Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. week. There was a dispute not long after the record was recorded—Appel and John Hammond preferred the solo tracks, while Springsteen preferred the band songs. As such, a compromise was reached—the album was to feature five songs with the band ("For You," "Growin' Up," "Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street?" "It's Hard to be a Saint in the City," and "Lost in the Flood") and five solo songs ("Mary Queen of Arkansas," "The Angel," "Jazz Musician," "Arabian Nights" and "Visitation at Fort Horn"). However, when Columbia Records president Clive Davis heard the album, he felt that it lacked a
Greetings from L.A. Greetings from L.A. Greetings from L.A. is the seventh album by singer-songwriter Tim Buckley, released in 1972. It was recorded at Far Out Studios in Hollywood, California. Like most of his other albums, "Greetings from L.A." did not sell well, this is probably his best seller (seeing at least 2 different US pressings, the first with removable postcard+dark green label, the second had no perforations for the postcard+on the palm tree style WB label), getting substantial airplay in the Twin Cities on the Minneapolis FM station KQRS and sold very well at the independent record shops in Minneapolis-St. Paul and