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"I'm Your Captain (Closer to Home)" is a 1970 song written by American musician Mark Farner and recorded by Grand Funk Railroad as the closing track to their 1970 album Closer to Home. Ten minutes in duration, it is the band's longest studio recording. One of the group's best-known songs, it is composed as two distinct but closely related ...
Farner was the guitarist and lead singer for Grand Funk Railroad as well as the songwriter for most of their material. His best-known composition is the 1970 epic "I'm Your Captain (Closer to Home)". [4] He also wrote the 1975 hit "Bad Time", the last of the band's four singles to make the top 5 on the Billboard Hot 100. [5]
Closer to Home is the third studio album by American rock band Grand Funk Railroad.The album was released on June 15, 1970, by Capitol Records.Recorded at Cleveland Recording Company, the album was produced by Terry Knight.
Grand Funk Railroad was formed as a trio in 1969 by Mark Farner and Don Brewer from Terry Knight and the Pack and Mel Schacher from Question Mark & the Mysterians. [5] Terry Knight, after being approached by Brewer, soon became the band's manager and also named the band originally "Grand Trunk Railroad" as a play on words for the Grand Trunk Western Railroad, a well-known rail line in Michigan ...
"I'm Your Captain/Closer to Home" - 5:48: Recorded at Shea Stadium, Roosevelt Avenue, Flushing, New York on July 9, 1971. "Hooked on Love" - 2:45: Recorded at Shea Stadium, Roosevelt Avenue, Flushing, New York on July 9, 1971. "Get it Together - 2:46: Recorded at Shea Stadium, Roosevelt Avenue, Flushing, New York on July 9, 1971.
Grand Funk Railroad's 1970 song "I'm Your Captain (Closer to Home)" opens with a guitar intro played by Mark Farner that borrows directly from "Pleasant Valley Sunday." The pop punk band The Mr. T Experience covered the song on their 1986 debut album Everybody's Entitled to Their Own Opinion.
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"Getting into the Sun" — The Pack* — 4:45 "Can't Be Too Long (Faucet)" — The Pack* — 6:00 "Got This Thing on the Move" (Mono) — The Pack* — 3:17