Jon Lord - Capricorn

From Jon Lord' studio album Gemini Suite with London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Malcolm Arnold (1971), inspired on the vocal part of the piece "Second Movement" of his orchestal work Deep Purple and the Orchestra of Light Music Society (also conducted by Malcolm Arnold), Gemini Suite Live at Albert Festival Hall (17-09-1970)

Jon Lord (organ, piano); Albert Lee (guitar, replacing R. Blackmore); Roger Glover (bass); Ian Paice (drums); Yvonne Elliman and Tony Ashton (vocals, replacing to hypnotic and misterious voice of Ian Gillan... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_72ax6rlxnk )

(Ivonne Elliman)
All the words that a world can use ...
come to land, easy to amuse
(????)
and the right to choose.
And to make up for your friend,
beginning at the end,
let us sleep and pray,
one more day.

Charity, human kindness,
family, human blindness,
open mind, lend a helping hand.
Fight for peace, make love, not war.
What are we fighting for?
Strange the things we say,
games we play.

(Tony Ashton)
I bet it´ll never ever be the same,
It doesn't mean i´ve got to blame,
stand up and shout your name,
who knows it could all change?
Sit down on your comfy old ass,
we´ve only come to see our pass
get on your heads and reach for the grass
and fly away...

There´s no qualm in humanity,
it´s no sin to delay.
Give us time... (where are you going?)

(Ivonne & Tony)
Give us time,
there´s a lot to do.
Make it right,
make the dream comes true.
We relay,
have to dream, got to dream...
Is it all at peace?

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[suzartfam]

what is up with the artwork. It's gawd-awful!

[ObscureJude0]

@johnanthonyp Jon and DP did a video for a "Return to Montreaux" of "Smoke on the Water". They did a jazz number before morphing into a blistering Hard Rock version of SotW. It was great. I recorded it on a collection of videos. Worth finding if you can.

[Kovna]

I have had this record for around 30 years. It is good music that didn't get much exposure.

[YusakuJon3]

I remember seeing this LP at the old record sales, but I never did follow my impulse to buy it, being aware of it being associated with John and Deep Purple. It's actually quite a good production, albeit eerie to listen to. John must've been on a Moody Blues kick in those days.

I do recall Yvonne Elliman's name, too, but I'm more familiar with Tony Ashton (who later rejoined John in Paice, Ashton and Lord). Tony also performed keyboards (but not vocals) on Family's 1973 LP "Only A Movie."

[TheOldShue]

@suzartfam

Tell me about it. I don't know what to think of that album cover...quite frankly I don't want to associated that with Lord. I've always admired him immensely for his talent and skill.

I'm an artist and in the old days I never worked without a Deep Purple album playing at high volume. :-)

[johnanthonyp]

Do you have the piano solo on this? I used to have this album on vinyl and it's the only time I've ever heard Jon throw in some jazz licks to a piece.

[velocet1976]

I wouldn't say awful, more like twisted....i think it has something to do with the title or the VOCAL part re. it's lyrics, i'm not sure...it's a good album, specially this piece...a big improvement on Lord's 1969 Concerto with DP...!