At Your Birthday Party

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At Your Birthday Party
Studio album by Steppenwolf
Released	1969
Recorded	???
Genre	Rock
Length	41:26
Label	ABC Dunhill
Producer	Gabriel Mekler
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Steppenwolf chronology
Steppenwolf the Second (1968) At Your Birthday Party (1969) Early Steppenwolf (1969)

At Your Birthday Party is an album by Steppenwolf, released in 1969 (see 1969 in music) on the label ABC Dunhill Records. It was the first Steppenwolf album to feature bass player Nick St. Nicholas. Although it was less critically acclaimed than their successful first two albums, Steppenwolf and Steppenwolf the Second, it contained a few well-known hits, such as "It's Never Too Late" and "Jupiter's Child", as well as the colossal "Rock Me". Still it would be their last top ten album with their last top ten hit. Even then, though, the album showcases Steppenwolf at their peak, coming out of, but not yet completely abandoning, the psychedelia of Steppenwolf the Second and stepping into the distinctive hard rock of their later releases, but with less weight here than later, meaning it slides faster and more furiously.

[edit] Cover art

The album's strange cover art supposedly depicts the charred remnants of amplifiers and equipment that had belonged to Canned Heat before a 1969 fire ripped through Canned Heat's house and rehearsal studio on Lookout Mountain Ave in Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles, California.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Don't Cry" (Gabriel Mekler) – 3:11
2. "Chicken Wolf" (John Kay, Michael Monarch) – 2:58
3. "Lovely Meter" (Gabriel Mekler) – 3:10
4. "Round And Down" (Michael Monarch) – 3:19
5. "It's Never Too Late" (John Kay, Nick St. Nicholas) – 4:07
6. "Sleeping Dreaming" (Nick St.Nicholas) – 1:07
7. "Jupiter's Child" (Jerry Edmonton, John Kay, Michael Monarch) – 3:28
8. "She'll Be Better" (Jerry Edmonton, Gabriel Mekler) – 5:32
9. "Cat Killer" (John Goadsby) – 1:37
10. "Rock Me" (Dave Grusin, John Kay) – 3:45
11. "God Fearing Man" (Michael Monarch) – 3:55
12. "Mango Juice" (Jerry Edmonton, John Goadsby, Michael Monarch) – 3:01
13. "Happy Birthday" (Gabriel Mekler) – 2:16

[edit] Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Year	Chart	Position
1969	Pop Albums	7

Singles - Billboard (North America)

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1969	"It's Never Too Late"	Pop Singles	51
1969	"Rock Me"	Pop Singles	10

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