Genesis - Genesis (1983) (LP) - €10,00

Genesis is the twelfth studio album by English rock band Genesis, released on 3 October 1983 by Charisma and Virgin Records in the UK and by Atlantic Records in the US and Canada. 

Following the band's tour in support of their 1982 live album Three Sides Live, Genesis took an eight-month break before they regrouped in the spring of 1983 to record a new album. 

It is their first written and recorded in its entirety at their studio named The Farm in Chiddingfold, Surrey, and the songs were developed through jam sessions in the studio with nothing written beforehand. Hugh Padgham returned as their engineer. 

"Mama" originated during a group jam session where Rutherford was experimenting with a Linn LM-1 electronic drum machine fed through a gated reverb and a Mesa Boogie amplifier, and "turned up incredibly loud" to the point of amplifiers jumping off the studio floor. Collins was influenced to go for a vocal that resembled John Lennon's style on his cover of "Be-Bop-a-Lula" on the song's verses. 

His laugh was influenced by the 1982 song "The Message" by hip hop band Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, which features a similar sound. 

Padgham had brought the single to the band and upon hearing it, Collins did the laugh during the subsequent improvisation session for "Mama", which the band liked and wished to use in the song.

The group had doubts as to whether Collins could recreate the laugh on stage, but he had no problems.

When it came to picking a song as the album's lead single, Rutherford expected Genesis manager Tony Smith and record label staff to pick another track than "Mama", but said "full marks to them, they agreed we should go with something that was a bit different". 

Rutherford later rated "Mama" as one of the best songs on the album, and was pleased with its commercial performance after the band found singles chart success with a song that represented what Genesis "were all about" at the time. 

During one session, the band had a koto in the studio, which was recorded through the E-mu Emulator and used as a sample for the song's percussion effect, partly because Banks had tried other options and could not get another sound to fit.

"That's All" originated from Banks's simple piano riff, which was followed by a drum pattern that instantly gave off a mood that the band wanted to develop further.

Each member cited the Beatles as an influence for the song; Collins said his drumming was in tribute to the style of their drummer, Ringo Starr, one of his drumming influences. 

The organ solo is played using a preset on the Synclavier imitating a Hammond B-3 organ, despite the reverse seen in the song's music video. Banks's riff came about from taking a sample in the E-mu Emulator and playing two notes of it simultaneously, which generated a new one.

"Home by the Sea" tells the story of a burglar who breaks into a house only to find it is haunted by ghosts, who capture him and then force him to listen to their life stories. Collins had repeated the phrase "home by the sea" while putting down dummy vocals at a time when Banks was writing lyrical ideas, and used the phrase to conjure up the story. 

The song originated with the band playing along to their Linn drum machine, during which Banks and Rutherford devised a guide theme on the keyboard and guitar, respectively, and Collins a vocal outline. With the guide parts laid out, the band then had a format as to its mood and how the song would take shape and developed it into a complete track. 

When the three were happy with what came out from it, they re-recorded the song individually onto tape with Collins replacing the Linn drum tracks with his own.

The former track segues into "Second Home by the Sea", a mostly instrumental piece developed from a group improvisation that began with Collins playing a drum riff which Banks and Rutherford liked and joined in. 

The working title was "Heavy Simmonds", a reference to Collins' playing. Banks said the group spent around two hours jamming on the idea on one day, followed by a second jam of equal length on the next. 

They then took the parts from both jams they liked best and organised them into one cohesive arrangement, which required them to re-learn what they had put down to record it as one piece.

Banks said the loose idea behind the instrumental section was to represent the former lives of the ghosts. The track ends with a reprise of "Home by the Sea".

"Illegal Alien", with lyrics from Rutherford, is about illegal immigrants and their attempts to cross the border into the United States for a better life. 

Collins aimed for a more adventurous style of drumming and went through a number of different styles, noting what he ended up playing was perhaps more than what the song called for. 

The chosen style was "that basic rock-and-roll part-two and four on the snare, one and three on the bass. That's what made the tune work". 

It opens with sound effects of car horns and telephones that Banks played on his E-mu Emulator sampler, which he found particularly exciting to record and incorporate into the music. 

