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Track listing
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Personnel
- Camel
- Andrew Latimer – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, 12-string guitar, panpipes, flute, backing vocals; fretless bass on "Tell Me"; electric piano, Minimoog, synthesizer and fuzz guitar on "Elke"; piano on "Elke" and "Rain Dances"; rhythm guitar and bass on "Skylines"; glockenspiel on "Rain Dances"; lead vocals on "Highways of the Sun" and "Unevensong"
- Peter Bardens – organ, piano, electric piano, Minimoog, synthesizer, Hohner Clavinet
- Andy Ward – drums, percussion, ocarina, glockenspiel, talking drum
- Richard Sinclair – bass; lead vocals on "Metrognome", "Tell Me" and "Unevensong"
- Mel Collins – alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, clarinet, bass flute, brass arrangements
- Additional personnel
- Martin Drover – trumpet on "One of These Days I'll Get an Early Night", flugelhorn on "Skylines"
- Malcolm Griffiths – trombone on "One of These Days I'll Get an Early Night" and "Skylines"
- Brian Eno – Minimoog, electric piano, piano on "Elke"
- Fiona Hibbert – harp on "Elke"
- Production
- Rhett Davies – producer
- Dave Hutchins – engineer
- Paul Henry – sleeve design
- Bob Searles – illustration
Release details
- 1977, UK, Gama/Decca, Release date: September 1977, LP
- 1991, UK/GER, Deram, Release date: 26 August, CD (w. bonus track)
- 2004, UK, London 8207252, Release date: 2 February 2004, CD (remastered version)
Charts
Template:Album chartTemplate:Album chartTemplate:Album chartTemplate:Album chartTemplate:Album chart| Chart (1977) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Finnish Albums (The Official Finnish Charts)[1] | 29 |
| Spanish Albums (AFYVE)[2] | 18 |
References
External links
- Camel - Rain Dances (1977) album review by Matthew Plichta, credits & releases at AllMusic.com
- Camel - Rain Dances (1977) album releases & credits at Discogs.com
- Camel - Rain Dances (1977) album review by Archibald C. Burke, credits & user reviews at SputnikMusic.com
- Camel - Rain Dances (1977) album to be listened as stream at Play.Spotify.com