Fly (Yoko Ono album)
Fly is the second album by Yoko Ono, released in 1971. Co-produced by Ono and John Lennon, the original release was a complete avant-garde/Fluxus package in a gatefold sleeve that came with a full-size poster and a postcard to order Ono's 1964 book "Grapefruit". Notable songs include the singles "Midsummer New York" and "Mrs. Lennon", "Hirake" (a.k.a. "Open Your Box") and "Don't Worry, Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow)", that was dedicated to Ono's daughter Kyoko Cox. "Airmale", that benefits from the automated noise  music machines of Fluxus musician Joe Jones, is the soundtrack to Lennon's film "Erection", showing a building being erected in time lapsed photography, while "Fly" is the soundtrack to Lennon and Ono's 1970 film "Fly". The entire side three of this LP has Ono performing with various automated sound-machines created by Joe Jones pictured in the gatefold. Recording. The album was recorded around the same time as Lennon's "Imagine". Ono had to re-record her vocals on "Open Your Box", on 4 March 1971 at Abbey Road Studios, after a managing director of EMI called the  lyrics "distasteful". In the verse ""Open your trousers, open your skirt, open your legs and open your thighs"", the words ""Trousers"", ""skirt"", ""legs"", and ""thighs"" were changed to ""houses"", ""church"", ""lakes"", and ""eyes"". Lennon and Ono didn't complain about the change of words, and only "wanted to get the record out", as a spokesman said. "Will You Touch Me" was first recorded during the "Fly" sessions. It was later re-recorded for Yoko's shelved 1974 album "A Story" and for 1981's "Season of Glass". The original demo version was included on the Rykodisc reissue of "Fly" in  1997. Each edition of the US, UK and Japanese albums utilized that country's distinctive telephone ring in the track "Telephone Piece" (i.e. each edition of the album used entirely different recordings) – the Rykodisc CD edition used the US variation. Release. "Fly" peaked at number 199 in the "Billboard" charts. On 1 February 1972, Lennon and Ono Lennon performed "Midsummer New York" backed by Elephant's Memory for an episode of "The Mike Douglas Show", which aired on 15 February. Reception. The album was a significant influence to British power electronics musician William Bennett of Whitehouse fame. Track listing. All  songs written by Yoko Ono. Side one Side two Side three Side four For unknown reasons, John Lennon was credited as co-writer of "Mind Train", "Mind Holes", "Toilet Piece/Unknown" and "Telephone Piece" on the disc faces of the 1997 Rykodisc reissue. Lennon has not been credited as co-writer of these tracks on any other release of "Fly".