Recordings
The Undertakers Unearthed 1963-65
The Lomax Alliance and CBS Recordings 1966-1967
Is This What You Want? 1968-1969
Heavy Jelly 1970
Home Is In My Head 1971
Three 1972
White Lady /Badger 1974
Livin' For Lovin' 1976
Did You Ever Have That Feeling? 1977
True Voices (Various Artists) 1991
The Ballad of Liverpool Slim 2001 & 2004
New Day
Jackie Lomax Lyrics
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Im going to take all my pain
And wrap them up inside my memory
And never hear from them again
Cause there's a new day dawning
There's a new day dawning
There's a new day dawning
There's a new day dawning
And I think it's going to be all right
Cause I almost see the light of a new day
Got to throw away my protection
I wont be needing that no more
Its time to look out for perfection
I got to get outside my door
Cause there's a new day dawning
There's a new day dawning
There's a new day dawning
There's a new day dawning
And I think it's going to be all right
Cause I almost see the light of a new day
Stand up straight away
Meet the brand new day
Be careful what you say
Its in your mind you've got to pay
You've got to find another reason for examining your life
Are you into treason or is what you do all right?
Cause there's a new day dawning
There's a new day dawning
There's a new day dawning
There's a new day dawning
Cause I think it's going to be all right
And I'm sure I can see the light of a new day
There's a new day dawning
There's a new day dawning
Everybody meet the brand new day
Come on let me hear you say
There's a new day dawning
There's a new day dawning
I see a new light shining
I see a silver lining
There's a new day dawning
There's a new day dawning
The song 'New Day' by Jackie Lomax is a mix of hope, positivity, and optimism. The lyrics of the song signify a new beginning for the singer by letting go of all the negativity, pain, and loneliness he has been through in the past. He believes that a new day is dawning and things will be all right. The singer plans to wrap his loneliness and pain inside his memory and start afresh. Lomax is optimistic that things are going to improve, and he can see the light of the new day.
The singer urges the listeners to throw away their protection, to step out of the comfort zone and search for perfection. He asks his listeners to be careful with their words and thoughts as they will shape their future. Lomax wants his listeners to seek a new reason for examining their life and to question if what they are doing is right or not, and if not, then to make changes.
Mentioned throughout the song is a new day dawning, and the singer urges everyone to meet the brand new day as there is silver lining shining, and things are going to be all right. The message of finding hope in the darkest hours and starting afresh is the central theme of this beautiful song.
Line by Line Meaning
Im going to take all my loneliness
I'm going to collect all of my loneliness
Im going to take all my pain
I'm going to collect all of my pain
And wrap them up inside my memory
I'm going to store them in my memory
And never hear from them again
I'll never think of them again
Cause there's a new day dawning
A new day is beginning
And I think it's going to be all right
I'm hopeful that things will be fine
Cause I almost see the light of a new day
I can sense a positive change about to happen
Got to throw away my protection
I must discard my defenses
I wont be needing that no more
I won't require them anymore
Its time to look out for perfection
I need to aim for perfection
I got to get outside my door
I need to get out of my house
Stand up straight away
I must stand tall
Meet the brand new day
Greet the new day
Be careful what you say
Watch what you say
Its in your mind you've got to pay
You must bear the consequences of your thoughts
You've got to find another reason for examining your life
You should look for a different reason to assess your life
Are you into treason or is what you do all right?
Are you betraying yourself or doing the right thing?
Everybody meet the brand new day
Everyone, greet the new day
Come on let me hear you say
Say it with me
I see a new light shining
I perceive a new positivity
I see a silver lining
I sense a hopeful sign
Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
Written by: Jackie Lomax
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
Gauraonline
London, summer 1968
Recording for Is This What You Want? began at London's Abbey Road Studios in June 1968 and continued through the summer in between Harrison's work on the Beatles' White Album (1968) While working alone at Trident Studios, down the hall from where the band were recording, Lomax was invited to add backing vocals to "Dear Prudence" in late August; he had also joined the backing chorus for "Hey Jude" earlier that month. Among the guest musicians on Lomax's London sessions, much of which would go unused, were Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr, Nicky Hopkins, Klaus Voormann and Paul McCartney. Less well-known participants included drummers Bishop O'Brien and Pete Clark; the former was part of Apple artist James Taylor's backing group, while Clark was the drummer for Lomax's "house" band, with whom Lomax performed a handful of London gigs during this period.
