"FRANKENSTEIN" ● THE EDGAR WINTER GROUP
THE EDGAR WINTER GROUP ● L to R: Chuck Ruff, Rick Derringer, Dan Hartman, Edgar Winter / Oct.1, 1975 PR Photo
"FRANKENSTEIN" ● THE EDGAR WINTER GROUP
The Song● Frankenstein
Writer● Edgar Winter
Producers● Rick Derringer
Recorded● Late 1972
Released● 1973
Players●
Edgar Winter -- guitar
Ronnie Montrose -- guitar
Chuck Ruff -- drums
Dan Hartman -- bass
Album● They Only Come Out At Night (Epic, 1972)
Also On●
:: The Edgar Winter Collection (Rhino, 1986)
:: Edgar Winter & Rick Derringer Live In Japan (Capitol, 1990)
:: Not A Kid Anymore (Intersound, 1994)
:: The Best Of Edgar Winter (Epic/Legacy, 2002)
:: Live At The Galaxy (Classic Pictures, 2003)
They Only Come Out at Night ●
They Only Come Out at Night is The Edgar Winter Group’s debut album, released in November 1972 by Epic Records. The album reached #3 on the US Billboard 200 chart and features the band's signature songs, "Frankenstein" and "Free Ride". The album was certified gold on April 30, 1973, and platinum on November 21, 1986, with the single "Frankenstein" certified gold June 19, 1973.
The instrumental hit song "Frankenstein" was actually first released as the b-side to another single, "Hangin' Around."
Edgar Winter had worked up a piece of untitled music for his live shows that just kept getting longer and longer over the years, and originally he had no intention of recording it. The band was jamming on it in the studio one day with the tape machines recording, as usually happened, when they decided to see if they could make something from it.
The title came as a joke from one of his bandmates when he saw that the tapes were spread out all around the room: "Back in those days, the only way to edit anything was by physically cutting the master tape and putting it back together with splicing tape. Chuck (Ruff), the drummer, said, 'Wow, man! It's like Frankenstein!', drawing the analogy of an arm here, and a leg here, and pasting the thing back together. And I said, 'Wow! That's it!' It has that lumbering, monster sound, so the monster was born."
An edited version of "Frankenstein" became a hit. It shot to Number One on the Billboard Hot 100 in the U.S. and went platinum worldwide. The album They Only Come Out At Night peaked at Number Three on the Billboard 200 chart and has sold well over two million copies.
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