Pete Ham, 7 Park Avenue - 50m 32s

Tracks & Durations

1. Catherine Cares	3:01
2. Coppertone Blues	3:56
3. It Doesn't Really Matter	2:58
4. Live Love All of Your Days	2:16
5. Would You Deny	1:23
6. Dear Father	2:03
7. Matted Spam	3:24
8. No Matter What	2:24
9. Leaving on a Midnight Train	2:41
10. Weep Baby	2:26
11. Hand in Hand	2:38
12. Sille Veb	3:38
13. I Know That You Should	3:28
14. Island	2:27
15. Just Look Inside the Cover	3:29
16. Just How Lucky We Are	2:29
17. No More	2:55
18. Ringside	2:46

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Review

Badfinger leader Pete Ham hanged himself in 1975 three days before his 28th birthday, leaving behind six albums, a note declaring the group's manager a "soulless bastard," and the demos collected here. Most of these songs didn't make it to Badfinger's records, a circumstance 7 Park Avenue's liner notes put down to a glut of material. A couple of tracks contain bits that Ham would later adapt for "Day After Day" (a verse from "Matted Spam") and "Baby Blue" (a melodic fragment in "I Know That You Should"); that both those hit singles are more distinctive pieces is a hint to why some of these numbers were rejected. Ham's homemade music has some of the same fragile quality of another Rykodisc reclamation project, Big Star cofounder Chris Bell's I Am the Cosmos, but often lacks the bite of both Bell's record and the finest Badfinger studio cuts. It is, however, somewhere between sad and appalling to hear Ham sing "Just How Lucky We Are" only months before his death. Much closer to that reality is the closing "Ringside," with its resigned passages about being bid on. Happiness prevails on a few cuts (an acoustic "No Matter What," "Hand in Hand," "Catherine Cares"), but even if Ham had merely faded into obscurity, this disc's overall effect would be that of a thoughtful, downbeat craftsman at work--not always at the height of his powers, though filled with emotion. --Rickey Wright

Other Versions

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7 Park Avenue

Tracks: 23 (+5 tracks), Disk length: 1h 5m 9s (+14m 37s)

7 Park Avenue

Tracks: 23 (+5 tracks), Disk length: 1h 5m 11s (+14m 39s)

7 Park Avenue

Tracks: 23 (+5 tracks), Disk length: 1h 19m 43s (+29m 11s)

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