'Savoy Songbook Vol. 1' is a compilation album from the Norwegian group of the same name, released Monday 6 August 2007 in Norway. It was released 12 May 2008 in the UK by Genepool Records. Disc one contains three all-new tracks and re-recordings of earlier tracks. Disc 2 contains the original versions of past material, though there are two versions of "Star". "Karma Boomerang" was released as a single in April 2007 in Norway as a download and radio cut.

Disc One

• 1. Rain
• 2. Karma Boomerang
• 3. Best Western
  Best Western
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   Beauty
• 4. Star
• 5. Tears From A Stone
• 6. Grind You Down
• 7. Reasons to Stay Indoors
  Reasons to Stay Indoors
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• 8. Whalebone
• 9. Barefoot In A Denim Jacket
• 10. Lackluster Me
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Disc Two

• 1. Velvet
• 2. Man In The Park (single edit)
• 3. End Of The Line
• 4. Star (single edit)
• 5. Daylight's Wasting
• 6. Empty Of Feeling
• 7. Foolish
• 8. Unsound
• 9. Fearlist
• 10. Bottomless Pit
• 11. You Won't Come To The Party
• 12. The Breakers
• 13. You Should Have Told Me
• 14. Face

Credits

• Produced by Michael Ilbert and Savoy
• Mixed by Sylvia Massy, Kale Holmes and Rich Veltrop
• Mastered by George Marino

Savoy are:

• Drums, backing vocals: Frode Unneland
• Guitar, keyboard and vocals: Paul Waaktaar-Savoy
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• Rhythm-guitar and vocal by Lauren Savoy
  Lauren Savoy
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Additional personnel:

• Bass: Jørun Bøgeberg
• Piano on track 7: Rob Schwimmer
• Drums on track 3: Joe Mardin
• Strings on tracks 1 and 10:The Vertavo Quartet
• Violin/viola on track 3: Atle Sponberg/Jon Sønstebø
• Pedal-steel on track 8: Geir Sundstøl
• Strings on track 7 arranged by Joe Mardin

• All songs written by Paul Waaktaar-Savoy and Lauren Savoy.
• Produced by Savoy.

External links

• Genepool Records
• http://www.geocities.com/savoynews/albums_songbook.html