The Who - Who's for Tennis? (lost album)

In 1968 The Who were considering releasing an album titled Who's for Tennis? Although the concept was eventually abandoned in favor of Tommy, Who's for Tennis may well have combined newer and older tracks from the band's classic 1967-68 time period such as "Pictures of Lily", "Magic Bus", "Glow Girl", "Call Me Lightning" and "Dogs".

This is our attempt to construct Who's for Tennis? as a double album. We feel it is a superior collection that should have been released in leiu of the hodgepodge Magic Bus The Who on Tour LP.

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Music

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• The Who
• Who's for Tennis
• Magic Bus
• Pictures of Lily
• Call Me Lightning
• Glow Girl
• Little Billy
• Pete Townshend

[djcrowbar]

Politician, goin fishin and signal 30 are songs I have not found recordings of. The rest are on The re-issue of the who sell out and odds and sods. I have some of these on 45. Little Billy was written for an ani-smoking commercial that fell through. This "Who's for tennis?" is nonsense but you recovered some great tracks.

[jpinnacle]

@djcrowbar Thank you for your comment. Just to clarify, this wasn't assembled as a rarities-only collection. Rather, it is a collection of songs the Who recorded 1967-68 that were not included on any of their albums _at the time_. In other words, it would have taken the place of the Magic Bus: The Who on Tour album (U.S. only collection of studio tracks from 1969.) Hopefully this clarifies the track selections somewhat.

[13yguitarman]

Whered you get Signal 30, the studio fortune teller

[jpinnacle]

@13yguitarman

The studio version of "Fortune Teller" can be found on the Thirty Years on Maximum R'n'B box set, which I believe is still in print.

"Signal 30" has only been officially released on the Japanese deluxe version of The Who Sell Out. However, if you follow the link at the end of the video, more information may be revealed to you.

[777abrahadabra]

I'm glad how you get to have a sense of the album in only 13 min. More people should post stuff like this on Youtube.

[jpinnacle]

@777abrahadabra

Thank you for the compliment! This video serves as a teaser to the complete Who's For Tennis? cd.

Check out Beyond the Vast Crystal Sphere for more details. The link is at the end of the video.

[thornhead1994]

How did you get the quality so good? It's amazing!

[uscthewho11]

need to put full songs up

[12toedfeet]

Is that a version of "Glittering Girl" with Roger on lead vocals? Where did you get that from? I've only heard the version with Pete on lead vocals before!

[12toedfeet]

It's silly that the album wasn't released and the inferior "Magic Bus-The Who On Tour" was instead. They recorded a number of songs for the album, plus they had a lot of leftover songs from "The Who Sellout" sessions that weren't released until the 1990s. The songs that they recorded for the album were "Magic Bus", "Fortune Teller", "Shakin All Over", "Glow Girl", "Faith In Something Bigger", "Melancholia", "Now I'm A Farmer", and two songs that are still unreleased..."Joys" and "Facts of Life".

[12toedfeet]

But if the album were actually released in 1968 as a follow-up to The Who Sellout I doubt that they would have included songs like "Pictures of Lily"...a single released a year before. I could see "lost" songs like "Early Morning Cold Taxi", "Girl's Eyes", "Jaguar", and "Little Billy" making it though since none of them saw the light of day until the mid-70's at earliest.

[12toedfeet]

@texs2007 It was a bonus track on the 1994 re-issue of the Who Sellout. The original album ended at "Rael".

[texs2007]

I thought "Early Morning, Cold Taxi" had been issued on "The Who Sell Out",though - and not as a bonus track.

[djcrowbar]

@jpinnacle I very much appreciate you posting this. I have never heard a few of these songs and I have a truly decent Who collection.