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Frampton Comes Alive!
Live album by Peter Frampton
Released	January 6, 1976 (U.S.) February 13, 1976 (UK)
Recorded	Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco, June 14, 1975 Marin County Civic Center, San Rafael, CA, June 13, 1975 Island Music Center, Commack, NY, August 24, 1975 Plattsburgh, NY, November 22, 1975 Electric Lady Studios, New York
Genre	Rock
Length	78:06
Label	A&M
Producer	Peter Frampton
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Robert Christgau (B-) link Rolling Stone link
Peter Frampton chronology
Frampton (1975) Frampton Comes Alive! (1976) I'm in You (1977)

Frampton Comes Alive! is a live album by Peter Frampton, originally released on January 6, 1976.

Peter Frampton had minimal commercial success with his early albums. This changed with Frampton's breakthrough best-selling live album, Frampton Comes Alive!, in 1976. The album was recorded in 1975, primarily at Winterland in San Francisco, California, where Humble Pie enjoyed a good following. Released in early January 1976, on Valentine's Day it debuted on the charts at 191. It stayed at the top of the charts, at number one, for 10 weeks, stayed in the Billboard's Top 40 album chart for 55 weeks, and stayed on the Billboard 200 charts in total for 97 Weeks. It was the top selling album of 1976, beating Fleetwood Mac's Fleetwood Mac for the top spot, and was the 14^th best seller of 1977.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]}

The album became the biggest selling live album at the time of its release and sold over 6 million copies in the US, 16 million worldwide. The Garth Brooks album Double Live at 20 times platinum is the best selling live album of all time, Bruce Springsteen is next at 13 times with Bruce Springsteen & E Street Band Live 1975 - '85, The Eagles come in next with Eagles Live at 7 times, while Frampton Comes Alive is 6 times platinum, is now the fourth best selling live album of all time.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]}

The most recognizable songs from the album are "Show Me the Way", "Baby, I Love Your Way", and "Do You Feel Like We Do", all of which were released as singles, and continue to receive much airplay on classic rock radio stations. Frampton uses a talk box extensively on the album.

The original release was a double album, but it was later reissued as one CD.

In January 2001, a "25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition" of the album was released, containing four additional tracks that were not included on the original version. The track sequence is also slightly different.

Contents 1 Track listing 1.1 Original release 1.2 25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition 1.2.1 Disc one 1.2.2 Disc two 2 Personnel 3 Charts 3.1 Album 3.2 Singles 4 Certifications 5 References in Other Media 6 References

All songs written by Peter Frampton except as noted.

1. "Something's Happening" – 5:41
2. "Doobie Wah" – 5:28
3. "Show Me the Way" – 4:42
4. "It's a Plain Shame" – 4:21
5. "All I Want to Be (Is by Your Side)" – 3:27
6. "Wind of Change" – 2:47
7. "Baby, I Love Your Way" – 4:43
8. "I Wanna Go to the Sun" – 7:02
9. "Penny for Your Thoughts" – 1:23
10. "(I'll Give You) Money" – 5:39
11. "Shine On" – 3:35
12. "Jumping Jack Flash" – 7:45
13. "Lines on My Face" – 7:06
14. "Do You Feel Like We Do?" – 14:15

1. "Introduction/Something's Happening" – 5:56
   • Originally titled "Baby (Somethin's Happening)" on Frampton's 1974 album Somethin's Happening
2. "Doobie Wah" (Frampton, Rick Wills, John Headley-Down) – 5:43
3. "Lines on My Face"
4. "Show Me the Way" – 4:32
5. "It's a Plain Shame" – 4:03
6. "Wind of Change" – 2:57
7. "Just the Time of Year" – 4:21
   • Available only on the 25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
8. "Penny for Your Thoughts" – 1:34
9. "All I Want to Be (Is By Your Side)" – 3:08
10. "Baby, I Love Your Way" – 4:41
11. "I Want to Go to the Sun" – 7:15

1. "Nowhere's Too Far (For My Baby)" – 4:49
2. "(I'll Give You) Money" – 5:46
3. "Do You Feel Like We Do" (Frampton, Mick Gallagher, John Siomos, Wills) – 13:46
   • SUNY-Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, NY, November 22, 1975
4. "Shine On" – 3:29
5. "White Sugar" – 4:43
6. "Jumpin' Jack Flash" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards) – 7:40
7. "Day's Dawning/Closing" – 3:34

• Peter Frampton – guitars, bass guitar, keyboards, talk box, vocals
• Bob Mayo – guitars, keyboards, Hammond organ, synthesizer, piano, Fender Rhodes, vocals
• Stanley Sheldon – bass guitar, vocals
• John Siomos – drums, percussion

Year	Chart	Position
1976	Billboard 200	1

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1976	"Baby, I Love Your Way"	Pop Singles	12
1976	"Do You Feel Like We Do"	Pop Singles	10
1976	"Show Me the Way"	Pop Singles	6

Organization	Level	Date
RIAA – USA	Gold	February 27, 1976
RIAA – USA	Platinum	April 8, 1976
BPI – UK	Gold	September 1, 1976
RIAA – USA	6X Platinum	November 14, 1984

• Referenced on Family Guy, season five, episode one. After being called a monster, Peter refers to the Frampton Comes Alive! album as being a monster, saying "Is there anybody you knew who didn't have that record? I don't think so."
• Referenced in Arrested Development, where a main character records an interracial Ventriloquism album, named Franklin Comes Alive.
• Appears in Wayne's World when Cassandra shows Wayne some old records that she has bought. When she asks Wayne if he's seen it before, he claims to have been issued it, as he lived in the suburbs, and that it came in the mail with samples of Tide.
• During a Simpsons episode when Homer becomes a stage performer in a travelling concert series, Frampton is playing Do You Feel Like We Do.
• In the Spongebob Squarepants episode Atlantis Squarepantis, Patchy The Pirate complains that his Frampton Comes Alive! 8-track was destroyed when his in-dash Hi-Fi system broke down.
• In The Homestar Runner cartoon The Best Decemberween Ever, Homestar is looking for a Decemberween gift for Strong Bad, and finds a Frampton Comes Alive! record autographed to Strong Bad, but throws it away.