Jeff’s Playlist: 461 Ocean Boulevard

Eric Clapton — 461 Ocean Boulevard

I love Clapton’s music. I had just grad­u­at­ed from high school when this album was released. Bob Marley’s tune “I Shot the Sheriff” was a big hit from this record.

I was feel­ing pret­ty good and ready to begin col­lege. What a won­der­ful time in my life.

Fifty years lat­er I enjoy this album more than ever.

Album information

Track list­ing

461 Ocean Boulevard — Side 1

No.      Title    Writer(s)         Length
1.         “Motherless Children”         Traditional (Arranged by Eric Clapton · Carl Radle) 4:55
2.         “Give Me Strength”  Eric Clapton  2:51
3.         “Willie and the Hand Jive”  Johnny Otis   3:31
4.         “Get Ready”  Eric Clapton · Yvonne Elliman       3:50
5.         “I Shot the Sheriff”   Bob Marley    4:30

461 Ocean Boulevard — Side 2

No.      Title    Writer(s)         Length
1.         “I Can’t Hold Out”     Willie Dixon (orig­i­nal album cred­it: “By Elmore James, Arranged by Eric Clapton”) 4:10
2.         “Please Be with Me” Charles Scott Boyer           3:25
3.         “Let It Grow”  Eric Clapton  5:00
4.         “Steady Rollin’ Man”            Robert Johnson (Arranged by Eric Clapton) 3:14
5.         “Mainline Florida”     George Terry 4:05

Personnel

Eric Clapton – lead vocals, gui­tars, Dobro
George Terry – gui­tars, back­ing vocals
Albhy Galuten – piano, elec­tric piano, ARP syn­the­siz­er, clavi­chord
Dick Sims – Organ
Carl Radle – bass
Jamie Oldaker – drums, per­cus­sion
Al Jackson Jr. – drums
Yvonne Elliman – back­ing vocals
Tom Bernfield – back­ing vocals

Production

Tom Dowd – pro­duc­er
Bill Levenson – com­pi­la­tion pro­duc­er on Deluxe Edition
Ron Fawcus – engi­neer
Andy Knight – engi­neer
Karl Richardson – engi­neer
Suha Gur – mas­ter­ing
Darcy Proper – mas­ter­ing at Sterling Sound (New York, NY).
Bob Defrin – art direc­tion, design
David Gahr – pho­tog­ra­phy
Ryan Null – pho­to coördination

Released   July 1974
Recorded   April–May 1974
Studio.       Criteria (Miami)
Length       43:21
Label          RSO
Producer    Tom Dowd