Golden Earrings – On The Double – CD

Digipak, Expanded Edition, Remastered

New expanded edition of the band’s very first double album, released in 1969, including the Golden Earring classic Just A Little Bit Of Peace In My Heart. Remastered for the first time from the original first-generation Phonogram Studio and Sterling Sound master tapes. Including four bonus tracks, including previously unreleased stereo mixes of Dong-Dong-Di-Ki-Di-Gi Dong and Wake Up-Breakfast! Including a 20-page booklet with liner notes, memorabilia, and photos. Founded in 1961 by George Kooymans and Rinus Gerritsen, Dutch rock band Golden Earring (or Golden Earrings, until 1969) started off as a beat band, experimented as a psychedelic quartet and finally became a heavy rock group. Their ninth album Moontan (1973) hit the international album charts and is the band’s most successful album in the United States, being the only Golden Earring album to be certified Gold by the RIAA. On The Double, Golden Earring(s)’ very first double album, was released in April 1969, after the band had been working on it for about a year. The two records contain nineteen songs, each with its own style. From acoustic tracks like Angelina, Judy, and Murdock 9-6182 and the robust psychedelica of Backbiting Baby and Song of a Devil’s Servant to the heavily orchestrated Just a Little Bit of Peace in My Heart, which was already released as a single in November 1968, reaching #2 in the Dutch Top 40. This song is now considered a true Earring classic. This expanded edition includes four bonus tracks: the single Dong-Dong-Di-Ki Di-Gi Dong, with its B-side Wake Up-Breakfast, which gave the group its very first number one hit in July 1968. For the first time, the original stereo mixes of both tracks have been released. The single Where Will I Be, with the B-side It’s Alright, But I Admit It Could Be Better, was recorded by the group in New York City in May 1969 and marked the very last recording the band made with drummer Jaap Eggermont. All tracks have been 24 bit/192 kHz remastered from the original master tapes. This expanded CD edition of Switch is the sixth instalment in a special series of remastered & expanded albums by Golden Earring, overseen by Red Bullet catalogue and band archivist Wouter Bessels.

1. Song of a Devil S Servant
2. Angelina
3. Pam Pam Poope Poope Loux
4. Hurry, Hurry, Hurry
5. My Baby Ruby
6. Judy
7. Goodbye Mama
8. Murdock 9-6182
9. Just a Little Bit of Peace In My Heart
10. The Sad Story of Sam Stone
11. High In the Sky
12. Remember My Friend
13. Time is a Book
14. Backbiting Baby
15. I M a Runnin
16. I Sing My Song
17. Mitch Mover
18. God Bless the Day
19. The Grand Piano
20. Dong-Dong-Di-Ki-Di-Gi Dong (Stereo Version)
21. Wake Up-Breakfast! (Stereo Version)
22. Where Will I Be
23. It’s Alright, But I Admit It Could Be Better