zondag 28 januari 2024

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Herbie Mann - Discotheque (LP) (1975) - €5,00

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Discothèque is an album by flautist Herbie Mann recorded in 1975 and released on the Atlantic label.
The unfortunate title of this album fed into the perception that jazz great Herbie Mann would jump onto any musical trend for a buck.

The hit single “Hi-Jack” actually was pretty good as dance-oriented instrumental pop, but jazz it was not.
However, Mann’s rendition of Stevie Wonder’s “Bird of Beauty” is very pleasant, and the Mann original “High Above the Andes” has a nice Latin feel to it.

On too many cuts, though, the dated synthesizers and female backing vocals make the mix sound like little more than background music for a shopping mall.


Side A
A1.  Hi-Jack - 5:16
A2.  Pick Up The Pieces - 5:16
A3.  Lady Marmalade - 4:15
A4.  Mediterranean - 6:23

Side B
B1.  I Can’t Turn You Loose - 3:20
B2.  I Won’t Last A Day Without You - 2:50
B3.  High Above The Andes - 6:30
B4.  Bird Of Beauty - 4:30
B5.  Guava Jelly - 3:20

Companies, etc.

Credits

Notes
Release: 1975
Format: LP, Vinyl
Genre: Jazz, Funk, Soul
Label: Atlantic Records
Catalog# ATL 50128

Vinyl: Goed (G)
Goed: Lichte Gebruikerssporen (G)

Prijs: €5,00

donderdag 25 januari 2024

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Lou Rawls - Love Songs (LP) (1986) – €10,00

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Louis Allen Rawls (December 1, 1933 – January 6, 2006) was an American baritone singer, record producer, composer and actor.
Rawls released 61 albums, sold more than 40 million records, and had numerous charting singles, most notably the song “You’ll Never Find Another Love like Mine”.
He also worked as a film, television and voice actor.
He was a three-time winner of the Best Male R&B Vocal Performance Grammy Award.

“Love Songs” was released in Holland, Previously released as: The Very Best Love Songs Of Lou Rawls.

 
Side A
A1.  See You When I Git There
A2.  Lady Love
A3.  If I Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda
A4.  Some Day You’ll Be Old
A5.  Time Will Take Care Of Everything
A6.  Wind Beneath My Wings
A7.  Tomorrow
A8.  Not The Staying Kind

Side B
B1.  You’ll Never Find Another Love Like Mine
B2.  There Will Be Love
B3.  Unforgettable
B4.  This Song Will Last Forever
B5.  When The Night Comes
B6.  Time
B7.  One Day Soon You’ll Need Me
B8.  Pure Imagination

 
Notes
Release: 1986
Format:  LP, Vinyl
Genre: Soul
Label: K-Tel Records
Catalog# KTLP 216-1

Vinyl: Goed (VG)
Cover: Goed (VG)

Prijs: €10,00

maandag 4 december 2023

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John Lennon - Mind Games (LP) (1973) - €10,00

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Mind Games is the fourth solo studio album by English musician John Lennon. It was recorded at Record Plant Studios in New York in summer 1973. The album was released in the US on 29 October 1973 and in the UK on 16 November 1973. It was Lennon’s first self-produced recording without help from Phil Spector. Like his previous album, the politically topical and somewhat abrasive Some Time in New York CityMind Games received mixed reviews upon release. It reached number 13 in the UK and number 9 in the US, where it was certified gold.

