Death of a Ladies' Man
by Leonard Cohen
- Type: Album
- Released: 13 November 1977
- Label: Warner Bros.
- Country: Canada
- Length: 42:49
- Community rating: 3.49/5 from 7 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
In one of the most infamously chaotic collaborations in music history, Leonard Cohen partnered with the volatile producer Phil Spector to create a polarizing, deeply fascinating record. 'Death of a Ladies' Man' drowns Cohen's typically stark, incredibly sexual poetry in Spector's monolithic, wonderfully dense Wall of Sound, creating a remarkably lush, sensual, and intoxicatingly nocturnal pop atmosphere.
Genres
Descriptors: folk, wall of sound, melodic, theatrical, bombastic, male-vocals, literary, orchestral, spoken-word
Tracklist
- True Love Leaves No Traces (4:27)
- Iodine (5:05)
- Paper Thin Hotel (5:44)
- Memories (6:03)
- I Left a Woman Waiting (3:29)
- Don't Go Home With Your Hard-On (5:38)
- Fingerprints (3:00)
- Death of a Ladies' Man (9:21)
Credits
- Leonard Cohen - primary artist, written-by [songs by]
- Don Menza - arranged by [horn arrangements], flute, saxophone [sax], flute saxophone, hornarranger
- Phil Spector - arranged by [rhythm arrangements], backing vocals, guitar, keyboards, producer, arranged by [vocal arrangements], written-by [songs by], guitar keyboard, background vocals vocal
- John Cabalka - art direction
- Allen Ginsberg - backing vocals
- Bili Thedford - backing vocals, background vocals vocal
- Bill Diez - backing vocals
- Bob Dylan - backing vocals
- Brenda Bryant - backing vocals, background vocals vocal
- Clydie King - backing vocals, background vocals vocal
- Dan Kessel - backing vocals, guitar, keyboards, organ, synthesizer, guitar keyboard organ synthesizer, background vocals vocal
- David Kessel - backing vocals, guitar, background vocals vocal
- Gerald Garrett - backing vocals, background vocals vocal
- Julia Tillman Waters - backing vocals
- Lorna Willard - backing vocals, background vocals vocal
- Oma Drake - backing vocals, background vocals vocal
- Oren Waters - backing vocals, background vocals vocal
- Ronee Blakley - backing vocals, featuring [featured on], background vocals vocal
- Sherlie Matthews - backing vocals, background vocals vocal
- Venetta Fields - backing vocals, background vocals vocal
- Ray Pohlman - bass, guitar, bass guitar
- Bill Naegels - design, graphic design
- Ron Coro - design, graphic design
- Ray Neapolitan - double bass [upright], electric bass, bass double bass
- Hal Blaine - drums, drums (drum set)
- Jim Keltner - drums, drums (drum set)
- Larry Levine - engineer, recording
- Bruce Gold - engineer [assistant to the engineers]
- Bob Robitaille - engineer [assistant], programmed by [synthesizer programming], synthesizer programming, assistant recording
- Stan Ross - engineer [assistant], assistant recording
- Bobby Bruce - fiddle
- Steve Douglas - flute, saxophone [sax], soloist [sax solos], flute saxophone
- Art Munson - guitar
- David Isaac - guitar
- Jesse Ed Davis - guitar
- Barry Goldberg - keyboards, keyboard
- Bill Mays - keyboards, keyboard
- Don Randi - keyboards, keyboard
- Mike Lang - keyboards, keyboard
- Pete Jolly - keyboards, keyboard
- Tom Hensley - keyboards, keyboard
- Al Perkins - pedal steel guitar [slide pedal], slide guitar
- Sneaky Pete Kleinow - pedal steel guitar [slide pedal], slide guitar
- Bob Zimmitti - percussion
- Emil Radocchia - percussion
- Gene Estes - percussion
- Terry Gibbs - percussion, vibraphone [vibes], percussion vibraphone
- Anonymous - photography by [cover]
- Martin Machat - photography by [interior photo], photography
- Jay Migliori - saxophone [sax], saxophone
- Devra Robitaille - synthesizer
- Charles Loper - trombone
- Jack Redmond - trombone
- Conte Candoli - trumpet
- Nino Tempo - arranged by [rhythm arrangements]
- Jesse ‘Ed’ Davis - guitar
- Julia Waters - background vocals vocal