Los Angeles, October–November 1968
Following the completion of the White Album, Harrison and Lomax left for Los Angeles to carry out further work on Is This What You Want? Seven of the album's twelve tracks were recorded at Sound Recorders Studio from 20 October to 11 November Lomax was supported on these sessions by Harrison, Larry Knechtel, Joe Osborn and Hal Blaine– the latter three among the top LA sessionmen at the time[16] and veterans of Phil Spector's Wrecking Crew.Moog synthesizer pioneers Bernie Krause and Paul Beaver also contributed, and Harrison later used a collaboration between himself and Krause on his experimental album Electronic Sound.[16][18] Other activities during what biographer Alan Clayson describes as a "most productive" US visit for Harrison included meeting Delaney Bramlett and Leon Russell for the first time,[19] and recording a rendition of "Nowhere Man" by singer Tiny Tim for inclusion on the Beatles' Christmas 1968 fan-club record.[20] Lomax later praised Blaine, Knechtel and Osborn for being "tremendous musicians, so quick"and, like Harrison, he would work with Russell in London late the following year.
London, January 1969
The album (in its UK version) was completed in London during January 1969, in between Harrison's commitments to the Beatles' ill-fated Get Back project. Although only John Barham would be credited for orchestration on Is This What You Want?, Beatles producer George Martin can be heard on Get Back audio tapes from 10 January wondering whether Harrison, who had just walked out on the band,[25] would be attending a strings overdubbing session Martin had arranged that evening for one of Lomax's tracks.
Harrison originally considered giving his most successful composition, "Something", to Lomax to record, after Lennon and McCartney had shown little interest in it during the Get Back sessions.[28] Harrison instead offered the song to Joe Cocker before the Beatles recorded it for their Abbey Road album (1969).
Subsequent Apple recordings
The US version of Is This What You Want? was issued two months after its British release and included "New Day",a Lomax composition that was originally intended as a standalone single, although Lomax later claimed he had to push to persuade Apple that it was worth recording. The sessions in April 1969 were Lomax's first as a producer, supported by longtime Beatles associate Mal Evans; Lomax also worked closely with musical arranger John Barham on the song's descending brass parts. The backing musicians on "New Day" were previously thought to have been Clapton, Starr and Billy Preston,but Lomax has stated that he was accompanied by his live band at the time:Tim Renwick, Chris Hatfield, Billy Kinsley and Pete Clark.[Lomax recorded a cover version of Leiber and Stoller's "Thumbin' a Ride" on 11 March, as the B-side to "New Day" in America. "Thumbin' a Ride" was produced by Paul McCartney[15] and featured him on drums, along with Harrison (guitars), Preston (piano and organ) and Klaus Voormann (bass);in addition, "George & Patti and The Rascals" were credited as backing vocalists.
An unreleased Lomax composition, "Going Back to Liverpool", was also taped in March 1969, apparently at the same McCartney-produced session. The following day, 12 March, Harrison was overseeing overdubs on these Lomax tracks, before planning to attend McCartney's wedding to Linda Eastman, when Pattie Harrison informed him that the police had just carried out a drugs raid at Kinfauns; a large lump of hashish had been "found" on the floor of their otherwise-tidy home.
Other tracks Lomax recorded for Apple during 1969 included "You Make It With Me", "Can You Hear Me" and "You've Got to Be Strong",the last of which would be rewritten by Doris Troy and released on her own Apple Records album as "I've Got to Be Strong". By this time, Lomax was involved with a band called Heavy Jelly,but he recorded one last single for Apple in October 1969, a Harrison-produced cover of "How the Web Was Woven".[Nicky Hopkins was booked to play on the session but was unable to return from Los Angeles in time, and then Harrison was forced to postpone when his mother became seriously ill. Leon Russell agreed to participate on the rescheduled session, and contributed piano, organ and guitar.[Lomax had been reluctant to record the song – in 1974 he would tell ZigZag magazine that he had to be "pretty well talked into [doing] it" – but he was impressed with Russell's versatility on "How the Web Was Woven", and credited him with also playing the drums on the recording.
Release and reception
Is This What You Want? was released in the UK on 21 March 1969 (with the Apple catalogue number SAPCOR 6), and in the United States on 19 May (as Apple ST 3354). The accompanying single, "New Day", was issued on 9 May and 2 June, respectively, in Britain and America. The single failed to chart in either market and the album's only placing was number 145 on the US Billboard 200[43] during a nine-week chart stay there.[44] Harrison's musical biographer, Simon Leng, has written of the public's response to the suggestive title of Lomax's album as "an apathetic 'no'". A lack of promotion by Apple Records has been identified as the cause for the album's commercial failure,following the arrival of Allen Klein as The Beatles' business manager in early 1969.