Collins felt more pleased with his drumming on "Mama" and "Illegal Alien" than on the band's more intricate tracks such as "Los Endos" from A Trick of the Tail. Banks denied any racist implications the song appeared to have towards Mexicans, but said "it is a tongue-in-cheek thing" and in fact more sympathetic towards immigrants.

"Silver Rainbow" has lyrics written by Banks, who wrote about people being senseless when they are in love. Collins described them as "romantic" and "lush". 

Its working title was "Adam" because it had a rhythm that the group felt resembled something by singer Adam Ant, and the band thought a lyric that matched the "juvenile" music would fit it best.

"It's Gonna Get Better" features a keyboard introduction that Banks sampled from an album of classical music for cello, following a failed attempt to use it to obtain a quality string sound on his keyboard. He then played four notes simultaneously using the same sample that unexpectedly created a sound of interweaving harmonies, which he kept and used.

Side one

1.  Mama - 6:46

2.  That’s All - 4:22

3.  Home by the Sea - 4:46

4.  Second Home by the Sea - 6:22

Side two

1.  Illegal Alien - 5:12

2.  Taking It All Too Hard - 3:54

3.  Just a Job to Do - 4:44

4.  Silver Rainbow - 4:27

5.  It’s Gonna Get Better - 5:00

Genesis

• Mike Rutherford – guitars, bass, backing vocals
• Phil Collins – drums, vocals, percussion
• Tony Banks – keyboards, backing vocals

Production and artwork

• Genesis – producers
• Hugh Padgham – producer, engineer
• Geoff Callingham – technical assistance
• Tony Smith – manager
• Geoff Banks, Steve Jones, Dale and Clair Newman, Andy Mackrill, Jo Greenwood and all at Hit & Run Music – Without whom department
• Bill Smith – sleeve design
• Chris Peyton – sleeve adaptation (for The Redroom)

Notes

Release: 1983  

Format:  LP, Vinyl

Genre:  Progressive Rock

Label:  Vertigo Records 

Catalog#  814287-1 

Vinyl:  Goed (VG)

Cover:  Goed (VG)

Prijs: €10,00

Simple Minds - New Gold Dream (81–82–83–84) (1982) (LP) - €10,00

New Gold Dream (81–82–83–84) is the fifth studio album by Scottish band Simple Minds. The album was released in September 1982 by record label Virgin. It is considered one of the defining albums of the new pop movement of the early 1980s. 

It spawned the commercial successful singles “Promised You a Miracle” released in April 1982, “Glittering Prize” released in August 1982 and “Someone Somewhere in Summertime” released in November 1982. 

One of Scotland's finest exports, Simple Minds deliver a strong synth-reared release on New Gold Dream. This album harks the darker side of the band's musicianship, and such material alludes to their forthcoming pop-stadium sound which hurled them into rock mainstream during the latter part of the '80s. 

They were still honing their artistic rowdiness, and Kerr's pursuing vocals were still hiding. But Simple Minds' skill of tapping into internal emotion is profound on songs such as "Someone, Somewhere in Summertime" and the album's title track. 

But the dance-oriented tracks like "Promised You a Miracle" and "Glittering Prize" are lushly layered in deep electronic beats -- it was only a matter of time for Simple Minds to expound upon such musical creativity which made them a household favorite through the 1980s.

The release of New Gold Dream (81–82–83–84) was considered a turning point for the band, who had previously failed to gather any significant commercial success with the release of their previous studio albums, with lead singer Jim Kerr claiming that "every band or artist with a history has an album that’s their holy grail, I suppose New Gold Dream was ours". 

Kerr said of the recording of the album that it was "a special time because we were really beginning to break through with that record, both commercially and critically. The people that liked that record connected with it in a special way".

The album has been praised as some of the bands finest work, and was included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.

