Still working away here! We're now moving into the time period (mid 2000s) where Larry released many limited run 'boutique' titles. These were often live recordings and/or sourced from bootlegs, and consequently require more time to transcribe than albums containing studio recordings do. It might appear like I'm slowing down. If so it's just because 'the going is getting rough'. ;-) This is also the time period where Larry started releasing titles exclusively available to fan club (Solid Rock Army - SRA) members. If you weren't part of that elite band of soldiers then this and the next few updates might well alert you to some cool recordings you didn't even know existed....

Anyway, since last time:

• Completed the following album pages and promoted them to the albums menu: Invitation Only, Christmastime, Snowblind and On The Prowl
• Updated relevant song pages to reflect American Roots, Road Rage, The Very Best Of Larry Norman Volume 1, Invitation Only, Christmastime, Snowblind and On The Prowl
• Created the following song pages: Jesus Christ, You Gotta Have Jesus, The First Noel, O Holy Night, Medley: Carol Of The Bells And Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy, Oh Little Town Of Bethlehem, Do You See What I See?, Let There Be Peace On Earth, Angels We Have Heard On High, Christmastime Is Here, Auld Lang Syne and Why Me Lord
• Updated the following song pages: Standing At The Crossroads, The Road And The Sky, Waves Of Grace, Under His Love, Man Of Constant Sorrow, The Day That A Child Appeared, Christmas Time, Twelve Good Men, If The Bombs Fall, Medley (I Wish We'd All Been Ready / UFO), Sweet Sweet Song Of Salvation, I Wish We'd All Been Ready, PeacePollutionRevolution, Why Should The Devil Have All The Good Music, The Tune, Leaving The Past Behind and The Six O'Clock News. Changes include updated or corrected descriptions, version information, lyrical corrections etc
• Adjusted the banner image on the Road Rage page so that Larry's head is visible. Likewise The Very Best Of Larry Norman Volume 1
• Updated The First Noel on the singles page to link the relevant song pages
• Added descriptions of You Gotta Have Jesus, The Tune and The First Noel CD singles. See the singles page
  
• Updated Something New Under The Son page to reflect the 2003 CD. Updated relevant song pages likewise. Also added Canadian cassettes SNUTS-CA3 and -CA4
• Added We Were All So Young to the Other Releases page. [No images or song page yet]
• Updated The Six O'Clock News page to reflect the SRA exclusive CD single

So nearly two months on and I'm reverting to type. Slackerdom. I might claim to have also been working in my garden over the summer, but is that the truth?

Slacker or not, here's what's new:

• Added Bandcamp player for Down Under European version
• Added Bandcamp player for Rock, Scissors et Papier and added exact release date
• Updated I Love You page to correct the date and added venue details for the Rock, Scissors et Papier version
• Corrected an error in the Roll Away The Stone version of The Rock That Doesn't Roll lyrics. Likewise I've Searched All Around The World, Watch What You're Doing, Soul On Fire, Shot Down, Song For A Small Circle Of Friends, Let That Tape Keep Rolling and Why Should The Devil Have All The Good Music
• Completed lyrics for the Roll Away The Stone store demo tape, and updated relevant song pages
• Updated Roll Away The Stone page to identify the first accordion as relating to LP and CD. [Cassette has not yet been verified]. Also to note minor editing on the CD
• Updated affected song pages to reflect Roll Away The Stone CD differences compared to LP
• Updated Rough Diamonds, Precious Jewels release date to 08/08/2001 rather than per the Belfast concert, as it was sold from the start of the tour
• Updated the covers page
• Updated relevant song pages to reflect Solid Rock Sampler 1
• Updated If The Bombs Fall lyrics on Solid Rock Sampler 1 page, and updated the note about Messiah
• Moved Restless In Manhattan to before Live At Cornerstone on the albums menu page
• Completed Restless In Manhattan page, updated relevant song pages and promoted it to the albums menu
• Created song page Pianissimo Ridiculouso. Added a note referring to it to the Diamonds page
• Completed Live At Cornerstone page, updated relevant song pages and promoted it to the albums menu
• Added the very rare** solid centred UK Righteous Rocker release to the singles page

** There are several online sellers who have been listing the 'centre hole' version of this single for £30 plus for at least the past year. Please be aware that these high prices started appearing after the very rare Canadian pressing surfaced and sold for that kind of money. But, a very rare Canadian release does not equal a fairly common UK release. The latter typically sold for about £5 prior to all this.

