A Quick One
Studio album by The Who
Released	9 December 1966
Recorded	September – November 1966
Genre	Rock
Length	31:48
Label	Reaction Records (UK) Decca Records (as "Happy Jack", U.S.)
Producer	Kit Lambert
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Rolling Stone link
The Who chronology
My Generation (1965) A Quick One (1966) The Who Sell Out (1967)

A Quick One is the second album by English rock band The Who, released in 1966. American record company executives released the album under the title Happy Jack, rather than the sexually suggestive title of the UK release, and due to "Happy Jack" being a top forty hit in the U.S. "Happy Jack" was not included on the UK version of the album, but instead was released as a non-album single. A Quick One - The Who This image is hosted by several commercial websites and is a graphic reelased by the issuing record company for purposes of promotion of the LP and/or CD for which it was designed. ... A studio album is a collection of studio-recorded tracks by a recording artist. ... The Who are an English rock band that formed in 1964. ... is the 343rd day of the year (344th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article is about the genre. ... In the music industry, a record label can be a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. ... Reaction Records was a shortlived record label, started by Robert Stigwood in 1967. ... It has been suggested that Decca Music Group be merged into this article or section. ... In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes. ... Kit Lambert (May 11, 1935 – April 7, 1981) was a record producer and the manager for The Who. ... The All Music Guide (AMG) is a metadata database about music, owned by All Media Guide. ... Image File history File links 4. ... This article is about the magazine. ... Image File history File links 4_stars. ... The Who are an English rock band that formed in 1964. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Back cover The back cover of The Who Sell Out The Who Sell Out is The Whos third album, released in 1967. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... This article is about the genre. ... The Who are an English rock band that formed in 1964. ... Happy Jack is a song by the British rock band The Who. ...

This is widely regarded by fans to have been a pivotal album for the group, due to the departure from the R&B / pop formula featured on the band's first release. Part of the marketing push for the album was a requirement that each band member should write at least two of the songs on it (although Roger Daltrey only wrote one), so this Who album is the least dominated by Pete Townshend's writing. Roger Harry Daltrey, CBE (born 1 March 1944), is a rock vocalist, songwriter, and actor, best known as the founder and lead singer of English rock band The Who. ... Pete Townshend (born Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend on 19 May 1945 in Chiswick, London), is an award-winning English rock guitarist, singer, songwriter, composer, and writer. ...

The album was also the band's first foray into the form of rock opera, with "A Quick One, While He's Away", the title track of the LP, a nine-minute suite of song snippets telling a story of infidelity and reconciliation. The Who would later go on to write and record the full scale rock operas Tommy and Quadrophenia. The Whos Tommy, the first album explicitly billed as a rock opera A rock opera is a rock music album or stage production that resembles the form of an opera. ... A Quick One While Hes Away is a 1966 medley written by Pete Townshend and recorded by The Who for their album A Quick One. ... Alternate cover Deluxe edition cover Tommy is the first of The Whos two full-scale rock operas (the second being Quadrophenia), and the first musical work explicitly billed as a rock opera. ... Alternate cover Original soundtrack version Quadrophenia is a double album released by The Who on October 19, 1973, one of the groups two full-scale rock operas. ...

The album was intended to be pop music, a sonic participant in the pop art movement. The cover was designed by the pop art exponent Alan Aldridge,^[1] with the front cover depicting the band playing their instruments. The back cover is a black-and-white photo montage of the band members accompanied by a short personality sketch of each (infamous among Who fans for Keith Moon's humorous assertion that he was keen on "breeding chickens"). A track listing, a couple of paragraphs touting the band, an ad for their first album, and a technical blurb are also crowded onto the back cover. Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Homes So Different, So Appealing? (1956) is one of the earliest works to be considered pop art. ... Alan Aldridge is a UK artist, born in 1943. ... My Generation (1965) is The Whos first album. ...

The blurb reveals the recording technology of the time by announcing "This is a high-fidelity record! For proper reproduction use RIAA or a similar Record Compensator setting." The album was recorded at IBC Studios, Pye Studios and Regent Sound, in London, England in 1966. Kit Lambert was the producer. The RIAA equalization curve for playback of vinyl records. ... The IBC Recording Studios (IBC: International Broadcasting Company) were recording studios in 35 Portland Place, London, England. ... Kit Lambert (May 11, 1935 – April 7, 1981) was a record producer and the manager for The Who. ...

In 2003, the album was ranked number 383 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. This article is about the magazine. ... Rolling Stones 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, Magazine Cover, November 2003. ...