Side one

1.  Someone, Somewhere in Summertime - 4:36

2.  Colours Fly and Catherine Wheel - 3:49

3.  Promised You A Miracle - 4:28

4.  Big Sleep - 5:00

5.  Somebody Up There Likes You - 5:02

Side two

1.  New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84) - 5:39

2.  Glittering Prize - 4:33

3.  Hunter and the Hunted - 5:55

4.  King Is White and in the Crowd - 7:00

Simple Minds

• Jim Kerr – lead vocals
• Charlie Burchill – guitars and effects
• Michael MacNeil – keyboards and effects
• Derek Forbes – bass guitar
• Mel Gaynor – drums (tracks: 1, 4, 6–9)
• Mike Ogletree – drums (tracks: 2, 5, 6), percussion
• Kenny Hyslop – drums (track: 3)

Additional musicians

• Sharon Campbell – girl's voice (tracks: 2, 7)
• Herbie Hancock – keyboard solo (track: 8)

Technical

• Peter Walsh – producer, engineer, arrangements
• Keith 'Richard' Nixon – tape operator
• George Chambers – tape operator
• Francis Xavier Gallagher – tape operator
• Malcolm Garrett, Assorted iMaGes – album sleeve
• Jamie Morgan – photography

Notes

Release:  1982

Format:  LP, Vinyl

Genre:  New Wave, Synth-pop

Label:  Virgin Records

Catalog#  204965

Vinyl:  Goed (VG)

Cover:  Goed (VG)

Prijs: €10,00

Level 42 - level 42 (1981) (LP) - €10,00

Level 42 is the debut album released in August 1981 by the British group Level 42.

It is best known for the track "Love Games", which became a successful jazz–funk and dancefloor hit for the band (reaching number 38 on the UK singles chart). 

It has figured in both L42's and bassist Mark King's solo live appearances to this day. 

The second single, "Turn it On", The third single, "Starchild".

For one brief, shining moment at the start of the 80s, Level 42 were underground and cutting edge. 

They were outsiders: they had a resolute lack of fashion sense, an Isle of Wight address, played hard-hitting grooves and, in Mark King and Mike Lindup, an unconventional pairing of singers. 

Fleetingly, they seemed as relevant to 1981 as Talking Heads, Grandmaster Flash or The Fall.

With the "princess" on the album’s cover, Level 42’s debut reflected the aspirational glamour of sections of their audience: dressed-up people in the clubs of east London, Essex and north Kent where this music thrived.

Easily derided by those outside, their early releases, running alongside the new romantic movement, were something exciting and vibrant. 

Even a few rock journalists at the time were prepared to nail their colours to the mast and support them. On Level 42, you can still hear echoes of this time.

The group had already recorded an album for indie label Elite when they were signed to Polydor. Elite wanted a huge sum to let their new label release it, so the band quickly wrote and recorded new material. With veteran blues producer Mike Vernon at the helm (King loved the fact he’d worked with progressive band Focus), they cut eight tracks, and in Love Games, Turn It On and Starchild, they created three indestructible singles.

"Turn It On" starts the album with all of their youthful, swaggering confidence on display. The propulsive groove of Almost There is exhilarating and the instrumental bass showcase, Dune Tune, is shimmering, soulful jazz-funk.

Heathrow and “43” are a trifle perfunctory, but the listener is more than compensated by the album’s lead single and debut top 40 hit Love Games, which captures the salt’n’sweet combination of King and Lindup’s voices perfectly. Level 42’s influences were clearly signposted – Stanley Clarke, the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Herbie Hancock – and they were delighted to share them with young British ears.

Despite their enormous and prolonged success Level 42 were never this pioneering again, but this debut album still sounds fresh and vital. It is one of those records that is both understated and triumphant at the same time.

