Upon This Rock

LP releases

USA Capitol ST-446 (1970)

USA Impact HWS-3121 (1970) (red or black labels)

USA Heart Warming R-3121 (1973) (red or black labels)

CAN Impact HWS-3121 (1970)

CAN Heart Warming HWS-3121 (197?)? (red or black labels)

NZ Impact/Heart Warming HWS-3121 (198?)

UK Key KL-010 (1972)

UK Kingsway DOVE-64 (1973, 1983)

CD releases

USA (no label / no number) (1998)

USA Illegal Noise Series (no number) (2001) CD-R

USA Solid Rock SRD-969 (2002) double CD

USA Solid Rock SRD-969 (2003) single CD

UK Kingsway KMCD-2101 (1989)

USA Solid Rock SRDX-001 (2008) single CD

Cassette releases

USA Impact C-9121 (197?)

USA Impact C-3121 (C-9121 on the labels, 197?)

USA Heart Warming / Impact HWCS-9121 (197?)

NZ Heart Warming HWS-C-3121 (197?)

NZ Heart Warming RC-3121 (1971)

NZ Solid Rock KMCD-2101 (1988)

UK Key KCS-010 (1972)

UK Kingsway DVCS-164 (1973)

UK Kingsway KMC-2101 (1991?)

8 Track releases

USA Heart Warming / Impact HW08-9121 (197?)

USA Masterphonics Sounds LN-917 (1970)

CAN Impact /Praise T-3121 (197?)

Single releases

USA Capitol 2429: Blow In My Ear And Ill Follow You Anywhere /

I Got A Letter Today From The President
(as by The Flies, 1969)

USA Capitol 2766: Sweet Sweet Song Of Salvation /

Walking Backwards Down The Stairs (1970)

Song listing original LP

Side 1 Prelude

Instrumental

You Can't Take Away The Lord

I Don't Believe In Miracles

Moses In The Wilderness

Walking Backwards Down The Stairs

Ha Ha World

Side 2 Sweet Sweet Song Of Salvation

Forget Your Hexagram

The Last Supper

I Wish We'd All Been Ready

Nothing Really Changes

Postlude

Extra tracks on Solid Rock CD-969 (2 CD version)

Disc 1 You Can't Take Away The Lord (demo)

Ha Ha World (demo)

I Don't Believe In Miracles (demo)

Nothing Really Changes (demo)

The Day That A Child Appeared (demo)

Country Church Country People (demo)

Disc 2 The Powerline interview "Spliced" interview from 1970

Sweet Sweet Song Of Salvation

Nothing Really Changes

Ha Ha World

The Last Supper

Forget Your Hexagram

Walking Backwards Down The Stairs

You Can't Take Away The Lord

The Lion's Breath interview: 2001

Strong Love, Strange Peace

Lost Kids (Song For The Runaways)

We All (The Crash Pad)

The Prayer Meeting

I'm So Glad I Know You

Clean Lennon

Is God Dead?

Extra tracks on Solid Rock SRDX-001 (Single CD version)

You Can't Take Away The Lord (demo)

Ha Sweet Sweet Song Of Salvation (demo)

Nothing Really Changes (demo)

Notes

♫ This is Larry Norman's solo debut, recorded in 1969 and released in 1970.

♫ The original Capitol LP was released with two variations; one has ST-446 on the labels, the other has SKAO-446 on the labels.

♫ Most of the songs on the reissues (the non-Capitol albums) are mixed differently. The Capitol songs are more orchestrated. Really very different are: "Forget Your Hexagram," (resung on the reissues), "The Last Supper," (just vocal and piano on the reissues) and "Nothin' Really Changes" (resung plus fake live audience on the reissues). "Walking Backwards," "Sweet Sweet Song Of Salvation," and "Ha Ha World" are shorter on the reissues; "I Wish We'd All Been Ready" seems a little faster on the reissues. "Prelude" ("Overture" on the label) is only on the original Capitol album and on the first US CD.

♫ Impact and Heart Warming are closely affiliated. The Impact US release came with a black label first, later with a red label. The LP from New Zealand has "Impact" on the cover and "Heart Warming" on the labels (the NZ company that pressed the album was Concorde).

♫ The UK CD release is a straight reissue of the earlier reissues on vinyl with no extra tracks. The first US CD was released as a "Radio Promo CD" only. It features the reissue version but it also has the Capitol versions of "The Last Supper" and "Ha Ha World" as bonus tracks; the CD starts with "Prelude", like the original LP. Both the UK release and the first US CD release have the right and left channels transposed.

♫ The US 2CD release features many bonus tracks and an interactive part with pictures and information about the early days at Capitol (including People). The single CD version (called "The Larry Norman Version" on the back cover) features the reissue version of "Upon This Rock" and includes two extra tracks: "You Can't Take Away The Lord" (demo version) and "Ha Ha World" (demo version). Both can also be found on the 2CD version.

♫ The 8 track tape on Masterphonics also contains "Jim Ware's Blues" according to the information on the back (a song from the second version of "Street Level").

♫ Although not listed above, I'm pretty sure that there are also Canadian cassette pressings.

♫ The CD-R release features the re-release version and it has "Dear Malcolm, Dear Alwyn" (originally recorded and released on "Jubilation,", Myrrh LP MST-6555, 1975 - so, kind of misplaced here) as a bonus track. Larry Norman copied this disc from a bootleg. The artwork of this CD-R shows the Capitol cover.

♫ The Kingsway UK LP was probably in print for several years. 1973 is the year given on the light blue "cloud" label version, 1983 is given on the labels of the darker blue "crystal crown" label version.

♫ In 1972 the LP "Son Worshipers" was released (One Way JC-4444), this mainly spoken documentary has shortened versions of "Forget Your Hexagram" and "Sweet Sweet Song Of Salvation". In 1973 this album was also released in the UK.

♫ In between the People episode and "Upon This Rock" there was a single released by the Flies. The Flies were Larry Norman and Nancy Jo Norman (Larry Norman's sister). "Blow In My Ear.." is from the rock musical "Alison" according to the label. According to the "On Being" booklet from 1984, "Letter From The President" is from the rock musical "Love On Haight Street" (it's not mentioned on the label). The single is listed above.

♫ This album was number two in a series of fourteen albums, mentioned on the inner sleeve of "Something New Under The Son" (albums number nine through fourteen have not been released, see part II).

All release information and notes courtesy of Robert Termorshuizen with updates by Jim Böthel.