Track listing

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A Quick One (original 1966 UK release)

Side one

1. "Run Run Run" – 2:43
2. "Boris the Spider" (John Entwistle) – 2:29
3. "I Need You" (Keith Moon) – 2:25
4. "Whiskey Man" (Entwistle) – 2:57
5. "Heat Wave" (Brian Holland/Lamont Dozier/Edward Holland) – 1:57
6. "Cobwebs and Strange" (Moon) – 2:31

John Alec Entwistle (October 9, 1944 – June 27, 2002) was an English bass guitarist, songwriter, singer, and horn player, who was best known as the bass guitarist for the rock band The Who. ... Keith John Moon (August 23, 1946 – September 7, 1978) was the drummer of the rock group The Who. ... Brian Holland, his brother Edward Holland, Jr. ... Lamont Dozier (born June 16, 1941 in Detroit, Michigan) is an African American songwriter and record producer, best known as a member of Holland-Dozier-Holland, the songwriting and production team that was responsible for much of the Motown sound and numerous hit records by artists such as Martha & the... Edward Holland, Jr. ...

Side two

1. "Don't Look Away" – 2:54
2. "See My Way" (Roger Daltrey) – 1:53
3. "So Sad About Us" – 3:04
4. "A Quick One, While He's Away" – 9:10

Roger Harry Daltrey, CBE (born 1 March 1944), is a rock vocalist, songwriter, and actor, best known as the founder and lead singer of English rock band The Who. ...

Bonus tracks (1995 remastered CD)

1. "Batman" (Neal Hefti) (theme from Batman the TV series) – 1:37
2. "Bucket T" (Berry/Christian/Atrield) – 2:12
3. "Barbara Ann" (Fred Fassert) – 1:59
4. "Disguises" – 3:10
5. "Doctor, Doctor" (Entwistle) – 2:59
6. "I've Been Away" (Entwistle) – 2:08
7. "In the City" (Moon/Entwistle) – 2:21
8. "Happy Jack" (Acoustic Version) – 2:55
9. "Man with Money" (Don Everly/Phil Everly) – 2:45
10. "My Generation" / "Land of Hope and Glory" (Townshend/Elgar) – 2:05

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Happy Jack (original U.S. release)

1. "Run Run Run"
2. "Boris the Spider" (Entwistle)
3. "I Need You" (Moon)
4. "Whiskey Man" (Entwistle)
5. "Cobwebs and Strange" (Moon)
6. "Happy Jack"
7. "Don't Look Away"
8. "See My Way" (Daltrey)
9. "So Sad About Us"
10. "A Quick One, While He's Away"

A Quick One (Happy Jack) (1974 U.S. release and first U.S. CD release)

1. "Run Run Run"
2. "Boris the Spider" (Entwistle)
3. "I Need You" (Moon)
4. "Whiskey Man" (Entwistle)
5. "Heat Wave" (Brian Holland/Lamont Dozier/Edward Holland)
6. "Cobwebs and Strange" (Moon)
7. "Don't Look Away"
8. "See My Way" (Daltrey)
9. "So Sad About Us"
10. "A Quick One, While He's Away"
11. "Happy Jack"

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Personnel

• Roger Daltrey – vocals, trombone and bass drum on "Cobwebs and Strange"
• Pete Townshend – guitar, vocals, penny-whistle
• John Entwistle – bass guitar, keyboards, horns, vocals
• Keith Moon – drums, percussion, vocals, tuba

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Song notes

A Quick One includes the very first songs John Entwistle wrote for The Who, albeit in reverse order.

"Boris the Spider" was written after Entwistle had been out drinking with Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman. They were making up funny names for animals when Entwistle came up with "Boris the Spider". This article is about the rock band. ... Bill Wyman (born William George Perks on 24 October 1936) was the bassist for the English rock and roll band The Rolling Stones from its founding in 1962 until 1993. ...

Since Entwistle had trouble singing "r"s, he double-tracked the vocals on "Whiskey Man", singing "fwend" and "flend", hoping they'd come together as "friend".^[1]

"Heat Wave" is a cover of a song by Martha and the Vandellas that was very popular in the UK at the time. For the U.S. release, "Heat Wave" was dropped and "Happy Jack" added in its place. "Heat Wave" was added back on to the album for when Happy Jack was re-issued on the 1974 double album repackaging of A Quick One and The Who Sell Out as A Quick One (Happy Jack). ... Back cover The back cover of The Who Sell Out The Who Sell Out is The Whos third album, released in 1967. ...