Side one

1.  Turn It On 4:42

2.  43 7:04

3.  Why Are You Leaving? 4:36

4.  Almost There 5:45

Side two

1.  Heathrow 4:43

2.  Love Games 5:20

3.  Dune Tune 4:52

4.  Starchild 5:58

Level 42

• Mark King – bass, percussion, vocals (lead vocals on 'Turn It On', "Why Are You Leaving", "Almost There" & "Love Games")
• Mike Lindup – Minimoog, acoustic piano, electric piano, percussion, vocals (lead vocals on "Starchild", chorus lead vocals on "Turn it On" & "Almost There", bridge lead vocals on "Love Games")
• Boon Gould – guitars
• Phil Gould – drums, percussion, glockenspiel, timbales, backing vocals

with:

• Wally Badarou – Prophet-5, Korg Polyphonic, Minimoog, vocalizing (courtesy Barclay Records)
• Leroy Williams – congas, bongos, percussion
• Gary Barnacle – electric saxophone solo on "Heathrow"
• Dave Chambers – tenor saxophone solo on "Why Are You Leaving"

Production

• Mike Vernon – producer
• Dick Plant – engineer
• Gregg Jackman – assistant engineer
• Richard Lengyel – assistant engineer
• John Rule – assistant engineer
• Tom Coyne – mastering
• Joe Bartling – illustration

Notes

Release:  1981

Format:  LP, Vinyl

Genre:  Funk

Label:  Polydor Records

Catalog#  2383612

Vinyl:  Goed (VG) 

Cover:  Goed (VG)

Prijs: €10,00

Golden Earring - Prisoner Of The Night (1980) (LP) - €1980

Prisoner of the Night is an album by Dutch hard rock band Golden Earring, released in 1980. In the US, the album was titled Long Blond Animal.

Although the band has put out several fine albums over the years, Golden Earring has not always had an easy time staying consistent from album to album. 

This 1980 effort is one of the rare instances in the Golden Earring catalog in which the group takes a good album, No Promises...No Debts, and actually improves on it. Like the aforementioned album, Prisoner of the Night presents a collection of songs that combine pop hooks and hard rock muscle in a radio-friendly way. However, Golden Earring improves on this style instead of recycling it: The guitar riffs hit harder, the hooks are catchier, and the arrangements are more willing to toss an occasional left turn at the listener while still managing to keep the songs lean and exciting. Good examples include "No for an Answer," which combines a muscular array of guitar riffs and a frenetic hard rock tempo with a killer singalong chorus, and "My Town," an amped-up slice of driving power pop that is worthy of Cheap Trick. 

However, the finest of the rockers is "Long Blond Animal," which combines a stomping beat, a circular guitar riff, and another infectious chorus to create a blood-pumping rocker that is as catchy as it is invigorating. Some of the other songs don't quite hit the manic highs of these standout tracks, but everything is well-arranged and features unexpected twists that keeps things fresh (i.e., the new wave synthesizer riff that pops up out of nowhere midway through the power ballad "Will and Mercy"). The end result is one of the finest albums of Golden Earring's career. 

It's a required listen for the group's fans and an album that is likely to win over any pop/rock devotee who gives it a spin.

Side one

1.  Long Blond Animal - 3:36  

2.  No For An Answer - 4:13  

3.  My Town - 3:06  

4.  Prisoner Of The Night - 4:50  

5.  I Don’t Wanna Be Nobody Else - 4:41  

Side two

1.  Cut ‘em Down To Size - 3:23  

2.  Will & Mercy - 3:36  

3.  Come In Outerspace - 4:24  

4.  Going Crazy Again - 4:59 

 All songs written by Hay and Kooymans.

Personnel

• George Kooymans - guitar, vocals
• Rinus Gerritsen - bass guitar, keyboards
• Barry Hay - flute, vocals , guitar
• Cesar Zuiderwijk - drums

Addiotional personnel

• Tony Britnel - saxophone, tenor saxophone
• Robert Jan Stips - synthesiser, keyboards

Production

• Producer: George Kooymans
• Engineer: John Kriek
• Mixing: George Kooymans, John Kriek
• Photography: Kees Tabak

Notes

Release:  1980

Format:  LP, Vinyl

Genre:  Rock

Label:  Polydor Records

Catalog#  2344161

Vinyl:  Goed (VG)

Cover:  Goed (VG)

Prijs: €10,00

Eagles - The Long Run (1979) (LP) - €10,00

The Long Run is the sixth studio album by American rock group the Eagles. It was released in 1979 by Asylum Records in the United States and the United Kingdom. 

This was the first Eagles album to feature bassist Timothy B. Schmit, who had replaced founding member Randy Meisner, and the last full studio album to feature Don Felder before his termination from the band in 2001.

