If You Listen

If You Listen
Studio album by Françoise Hardy
Released	1972 (France)
Recorded	Sound Techniques, London England Studio CBE, Paris Studio Davout, Paris France
Genre	Folk rock
Length	37:28
Language	English
Label	Kundalini
Producer	Françoise Hardy (Kundalini Editions[1])
Françoise Hardy chronology
Et si je m'en vais avant toi (1972) If You Listen (1972) Message personnel (1973)
French reissue (2000)
CD digipak cover

If You Listen is a studio album of the French singer Françoise Hardy. That is her fourth and final album in English (an exception: "Brûlure" (B1) is in French-language). Like many of Hardy's earlier albums, it was released with no title, except for her name on the cover. It was released in France in septembre 1972, on LP, Kundalini (KUN 65057); since its French reissue in 2000, it bears the title of its most commercially successful song: "If You Listen".

Background

• Arrangements, directions artistic: Tony Cox (A1 to A5 + B1 to B4), Hervé Roy (A6), Tommy Brown & Micky Jones (B5).
• Sound engineers: Victor (A1 to A5 + B1 to B4 + B6), Bernard Estardy (A6), René Ameline (B5).

Track list

Side A
No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"If You Listen"	Tommy Brown & Micky Jones	Tommy Brown & Micky Jones	3:34
2.	"Ocean" (original title: The Ocean[2])	Beverly Martyn	Beverly Martyn	3:50
3.	"Until It's Time for You to Go"	Buffy Sainte-Marie	Buffy Sainte-Marie	2:57
4.	"The Garden of Jane Delawnay" (original title: The Garden of Jane Delawney[3])	Bias Boshell	Bias Boshell	3:34
5.	"Sometimes"	Miles Wootton	Allan Taylor[4]	3:10
6.	"Let My Name Be Sorrow" (original title: Quand je te regarde vivre[5])	Martine Habib	Bernard Estardy	3:05
Total length:				20:17

Side B
No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"Brûlure"	Françoise Hardy	Françoise Hardy	2:52
2.	"Can’t Get The One I Want"	Beverly Martyn[2]	Beverly Martyn	2:50
3.	"I Think It's Going to Rain Today"	Randy Newman	Randy Newman	2:41
4.	"Take My Hand for A While"	Buffy Sainte-Marie[6]	Buffy Sainte-Marie	2:58
5.	"Bowm Bowm Bowm" (original title: Bown, Bown, Bown[7])	Tommy Brown & Micky Jones	Tommy Brown & Micky Jones	3:50
6.	"Till The Morning Comes"	Neil Young[8]	Neil Young	1:32
Total length:				17:11

Editions

LP records: first editions in anglosphere

•  Australia, 1972: Let My Name Be Sorrow, éd. Kundalini/Interfusion (SITFL 934.290).
•  New Zealand, 1972: Let My Name Be Sorrow, éd. Kundalini/Interfusion (SITFL 934.290).
•  South Africa, 1972: 4th English Album, éd. Kundalini/MvN (MVC 3520).

Reissues on CD

•  Japan, 1990: Love Songs, éd. Kundalini/Epic/Sony (ESCA 5190).
•  France, 2000: If You Listen, éd. Kundalini/Virgin (7243 8 499452 5).
•  Great Britain, 2013: CD, Midnight Blues – Paris . London . 1968-72, Ace International (CDCHD 1358).^[9]

References

1. Publishing company created by Françoise Hardy to the end 1969.
2. First performers: John Martyn & Beverley Martyn, album Stormbringer!, Island Records (1970).
3. First performers: Trees, album The Garden of Jane Delawney, CBS Records (1970).
4. First performers: album Sometimes, United Artists Records (1971).
5. Song written by Georges Chatelain et Gilles Marchal (sung by Gilles Marchal on SP, Disc AZ (1970)). Mary Hopkin sang the English adaptation on SP, Apple Records (1971).
6. First performer, album I'm Gonna Be a Country Girl Again, Vanguard Records (1968).
7. First performer: Françoise Hardy in Portuguese on words of Nara Leão, for a record exclusively distributed in Brazil, SP, Philips Records (1971).
8. First performer, album After the Gold Rush, Reprise Records (1970).
9. An compilation containing album’s songs and also those album: One-Nine-Seven-Zero.