On release, Is This What You Want? received enthusiastic reviews, but as Lomax himself admitted in a 1970 Rolling Stone interview, with reference to reviewers' fascination with the line-up of superstar backing musicians, "they're always talkin' about who's on the album and not the album itself."Writing in ZigZag in July 1974, Andy Childs advised the magazine's readers: "it's worth its weight in gold, so if it's absent from your collection, add it to your shopping list of second-hand records." A number of music critics identify Harrison's "Sour Milk Sea" as a highlight of the album.
Richie Unterberger of Allmusic offers a less favourable opinion of Is This What You Want?, describing Lomax as "a passable but unarresting singer and songwriter".Unterberger identifies the best moments as the "Beatlesque" songs "Is This What You Want?" and the "uncommonly tender" "Fall Inside Your Eyes".Discussing the 2004 reissue in Record Collector, Terry Staunton described Lomax's style as "[mining] the same seam as Joe Cocker, albiet with a voice neither as distinctive or as powerful" and singled out the "gentle balladry" of "Fall Inside Your Eyes" and "Baby You're A Lover" as highlights. Lomax's only Apple album, Staunton concluded, was "a fairly pleasing blue-eyed soul set, which is probably more revered today than it was 35 years ago"
The album was issued on CD for the first time in November 1991,[ with the inclusion of bonus tracks such as "New Day", "Thumbin' a Ride" and "How the Web Was Woven". The 2010 remaster offered previously unreleased songs recorded during Lomax's two years on Apple Records, as well as additional tracks for download, including alternative mixes of "Sour Milk Sea", "The Eagle Laughs at You" and "New Day".
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What a good song!
Gauraonline
London, summer 1968
Recording for Is This What You Want? began at London's Abbey Road Studios in June 1968 and continued through the summer in between Harrison's work on the Beatles' White Album (1968) While working alone at Trident Studios, down the hall from where the band were recording, Lomax was invited to add backing vocals to "Dear Prudence" in late August; he had also joined the backing chorus for "Hey Jude" earlier that month. Among the guest musicians on Lomax's London sessions, much of which would go unused, were Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr, Nicky Hopkins, Klaus Voormann and Paul McCartney. Less well-known participants included drummers Bishop O'Brien and Pete Clark; the former was part of Apple artist James Taylor's backing group, while Clark was the drummer for Lomax's "house" band, with whom Lomax performed a handful of London gigs during this period.
Los Angeles, October–November 1968
Following the completion of the White Album, Harrison and Lomax left for Los Angeles to carry out further work on Is This What You Want? Seven of the album's twelve tracks were recorded at Sound Recorders Studio from 20 October to 11 November Lomax was supported on these sessions by Harrison, Larry Knechtel, Joe Osborn and Hal Blaine– the latter three among the top LA sessionmen at the time[16] and veterans of Phil Spector's Wrecking Crew.Moog synthesizer pioneers Bernie Krause and Paul Beaver also contributed, and Harrison later used a collaboration between himself and Krause on his experimental album Electronic Sound.[16][18] Other activities during what biographer Alan Clayson describes as a "most productive" US visit for Harrison included meeting Delaney Bramlett and Leon Russell for the first time,[19] and recording a rendition of "Nowhere Man" by singer Tiny Tim for inclusion on the Beatles' Christmas 1968 fan-club record.[20] Lomax later praised Blaine, Knechtel and Osborn for being "tremendous musicians, so quick"and, like Harrison, he would work with Russell in London late the following year.
London, January 1969
The album (in its UK version) was completed in London during January 1969, in between Harrison's commitments to the Beatles' ill-fated Get Back project. Although only John Barham would be credited for orchestration on Is This What You Want?, Beatles producer George Martin can be heard on Get Back audio tapes from 10 January wondering whether Harrison, who had just walked out on the band,[25] would be attending a strings overdubbing session Martin had arranged that evening for one of Lomax's tracks.
Harrison originally considered giving his most successful composition, "Something", to Lomax to record, after Lennon and McCartney had shown little interest in it during the Get Back sessions.[28] Harrison instead offered the song to Joe Cocker before the Beatles recorded it for their Abbey Road album (1969).
Subsequent Apple recordings
The US version of Is This What You Want? was issued two months after its British release and included "New Day",a Lomax composition that was originally intended as a standalone single, although Lomax later claimed he had to push to persuade Apple that it was worth recording. The sessions in April 1969 were Lomax's first as a producer, supported by longtime Beatles associate Mal Evans; Lomax also worked closely with musical arranger John Barham on the song's descending brass parts. The backing musicians on "New Day" were previously thought to have been Clapton, Starr and Billy Preston,but Lomax has stated that he was accompanied by his live band at the time:Tim Renwick, Chris Hatfield, Billy Kinsley and Pete Clark.[Lomax recorded a cover version of Leiber and Stoller's "Thumbin' a Ride" on 11 March, as the B-side to "New Day" in America. "Thumbin' a Ride" was produced by Paul McCartney[15] and featured him on drums, along with Harrison (guitars), Preston (piano and organ) and Klaus Voormann (bass);in addition, "George & Patti and The Rascals" were credited as backing vocalists.
