1. Mona Lisa (3:52)
2. I Ain't Marching Anymore (4:07)
3. Okie from Muskogee (3:02)
4. Chords of Fame (4:49)
5. Buddy Holly Medley: Not Fade Away/I'm Gonna Love You Too/Think It Over/Oh Boy/Everyday/It's So Easy/Not Fade Away (8:22)
6. Pleasures of the Harbor (5:37)
7. Tape from California (5:06)
8. Elvis Presley Medley: My Baby Left Me/I'm Ready/Heartbreak Hotel/All Shook Up/Are You Lonesome Tonight?/My Baby Left Me (encore) (10:24)
9. A Fool Such as I (2:00)

Notes

Band members:
Bob Rafkin - guitar
Lincoln Mayorga - piano
Kenny Kaufman - bass
Kevin Kelly - drums

Produced by Phil Ochs

Engineering - Bart Chiate

Cover Art - Larry Hall
Art Director - Mike Yazzolino

The New York Times - April 3, 1970
PHil Ochs Fans Are Won Over by Rock
by JOHN S. WILSON

Enough time had passed since his two tumultuous concerts at Carnegie Hall last Friday night to give Phil Ochs a chance to reflect on the experience. The concerts, which threatened to be the most disastrous of his nine-year career, have turned into a major breakthrough for the politically oriented folk singer.

Instead of presenting only his customary protest songs, he offered also rock songs of the 1950's associated with Elvis Presley, Conway Twitty and Buddy Holly. Mr. Ochs appeared in a glittering golden suit, patterned on one worn by Mr. Presley. His audience's reaction to this was a rising barrage of boos and hisses.

"I expected something like this to happen," Mr. Ochs said the other day. "I've been a political singer for nine years and New York has been my strongest base. I knew that going from total rebel to total rock stylist would be a supershocker."

Program Cut Short

The shock was compounded by the fact that the first concert was presented without an intermission and was cut short after an hour and a half because Carnegie Hall had received a bomb threat. The puzzled and disgruntled audience that left the first concert was not aware of this.

"After the first show," Mr. Ochs said. "I went next door to the Carnegie Tavern with Jerry Rubin and my mother and some other friends. I was furious because I'd had to cut the show short.

"And I was furious at the sound people because they were three hours late getting to the hall and there wasn't time for a sound check. Then about 20 or 25 angry kids walked in and said: 'How can you charge money to put on a show like that?'

"I told them to give me their names and I'd get them into the second show. I took the list and left it at the box office. About 10 minutes later the kids were back and they said the list was torn up. I blew up.

"I went back to the box office and I was pounding on it and I was pounding on a door and I smashed my hand through the glass, right in front of all the people in the lobby. They cheered this as a revolutionary thing."

After a bandage was put on Mr. Ochs' thumb, which had a tendon cut by glass, he returned for the second concert. It began shortly after midnight and continued for more than three hours.

Change of Heart

"This time I talked a mile a minute explaining what I was doing," Mr. Ochs said. "But still they'd boo a Conway Twitty song and cheer a protest song. But during the second half, the audience completely turned around to an extent that never happened to me before.

"By the end, when I was doing my Elvis Presley medley, they were jumping on the stage and shaking my hand, it was like an old time 60's rock concert - total ecstasy.

"When I began doing encores the Carnegie Hall management got uptight, what with the unions and overtime and everything, and they cut off the power. Me being crazy, I shout, 'Give me the power!' And 2,000 people shout, 'We want power!'

"It was a fantastic theatrical moment. The management had no choice. They turned on the power and I did Chuck Berry's 'Schooldays.' It became a total magic moment."

The magic of the moment continued into the next day when David Frost called and asked Mr. Ochs to be on his television show.

Trying to Get on TV

"You know, for nine years I haven't been able to get on television," Mr. Ochs said. "Except at a straight news level when I'm singing in the background. I taped the show Monday - a 20-minute segment of what I did at Carnegie Hall, without the booing."

Mr. Ochs said that change from protest to rock had been in the back of his mind for years.

"At 15 my idol was Elvis Presley," he said. "Then, in college, it was the Kingston Trio and I became infatuated with folk music. I've been a folk singer and a political singer ever since.

"But even in 1958 people were saying there would be something like folk-rock. Bob Dylan did it but by then I'd become so totally political that I didn't do it.

"Eventually I found myself in a stale position. I could go on and be a sort of Pete Seeger. But after Chicago I was so depressed, so full of despair that I just went crazy and didn't care anymore. I decided to do just what I wanted to do.

"I thought, 'Wouldn't it be funny to come out in a gold suit like Elvis Presley?' It was a leap into fantasy, into a musical area that I really like. Suppose it was Elvis who became the Vietcong to America. Elvis Presley is America and that music is the music of American. Imagine - the man in the gold suit who sang 'I ain't marchin' anymore!' "

Mr. Ochs plans to continue doing the show he gave at Carnegie Hall, and possibly take it to Europe. And after that?

"Maybe I'll go back to being a regular guy," he said. "Or maybe I'll just get crazier."