This was the band's final studio album for Asylum Records. It also turned out to be their last studio album during their original tenure, as the Eagles disbanded in 1980; even though they reunited in 1994, they did not release another studio album until 2007's Long Road Out of Eden.Three singles were released from the album, "Heartache Tonight", "The Long Run", and "I Can't Tell You Why". "Heartache Tonight" reached No. 1 on the singles chart and won a Grammy Award. 

Three years in the making (which was considered an eternity in the '70s), the Eagles' follow-up to the massively successful, critically acclaimed Hotel California.

"Heartache Tonight" was an old-fashioned rock & roll song sung by Glenn Frey, while "I Can't Tell You Why" was a delicate ballad by Timothy B. Schmit, the band's newest member. Only "The Long Run," a conventional pop/rock tune with a Stax Records R&B flavor, bore the stamp and vocal signature of Don Henley, who had largely taken the reins of the band on Hotel California. 

Henley also dominated The Long Run, getting co-writing credits on nine of the ten songs, singing five lead vocals, and sharing another two with Frey. 

This time around, however, Henley's contributions were for the most part painfully slight. Only "The Long Run" and the regret-filled closing song, "The Sad Café," showed any of his usual craftsmanship. 

The album was dominated by second-rank songs like "The Disco Strangler," "King of Hollywood," and "Teenage Jail" that sounded like they couldn't have taken three hours much less three years to come up with. 

(Joe Walsh's "In the City" was up to his usual standard, but it may not even have been an Eagles recording, having appeared months earlier on the soundtrack to The Warriors, where it was credited as a Walsh solo track.) 

Side one

1.  The Long Run - 3:42  

2.  I Can’t Tell You Why - 4:56  

3.  In The City - 3:46  

4.  The Disco Strangler - 2:46  

5.  King Of Hollywood-  6:28  

Side two

1.  Heartache Tonight - 4:26  

2.  Those Shoes - 4:56  

3.  Teenage Jail - 3:44  

4.  The Greeks Don’t Want No Freaks - 2:20  

5.  The Sad Café - 5:25

Eagles

• Don Felder – backing vocals, guitars, organ on “The Long Run”, talkbox on “Those Shoes”
• Glenn Frey – vocals, acoustic and electric rhythm guitars, keyboards, lead guitar on “I Can’t Tell You Why” and “King of Hollywood”
• Don Henley – vocals, drums, percussion
• Timothy B. Schmit – vocals, bass guitar
• Joe Walsh – vocals, guitars, keyboards, talkbox on “Those Shoes”

Additional personnel

• Jimmy Buffett – backing vocals on "The Greeks Don't Want No Freaks"
• The Monstertones – backing vocals on “The Greeks Don’t Want No Freaks”
• David Sanborn – alto saxophone on "The Sad Café"
• Bob Seger – backing vocals on "Heartache Tonight" (not credited in liner notes)
• Joe Vitale – piano, electric piano

Production

• Bill Szymczyk – producer and engineer
• Ed Mashal – engineer
• David Crowther – assistant engineer
• Mark Curry – assistant engineer
• Phil Jamtaas – assistant engineer
• Bob Stringer – assistant engineer
• Bob Winder – assistant engineer
• Ted Jensen – mixing, remastering
• John Kosh – art direction, design
• Jim Shea – photography

Notes

Release:  1979

Format:  LP, Vinyl

Genre:  Country Rock

Label:  Asylum Records

Catalog#  AS 52181

Vinyl:  Goed (VG)

Cover:  Goed (VG) (Gatefold)

Prijs: €10,00

Luisa Fernandez - Disco Darling (1978) (LP) - €10,00

Luisa Fernandez (born 14 August 1961) is a Spanish-born, Germany based pop singer. She is perhaps best known for her hit single, "Lay Love on You" from 1978.

Surely many would remember this singer from the 70s who brought in Euro pop and disco to the fore and made everyone dance to her tunes. 

The lady we are talking about is Luisa Fernandez a Spanish-born singer, based in Germany. She was popular during the disco era of the 1970s, and scored a massive hit with "Lay Love On Me" in 1978 which was one of the toppers on this album.

