# The Original Human Being

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1970 studio album by Blue Cheer

The Original Human Being Studio album by Blue Cheer 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 Producer Gary Lee Yoder, Eric Albronda, Norman Mayell (track 1) Blue Cheer chronology Blue Cheer (1969) The Original Human Being (1970) Oh! Pleasant Hope (1971)

Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating AllMusic [1]

***The Original Human Being*** is [Blue Cheer](/source/Blue_Cheer)'s fifth album. It was released in 1970 and shows Blue Cheer exploring a more psychedelic and laid‑back [rock and roll](/source/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](/source/Sitar) and [synthesizer](/source/Synthesizer). These instruments were only used one other time in the song "I'm the Light" on the album *[Oh! Pleasant Hope](/source/Oh!_Pleasant_Hope)*.

*The Original Human Being* peaked at No. 188 on the [*Billboard* Top LPs](/source/Billboard_200) chart.[2]

## Track listing

**Side one**

1. "Good Times Are So Hard to Find" (Kent Housman, Norman Mayell) – 3:22

1. "Love of a Woman" ([Dickie Peterson](/source/Dickie_Peterson)) – 4:35

1. "Make Me Laugh" ([Ralph Burns Kellogg](/source/Ethan_James_(producer))) – 5:06

1. "Pilot" (Gary R. Grelecki, [Gary Lee Yoder](/source/Gary_Lee_Yoder)) – 4:49

1. "Babaji (Twilight Raga)" (Mayell) – 3:46 (instrumental)

**Side two**

1. "Preacher" (Grelecki, Yoder) – 4:01

1. "Black Sun" (Grelecki, Yoder) – 3:31

1. "Tears in My Bed" (Kellogg) – 2:06

1. "Man on the Run" (Peterson) – 3:58

1. "Sandwich" (Grelecki, Yoder) – 5:01

1. "Rest at Ease" (Grelecki, Yoder) – 5:35

## Personnel

**Blue Cheer**

- [Dickie Peterson](/source/Dickie_Peterson) – bass, guitar, lead vocals (tracks 2, 3, 9)

- [Gary Lee Yoder](/source/Gary_Lee_Yoder) – guitar, harmonica, vocals, harp, lead vocals (tracks 1, 4–8, 10–11), producer

- [Ralph Burns Kellogg](/source/Ethan_James_(producer)) – organ, piano, synthesizer, bass

- Norman Mayell – drums, guitar, percussion, sitar, producer on track 1

**Production**

- [Eric Albronda](/source/Eric_Albronda) – producer

- Mark Harman, George Horn – engineers

- Russ Gary – mixing and editing at [Wally Heider Studios](/source/Wally_Heider_Studios), San Francisco, California

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Deming, Mark. ["Blue Cheer - The Original Human Being review"](https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-original-human-being-mw0000619048). *[AllMusic](/source/AllMusic)*. [All Media Network](/source/All_Media_Network). Retrieved March 16, 2020.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Whitburn_2-0)** Whitburn, Joel (1973). [*Top LPs, 1955–1972*](https://archive.org/details/joelwhitburnstoplp00whit/page/20/mode/2up). Record Research. p. 20. Retrieved July 10, 2025.

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