First Time in a Long Time: The Reprise Recordings (2002)

About this title: It's amazing that this four-CD box set exists in the first place, considering not only that Fanny never had a Top 100 album, but that they've never had a particularly big cult following either. But here it is, albeit in a limited edition of 5,000 (sold in North America only). And all the stops were certainly pulled to assemble material, including not only all four of their early-'70s Reprise albums, but dozens of extras, many of them unreleased. Non-LP singles, single-only versions, home and studio demos (the earliest of them dating from July 1969, when they were still known as Wild Honey), ... read more

Tracks:

1. Come and Hold Me [Millington/Millingt]
2. I Just Realized [Millington/Barclay]
3. Candlelighter Man [Millington/Millingt]
4. Conversation With a Cop [Barclay]
5. Badge [Clapton/Harrison]
6. Changing Horses [Barclay]
7. Bitter Wine [Barclay]
8. Take a Message to the Captain [Barclay]
9. It Takes a Lot of Good Lovin' [Isbell/Jones]
10. Shade Me [Barclay]
11. Seven Roads [First Version] [Millington/Millingt]
12. Charity Ball [First Version] [Millington/Millingt]
13. Place in the Country [First Version] [Barclay]
14. Changes [Millington]
15. One Step at a Time [Armstead/Ashford/Si]
16. Nowhere to Run [Holland/Dozier/Holl]
17. Seven Roads [Second Version] [Millington/Millingt]
18. Lady's Choice [Millington/Millingt]
19. New Day [Millington/Millingt]
20. I Find Myself [Demo Version] [Clement]
21. Queen Aretha [Demo Version] [Millington]
22. Flame Tree [Demo Version] [Millington]
23. Fanny Reprise Records Promo One
24. Fanny Reprise Records Promo Two
25. Fanny Reprise Records Promo Three
26. Charity Ball [Second Version] [Millington/Millingt]
27. What Kind of Lover [Barclay]
28. Cat Fever [Barclay]
29. A Person Like You [Barclay]
30. Special Care [Stills]
31. What's Wrong With Me? [Millington]
32. Soul Child [Millington/Millingt]
33. You're the One [Millington/Millingt]
34. Thinking of You [Millington]
35. Place in the Country [Second Version] [Barclay]
36. A Little While Later [Barclay]
37. Charity Ball [Single Version] [Millington/Millingt]
38. True Blue [Millington]
39. Candlelighter Man [Millington/Millingt]
40. Summer Song [Millington]
41. Tomorrow [Millington]
42. Rock Bottom Blues [Backing Track] [Millington/Millingt]
43. Ain't That Peculiar [Moore/Robinson/Roge]
44. Knock on My Door [Barclay]
45. Blind Alley [Barclay/de Buhr]
46. You've Got a Home [Millington]
47. Wonderful Feeling [Millington]
48. Borrowed Time [Barclay]
49. Hey Bulldog [Lennon/McCartney]
50. Think About the Children [Millington]
51. Rock Bottom Blues [Millington/Millingt]
52. Sound and the Fury [Millington]
53. The First Time [Barclay]
54. Rock Bottom Blues [Original Version][Version] [Millington/Millingt]
55. Wonderful Feeling [Single Version] [Millington]
56. Young and Dumb [Turner]
57. Hey Bulldog [Live] [Lennon/McCartney]
58. Summer Song [Live] [Millington]
59. It Takes a Lot of Good Lovin' [Isbell/Jones]
60. Badge [Live] [Clapton/Harrison]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.