This album proves that you can actually produce a decent disco album and even with a Spanish song "Granada" make it to the top. With its fab acoustic drums and smooth vocals the Spanish song was a super hit on its release.

Luisa Fernandez was really a sweet teenager then, making such funky dance music that you just had to hit the dance floor. but she was absolutely no singer when she started out. 

Fernandez grew up in Galicia, Spain, and discovered her passion for singing early. Her talent was officially discovered in a contest at the age of 15. A deal with Warner Brothers and her first single hits in the disco era in Europe followed. 

After meeting her future husband, they formed the duo Luisa Fernandez and Peter Kent and had several European pop hits in Spanish, amongst them Solo por ti, that can be heard on European radio stations even today.

Her other songs on this album like "Cool it, Baby", "I Love to Love you (Love to Love Me)", "Give Love a Second Chance" and the peppy "Stop (When You Do What You Do)", hit the peak of this 10 song album filled with disco beats. 

Almost every track on this album has an infectious juicy hook to it and a dance beat from this beautiful lady. "Dance, Baby Dance Around" and "Make Me Feel Alright" shows her slow side with the pitch slowing increasing with the flow of music. 

Her soaring vocals never fail, with her saucy lyrics never failing to surprise and seduce the most handsome hunk.

A close listen to the songs and you would notice some male studio voices covered at times like Dance, Baby Dance Around. 

But when you really listen to her vocals, you will get cold shivers down your spine, because it really so beautiful and sweet.

Side one

1.  Granada - 4:40  

2.  Cool It, Baby - 3:38  

3.  Lay Love On You - 4:18  

4.  I Love To Love You (Love To Love Me) - 3:50  

5.  Make Me Feel Alright - 2:50  

Side wo

1.  Give Love A Second Chance - 4:02  

2.  Stop (When You Do What You Do) - 3:58  

3.  Give To Me - 3:09  

4.  Dance, Baby Dance Around - 3:40  

5.  Don’t Wait Too Long - 4:01 

Companies. etc.

• Phonographic Copyright ℗ – WEA Musik GmbH
• Copyright © – WEA Musik GmbH
• Made By – WEA Musik GmbH
• Recorded At – Peer Studio
• Published By – Peer Musikverlag GmbH
• Lacquer Cut At – Tonstudio Pfanz
• Produced For – P.W. Music Production

Credits

• Arranged By – David Parker, Werner Lang
• Bass – Frank Reinke, Manfred "Thissy" Thiers, Ray Moxley
• Brass – Bobby Lanese, Detlef Surmann, Larry Alam, Waldemar Erbe
• Drums – Dicki Tarrach, Peter Franken
• Engineer – Frank Reinke
• Guitar – Alex Conti, Frank Reinke, Jürgen Schröder
• Keyboards – Klaus Robert Kruse, Peter Kolodzieg, Werner Lang
• Music By, Lyrics By – Agustin Lara (tracks: A1), J.D. Parker-Tanja (tracks: A2 to B5)
• Producer – David Parker
• Strings – Hansen Strings

Notes

Release: 1978

Format:  LP, Vinyl

Genre:  Disco

Label:  Warner Bros. Records

Catalog#  WB 56537

Vinyl:  Goed (G)

Cover:  Goed (G)

Prijs: €10,00

Santana - Moonflower (1977) (2LP) - €30,00

Moonflower is a double album released in 1977 by Santana. The recording features both studio and live tracks, which are interspersed with one another throughout the album. 

It is perhaps the group's most popular live album, because the 1974 album Lotus did not receive a U.S. domestic release until 1991. It displays a mix between the fusion of Latin and blues rock styles of the late 1960s and early 1970s, and the much more experimental and spiritual jazz fusion sound that characterized the band's mid-1970s work. 

The live material was recorded during the supporting tour for the Amigos album. This is the first of 5 albums with drummer Graham Lear.

"Moonflower" is a mixed work, containing both live and studio recordings. Apart from several really unbearable sweet pop moments ("I'll Be Waiting", "Transcendance"), where Greg Walker sounds ridiculously like Billy Ocean, the rest is very good standard SANTANA delivery. 

