It Happened One Night, by John Wesley Harding

It Happened One Night

by John Wesley Harding

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Deluxe Reissue of Wes' legendary live debut CD plus the lost first studio album. Includes both CDS It Happened One Night and It Never Happened at all.

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1.	Headful Of Something/The Devil in Me 03:57	buy track
2.	Who You Really Are 02:37	buy track
3.	Famous Man 02:54	buy track
4.	You and Your Career 03:37	buy track
5.	July 13th 1985 (The Live Aid Song) 04:26	buy track
6.	One Night Only 04:58	buy track
7.	Affairs of the Heart 03:09	buy track
8.	Humankind 03:24	buy track
9.	Phil Ochs, Bob Dylan, Steve Goodman, David Blue & Me 03:20	buy track
10.	The Night He Took Her To The Fairground 02:30	buy track
11.	The Biggest Monument 03:53	buy track
12.	Save a Little Room For Me 02:49	buy track
13.	Kiss/Lover’s Society 03:42	buy track
14.	Careers Service 03:05	buy track
15.	Pound Pound Pound 03:50	buy track
16.	Roy Orbison Knows (The Best Man’s Song) 03:40	buy track
17.	Bastard Son 03:20	buy track
18.	Every Sunrise is Another Sunset (extra track) 02:38	buy track
19.	Three Legged Man (extra track) 07:33	buy track

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John Wesley Harding’s legendary debut album, recorded live at The Wheelhouse Club, Chiswick on 5th November, 1988. Now available only here.

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released October 6, 2020

Produced by Wesley Stace

Recorded live by Barry Farmer and Paul Bass, 5th November 1988 at The Wheelhouse Club on The Strand on the Green, Chiswick, London

This version restores the two missing songs: “Three Legged Man” (which I sang to cover breaking a string, and of which I only sang two verses) and “Every Sunrise Is Another Sunset” (a duet with David Lewis). There is a little bonus hidden beyond the last song.

On 5th November 1988, the songs were sung in this order:

The Devil In Me*
Career’s Service*
Humankind
July 13th 1985
Affairs Of The Heart
Kiss/Lover’s Society
Every Sunrise Is Another Sunset
The Night He Took Her To The Fairground
Phil Ochs, Bob Dylan, Steve Goodman, David Blue & Me
Headful of Something/The Devil In Me
You And Your Career
The Biggest Monument
Three Legged Man
Roy Orbison Knows
Who You Really Are
Famous Man
Pound Pound Pound
Save A Little Room For Me
One Night Only
Career’s Service
Bastard Son

*not used due to a microphone malfunction

REISSUE LINER NOTE

November 5, 1988: An out of the way bar in West London. One man, with his guitar, plays to an audience of about 100, consisting of strangers who’ve never heard of him, some friends who are doing most of the talking and a few regulars who can’t be bothered to leave. He is recording his first record. He is me.

My manager and I thought it was a great idea. The songs will stand up and be heard, we thought, whatever the context. And, in a way, we were right, because in the year 2020 It Happened One Night is back, fashionably late for its own 30th anniversary. Some people even think it’s my best record. (I think they’re insane, but I appreciate the sentiment.)

As a record of me as I was in the first year of my career, I like it (without wanting to listen to it). It shows me exactly as I was at a very typical show, singing (sometimes in tune), full of words, perfecting my “strum und drang” guitar technique, doing everything very very fast.

Welcome to my world in 1988.

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All songs written by John Wesley Harding except The Biggest Monument (John Wesley Harding and Adam Barker), Every Sunrise Is Another Sunset (John Wesley Harding and David Lewis) and Kiss (Prince). All JWH songs published by TOWNSONGS (ASCAP)

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John Wesley Harding Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Wesley Stace was born in Hastings in 1965. Since 1988, he has released many albums under the name John Wesley Harding - his most recent, 2018’s Wesley Stace’s John Wesley Harding, with the Jayhawks as his backing band. Stace has published four novels, including the international bestseller Misfortune, and recently co-wrote Mark Morris’ memoir Out Loud. ... more

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May 24

The Castle Hotel Manchester

Manchester, UK

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