As I forged into 2003 in terms of Larry releases, I realised I had forgotten to check the various Illegal Noise CDs. Cue a little detour back to 2001 to plug what turned out to be many gaps there....

• Added one of the missing song titles to Essential Test Disc track list
• Updated remaining song pages to reflect Agitator. Likewise Survivor and Instigator. (No such updates were needed for Collaborator)
• Fixed an error whereby the Instigator version of Sigrid Jane was described as being the same as the Street Level version but with earlier fade out
• Complete Rock, Scissors et Papier page and promote it to the albums menu
• Corrected an error in the Blarney Stone / The Belfast Bootlegs (Cornerstone Pre-Release) Soul On Fire lyrics
• Created song pages for Unborn Child, Positively 4th Street and In The Garden (Cover)
• Added several entries to the covers page
• Updated the Bootleg page to reflect the special edition cassette. Updated notes to better identify Classical Mandolin and Without Love You Are Nothing differences
• Updated Without Love You Are Nothing page to more accurately reference the "boogie" lyric that is at the end of some versions
• ​Updated relevant song pages to reflect the Bootleg special edition cassette
• Updated Street Level and relevant song pages to reflect the Illegal Noise CD
• Updated Bootleg and relevant song pages to reflect the Illegal Noise and 2005 CDs
• Updated Only Visiting This Planet and relevant song pages to reflect all CDs up to 2003
• Updated Larry Norman And His Friends On Tour to reflect the CD releases
• Updated song pages Everybody Work and Stop This Flight to reflect the Friends On Tour CDs and corrected a lyrical error in Stop This Flight
• Updated Rehearsal For Reality and relevant song pages to reflect the CD releases
• Made a minor update to the notes on the Right Here In America page
• Updated I Wish We'd All Been Ready to include A Moment In Time as a version
• Updated A Moment In Time page to note that the Illegal Noise CD is the same as the original
• Updated Rough Mix 3 and relevant song pages to reflect the Illegal Noise CD
• Updated Down Under and relevant song pages to reflect the Illegal Noise CD. (Over & Out)
• Updated  Rough Street Love Letter to denote that the slimline version was limited to 200 copies
• Updated Upon This Rock to better describe the early CD releases
• Updated relevant song pages to reflect the early  Upon This Rock CDs
• Added accordion and lyrics covering the Collector's Edition CD release of Upon This Rock, and updated affected song pages
• Created song pages Clean Lennon, The Prayer Meeting, We All (The Crash Pad) and Lost Kids (Song For The Runaways)
• Renamed All I See Is You song page to I'm So Glad I Know You and correct an error in the Motorola Corolla 2 version lyrics
• Updated Ha Ha World and relevant album pages to ‘always sat in here’ rather than ‘always sitting here’
• Updated Upon This Rock to describe the 2003 CD release
• Updated So Long Ago The Garden and relevant song pages to reflect the 2003 CD release
• Updated In Another Land and relevant song pages to reflect the 2003 CD releases
• Updated Eternal Struggle to correctly list the In Another Land versions that include it
• Completed first pass transcript of song lyrics for Live At Cornerstone
• Added 7ILY-US14 to the singles page and replaced the 7ILY-NZ1 side A scan
• Added variants RATS-US4, TIsT-US7 and TBOLN-UK1 to Roll Away The Stone, The Israel Tapes and The Best Of Larry Norman​

Some good progress has been made over the last month or so, even if I do say so myself. You can judge for yourself by perusing the following fascinating breakdown...

