cowboy (Reprise)", "Mr. Tinker", and "The Wailing of the Willow".