Mind Games was recorded between July and August 1973 in Lennon’s characteristic quick fashion, and was mixed over a two-week period. Lennon produced the album by himself, following his previous three-year partnership with Phil Spector

The album continued Lennon’s previous attempts to chronicle his life through his songs, the tone of which displays a range of mixed feelings. Among the sombre and melodic songs directed to Ono, “Aisumasen (I’m Sorry)” was originally titled “Call My Name”, a song in which Lennon was offering to comfort someone, whereas the final version sees him asking for forgiveness. In “One Day (At a Time)”, Lennon sings about his devotion to Ono. “Out the Blue” also reflects Lennon’s devotion to his wife, and reflects its author’s self-doubt as a result of their separation. “Out the Blue” incorporates several musical genres, starting with a gentle, melancholy acoustic guitar and moving through gospelcountry and choral music portions. Another love song, “You Are Here” took its title from Lennon’s one-off art exhibition at the Robert Fraser Gallery. By the time of the Mind Games sessions, the composition had gone through several different themes, before Lennon settled on the theme of love and peace. The original master take of “You Are Here” featured an extra verse, that was about Japan and England.

Other songs on the album are more light-hearted and optimistic, marking the return of Lennon’s humour and wit after the uncompromising doctrine espoused on Some Time in New York City. These tracks include “Intuition”, in which Lennon relates how life experience has honed his instincts and how it’s good to have gotten through it. While demoing the song on piano in early 1973, with the lyrics still incomplete, he added a few lines from two previously released tracks – “How?“, from Imagine (1971), and “God“, from John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (1970). “Only People” reflects his and Ono’s personal philosophy. Lennon later said that it failed as a song, however; in an interview with Playboy, he remarked: “It was a good lick, but I couldn’t get the words to make sense.”

Also appearing on Mind Games are songs that indulged Lennon’s affinity for pure rock ‘n’ roll, such as “Tight A$“, the title of which was a pun on the expressions “tight as” and “tight ass”. The track is in the rockabilly style with a 1950s sound, along the lines of songs that inspired Lennon in his youth. Another rock track, “Meat City” contains lyrics more in keeping with Lennon’s earlier penchant for obscure imagery over the personal. The song was a boogie piece until late in 1971, when it began to take its final form, although with improvised lyrics. By late 1972, Lennon had rewritten the words and finished developing the melody.

The song “Mind Games“, with its “love is the answer” refrain and call to “make love not war”, recalls Lennon’s work with the Beatles in 1967. He started writing the track during the band’s Get Back sessions, in early 1969, with the title “Make Love, Not War”. Lennon finished it after reading the book Mind Games: The Guide to Inner Space. Lennon had recorded demos of the retitled “Mind Games” on 28 and 29 December 1970, at his home studio, Ascot Sound Studios.

Bring on the Lucie (Freda Peeple)” dated from late 1971, having started out as little more than a chorus, after Lennon acquired a National guitar. Once he had worked on the lyrics, the song went from a simple political slogan to a full-blown statement that hints at his earlier work, such as “Imagine” and “Power to the People“. “Only People” and the three-second silent “Nutopian International Anthem” were the only political tracks on the album. The latter referred to “Nutopia: The Country of Peace“, a conceptual country which the Lennons had announced at a press conference in New York City on April Fool’s Day 1973. “I Know (I Know)” features lyrics in which Lennon apologises for his thoughtlessness and discusses the causes of his insecurity. On some of the rough mixes available on bootlegs, the time-consuming overdubbing on the song is apparent, as Lennon gradually refined the arrangement. The final track on Mind Games, “Meat City” contains a Lennon curse, “Fuck a pig!”, sped up and backwards, while the mix used as the B-side to the “Mind Games” single gave the same treatment to the phrase “Check the album!”

“Rock and Roll People” was also recorded during the album’s sessions and given to Johnny Winter for his John Dawson Winter III album. Lennon’s version remained unreleased until 1986’s posthumous Menlove Ave. album.


Side A
A1.  Mind Games - 4:10  
A2.  Tight A$ - 3:35  
A3.  Aisumasen (I’m Sorry) - 4:41  
A4.  One Day (At A Time) - 3:27  
A5.  Bring On The Lucie (Freda Peeple) - 4:11  
A6.  Nutopian International Anthem - 0:03  

Side B
B1.  Intuition - 3:05  
B2.  Out The Blue - 3:19  
B3.  Only People - 3:21  
B4.  I Know (I Know) - 3:56  
B5.  You Are Here - 4:06  
B6.  Meat City - 2:52 

Personnel

Companies, etc.