• Added Hollywood Boulevard and Take It Or Leave It to the songs landing page
• Completed The Cottage Tapes Book Two and promoted it into the albums menu
• Updated / corrected lyrics for She's A Dancer and Look Into Jesus, reference the version/s on the Cottage Tapes CDs
• Updated My Mind's Made Up page to include "Dabbles"
• Updated Is God Dead? page to include the Judgment Day At Speedee Mart version
• Separated the Solid Rock pre-releases from the official Rough Diamonds, Precious Jewels releases, by creating The Belfast Bootlegs page to house the former. This was done because the releases are so huge and so different that the page would have been difficult to navigate and follow if all kept together
• Completed Rough Diamonds, Precious Jewels and The Belfast Bootlegs pages, and promoted them into the albums menu. Updated relevant song pages to reflect these titles
• Added the missing Rough Diamonds, Precious Jewels vignette samplers to the singles page - see the CD tab - and fully populated their track lists. Also added better scans and descriptions of Stranded In Belfast and the third vignette sampler
• Created the following song pages: It's Getting So You Can't Trust Nobody, Under His Love, Eve Of Destruction, If You'll Be My Woman, Mendel's Peas, Marvin David Walter Lincoln Jones and Quit Kicking My Dog Around
• Corrected errors in the lyrics of the Blarney Stone versions of Center Of My Heart, Soul On Fire, Watch What You're Doing and Leaving The Past Behind
• Updated lyrics of Gathered Moments version of Twist And Shout
• Fixed '???' lyric in the studio version of The Troubles. (The lyric is 'arms')
• Added Bandcamp player to Back To America
• Corrected the Dove LP version of Upon This Rock release year to 1979 (from1973), and moved it further down the page
• Updated Essential Test Disc details - see the CD tab on the singles page. (Note that I don't know what many of the snippets are, so there are a lot of '??'s)
• Updated It's The Same Old Story MGM version lyrics. (Changed 'Well' to 'Yeah')
• Updated relevant song pages to reflect Essential Test Disc, and created the following song pages: Positively Like A Servant, How I Lost My Life And Found My Soul, Watching The Eclipse, Stuck In America and I Call Her Doctor
• Updated the covers page
• Added Bandcamp player to One Night In Norway - 1991, and added the Bandcamp bonus tracks to the page
• Corrected an error in Christmas Time lyrics, One Night In Norway - 1991 version

... If you reached the end of the list with the feeling that I oversold it somewhat then I would ask you to think for a moment about the numerous versions of Belfast Bootlegs, the extensive differences between them, and the sheer number of tracks they contain. Then consider that each track had to be compared across each version to identify any differences, lyrics transcribed and dozens upon dozens of song pages updated..... Still unimpressed? If so I will forever live in hope of you never becoming my manager and carrying out my appraisal. ;-)

All in less than three weeks....
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• Completed the following album pages and promoted them to the albums menu: American Roots, Slinky, Frisbee and Solid Rock Sampler 1
• Updated song pages where possible to reflect the above albums
• Minor lyric correction to The Best Of The Second Trilogy version of My Feet Are On The Rock
• Minor lyric correction to Down The Line
• Lyric corrections to If I Got My Ticket
• Updated We Three Twogether page to denote differences between versions
• Updated Baby Out Of Wedlock page to note that The Cottage Tapes Book One version plays slower
• Updated Blow In My Ear And I'll Follow You Anywhere and Letter From The President pages to denote that The Flies was a fictitious band name
• Added Bandcamp player to Footprints In The Sand. Likewise Survivor (Songs From 1956 To 2000) and The Cottage Tapes Book One
• Updated relevant song pages to include the song by song notes from Footprints In The Sand CD booklet
• Added a header image to the Other Releases page
• Corrected erroneous version details for the Bootleg version of Righteous Rocker and corrected its lyrics on the Bootleg album page
• Updated He's The One lyrics and added them to the Bootleg album page
• Updated lyrics to all MGM versions of Christmas Time
• Updated lyrics of I Love You (Original song) (live Larry and Randy) on Emancipator
• Updated the covers page
• Created the following song pages: Jesus On The Mainline, Man Of Constant Sorrow, Take It Or Leave It and Hollywood Boulevard

​Not bad for a slacker!

