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Join Together (The Who song)
"Join Together" is a song by the English rock band the Who, first released as a non-album single in June 1972. The song has since been performed live multiple times and has appeared on numerous compilation albums. It was the last Who single to be released in the United States which used the Decca Records color bar label.
"Join Together" is also notable for its roots in The Who's abandoned Lifehouse album, a quality shared by another of the Who's 1972 singles, "Relay".
Townshend planned to use the song as part of the Lifehouse album, which was never released. Following the abandoning of Lifehouse, "Join Together", as well as other songs initially intended to appear on the album, was used in the working track list of another canceled Who album, Rock Is Dead—Long Live Rock!.
The song was eventually recorded on the same day as "Relay" (its follow-up single) and a demo of "Long Live Rock" in May 1972. Roger Daltrey remembers the song positively, but claims that he was initially skeptical about using synthesizer.
I remember when Pete came up with "Join Together". I quite liked it as a single, it's got a good energy to it. But at the time I was still very doubtful about bringing in the synthesizer. I felt that, with a lot of songs, we'd end up spending so much time creating these piddly one-note noises that it would've been better just doing it on guitar. I mean, I'm a guitar man. I love the guitar; to me it's the perfect rock instrument. I don't think Pete did much with those sequencing things that he couldn't have done on his guitar anyway.
— Roger Daltrey
With the definitive title of "Join Together", the song was released as a non-album single in 1972, backed with a live and unedited version of Marvin Gaye's "Baby Don't You Do It", recorded at San Francisco's Civic Auditorium on 13 December 1971. The single was successful, reaching number 9 on the British singles chart and number 17 on the US Billboard Hot 100. It is also the band's highest-charting song in Switzerland. The single was the second of three non-album singles relating to the aborted Lifehouse project, the others being "Let's See Action" and "Relay".
It has been included on several compilations, including Hooligans, The Singles, The Who: The Ultimate Collection, 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of The Who and The Who Hits 50!.
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Join Together (The Who song)
"Join Together" is a song by the English rock band the Who, first released as a non-album single in June 1972. The song has since been performed live multiple times and has appeared on numerous compilation albums. It was the last Who single to be released in the United States which used the Decca Records color bar label.
"Join Together" is also notable for its roots in The Who's abandoned Lifehouse album, a quality shared by another of the Who's 1972 singles, "Relay".
Townshend planned to use the song as part of the Lifehouse album, which was never released. Following the abandoning of Lifehouse, "Join Together", as well as other songs initially intended to appear on the album, was used in the working track list of another canceled Who album, Rock Is Dead—Long Live Rock!.
The song was eventually recorded on the same day as "Relay" (its follow-up single) and a demo of "Long Live Rock" in May 1972. Roger Daltrey remembers the song positively, but claims that he was initially skeptical about using synthesizer.
I remember when Pete came up with "Join Together". I quite liked it as a single, it's got a good energy to it. But at the time I was still very doubtful about bringing in the synthesizer. I felt that, with a lot of songs, we'd end up spending so much time creating these piddly one-note noises that it would've been better just doing it on guitar. I mean, I'm a guitar man. I love the guitar; to me it's the perfect rock instrument. I don't think Pete did much with those sequencing things that he couldn't have done on his guitar anyway.
— Roger Daltrey
With the definitive title of "Join Together", the song was released as a non-album single in 1972, backed with a live and unedited version of Marvin Gaye's "Baby Don't You Do It", recorded at San Francisco's Civic Auditorium on 13 December 1971. The single was successful, reaching number 9 on the British singles chart and number 17 on the US Billboard Hot 100. It is also the band's highest-charting song in Switzerland. The single was the second of three non-album singles relating to the aborted Lifehouse project, the others being "Let's See Action" and "Relay".
It has been included on several compilations, including Hooligans, The Singles, The Who: The Ultimate Collection, 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of The Who and The Who Hits 50!.