Baby Batter / Snake

Harvey Mandel

Western Front 1015

Howard Wales played on the LP Baby Batter which forms half of this two-on-one release.

Tracks

• Baby Batter (Mandel)
• Midnight Sun (Mandel)
• One Way Street (Mandel)
• Morton Grove Mama (Mandel)
• Freedom Ball (Mandel)
• El Stinger (Mandel)
• Hank the Ripper (Mandel)
• The Divining Rod (Mandel)
• Pegasus (J. Taylor)
• Lynda Love (Mandel)
• Peruvian Flake (Mandel)
• The Snake (Mandel/L. Taylor)
• Uno Ino (Mandel/S. Taylor/Carroll)
• Ode To The Owl (Mandel)
• Levitation (Mandel/Lloyd)
• Bite The Electric Eel (Mandel/Lagos/Resnick/Conte/Harris)

Musicians on tracks 1 to 7;

• Larry Taylor - fender bass
• Howard Wales - organ, electric piano
• Paul Lagos - drums
• Big Black - conga
• Mike Melvoin - organ, electric piano
• Colin Bailey - drums
• Emil Richards - percussion (on Hank The Ripper and One Way Street)
• Joe Pickard - percussion (on El Stinger)
• Sandra Crouch - tambourine (on Baby Batter and Midnight Sun)
• String section

• Harvey Mandel - electric guitar, acoustic guitar, vocals
• Randy Resnick - rhythm guitar
• Larry Taylor - bass
• Victor Conte - bass
• Chuck Domanico - bass
• Antonio de la Barreda - bass
• Paul Lagos - drums
• Earl Palmer - drums
• Adolfo de la Parra - drums
• Jim Taylor - piano
• Don Harris - violin
• Kevin Burton - organ
• Fred Roulette - steel guitar

For the original recording of Baby Batter;

• Producer - Abe Kesh
• Engineer - Hank Cicalo

For other original recording of The Snake;

• Producer - Skip Taylor, Harvey Mandel
• Engineer - Baker Bigsby
• Recorded at The Village Recorder

Tracks 1 to 7 were originally released as;

• Baby Batter, Harvey Mandel, 1971

• The Snake, Harvey Mandel, 1972