NOTE: I somehow totally forgot to mention a new Larry Norman album in Update #58! I'll mention it here instead then, and no, this is not an April Fool. One Night In Norway - 1991

It's been so long since the previous post here that you would be forgiven if you had wondered whether the site had been abandoned. Whilst I did have to take quite some time away in order to focus on other things, I can assure you that is not the case. Here then is a nicely bulleted list of things that have been done in the last eight or nine months:

• Completed album pages for Shake Your Rattle And Crawl, You Are Not My People and Siege At Elsinore
• Updated song pages where possible to reflect the above albums
• Updated the covers page
• Made minor lyrical corrections to A Note From Mr God (Children Of Sorrow version)
• Created the following song pages: At The Circus, Jingle Bell Rock, Rachael And Me, The Wabbit And The Twain
• Added variants 7ILY-US13 and 7ILY-NE1 to the singles page. (See the People tab)
• Replaced 7ILY-NI2 images and added matrix details. (See the People tab on the singles page)
• Added a note to the Streams Of White Light Into Darkened Corners page regarding catalog number errors on the original CD release
• Added variant SNUTS-US14 to the Something New Under The Son page
• Replaced ILY-GE1 images and added matrix details, on the I Love You page
• Updated the descriptions of Trinity, Camel Through A Needle's Eye, I Feel Like Dying (version 2), A Note From Mr God, Shake Your Rattle And Crawl, Dear Malcolm, Dear Alwyn and That's What Love Is For. Likewise Larry Norman And His Friends On Tour
• Corrected very minor lyrical error in I Want It All. Likewise in Nightmare (MGM versions) and in Soul Survivor (So Long Ago The Garden CD version)
• Updated Butterfly lyrics

And there you have it. Basically an average of one album processed every two months, which is not at all impressive. Progress will become a little less sluggish from now though.

Still beavering away, here's what's new:

• Completed Infiltrator page, promoted it to the albums menu and updated relevant song pages
• Corrected lyrical errors in Starstorm version of Righteous Rocker. Likewise It's The Same Old Story
• Corrected lyrical errors in Rough Street Love Letter version of Deep Blue
• Corrected lyrical errors in Endless Life Of Dreams
• Created a Waves Of Grace song page
• Completed Survivor page, promoted it to the albums menu and updated relevant song pages
• Corrected lyrical error in Dark Passage
• Corrected lyrical errors in Starstorm version of If God Is My Father
• Corrected lyrical errors in Stop This Flight version of Messiah
• Updated Messiah page to make the The Very Best Of Larry Norman Volume 2 / Survivor version unique. Also updated the description of the track on The Very Best Of Larry Norman Volume 2 page
• Corrected lyrical errors in Rough Street Love Letter version of Keeper For My Heart
• Corrected lyrical errors in Down Under version of Why Can't You Be Good
• Created a One Star Remains song page, albeit with barely any of the lyrics figured out!
• Completed Safecracking page, promoted it to the albums menu and updated relevant song pages
• Corrected lyrical errors in I Want It All
• Significantly rearranged and updated White Blossoms From Black Roots page so that release variations, descriptions and accordions are more detailed and in chronological order. Updated affected song pages accordingly
• Added the May 1989 Music To Live By CD to the Other Releases page and updated relevant song pages to reflect
• Added numerous links to the Other Releases page
• Updated the description of Home At Last slightly and added April to the Benson versions release date. Corrected / changed the double LP version release date to 1990
• Updated Swing Low Sweet Chariot page to reflect the CD version of The Story Of The Tune
• Updated What's Wrong With This Body page to reflect the studio version from Stop This Flight (and Survivor)
• Corrected lyrical errors in Living In The 20th Century
• Fixed an error on I Wish We'd All Been Ready whereby version 10 was referred to version 8 rather than to version 9
• Fixed spelling of Glenn Selwitz' surname (on pages Song For A Small Circle Of Friends, Bootleg and The Cottage Tapes Book One. Also fixed 'Hilly Hillman' on the Other Releases Born Twice entry. (Was Hilly Michaels)
• Added images of variant UTR-UK13 to Upon This Rock page. Also added variants UTR-UK14 and UTR-UK15
• Added a song page link to Dear Malcolm, Dear Alwyn accordion entry on Upon This Rock page. (Reference the Illegal Noise CD)
• Added variant STF-SW4 to Stop This Flight page
• Added variant SLATG-US21 to So Long Ago The Garden page
• Updated the covers page
• Added a special edition cassette section to Bootleg, albeit without lyrics or full difference details yet
• Transcribed the Solid Rock CD bonus tracks on Stop This Flight
• Replaced the images of Sweet Sweet Song Of Salvation 7" promotional single. (On the vinyl tab of the singles page

