Taupin liked what he heard, and the two formed a platonic and professional bond. He was given his first set of lyrics by Bernie Taupin, a struggling lyricist, to set them to music. PAGES WILL BE DELETED OTHERWISE IF THEY ARE MISSING BASIC MARKUP.īorn Reginald Kenneth Dwight on Main Pinner, England, classically-trained Elton began his career in various blues bands and as a session musician, before answering a newspaper ad by Liberty Records for aspiring songwriters. DON'T MAKE PAGES MANUALLY UNLESS A TEMPLATE IS BROKEN, AND REPORT IT THAT IS THE CASE. THIS SHOULD BE WORKING NOW, REPORT ANY ISSUES TO Janna2000, SelfCloak or RRabbit42. The Trope workshop specific templates can then be removed and it will be regarded as a regular trope page after being moved to the Main namespace. All new trope pages will be made with the "Trope Workshop" found on the "Troper Tools" menu and worked on until they have at least three examples.Pages that don't do this will be subject to deletion, with or without explanation. All new pages should use the preloadable templates feature on the edit page to add the appropriate basic page markup. All images MUST now have proper attribution, those who neglect to assign at least the "fair use" licensing to an image may have it deleted.Failure to do so may result in deletion of contributions and blocks of users who refuse to learn to do so.
Before making a single edit, Tropedia EXPECTS our site policy and manual of style to be followed.On the 1995 CD, "You're So Static" is spelled incorrectly as "Your're So Static". "You're So Static" also featured an early fade out.Īt one point, the title of this album was to be Ol' Pink Eyes Is Back, a pun on Frank Sinatra's Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back. When MCA Records re-issued this album, on cassette tape, in the 1980s, "You're So Static" and "Stinker" were swapped in the album's running order. " Pinball Wizard" ( Pete Townshend) – 5:09." Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" – 5:36īonus tracks (1995 Mercury and 1996 Rocket reissue).1.3 Bonus tracks (1995 Mercury and 1996 Rocket reissue)Īll songs by Elton John and Bernie Taupin, except where noted.2.3 Bonus tracks (1995 Mercury and 1996 Rocket reissue).
"Step Into Christmas" was recorded during a previous one-off single session, and "Pinball Wizard" was recorded at The Who's Ramport Studios in England during the sessions for the "Tommy" movie score and soundtrack album. The 1995 CD reissue contains four songs from the general period in and around the "Caribou" release, though only two of them, the b-sides "Sick City" and "Cold Highway", were recorded during the album's sessions. In addition to the singles, John has over the years played several others songs from this album in concert, including "Grimsby", "You're So Static", "Ticking" and "Dixie Lily". Producer Gus Dudgeon would later add additional backing vocals, horns and other overdubs after John and the band had finished their work. In the liner notes to the 1995 CD re-release, John described the album as being quickly recorded in January 1974, with only about 9 days to get everything recorded, as he and the band "were under enormous pressure" to finish the album and then immediately embark on a Japanese tour. The album was nominated for the Grammy Award for Album of the Year at the 17th Annual Grammy Awards. In the US the album was certified gold in July 1974 and was certified platinum and 2x platinum in March 1993 by the RIAA.
Elton and associates previously recorded three albums at Château d'Hérouville in France. The album was named for the Caribou Ranch recording studio, where part of the album was recorded.
Both these singles reached number 1 in Canada on the RPM 100 national Top Singles Chart (as did the album itself). The album contains the singles, " Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me", which reached number 16 in the UK Singles Chart and number 2 in the US, and " The Bitch Is Back", which reached number 15 in the UK and number 4 in the US. It was John's fourth chart-topping album in the United States and his third in the United Kingdom. Caribou is the eighth album by the English singer-songwriter Elton John, released in 1974 (see 1974 in music).