Credits


Notes
Release:  1973
Format:  LP, Vinyl
Genre:  Pop, Rock
Label:  Apple Records
Catalog#  5C 062-05491

Vinyl:  Goed (VG)
Cover:  Goed (VG)

Prijs: €10,00

zondag 3 december 2023

Published zondag, december 03, 2023 by Ad-Vinylrecords with 0 comment

The Cats - Signed By The Cats (LP) (1972) - €5,00

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Signed by The Cats is een muziekalbum van The Cats uit 1972. 
De elpee kent vooral werk van Cees Veerman en Piet Veerman en een nummer van Arnold Mühren en een gezamenlijk nummer met Jaap Schilder.

Een jaar voor hun afscheids concert in purmerend maar muzikaal nog lang niet op hun retour.
Een aanrader.
Op dit album staan de hitsingles ” Let´s Dance” en ” The End Of The Show”


Side A
A1. Trying To Explain - 4:30
A2. Let’s Follow The Sun - 3:25
A3. Conclusions - 3:25
A4. The End Of The Show - 4:35
A5. Let’s Dance - 3:20

Side B
B1. Come On Girl - 3:10
B2. I Saw Her At The Station - 3:30
B3. How Did You Feel - 3:15
B4. You Don’t Know Me - 3:20
B5. Dreams - 6:35


Companies, etc.
 
Credits

Notes
Released:  1972
Genre:  Pop
Format:  Vinyl, LP
Country:  Netherlands
Label:  Imperial Records
Catalog#  5C 056-24756

Vinyl:  Lichte Gebruikerssporen (G)
Cover:  Lichte Gebruikerssporen (G)

Prijs: €5,00

vrijdag 1 december 2023

Published vrijdag, december 01, 2023 by Ad-Vinylrecords with 0 comment

Yes - Fragile (LP) (1971) - €10,00

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Fragile is the fourth studio album by the English progressive rock band Yes, released on 12 November 1971 by Atlantic Records. It was the band’s first album to feature keyboardist Rick Wakeman, who replaced Tony Kaye after the group had finished touring their breakthrough record, The Yes Album (1971).

Songs
Fragile contains nine tracks; four are “group arranged and performed” with the remaining five being “the individual ideas, personally arranged and organised” by the five members, as described in the liner notes.
Squire reasoned that this approach was necessary in part to save time and reduce studio costs: “We have a lot of mouths to feed. Rick … had to buy a vast amount of new equipment when he joined, and it all costs much more money than people seem to imagine.”
According to Bruford: “There was this endless discussion about how the band could be used … I felt we could use all five musicians differently … So I said—brightly—’Why don’t we do some individual things, whereby we all use the group for our own musical fantasy?
I’ll be the director, conductor, and maestro for the day, then you do your track, and so on.’” Wakeman commented on the album’s structure: “Some critics thought this was just being flash.
The thinking behind this was that we realised there would be a lot of new listeners coming to the band. They could find out where each individual player’s contribution lay.”


Side one

Roundabout” was written by Anderson and Howe and has become an iconic track and is one of Yes’s best-known songs. Howe recalled that the track was originally “a guitar instrumental suite … I sort of write a song without a song. All the ingredients are there—all that’s missing is the song. “Roundabout” was a bit like that; there was a structure, a melody and a few lines.” The introduction was created by two piano chords played backwards, and Howe recorded the acoustic guitar part in the studio corridor as the recording room made it “sound too dead”.