Here's what's new around here:

• Completed The Best Of Larry Norman Volume One page and promoted it into the albums structure. Updated relevant song pages.
• Updated numerous song pages to reflect Agitator.
• Completed The Best Of Larry Norman Volume Two page and promoted it into the albums structure. Updated relevant song pages.
• Corrected a minor error in Goodbye, Farewell lyrics on the Footprints In The Sand page. Also corrected an error whereby this song on Footprints and on Omega Europa were denoted as different versions.
• Added a note to the I Love You album page to point out the bonus track on the Norman Records CDs.
• Updated The Last Supper to peg the Upon This Rock Radio Promo and Illegal Noise CDs against the Capitol mix.
• Updated Upon This Rock to denote the Capitol version as LP only and to cover the bonus tracks of the Radio Promo and Illegal Noise CDs.
• Updated Dear Malcolm, Dear Alwyn to reflect Illegal Noise Upon This Rock.
• Updated Ha Ha World and You Can't Take Away The Lord to reflect Upon This Rock Radio Promo and Illegal Noise CDs.
• Updated / tidied Prelude page.
• Updated Only Visiting This Planet page to cover up to the first 2001 CD release.
• Updated So Long Ago The Garden page to cover ‘earlier’ rather than ‘1993’ CD release.
• Updated In Another Land to reflect the 1999 CD release.
• Updated I Don't Believe In Miracles page to reflect In Another Land CDs.
• Updated Delta Day Jam lyrics.
• Made minor lyrical corrections to Spirit In The Sky, Prince Of Peace, Song For Adam and I Am Waiting.
• Updated Streams Of White Light Into Darkened Corners page to cover the CD version, and improved the description of the bonus tracks.
• Updated Shine A Light to correct the spoken introduction text and add two ‘yeahs’ on the end.
• Updated Put Your Hand In The Hand to make "Surf Duke" consistent. (Rather than "Surfduke").
• Updated Sweet Silver Angels page to include Jesus Was A Crossmaker title and a more detailed description. Also added Jesus Was A Cross Maker to the songs landing page.
• Updated The Road And The Sky to reflect the Streams CD version. Likewise I Am Waiting.
• Updated Blue Shoes White to detail further differences between the Street Level and The Cottage Tapes Book One versions, and to peg Liberator.
• Completed Liberator page and promoted it into the albums structure. Updated relevant song pages. Likewise Collaborator and Emancipator.
• Made minor corrections to the lyrics of A Dangerous Place To Be, Living In The 20th Century and I Will Survive. Updated the latter to better describe the version differences.
• Created song pages for I Want It All, Down To The Water, Perfect World, Don't Wanna Be Like You, Jesus Is God and He Is A Friend Of Mine, and added them to the songs landing page.
• Added variants UTR-US33 and UTR-US34 to Upon This Rock. Also fixed UTR-US25 error in showing two side two labels.
• added variant RTP-CA2 to Remixing This Planet.
• Added 7ILY-NZ1 (New Zealand I Love You single). See the People tab on the singles page.
• Corrected errors in the lyrics of The Troubles.
• Replaced label images of Street Level variant SL-US7. (The previous side two image showed a false second 'pressing ring' caused by the label being placed on top of another, misaligned label).
• Updated Galaxy page to remove the redundant version 2 lyrics accordion.
• Updated Is God Dead? page.