Jazz rock moments are most present in "Zulu", "Bahia" and "El Morocco", while the live block of popular hits "Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen/Dance Sister Dance/Europa" is the highlight of the album. 

New studio tracks "She's Not There" (an excellent cover of The Zombies) and "Flor D'Luna" became instant hits and remained standard in the band's repertoire. 

Keyboardist Tom Coster provided several excellent compositions, including the title track.

A cover version of the Zombies' mid-1960s hit song "She's Not There" was released as a single and peaked at #27. The song was the first Santana recording to hit the Top 40 of the Billboard charts since "No One to Depend On" reached #36 in 1972. 

The album reached #10 on the Billboard charts and was eventually certified platinum,

Side one

1.  Dawn/Go Within - 2:44 (studio)

2.  Carnaval - 2:17 (Live)

3.  Let the Children Play - 2:37 (Live) 

4.  Jugando - 2:09 (Live)

5.  I’ll Be Waiting - 5:20 (studio) 

6.  Zulu - 3:25 (studio)

Side two

1.  Bahia - 1:37 (studio)

2.  Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen - 6:32 (Live)

3.  Dance Sister Dance (Baila Mi Hermana) - 7:45 (Live) 

4.  Europa (Earth’s Cry Heaven’s Smile) - 6:07 (Live)

Side three

1.  She’s Not There - 4:09 (studio) 

2.  Flor d’Luna (Moonflower) - 5:01 (studio)

3.  Soul Sacrifice/Head, Hands & Feet - 14:01 (Live) 

Side four

1.  El Morocco - 5:05 (studio)

2.  Transcendence - 5:13 (studio)

3.  Savor/Toussaint L’Overture - 12:56 (Live)

All tracks written and composed by Tom Coster and Carlos Santana, except where noted 

Companies, etc.

• Record Company – CBS Inc.
• Phonographic Copyright ℗ – CBS Inc.
• Copyright © – CBS Inc.
• Recorded At – Rolling Stones Mobile
• Recorded At – Olympiahalle Munich
• Recorded At – Foire des Vins-Colmar
• Recorded At – Pavillon De Paris
• Recorded At – Hammersmith Odeon
• Recorded At – CBS Studios, San Francisco
• Mixed At – The Automatt
• Pressed By – CBS, Haarlem – 01-88272
• Printed By – Shorewood Packaging
• Published By – Light Music (3)
• Published By – Carlin Music Corp.
• Published By – Copyright Control
• Published By – Flying D Music
• Published By – Marquis Music

Credits

• Arranged By [String], Performer [String] – Tom Coster
• Art Direction – Herb Greene, Roslav Szaybo
• Congas, Bongos, Surdo, Cowbell, Percussion, Backing Vocals – Raul Rekow
• Drums [Yamaha], Percussion – Graham Lear
• Electric Bass [Fender Bass] – David Margen, Pablo Tellez 
• Engineer – Glen Kolotkin 
• Engineer [Assistant, Recording In Europe] – Chiao Ng, Peter Crumb, Peter Stevens
• Engineer [Recording In Europe] – Rod Thear
• Graphics – John Paul Jones, Russ Anderson
• Guitar, Congas, Timbales, Percussion, Backing Vocals – Devadip Carlos Santana
• Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals – Greg Walker
• Mixed By – Tom Vicari
• Mixed By [Assistant] – Chris Minto
• Music Director [Musical Direction] – Devadip Carlos Santana, Tom Coster
• Organ [Hammond], Electric Piano [Yamaha Electric Grand, Fender Rhodes], Synthesizer [Arp Omni, Arp Dgx Pro Solist, Arp Odessey, Arp String Ensemble, Mini Moog], Vibraphone [Vibes], Marimba, Backing Vocals – Tom Coster
• Photography By [Inside Sleeves: Devadip Carlos Santana] – Heavy Photo
• Photography By [Inside Sleeves: Hand Percussion] – Don Briggs
• Photography By [Inside Sleeves: Santana Band] – Dennis Callahan, Don Briggs, Ethan Russell, Richard McCaffree
• Photography By [Outside And Inside Covers] – Yoshikazu Shirakava
• Producer – Devadip Carlos Santana, Tom Coster
• Producer [Associated] – Bill Graham, Ray Etzler
• Producer [Production In Europe], Recorded By [Live Recording In Europe] – David Rubinson & Friends, Inc.
• Recorded By – George Engfer, Tom Vicari
• Synthesizer [Pro Soloist] – Tommy Coster Jr. 
• Timbales, Congas, Bell Tree – Jose "Chepito" Areas 
• Timbales, Guiro, Maracas – Pete Escovedo 