“Cans and Brahms” is Wakeman’s adaptation of an excerpt of the third movement of Symphony No. 4 in E minor by Johannes Brahms, with an electric piano used for the string section, grand piano for the woodwinds, organ for the brass, electric harpsichord for reeds, and synthesizer as contrabassoon. Wakeman said the piece took an estimated 15 hours to create in the studio, and said it was most likely Bruford who inspired its title from looking at Wakeman playing each section while wearing his headphones. He looked back on the piece as “dreadful”, as contractual problems with A&M Records, with whom he was signed as a solo artist, prevented him from writing a composition of his own.

Anderson described “We Have Heaven” as a “rolling idea of voices and things”, with its two main sets of chants containing the phrases “Tell the Moon dog, tell the March hare” and “He is here, to look around”. The track ends with the sound of a door closing followed by running footsteps, which segues into the atmospheric introduction to the next track, the group arranged “South Side of the Sky“. Wakeman contributed piano interludes to the track and “Heart of the Sunrise”, but did not receive credit because of publishing disputes with his two contracts. Although he was promised money by executives at Atlantic, he claims he never received it and avoided making a fuss because he was keen to be part of the music.


Side two

Side two opens with Bruford’s track, “Five per Cent for Nothing“. With a running time of thirty-five seconds, it is his “first attempt at composition—but we’ve all got to start somewhere”. According to Tait, its original title was “Suddenly It’s Wednesday”, but it was changed in reference to Yes paying off their former manager Roy Flynn with the deal of five percent of future royalties. Yes performed the track live in 2014 and 2016 on tours that featured Fragile performed in its entirety. Howe said the secret to playing it successfully was to finish together. During rehearsals he kept close track of the beat count and would cue the rest of the band to it by dropping his guitar’s headstock. Even with that, it took considerable practice for all musicians to end on the same beat.

Anderson’s lyrics to “Long Distance Runaround” address “the craziness of religion” and how people are “taught that Christianity is the only way”, which he called a “stupid doctrine”. The lyrics to the second verse were inspired by the Kent State shootings in 1970 and the US government’s crackdown on young people for criticising the Vietnam War. The song segues, after Howe plays a guitar run with an Echoplex delay effect, into Squire’s solo track, “The Fish (Schindleria Praematurus)”. Tait recalled that Anderson called him from Advision one evening and said, ‘I want the name of a prehistoric fish in eight syllables. Call me back in half an hour’”. Tait subsequently found Schindleria praematurus, a species of marine fish, in a copy of Guinness Book of Records. “Mood for a Day” is Howe’s solo track, which was his second acoustic guitar solo put on a Yes album, following “Clap”. He played a Conde flamenco guitar, but considers the album version substandard in comparison to how he learned to play it on stage years later.

Heart of the Sunrise” originated as a love song that Anderson wrote for his then-wife Jennifer, which covered the sunrise and the inability for humans to fully understand it, and the “excitement and friction” of London’s streets and one man feeling lost in it. The track is where Wakeman’s classically trained background came into play; he introduced the band to recapitulation, a musical concept where previous segments in a piece are revisited. Bruford considers it as the group’s breakthrough piece in terms of originality: “It had the drama and the poise and the kind of fey, pastoral English-y lyrics at the beginning where the music all gives way to a slightly feminine vocal.” Howe originally played the song on the ES-5 Switchmaster, but it failed to produce satisfactory results. He found success with his Gibson ES-175. Several seconds after the song, the sound of a door opening is heard before a reprise of “We Have Heaven” is played, acting as a hidden track.

