Product Description
Sure, various congressmen have dabbled in music, but how many congressmen founded a platinum-selling band?! Well, 2007-2011 U.S. Representative for New York s 19th congressional district John Hall did...in fact, he not only started Orleans, but wrote (along with then-wife Johanna Hall) their two big hits, Still the One and Dance with Me! Hall left the group in 1977 to pursue a dual-track career in music and political activism, co-founding Musicians United for Safe Energy along with Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt and Graham Nash, and releasing this 1979 album, whose environmental concerns come across loud and clear, especially in the title track and in the bonus single track, Plutonium Is Forever (which was featured prominently on the No Nukes concert album along with Power ) that we ve included. It s late- 70s, soul-dipped, radio-friendly, socially-conscious pop at its finest (with an all-star supporting cast that included James Taylor, Carly Simon, Tony Levin and Jon Pousette-Dart), to which we ve added liner notes by Gene Sculatti that explore the one-of-a-kind career trajectory taken by this politically-minded musician. CD debut!

1. Home at Last
2. Power
3. Heartbreaker
4. So
5. Run Away with Me
6. Firefly Lover
7. Arms/Half Moon
8. Cocaine Drain

Bonus Track:
9. Plutonium Is Forever

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wow.

hard to believe they are doing this.

i don;t recall for sure, but i don;t think this album was ever released domestically on CD. i know the one i have is japanese.

and i also don;t think it sold a heck of a lot of copies the first time around (even on vinyl) to warrant this, the demand surely can't be very high. but if does sell it just might open the door for some other things that were either never released in the U.S. or have been OOP for years on Cd.

Finally-the missing piece from the Orleans guitarist/former Congressman. The only one of his cds not reissued (until now)

It's not as good as his work with Daryl OATES!

really?

all of his other solo albums have been on CD?

and all of the orleans albums too?

First album (John Hall) was on Wounded Bird
Third/Fourth album (Search Party/All Of The Above) was on American Beat as a 2-fer
The only one not reissued was Power...until now

I have asked Real Gone to do Orleans/Orleans 2 as a two-fer..so far, no response

I have what I think is a fairly rare CD of the first Orleans album. It was released in Japan in 1992, manufactured by MCA Victor, Inc. Catalog number is MVCM-21042.

In all of my retail CD shopping during the past 30+ years, I have only seen this CD in 2 places-- an indie in Atlanta in 1992 (where I purchased it for $25) and years later at the Sam The Record Man store in Toronto (where it was priced at $65, as I recall).

Bump: Added cover image to the first post.