Songs for Rebecca

gabejr · Post by **gabejr** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 7:51 pm

I was reading a Leonard Cohen biography and it mentioned a supposed 'lost album' called Songs For Rebecca. It included 6 songs, including an early version of 'Came So Far For Beauty'.
Does anyone know anything about this album like song titles or the recordings themselves?

lizzytysh · Post by **lizzytysh** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 7:53 pm

Not a thing, but I sure would love to hear it.

gabejr · Post by **gabejr** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 7:56 pm

I forgot to mention that it was supposedly recorded after the 'New Skin For The Old Ceremony' album but for some reason the album was scrapped.
I hope there's a boot of the unreleased songs from the album.

lizzytysh · Post by **lizzytysh** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 8:32 pm

Since "Came So Far for Beauty" is reportedly one of them, perhaps, they've been dispersed amongst other albums.

Maarten · Post by **Maarten** » Thu Oct 21, 2004 11:06 pm

Hello there,

I'd heard about the "lost album" aswell, but I couldn't remember where... I first started checking in some biographies I've got at home, but finally found some interesting information on the Web.

Feel free to go to:

http://www.uqtr.ca/~bertrank/cohenlive/ ... ebecca.htm

Or check http://www.leonardcohenlive.com/
then click on "Catalogues - storeroom"
and finally on "Songs for Rebecca (1975), of course!

Hope you guys find these links helpfull...

Best regards,
Maarten

tomsakic · Post by **tomsakic** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 9:25 am

Five songs were performed and recorded in Bryn Mawr, November 1975. You can find it in trade regularly.
http://www.uqtr.ca/%7Ebertrank/cohenliv ... -11-23.txt
It's great show, and Don't Go Home With Your Hard-On better than Phil Spector's version.

That's one of CDRs I am owing to you, lyzzytish

Don't worry, in November I will get my first payment, and you're on my priority list one year now

tom

lizzytysh · Post by **lizzytysh** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 4:00 pm

Not to worry, Tom

~ I understand to the max! I even cited you [without name] to someone who became incensed and insulting with me

, at not receiving in a timely enough manner to suit their expectations

, what I'd promised to send [despite my intermittent, solicited and unsolicited, reassurances that the items were still forthcoming]. I know how 'life' can manage to wedge itself between promises, and promises fulfilled....and that trust remains at the base. I also know that good things are worth waiting for. I further know that I've lived this long without what you'll be sending, and that a red-letter day at the mailbox still awaits, and that's good enough for me

! I still look forward to it

, and am delighted to hear that this will be part of it

.

Love,
Lyzzytish