Side A
A1.  Roundabout – 8:30
A2.  Cans and Brahms (Extracts from Brahms’ 4th Symphony in E Minor, Third Movement) – 1:38
A3.  We Have Heaven – 1:40
A4.  South Side of the Sky – 8:02

Side B
B1.  Five Per Cent for Nothing – 0:35
B2.  Long Distance Runaround – 3:30
B3.  The Fish (Schindleria Praematurus) – 2:39
B4.  Mood for a Day – 3:00
B5.  Heart of the Sunrise – 11:27


Yes

Production

  • Yes – production
  • Eddy Offord – engineer, production
  • Gary Martin – assistant engineer
  • Roger Dean – artwork, photography
  • David Wright – colour photo of Bruford on drums
  • Brian Lane – bank loan arrangement

Notes
Release: 1971
Format:  LP, Vinyl
Genre:  Progressive Rock
Label:  Atlantic Records
Catalog#  ATL 50009

Vinyl:  Goed (VG)
Cover:  Goed (VG)

Prijs: €10,00

donderdag 30 november 2023

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George Benson - The George Benson Collection (2LP) (1981) - €20,00

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The George Benson Collection is a compilation album by George Benson, released in 1981. Originally a two-LP set. In addition to previously released material from Benson’s tenures with A&M RecordsCTI Records, and his then-current label, Warner Bros. Records, the album features two new songs, “Never Give Up on a Good Thing” and #1 R&B hit “Turn Your Love Around.” 

This Warner Brothers Benson collection is a mix of George’s vocal R&B pop songs and some instrumentals, a wee bit of soul jazz, compiled in the 80’s from various Benson albums.
This double album gives snippets, and hits, from three different record labels Benson recorded for, A&M, Aristra and CTI also including a couple of new songs.

Of course, the big Warner Bros. vocal hits are here (“This Masquerade,” “On Broadway,” “Give Me the Night”), plus an artistic triumph like “Moody’s Mood,” but only one WB instrumental (“Breezin'”) can be heard.
From Arista, it’s strictly pop: “The Greatest Love of All” and the duet with Aretha Franklin, “Love All the Hurt Away.”
The A&M choices “Last Train to Clarksville” and “Here Comes the Sun” could have been better, but the two CTIs, “White Rabbit” and the great “Cast Your Fate to the Wind,” are excellent representatives.

George Benson has a great voice and I do enjoy some of his vocal tracks, as well as the guest duets, especially with Aretha Franklin but I also enjoy the instrumentals, Bensons guitar playing and scatting to his guitar and there is not enough of that on the 17 tracks, a few more would have balance things off a bit.
The instrumentals that are included are all good, a groovy ‘Last Train To Clarksville’ and of course the classic ‘Breezin’ included. This is not a jazz album but a jazz guitarist singing and playing in a crossover way from the pure jazz Benson started playing in the 60’s.


Side A
A1.  Turn Your Love Around – 3:51
A2.  Love All the Hurt Way (with Aretha Franklin) – 4:10
A3.  Give Me the Night – 3:43
A4.  Cast Your Fate to the Wind – 6:51

Side B
B1.  Never Give Up on a Good Thing – 4:06
B2.  On Broadway (Drifters Cover) – 5:18
B3.  White Rabbit (Jefferson Airplane Cover) – 6:58
B4.  This Masquerade – 3:19

Side C
C1.  Love Ballad – 4:17
C2.  Nature Boy – 4:20
C3.  Last Train to Clarksville – 5:01
C4.  Livin’ Inside Your Love – 6:38

Side D
D1.  Here Comes the Sun – 2:33
D2.  Breezin’ – 5:39
D3.  Moody’s Mood – 3:26
D4.  We Got the Love (with Chaka Khan) – 3:28
D5.  The Greatest Love of All – 5:33


Companies, etc.

 Credits

Notes
Release:  1981
Format:  Vinyl, 2LP
Genre:  Soul, Smooth Jazz
Label:  Warner Bros. Records
Catalog#  WB 66107

Vinyl:  Goed (VG)
Cover:  Goed (VG)

Prijs: €20,00

maandag 27 november 2023

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André Hazes - Voor Jou [LP] (1983) - €10,00

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André Hazes bracht zijn zevende studio album uit in november 1983, getiteld Voor Jou. Het album bevatte 12 tracks in totaal, waaronder “Geef Mij Je Angst”
Dit nummer was oorspronkelijk geschreven en uitgebracht door de Oostenrijker Udo Jürgens, en later ook nog gecoverd door Guus Meeuwis ter gelegenheid van het zilveren jubileumconcert van Hazes. 
Op het album staan meer hits, zoals “Zondag”, welke geschreven was voor zijn kinderen die hij enkel op deze dag van de week kon zien. 
De derde single van het album was “Kom Terug”. Alle drie de singles waren opgenomen in de Hitparade, waar ze verschillende weken bleven staan.