An unreleased Lomax composition, "Going Back to Liverpool", was also taped in March 1969, apparently at the same McCartney-produced session. The following day, 12 March, Harrison was overseeing overdubs on these Lomax tracks, before planning to attend McCartney's wedding to Linda Eastman, when Pattie Harrison informed him that the police had just carried out a drugs raid at Kinfauns; a large lump of hashish had been "found" on the floor of their otherwise-tidy home.
Other tracks Lomax recorded for Apple during 1969 included "You Make It With Me", "Can You Hear Me" and "You've Got to Be Strong",the last of which would be rewritten by Doris Troy and released on her own Apple Records album as "I've Got to Be Strong". By this time, Lomax was involved with a band called Heavy Jelly,but he recorded one last single for Apple in October 1969, a Harrison-produced cover of "How the Web Was Woven".[Nicky Hopkins was booked to play on the session but was unable to return from Los Angeles in time, and then Harrison was forced to postpone when his mother became seriously ill. Leon Russell agreed to participate on the rescheduled session, and contributed piano, organ and guitar.[Lomax had been reluctant to record the song – in 1974 he would tell ZigZag magazine that he had to be "pretty well talked into [doing] it" – but he was impressed with Russell's versatility on "How the Web Was Woven", and credited him with also playing the drums on the recording.
Release and reception
Is This What You Want? was released in the UK on 21 March 1969 (with the Apple catalogue number SAPCOR 6), and in the United States on 19 May (as Apple ST 3354). The accompanying single, "New Day", was issued on 9 May and 2 June, respectively, in Britain and America. The single failed to chart in either market and the album's only placing was number 145 on the US Billboard 200[43] during a nine-week chart stay there.[44] Harrison's musical biographer, Simon Leng, has written of the public's response to the suggestive title of Lomax's album as "an apathetic 'no'". A lack of promotion by Apple Records has been identified as the cause for the album's commercial failure,following the arrival of Allen Klein as The Beatles' business manager in early 1969.
On release, Is This What You Want? received enthusiastic reviews, but as Lomax himself admitted in a 1970 Rolling Stone interview, with reference to reviewers' fascination with the line-up of superstar backing musicians, "they're always talkin' about who's on the album and not the album itself."Writing in ZigZag in July 1974, Andy Childs advised the magazine's readers: "it's worth its weight in gold, so if it's absent from your collection, add it to your shopping list of second-hand records." A number of music critics identify Harrison's "Sour Milk Sea" as a highlight of the album.
Richie Unterberger of Allmusic offers a less favourable opinion of Is This What You Want?, describing Lomax as "a passable but unarresting singer and songwriter".Unterberger identifies the best moments as the "Beatlesque" songs "Is This What You Want?" and the "uncommonly tender" "Fall Inside Your Eyes".Discussing the 2004 reissue in Record Collector, Terry Staunton described Lomax's style as "[mining] the same seam as Joe Cocker, albiet with a voice neither as distinctive or as powerful" and singled out the "gentle balladry" of "Fall Inside Your Eyes" and "Baby You're A Lover" as highlights. Lomax's only Apple album, Staunton concluded, was "a fairly pleasing blue-eyed soul set, which is probably more revered today than it was 35 years ago"
The album was issued on CD for the first time in November 1991,[ with the inclusion of bonus tracks such as "New Day", "Thumbin' a Ride" and "How the Web Was Woven". The 2010 remaster offered previously unreleased songs recorded during Lomax's two years on Apple Records, as well as additional tracks for download, including alternative mixes of "Sour Milk Sea", "The Eagle Laughs at You" and "New Day".
Ros Hadfield
+Gauraonline . Actually the organist on this track is/was my late husband, Chris Hadfield mistakenly credited as Chris Hatfield, who was also from Liverpool and a member of the Apple House Band. Chris died in January 1999.
Mike LaFleur
He has a little bit of a Burt Cummings sound
BoB ,
This is the song that Lyra has her version is more modern .
Frankie Jones
This Coul be in the blues brothers film. I refer lyras
Darkchakra 0608
VanMoof brings me here.. :D
Kamran Emami
Same 😂
jasonpp1973
this is a remix or an alternate mix