Vinyl Experience: Jimi Hendrix Comes To Sundazed

January 26, 2012 By Joe Marchese — No Comments

Get ready to be experienced, again, on vinyl.

Sundazed Music and Experience Hendrix have announced a new series of 7-inch vinyl singles, housed in picture sleeves, featuring music not before released in the single format. The first such single will arrive in April, and both sides will be taken from Hendrix’s incendiary BBC performances of 1967 (released on CD and vinyl LP by Experience Hendrix as BBC Sessions).

Hendrix’s October 17, 1967 performance of Bob Dylan’s “Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window” was recorded for the BBC’s Rhythm and Blues show. At the time of Hendrix’s performance, the song had only been available as a single (with “Highway 61 Revisited” as its flipside) and so it wasn’t one of Dylan’s most familiar songs. Hendrix, as always, was ready to reinvent the song with a blazing interpretation. “Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?” is backed with the Hendrix original “Burning of the Midnight Lamp,” as performed on August 24, 1967 on BBC Television’s Top of the Pops.

The Top of the Pops performance was captured just one week after the song had been released in the U.K. on the Track Records label. Sundazed relates an amusing anecdote pertaining to the broadcast: “In keeping with strict Musician Union regulations, Jimi was to sing live atop the song’s instrumental backing track. The Top of the Pops presenter announced the Experience, but then ‘The House That Jack Built’ by the Alan Price Set began to play. A few seconds in, Jimi, ever polite, offered an apology: ‘I’m sorry, man, but I don’t know the words…” As panic no doubt ensued within the studio’s control room, the program’s flustered presenter apologized and implored Jimi to try it once again.” Hit the jump for more!

Both sides of this inaugural single feature the original Jimi Hendrix Experience line-up: Hendrix on guitar and vocals, Mitch Mitchell on drums and Noel Redding on bass. This release, like those that will follow, will feature a full-color picture sleeve.

The association with Sundazed follows a fruitful 2011 for the partnership between Experience Hendrix and Sony’s Legacy Recordings. South Saturn Delta and In the West were restored to the artist’s catalogue along with the tribute album Power of Soul and DVD releases of Band of Gypsys Live at the Fillmore East, Blue Wild Angel: Live at the Isle of Wight and Jimi Hendrix: The Dick Cavett Show. The centerpiece of the 2011 releases, however, was undoubtedly Winterland, a 4-CD box set chronicling Hendrix’ s October 1968 stand at the San Francisco music palace.

Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window/Burning of the Midnight Lamp will be presented in mono, and is scheduled to arrive from Sundazed Music and Experience Hendrix in April. What’s up next from Experience Hendrix? Watch this space.

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Joe Marchese

JOE MARCHESE (Editor) joined The Second Disc shortly after its launch in early 2010, and has since penned daily news and reviews about classic music of all genres. In 2015, Joe formed the Second Disc Records label. Celebrating the great songwriters, producers and artists who created the sound of American popular song and beyond, Second Disc Records, in conjunction with labels including Real Gone Music and Cherry Red Records, has released newly-curated collections produced and annotated by Joe from iconic artists such as Dionne Warwick, Diana Ross and The Supremes, Smokey Robinson and The Miracles, The Spinners, Johnny Mathis, Bobby Darin, Meat Loaf, Laura Nyro, Melissa Manchester, Liza Minnelli, Darlene Love, Al Stewart, Michael Nesmith, and many others.

Joe has written liner notes, produced, or contributed to over 200 reissues from a diverse array of artists, among them America, JD Souther, Nat "King" Cole, Paul Williams, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield, BJ Thomas, The 5th Dimension, Burt Bacharach, The Mamas and the Papas, Carpenters, Perry Como, Rod McKuen, Doris Day, Jackie DeShannon, Petula Clark, Robert Goulet, and Andy Williams.

Over the past two decades, Joe has also worked in a variety of capacities on and off Broadway as well as at some of the premier theatres in the U.S., including Lincoln Center Theater, George Street Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, and the York Theatre Company. He has felt privileged to work on productions alongside artists such as the late Jack Klugman, Eli Wallach, Arthur Laurents, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. In 2009, Joe began contributing theatre and music reviews to the print publication The Sondheim Review, and in 2012, he joined the staff of The Digital Bits as a regular contributor writing about film and television on DVD and Blu-ray.

Joe currently resides in the suburbs of New York City.