Artist: YARDBIRDS Incl. JIMMY PAGE
Album: LITTLE GAME VINYL (LP)

Release date: 1967/ 2013
EAN/UPS: 0825646135745
Media type: LP

Little Games is the fourth American album by English rock band the Yardbirds. Recorded and released in 1967, it was their first album recorded after becoming a quartet with Jimmy Page as the sole guitarist and Chris Dreja switching to bass. Although the new lineup was becoming more experimental with longer, improvised concert performances, the Yardbirds' record company brought in successful singles producer Mickie Most to coax out more commercial product. However, neither material that properly presented their new approach nor hit singles were forthcoming. Little Games became the Yardbirds' final studio album, although Most continued to produce singles for the group.

SIDE A:
No.     Title     Writer(s)     Length

1.     "Little Games"       Harold Spiro, Phil Wainman     2:25
2.     "Smile on Me"       Chris Dreja, Jim McCarty, Jimmy Page, Keith Relf     3:16
3.     "White Summer"       Page     3:56
4.     "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor"       Page, McCarty     2:49
5.     "Glimpses"       Dreja, McCarty, Page, Relf     4:24

SIDE B:
No.     Title     Writer(s)     Length

1.     "Drinking Muddy Water"       Dreja, McCarty, Page, Relf     2:53
2.     "No Excess Baggage"       Roger Atkins, Carl D'Errico     2:32
3.     "Stealing Stealing"       Gus Cannon     2:42
4.     "Only the Black Rose"       Relf     2:52
5.     "Little Soldier Boy"       McCarty, Page, Relf     2:39


LINE-UP:

    Keith Relf – vocals, harmonica, percussion
    Jimmy Page – guitars
    Chris Dreja – bass guitar, backing vocals
    Jim McCarty – drums, percussion, backing vocals

Additional personnel:
    Clem Cattini – drums on "Ten Little Indians" and "Goodnight Sweet Josephine"
    Bobby Gregg - drums on "Little Games"
    Nicky Hopkins – keyboards on "Goodnight Sweet Josephine"
    John Paul Jones – bass guitar on "Goodnight Sweet Josephine" and "No Excess Baggage", bass and cello arrangement on "Little Games", bass and orchestral arrangement on "Ten Little Indians"
    Chris Karan - tabla on "White Summer"
    Joe Macho - bass on "Ha Ha Said the Clown"
    Rick Nielsen - organ on "Ha Ha Said the Clown"
    Ian Stewart - piano on "Drinking Muddy Water"
    Dougie Wright - drums on "Little Games"
    Unidentified - oboe on "White Summer"
    Mickie Most - producer