{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album| | name = The Original Human Being | type = Album | artist = [[Blue Cheer]] | cover = Blue Cheer - The Original Human Being CD cover.jpg | alt = | released = September 1970 | recorded = 1970 | studio = Mercury Sound Studio West, San Francisco, California | genre = [[Psychedelic rock]], [[blues rock]], [[hard rock]], [[country rock]] | length = 44:30 | label = [[Philips Records|Philips]] | producer = [[Gary Lee Yoder]], [[Eric Albronda]], Norman Mayell <small>(track 1)</small> | prev_title = [[Blue Cheer (album)|Blue Cheer]] | prev_year = 1969 | next_title = [[Oh! Pleasant Hope]] | next_year = 1971 }} {{Music ratings |rev1 = [[AllMusic]] |rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-original-human-being-mw0000619048 |title=Blue Cheer - The Original Human Being review |last=Deming |first=Mark |work=[[AllMusic]] |publisher=[[All Media Network]] |accessdate=2020-03-16 }}</ref> | noprose = yes }}

'''''The Original Human Being''''' is [[Blue Cheer]]'s fifth album. It was released in 1970 and shows Blue Cheer exploring a more psychedelic and laid‑back [[rock and roll]] with horn sections on a few of the songs. This album features a very unusual, and different, song for Blue Cheer: "Babaji (Twilight Raga)", which features extensive use of [[sitar]] and [[synthesizer]]. These instruments were only used one other time in the song "I'm the Light" on the album ''[[Oh! Pleasant Hope]]''.

''The Original Human Being'' peaked at No. 188 on the [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' Top LPs]] chart.<ref name="Whitburn">{{cite book | last = Whitburn | first = Joel | title = Top LPs, 1955–1972 | year = 1973 | publisher = Record Research | page = 20 | url = https://archive.org/details/joelwhitburnstoplp00whit/page/20/mode/2up | access-date = 2025-07-10}}</ref>

==Track listing== ;Side one #"Good Times Are So Hard to Find" <small>(Kent Housman, Norman Mayell)</small> – 3:22 #"Love of a Woman" <small>([[Dickie Peterson]])</small> – 4:35 #"Make Me Laugh" <small>([[Ethan James (producer)|Ralph Burns Kellogg]])</small> – 5:06 #"Pilot" <small>(Gary R. Grelecki, [[Gary Lee Yoder]])</small> – 4:49 #"Babaji (Twilight Raga)" <small>(Mayell)</small> – 3:46 (instrumental)

;Side two #"Preacher" <small>(Grelecki, Yoder)</small> – 4:01 #"Black Sun" <small>(Grelecki, Yoder)</small> – 3:31 #"Tears in My Bed" <small>(Kellogg)</small> – 2:06 #"Man on the Run" <small>(Peterson)</small> – 3:58 #"Sandwich" <small>(Grelecki, Yoder)</small> – 5:01 #"Rest at Ease" <small>(Grelecki, Yoder)</small> – 5:35

==Personnel== ;Blue Cheer *[[Dickie Peterson]] – bass, guitar, lead vocals (tracks 2, 3, 9) *[[Gary Lee Yoder]] – guitar, harmonica, vocals, harp, lead vocals (tracks 1, 4–8, 10–11), producer *[[Ethan James (producer)|Ralph Burns Kellogg]] – organ, piano, synthesizer, bass *Norman Mayell – drums, guitar, percussion, sitar, producer on track 1

;Production *[[Eric Albronda]] – producer *Mark Harman, George Horn – engineers *Russ Gary – mixing and editing at [[Wally Heider Studios]], San Francisco, California

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