Side A
A1. Geef Mij Je Angst - 4:19  
A2.  Kom Terug - 3:06  
A3.  Ik Kan Niet Zonder Jou - 4:10  
A4.  Doe Met Me Wat Je Wilt - 3:36  
A5.  Een Lach Van Jou - 4:07  
A6.  De Laatste Trein - 3:38  

Side B
B1.  Ik Ga Met Jou Het Leven Door - 3:45  
B2.  Ik Weet ‘T Zeker - 3:23  
B3.  Zondag - 3:45  
B4.  Speel Niet Met Vuur - 2:31  
B5.  Nee Nooit Meer - 3:57  
B6.  Rio’s Carnaval - 3:30 


Companies, etc.
 
Credits

Notes
Release:  1983
Format:  Vinyl, LP
Genre:  Nederlandstalig
Label:  EMI Records
Catalog#  1A 068-1270201

Vinyl:  Goed (VG)
Cover:  Goed (VG)

Prijs: €10,00

zondag 26 november 2023

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Janet Jackson - Janet Jackson (1982) - €10,00

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Janet Jackson is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Janet Jackson, released on September 21, 1982 by A&M Records. Janet Jackson is described as a dance and contemporary R&B record. 
Songwriters Angela Winbush and René Moore contributed to much of the album’s lyrics. Moore and Winbush share production credits with Foster Sylvers, Jerry Weaver, and Bobby Watson.

On her eponymous debut album, Janet Jackson demonstrates no distinctive musical personality of her own, which isn’t surprising considering that she was in her teens. 
If her producers had concocted a sharper set of songs and more interesting beats, Janet Jackson might have been a pleasant set of sunny dance-pop, but as it stands out among the undistinguished, sub-disco thumpers and drippy ballads.

Five singles were released from the album. “Young Love” was the first. It reached number 64 on the principal American singles chart, the Billboard Hot 100
The second single from Janet Jackson was “Come Give Your Love to Me” and peaked at number 58 on the Hot 100. The follow-up single, “Say You Do“, only appeared on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and the Hot Dance Club Songs charts, peaking at numbers 15 and 11, respectively. 
The last two singles from the album, “Love and My Best Friend” and “Don’t Mess Up A Good Thing” did not appear on any chart worldwide.

The cover artwork of Jackson’s body submerged in water was based on a Helmut Newton photo of Elizabeth Taylor.


Side A
A1. Say You Do - 5:20
A2. You’ll Never Find (A Love Like Mine) - 4:08
A3. Young Love - 4:56
A4. Love And My Best Friend - 4:48
 
Side B
B1. Don’t Mess Up This Good Thing - 3:54
B2. Forever Yours - 4:58
B3. The Magic Is Working - 4:08
B4. Come Give Your Love To Me - 5:03
 