Surprise! I've actually done quite a lot of work this time round..... ;-)

So, more than two months on from the previous update and what do I have to report? Larry's brother Charles still hasn't updated the official website or announced the new releases that are in the offing. He has moved home again though, so can be excused. I took a break of more than a month from all things Larry Norman, which I suppose will equate to less progress here than you might reasonably expect for the length of time. Unlike Charles though, I haven't moved home and have absolutely no excuse. Regardless, here's a nicely bulleted list of what I have achieved, despite my obvious slothfulness.

• Finalised the lyrics for Tourniquet and added an accordion to accommodate the additional tracks that were on the pre-release versions.
• Created a song page for Turn and updated all other Tourniquet song pages.
• Added a blurb about the Tourniquet pre-releases and separated the instrumental and vocal versions of Near.
• Updated the description of Stranded In Belfast. (See the CD tab on the singles page).
• Updated Be Careful What You Sign, Born To Be Unlucky, One Way and Moses In The Wilderness to reflect Stranded In Belfast.
• Added COS-US5 variant to Children Of Sorrow.
• Updated the descriptions of the SLATG-US17 and US19 booklets. (So Long Ago The Garden).
• Fixed an error where Street Level variant SL-US30 was shown with two kodes against it.
• Updated the description of the Belfast Bootlegs two disc pre-release set.
• Added song titles and first pass lyrics for Belfast Bootlegs pre-release disc one.
• Completed the Instigator page and promoted it to the albums menu.
• Corrected an error in Born To Be Unlucky lyrics. (Studio versions).
• Created song pages Butterfly and Kulderachna. Likewise God Save The Queen and Oh, Susanna.
• Updated U.F.O., Everybody Work and Twist And Shout song pages to reflect Belfast Bootlegs pre-release disc one.
• Added Stevie Wonder detail to the Watch What You're Doing page.
• Completed the Agitator page and promoted it to the albums menu.
• Created song pages Sweet Silver Angels, God Part 2 and People In My Past.
• Added a link to Tourniquet on the albums landing page.

So the last five or six weeks has seen another clutch of album pages completed, though progress on that front will inevitably slow soon given The Belfast Bootlegs looms large! A number of new song pages have also been created. Here's the full scoop:

• Updated the covers page.
• Added Larry’s description to Telephone song page. Correct an error in the lyrics here and on the Four Track Motorola '66 Corolla and The Best Of People! Vol 2 pages.
• Completed lyrics for In Another Land special edition cassette.
• Created song pages Tuning Up and Top 40 Survey.
• Updated the following song pages to reflect the In Another Land special edition cassette - One Way, I Am A Servant, Hymn To The Last Generation. Déjà Vu, I Wish We'd All Been Ready, Diamonds and Song For A Small Circle Of Friends.
• Replaced 7ILY-UK3 images with ones from a better copy. See the People tab here.
• Removed detail from the White Blossoms From Black Roots page that said Looking For The Footprints was previously unreleased. (The special edition cassette mentioned above predated White Blossoms).
• Swapped versions 9 and 10 of Soul On Fire.
• Added OVTP-AU8 variant to the Only Visiting This Planet. and fixed a typing error (missing digit) in OVTP-US40 matrix details.
• Completed The Very Best Of Larry Norman Volume 1 album page and promoted it to the albums menu. Likewise The Very Best Of Larry Norman Volume 2.
• Updated all relevant song pages to reflect the two Very Best Of compilations. Note that Volume 1 in particular contained a number of unique edits.
• Promoted Road Rage to the albums menu.
• Corrected an error in Rock The Flock lyrics on the Tourniquet album page.
• Completed the Survivor (Songs From 1956 To 2000) album page, and promoted it to the albums menu.
• Updated all relevant song pages to reflect Survivor (Songs From 1956 To 2000).
• Corrected a minor error in Blue Shoes White lyrics.
• Completed the Sticks & Stones album page, promoted it to the albums menu and updated relevant song pages.
• Created song pages: Cornerstone Blues, Raindrops, That's What Love Is For, Bark and Eternal Struggle.
• Corrected My Feet Are On The Rock version 1 / The Best Of The Second Trilogy lyrics. (More oohs at end).
• Added lyrics to The Best Of Larry Norman Volume 1 album page, up to If God Is My Father.