"Boris the Spider" quickly became John Entwistle's most popular song and was still performed live decades later; in later years, John was almost invariably sporting a spider necklace for photographs. "Happy Jack" is quirky in both lyrics and sound, but is popular nonetheless and remains a favorite of both fans and non-fans alike to this day. It was featured in TV ads for the Hummer automobile in 2004. "A Quick One, While He's Away" was Townshend's first move toward the production of the rock operas that he is so much noted for. Though it is a simple medley of song fragments, the band came to refer to it as their "mini-opera", and on the remastered CD release of their Live at Leeds album Townshend can be heard introducing it as "Tommy's parent". The song was performed live for The Rolling Stones' Rock and Roll Circus film. (The film, made in 1968, came out on video in 1995. The track can also be heard on the soundtrack of Jeff Stein's film The Kids Are Alright; it is also used in Wes Anderson's film Rushmore, but the soundtrack album uses the Live at Leeds version.) Hummer is a brand of off-road vehicles sold by General Motors, also known as GM. The H1 version is based on the military High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV, or Humvee). ... Live at Leeds (1970) is The Whos first live album, and indeed is their only live album that was released while the band was still recording and performing regularly. ... Rolling Stones redirects here. ... Special Theatre Version: The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, 2004. ... Soundtrack album cover. ... Wesley Wales Anderson (born May 1, 1969) is an American director, writer, and producer of features, short films and commercials. ... Rushmore is a 1998 movie directed by Wes Anderson about an eccentric teenager named Max Fischer (Jason Schwartzman) and his friendship with rich industrialist Herman Blume (Bill Murray), and their mutual love for elementary school teacher Rosemary Cross (Olivia Williams). ... Rushmore is a 1999 soundtrack to the Wes Anderson film of the same name. ...

One particularly notable track on this album is the mod/pop number "So Sad About Us". Though it is difficult to accurately gauge such phenomena, "So Sad About Us" has likely been covered more frequently than any other song on the album. (According to the All Music Guide, it is "one of the Who's most covered songs." [1]). Shaun Cassidy, Primal Scream, The Breeders, and most notably The Jam are among the many artists who have recorded studio versions of the song. Beyond the sheer number of covers, it is also one of The Who's most frequently imitated songs. As the aforementioned AMG put it, it is "an archetypal early Who song" and "hundreds of bands have based their entire careers on this one song." With its ringing guitars, Beach Boys-styled harmonies, crashing drums, and lovelorn lyrics, it is one of the early forebears of the power pop genre, along with other early Who staples such as "I Can't Explain" and "The Kids Are Alright". Pete Townshend and one-time Jam frontman Paul Weller performed an acoustic duet of the song as captured on the album The Who and Special Guests: Live at the Royal Albert Hall. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article is about the genre of popular music. ... The All Music Guide (AMG) is a metadata database about music, owned by All Media Guide. ... Shaun Paul Cassidy (born September 27, 1958 in Los Angeles, California) is an American singer, actor and TV producer and writer. ... For other uses, see Primal Scream (disambiguation). ... The Breeders are an American rock band, formed in 1977 as a folk rock duo featuring twin sisters Kim and Kelley Deal of Dayton, Ohio which played country covers at truck stops and bars and dissipated in the early 80s, only to be revived as a side project in... The Jam were an English punk rock/mod revival band active during the late 1970s and early 1980s. ... The Beach Boys, originally the Beech Boys, a small team of four brothers from the south of Poland, emigrated to America in the early 1950s in search of a fortune to be made in the Arizonian logging industry. When it soon became evident they had been the victims of... Power pop is a long-standing musical genre that draws its inspiration from 1960s British and American pop music. ... Paul Weller (born John William Weller May 25, 1958, in Sheerwater, near Woking, Surrey) is an English singer-songwriter. ... The Who, at the time (2002) consisting of John Entwistle, Roger Datlrey, Pete Townshend, Zak Starkey, and John Rabbit Bundrick, performed a concert at the Royal Albert Hall for the Teenage Cancer Trust. ...

The album's engineering produced a mushy sound that went unmitigated even by the remastered CD release. Remaster (and its derivations, frequently found in the phrases digitally remastered or digital remastering) is a word and concept ushered into the mass consciousness via the digital age, although it had existed before then. ...

"Happy Jack" and "A Quick One, While He's Away" can also be heard on the remastered CD release of Live at Leeds from a 1970 performance. Live at Leeds (1970) is The Whos first live album, and indeed is their only live album that was released while the band was still recording and performing regularly. ...

In addition to their usual instruments, each bandmember played an orchestral instrument as well to give a marching band effect on "Cobwebs and Strange". Keith Moon played orchestral cymbals, Pete Townshend played penny-whistle, John Entwistle played trumpet, and Roger Daltrey played trombone.

Charts

Album

Singles

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References

• Many of the factual details in this article are derived from the insert to the remastered CD of 1995 (08811-12672).

External links

• Guitar tablature
• A Quick One liner notes - Song-by-song liner notes for the album