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Jon Anderson: 3 Ships

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Label: Opio Media
Released: 1985.12.10
Time:
 39:33
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): Roy Thomas Baker
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Media type: CD
Web address: www.jonanderson.com
Appears with: Yes, Jon & Vangelis, Rick Wakeman
Purchase date: 2012
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Save All Your Love (Jon Anderson) - 1:23
[2] Easier Said Than Done (Jon Anderson) - 4:14
[3] 3 Ships (Jon Anderson) - 3:43
[4] Forest of Fire (Jon Anderson) - 3:31
[5] Ding Dong! Merrily on High (Traditional) - 1:58
[6] Save All Your Love [Reprise] (Jon Anderson) - 3:10
[7] The Holly and the Ivy (Jon Anderson) - 3:07
[8] Day of Days (Jon Anderson) - 3:36
[9] 2000 Years (Jon Anderson) - 0:57
[10] Where Were You? (Jon Anderson) - 3:55
[11] O Holy Night (Adolphe Adam / John Sullivan Dwight) - 4:16
[12] How It Hits You (Jon Anderson) - 5:12
[13] Jingle Bells (James Pierpont) - 0:31

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Jon Anderson - Lead Vocals

Beyond War Philharmonic – Orchestration
Paul Cheng - Concert Master
Bob Esty - Conductor
Calvary Baptist Church Santa Monica - Gospel Choir
Pastor Robert de France, Jr. - Inspirational Choir
William Bryant II - Choir Director
Reach for the Stars Singers - Children's Choir
Marta Woodhull - Choir Director
Sandra Crouch & Friends - Choir
Andre and Sandra Crouch - Choir Direction
Gary Lanier - Choir Direction
Sandra Crouch - Special Guest Duet Vocals on [11], Choir Direction
Jade Anderson - Additional Vocals on [13]
Rhett 'Pepsi' Lawrence - Fairlight CMI
Mike Marshall GB - Keyboards, Orchestration
Trevor Rabin - Guitar
Elliot Easton - Guitar

Frankie Banali - Drums & Percussion
R.J. Parnell - Drums & Percussion
Paulinho da Costa - Percussion
Novi Novog - Electric Viola

Roy Thomas Baker - Producer
Rob Ayling - Executive Producer
George Tutko - Engineer, Mixing
Jim McMahon - Assistant Engineering
Brad Gilderman - Additional Mixing
Bob Keasler - Production Co-ordination
Freddie Henderson - Production Co-ordination Assistant
Jem Scott - Production Co-ordination Assistant
Mike Pietrini - Re-Issue Engineering & Mastering
Bob Esty - Musical Arrangements
KOSH & Larson - Art Direction, Design
Bob Blakeman - Cartography

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Recorded at Crystal Studios, Hollywood CA.



This is an oddity: a Christmas album incognito. Save a red and green stripe on the back cover, the outside packaging is conspicuously devoid of the usual holiday trappings, leaving the astute person to deduce from the track listing Three Ships' true intent. Further complicating matters is the fact that half of the songs are new compositions from Jon Anderson, none of which have holiday-related titles (unless "Forest of Fire" warms your holiday chestnuts). On listening to this, the songs themselves do little to clear up the confusion; while the traditional tunes ("Three Ships," "The Holly and the Ivy") are obviously Christmas songs, the new compositions are spiritual in Anderson's typically general sense and rarely address Christmastime directly. "How It Hits You," "Save All Your Love," and "Where Were You" might just as well have come from the Jon & Vangelis albums ("Easier Said Than Done," the album's single, was actually co-written with Vangelis). So Three Ships is really an album inspired by Christmas. Not a bad venue for Jon Anderson in theory, but someone must have been ding-dong merrily on high when they chose Roy Thomas Baker to produce it. Baker, best known for cramming synthesizer pop into tasty two- and three-minute parcels (the Cars, Alice Cooper), is an awful match for the ethereal Anderson. "Day of Days," which like "Easier Said Than Done" would have worked on the island-tinged pop album Song of Seven, is arguably the lone keeper from Three Ships. The Christmas songs are processed with synthesizers, overwhelming Anderson's voice most of the time, and the end result is a disappointing and superficial collection of Christmas classics (including one of the lamest versions of "O Holy Night" on record). As with In the City of Angels, also recorded in Hollywood, fans would do well to let Three Ships sail by.

Dave Connolly - All Music Guide



3 Ships is the fourth solo album by Yes lead singer Jon Anderson, released on Elektra Records in 1985. It includes versions of traditional Christmas carols and original material by Yes lead singer Jon Anderson. The three ships reference comes from the song "I Saw Three Ships," which states, "I saw three ships come sailing in, on Christmas day in the morning". The album was dedicated to the organisation Beyond War. The 'Holiday Card Pack, Jon Anderson Special Edition' came with a personal autograph from Jon, as well as a set of five Christmas cards. Each card displayed an image of an Anderson watercolour painting. 3 Ships was reissued on Compact Disc in 2007. This remastered '22nd Anniversary Edition' contains all of the album's original songs, plus five bonus tracks, two of which were previously unreleased. The album received only a single star from Sounds reviewer Hugh Fielder, who called it a "soppy retreat from realism".

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