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DISCOGRAPHY

Album Covers | Albums | Singles | Lyrics | Chords | Songs

Album Covers (Selected)

Cold Fact (USA 1970)
Cold Fact [USA] 1970

Cold Fact (South Africa 1971)
Cold Fact [South Africa] 1971

Coming From Reality
Coming From Reality [USA] 1971

At His Best
At His Best [Australia] 1977

Alive
Alive [Australia] 1981

Live Fact
Live Fact [South Africa] 1998

Searching For Sugar Man (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Searching for Sugar Man (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
[US 2012]

Searching For Sugar Man (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Searching for Sugar Man (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
[Europe, South Africa, Australia 2012]


Albums

Singles

Images

Sugar Man / Inner City Blues (A&M, Sussex AM 45.031) 1972 (Italy)
Sugar Man / Inner City Blues (A&M, Sussex AM 45.031) 1972 (Italy)

Inner City Blues - supplied by Michael Balka, March 2007
Inner City Blues (Sussex SUX 204) 1970 (USA)

To Whom It May Concern
To Whom It May Concern (Sussex SUX 234) 1970 (USA)

I Think Of You
I Think Of You (Sussex SUX 234) 1970 (USA)

Sugar Man
Sugar Man (Blue Goose BGMS 002) 1977 (Australia)

Inner City Blues
Inner City Blues (Blue Goose BGMS 002) 1977 (Australia)

Climb Up On My Music
Climb Up On My Music (Blue Goose MS 309) 1978 (Australia)

To Whom It May Concern
To Whom It May Concern (Blue Goose MS 309) 1978 (Australia)

Inner City Blues (live 2009) / I'm Gonna Live Till I Die (live 2009) (LITA 45-018) 2010 (USA)
Inner City Blues (live 2009) / I'm Gonna Live Till I Die (live 2009)
(LITA 45-018) 2010 (USA)

The A side of the 2010 single features a recording of “Inner City Blues” performed on the streets of Paris. The B side is a cover of Frank Sinatra’s “I’m Gonna Live Till I Die” recorded during his date at The Triple Door in Seattle.

Brian Currin, 2010

Info on the USA single releases from Tim Forster, January 2001. Info on Brazilian single from Weber, June 1998. Info on Australian singles from Jeff Smith, December 2001 and Peter Millen, October 2012. Info on 2002 single from John Samson, March 2002. Info on 2010 single from Light In The Attic.

On the cover of the 1991 South African CD re-issue of Cold Fact is a "flash" with these words:"featuring the hits I Wonder, Sugar Man and Inner City Blues". To the best of my knowledge these tracks were never actually released as singles in South Africa.

Brian Currin

ROD RIGUEZ

Rod Riguez could make a name for himself with this bluesy, mid-tempo rock ballad. Keep it in sight. Flip: "You'd Like To Admit It".

Cash Box, September 23, 1967

These 2 songs were released as a single in 1967 and credited to Rod Riguez. The lyrics for 'You'd Like To Admit It' were transcribed by Glenn Coggin in January 2005.

Both songs are available as bonus tracks on the digital download release of Cold Fact by Light In The Attic Records.

The 1967 version of I'll Slip Away was released on The Best Of Impact Records CD (Collectables COL-5883) in November 1997. Also released as a bonus track on Sugarman: The Best Of Rodriguez (South Africa) in September 2005.

The 1967 single features more upfront Byrds-type jangly guitar, vocal harmonies and a subdued organ in the background, when compared to the early 70's version. The strings that are so prominent on the later version are absent on the 1967 version.

Brian Currin
I'll Slip Away was re-recorded in 1972 and this version was first released on the Australian At His Best album in 1977. It was released on the 2009 re-issue of Coming From Reality and also on the Searching For Sugar Man soundtrack in 2012.

I'll Slip Away
I'll Slip Away - Rod Riguez (Promo Single) | Discogs

I'll Slip Away
I'll Slip Away - Rod Riguez (Promo Single, 2008 re-issue) | Discogs

Rod Riguez - I'll Slip Away
I'll Slip Away - Rod Riguez (Single A-Side) | Discogs

I'll Slip Away: As far as the Rodriguez Impact single, "I'll Slip Away" is concerned,I would highly suspect that both sides of that single were probably recorded at Terra Shirma Studios, since most of all of the later Impact records were recorded there. But it is possible that it may have been recorded at United Sound Studios in Detroit, since Harry Balk recorded many of his artists there as well.

The "B" side of the Impact 45, "I'll Slip Away" is a song titled, "You'd Like To Admit It". Both sides were produced by Harry Balk (the owner of Impact). To my knowledge, the record was only issued as a "promotional" 45, and not sold commercially to the public (see note below). The record is "near-impossible" to find, due to the fact that few copies were pressed, and Impact records went out of business shortly after the record was released. By the way, the song, "You'd Like To Admit It" was also written by Rodriguez.

I'm afraid that I can't help you out with the lyrics to the song (read them here),"You'd Like To Admit It", because I don't own a copy of the single. In my many years of collecting records, I have only seen ONE copy of that record for sale, and it was much too expensive for me to buy. (IT WAS ABOUT $175.00 U.S. DOLLARS!)...

Jerry Schollenberger, "Best of Impact Records" CD producer, May 1999

The Best Of Impact Records
The Best Of Impact Records

You'd Like To Admit It
You'd Like To Admit It - Rod Riguez (Single B-Side) | Discogs

Read some more comments from Jerry Schollenberger

Read Tim Forster's article about these Impact releases.

I can confirm that a regular (NOT a promo) release of Impact #1031 does exist. A speculation to the contrary exists on your Sixto R. page. Thanx for the info on this artist that you supplied; you have added to my enjoyment of record collecting, and listening.

Steve Jones, Canada, August 2003

Impact-era Rodriguez compositions

Brazil

I Think Of You / To Whom It May Concern
(A&M 7SX-1008), 1972 (Brazil)
single released in Brazil only and both sides played on local radio.

My name is Weber and I'm impressed to find something about Rodriguez on the Net. I live in Brazil, where the song 'I Think Of You' was a success. I didn't know that he's got other albums, I only got 'Coming From Reality'. Here in my place the music 'I Think Of You' played several times on the radio stations in 1972 & 73. About that year I purchased the single 'I Think Of You/ To Whom It May Concern'. The B-side played too on the radio. I got the LP 'Coming From Reality' but I get this years after the single.

Weber, Brazil, June 1998

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