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1966 studio album by the Alan Price Set
The Price to Play
Studio album by the Alan Price Set
ReleasedDecember 1966
GenreRock and roll, rhythm and blues
Length38:43
LabelDecca
The Alan Price Set chronology
The Price to Play
(1966) 		A Price on His Head
(1967)
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The Price to Play is the debut album by the Alan Price Set, released in 1966. It was released in the UK only, although some tracks would later come out in the US. Fronting a six-piece band that includes three horns, Price sticks mostly to covers of familiar American rhythm and blues and soul tunes.

Track listing

Side one

  1. "Medley: Barefootin' / Let's Go Baby (Where the Action Is) / Land of 1000 Dances" (Robert Parker/Chris Kenner) – 4:36
  2. "Just Once in My Life" (Gerry Goffin, Carole King, Phil Spector) – 3:26
  3. "Goin' Down Slow" (St. Louis Jimmy) – 4:45
  4. "Getting Mighty Crowded" (Van McCoy) – 2:15
  5. "Honky Tonk" (Billy Butler, Bill Doggett, Clifford Scott, Shep Shepherd) – 4:40
  6. "Move On Drifter" (Jeanette Washington) – 2:29

Side two

  1. "Mercy, Mercy" (Don Covay) – 3:09
  2. "Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever" (Ivy Jo Hunter, Stevie Wonder) – 2:46
  3. "Ain't That Peculiar" (Pete Moore, William "Smokey" Robinson, Bobby Rogers, Marv Tarplin) – 3:22
  4. "I Can't Turn You Loose" (Otis Redding) – 2:24
  5. "Critic's Choice" (Oliver Nelson) – 2:02
  6. "Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo" (Helen Deutsch, Bronisław Kaper) – 2:49

Personnel

  • Alan Price – keyboards, vocals

The Alan Price Set

  • Clive Burrows – saxophone
  • Steve Gregory – saxophone
  • John Walters – trumpet
  • Pete Kirtley – guitar
  • Rod "Boots" Slade – bass
  • "Little" Roy Mills – drums

Technical

References

  1. The Price to Play at AllMusic. Retrieved 2021-03-27.
  2. "The Price to Play – Alan Price | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 11 July 2016.


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