Side A:
1. She's Got Everything
2. Mr. Songbird
3. Polly
4. Days
5. Berkeley Mews
6. Misty Water
7. Did You See His Name?
8. Autumn Almanac
Side B:
9. Susannah's Still Alive
10. Act Nice and Gentle
11. This is Where I Belong
12. Dead End Street
13. Wonderboy
14. Mr. Pleasant
15. Big Black Smoke
Four More Respected Gentlemen was originally an album that was supposed to be released in November 1968, but about a month beforehand, the label dropped the project and released the album The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society instead. The album was submitted as a 15 track album but the label planned on releasing an 11 track version of it cutting out the last 4 tracks. Village Green Preservation Society included 5 of the songs but had 15 tracks in it. The European version of it included 2 exclusive tracks but had 12 tracks on it. Following the album's cancellation, Reprise released all of the tracks on two compilation albums, The Kink Kronikles and The Great Lost Kinks Album.
Reprise began assembling an early version of the latter compilation in 1969 or 1970 which they planned to call Four More Respected Gentlemen. The eventual title The Great Lost Kinks Album references Gentlemen, though it's been described as misleading since there are only two songs in common between the albums. So the idea is to see if I can take the exclusive songs from the original version and combine it with other songs to make a complementary album out of it. Taking a look at the rest of the Kinks Kronikles track listing, it has 7 non-album songs to choose from but two of them are from 1969. This gives us an even 5 tracks to include. But then I also took out There's No Life Without Love and replaced it with Act Nice and Gentle which didn't get included.
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