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Several popular singles with Beck followed, including a second American album, Having a Rave Up with the Yardbirds (1965), that, as with their previous album, was a split release featuring songs with both Clapton and Beck. [4] In 1966, the Yardbirds recorded their first studio album of all original material. [5]
Roger the Engineer (originally released in the UK as Yardbirds and in the US, West Germany, France and Italy as Over Under Sideways Down) is the only UK studio album and the third US album by the English rock band the Yardbirds. Recorded and released in 1966, it contains all original material and is the only Yardbirds album with guitarist Jeff ...
The Yardbirds are an English rock band formed in London in 1963. The band started the careers of three of rock's most famous guitarists: Eric Clapton (1963–1965), Jeff Beck (1965–1966) and Jimmy Page (1966–1968), all of whom ranked in the top five of Rolling Stone magazine's list of 100 greatest guitarists. [5]
The album entered Billboard magazine's Top LPs chart in December 1965 at number 137 and reached number 53 in February 1966. [50] In total, it spent 33 weeks in the chart. [16] [d] Having a Rave Up remained in print until 1972, longer than any other Yardbirds album on Epic. [52]
The Yardbirds Greatest Hits is the first compilation album of songs recorded by the Yardbirds.It was released in the United States in March 1967 by Epic Records and included all six of the Yardbirds' American A-side singles up to that time, plus three B-sides and the live "Smokestack Lightning" from Having a Rave Up and Five Live Yardbirds.
This lineup remained stable for seven years, releasing the band's first new studio album since 1967, Birdland, in 2003. [13] Shortly after the album's touring cycle, Glen left the Yardbirds and was replaced by Billy Boy Miskimmin. [14] Mayo also left the band at the end of 2004, [15] with Jerry Donahue taking his place.
In July 1966, the song was released on Yardbirds, the group's first studio album in the UK and in August on the US edition titled after the song. [7] As one of the group's most popular pieces, "Over Under Sideways Down" it is included on many anthologies, such as The Yardbirds Greatest Hits (1967) and Ultimate! (2001). [11]
The song's first appearance on an album was in September 1966 on the UK Columbia Records various artists compilation Go, Vol. 1. [2] In the US, it was included as the opening track of The Yardbirds Greatest Hits, their highest charting American album. [32]