Notes

Release:  1977

Format:  2LP, Vinyl

Genre:  Latin Rock

Label:  CBS Records

Catalog#  88272

Vinyl:  Goed (VG)

Cover:  Goed (G) (Gatefold)

Prijs: €30,00

Tavares - Sky High (1976) (LP) - €10,00

Sky High! is the fourth studio album by the American soul/R&B group Tavares, released in 1976 on the Capitol label.

The album peaked at no. 20 on the R&B albums chart. It also reached no. 24 on the Billboard 200. The album features the singles "Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel" and "Don't Take Away the Music".

Thanks to producer Freddie Perren, Tavares acquired a lot of disco gloss on their fourth album, Sky High! 

The producers Tavares had worked with on previous efforts -- first Johnny Bristol on Check It Out, then the Dennis Lambert/Brian Potter team on Hard Core Poetry and In the City -- saw them as primarily a Northern soul vocal quintet. 

Perren didn't forget about Tavares' Northern soul heritage, but he made sure that the up-tempo selections would appeal to disco audiences in a major way. 

The joyous "Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel" (a number three R&B hit) and the equally exuberant "Don't Take Away the Music" became dancefloor favorites, and pop fans who knew Tavares for those gems started to think of them as a disco group instead of a soul group. 

But it would be a mistake to believe that Sky High! isn't relevant to soul; in fact, "To the Other Man" and "Guiding Star" are exactly the type of smooth Northern soul ballads that had put Tavares on the map in 1973 and 1974. And "Don't Take Away the Music," like the Trammps' best recordings, is a perfect marriage of Philadelphia soul and Philadelphia disco -- it has just the right blend of grit and gloss. 

Side one

1.  Mighty Power of Love   (3:58)

2.  Ridin’ High   (4:05)

3.  To the Other Man   (4:34)

4.  Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel   (6:32)

Side two

1.  Bein’ With You   (3:45)

2.  Wonderful   (4:00)

3.  Guiding Star   (6:34)

4.  Don’t Take Away the Music   (6:18)

Personnel

• James Gadson – drums
• John Barnes – piano
• Scott Edwards – bass
• Bob "Boogie" Bowles, Melvin "Wah Wah" Ragin – guitar
• Bob Zimmitti, Paulinho Magalhaes, Paulinho da Costa, Freddie Perren – percussion
• Electric Ivory Experience (John Barnes, Bob Robitaille) – synthesizers

Companies, etc.

• Manufactured By – EMI-Bovema Holland
• Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Capitol Records, Inc.

Credits

• Arranged By [Rhythm] – Freddie Perren
• Arranged By [Synthesizer] – Electric Ivory Experience
• Bass – Scott Edwards 
• Drums – James Gadson
• Engineer – Larry Miles
• Engineer [Apprentice] – Tyrone Williams
• Engineer [Assistant] – Ron Alvarez
• Guitar – Bob "Boogie" Bowles, Melvin "Wah Wah" Ragin
• Mastered By – Wally Traugott
• Percussion – Bob Zimitti, Freddie Perren, Paulinho DeCosta, Paulinho Magalhaes
• Piano – John Barnes
• Producer – Freddie Perren
• Synthesizer – Electric Ivory Experience

Notes

Release: 1976

Format:  LP, Vinyl

Genre:  Soul, Disco

Label:  Capitol Records

Catalog#  E-ST 11533

Vinyl:  Goed (VG)

Cover:  Goed (VG)

Prijs: €10,00