Be Good to Yourself at Least Once a Day is the seventh album by the Welsh progressive rock

Progressive rock

Progressive rock is a subgenre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility." John Covach, in Contemporary Music Review, says that many thought it would not just "succeed the pop of...

 band Man

Man (band)

Man are a rock band from South Wales whose style is a mixture of West Coast psychedelia, progressive rock, blues and country-rock. Formed in 1968 as a reincarnation of Welsh rock harmony group ‘’The Bystanders’’, Man are renowned for the extended jams in their live performances, and having had...

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Issued just one month after the previous album, Live at the Padget Rooms, Penarth

Live at the Padget Rooms, Penarth

Live at the Padget Rooms, Penarth was the sixth album by Man, released in September 1972. It was the band’s second live album, both performed by this four-piece line-up, although the line up had substantially changed before this album was released, as was acknowledged on the original LP sleeve.The...

, it features a radically different line up. Martin Ace having left, and Deke Leonard

Deke Leonard

Roger "Deke" Leonard is a rock musician, "serving a life sentence in the music business." Best known as a member of the progressive rock band Man, which he joined and left several times, and for fronting his own rock and roll band Iceberg, which he formed and disbanded several times, he is also...

 having been fired, Clive John returned, bringing with him Phil Ryan

Phil Ryan (musician)

Phil Ryan is a Welsh keyboardist and composer, best known for his work with Man and Pete Brown-Early career:...

 and Will Youatt, with whom Clive had formed Iorwerth Pritchard and the Neutrons when he left Man in 1971. This is the only studio album by this particular line-up, which also recorded the live "Christmas at the Patti" before Clive John left again.

The LP had a prize-winning gatefold sleeve that, when opened, automatically unfolded a 2' x 2' cartoon map of Wales, showing the origins of numerous Welsh bands, including Man, and other places of interest. The inner sleeve featured "Man's Family Jungle" , Man's family tree, similar to those prepared by Pete Frame

Pete Frame

Peter 'Pete' Frame is a music journalist, who produced outlines of the history of rock bands for various magazines . He founded the English Alternative rock magazine ZigZag in April 1969 and acted as its editor, from its beginning until February 1973, and again from March 1976 until July 1977...

, but a scrawled version drawn by Deke Leonard, despite having recently been fired by the band, as is acknowledged on the chart. Unfortunately the map is unreadably small in the CD issues, which do not include the "Family Jungle".

Side one

1. "C'mon" (Micky Jones, Phil Ryan
   Phil Ryan (musician)
   Phil Ryan is a Welsh keyboardist and composer, best known for his work with Man and Pete Brown-Early career:...
   
   , Terry Williams
   Terry Williams (drummer)
   Terrence "Terry" Williams is a Welsh rock drummer, whose resume includes work for Dire Straits, B. B. King, and Bob Dylan....
   
   , Clive John) – 11:03
2. "Keep on Crinting" (Jones, Ryan, Williams, John) – 8:18

Side two

1. "Bananas" (Jones, Ryan, Williams, John) – 9:28
2. "Life on the Road" (Jones, Ryan, Williams, John) – 7:14

Personnel

• Micky Jones – guitar
  Guitar
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  s, vocals
• Clive John – guitars, vocals
• Phil Ryan
  Phil Ryan (musician)
  Phil Ryan is a Welsh keyboardist and composer, best known for his work with Man and Pete Brown-Early career:...
  
   – keyboards
  Keyboardist
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  , vocals
• Terry Williams
  Terry Williams (drummer)
  Terrence "Terry" Williams is a Welsh rock drummer, whose resume includes work for Dire Straits, B. B. King, and Bob Dylan....
  
   – drum
  Drum
  The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments, which is technically classified as the membranophones. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with the player's hands, or with a...
  
  s, percussion
  Percussion instrument
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• Will Youatt – bass
  Bass guitar
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  , vocals

Releases & Reissues

The original LP was released in October 1972 in the UK (United Artists UAG 29417), Japan (Liberty LLP-80784) and the USA (United Artists UA-LA 077)


This album was released on CD by Beat Goes On in 1991 (BGO CD 14)

In 2007 Esoteric

Esoteric Recordings

Established in 2007, Esoteric Recordings is a UK independent record label specialising in 70s progressive rock, folk, psychedelic and jazz-rock reissues as part of the Cherry Red Records umbrella of imprints...

remastered and re-released the album (ECLEC 2019) with two bonus tracks:

1. "Bananas"
2. "Rockfield Jam"

These bonus tracks were recorded at Rockfield, in the spring of 1972, by the previous line up (Micky Jones, Deke Leonard, Martin Ace & Terry Williams) and show how "Bananas" developed with the change of line-up although the writing credits for this track were only given to the new line up.