Personnel
  • Janet Jackson – lead vocals
  • Bobby Watson, James Jamerson, Jr., Leon Sylvers III, Ricky Smith – bass guitar
  • Foster Sylvers – synthesizer, bass, drums, producer, rhythm arrangements
  • Marlo Henderson, Greg Moore, Tony Maiden, Michael McGloiry,
    Fred Jenkins, Pepper Read – guitars
  • Paulinho Da Costa, Edmund Sylvers, Melvin Webb – percussion
  • André Fischer, John JR Robinson – drums
  • Wardell Potts, Jr. – drums, rhythm arrangements
  • René Moore – keyboards, background vocals, handclapping, producer, rhythm arrangements, Moog bass
  • Angela Winbush – keyboards, background vocals, producer, rhythm arrangements
  • Phillip Ingram – keyboards, string machine, background vocals
  • Joey Gallo – keyboards, synthesizer
  • Eddie Fluellen – string machine
  • Jerry Hey – horn arrangements
  • Humberto Gatica – mixing
  • Stuart Furusho – engineer, mixing assistant
  • Kirk Ferraioli – assistant engineer
  • Gene Dozier – keyboards, horn arrangements, string arrangements
  • Jeff Lorber, Barry Sarna, Ian Underwood – synthesizers
  • Attala Zane Giles – background vocals
  • Monica Joy Rhodes, Wendell C. Wellman – handclaps
  • Dana Meyers – background vocals, vocal arrangement
  • Howard Hewett – background vocals
  • Chuck Beeson – art direction
  • Bob Brown – engineer
  • Jerry Knight – background, vocals
  • Harry Langdon – photography
  • Nyya Lark – assistant engineer
  • Peggy McCreary – mixing assistant
  • Taavi Mote – engineer
  • Ambrose Price – handclapping
  • Lynn Robb – design
  • John Stronach – engineer
  • Steve Thume – engineer
  • Wally Traugott – mastering
  • John VanNest – engineer, mixing assistant
  • Trevor Veitch – contractor
  • Gerald Vinci – concertmaster
  • Jerry Weaver – producer, rhythm arrangements, synthesizer
  • Benjamin Wright – string arrangements

Notes
Release:  1982
Format: Vinyl, LP
Genre:  Soul
Label:  A&M Records
Catalog#  AMLH 64907

Vinyl:  Goed (VG)
Cover:  Goed (VG)

Prijs: €10,00

zaterdag 25 november 2023

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The Alan Parsons Project - The Turn Of A Friendly Card (LP) (1980) - €10,00

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The Turn of a Friendly Card is the fifth studio album by the British progressive rock band The Alan Parsons Project, released in 1980 by Arista Records
The title piece, which appears on side 2 of the LP, is a 16-minute suite broken up into five tracks. The Turn of a Friendly Card spawned the hits "Games People Play" and "Time", the latter of which was Eric Woolfson's first lead vocal appearance. 

With two of the Alan Parsons Project's best songs, the lovely ballad "Time" and the wavy-sounding "Games People Play," The Turn of a Friendly Card remains one of this group's most enjoyable albums. 
Parsons' idea, the subject of the album's six tracks, centers around the age-old temptation of gambling and its stranglehold on the human psyche. On "Games People Play," vocalist Lenny Zakatek sounds compelling and focused, giving the song a seriousness that aids in realization of the album's concept. With "Time," it is Eric Woolfson who carries this luxurious-sounding ode to life's passing to a place above and beyond any of this band's other slower material. 
The breakdown of human willpower and our greedy tendencies are highlighted in the last track, entitled "The Turn of a Friendly Card," which is broken into five separate parts. 
"Snake Eyes," sung by Chris Rainbow, is the most compelling of the five pieces, and ties together the whole of the recording. 
As in every Parsons album, an instrumental is included, in this case an interesting number aptly titled "The Gold Bug." Like most of the band's instrumentals, its flow and rhythm simulate the overall tempo and concept of the album, acting as a welcome interlude. 
Although short, The Turn of a Friendly Card is to the point and doesn't let down when it comes to carrying out its idea.

As with the band's previous albums, The Turn of a Friendly Card is a concept album with its theme focused on the gambling industry and the fate of gamblers, with more than one reference to Las Vegas (e.g. "there's a sign in the desert that lies to west" from the title piece). 
Musically it's a more melodic and accessible album than its predecessors.

The album was recorded in a record short time of two weeks in Paris. Usually the Alan Parsons Project would take many months to record an album.


Side A
A1.   May Be a Price to Pay  (lead vocal Elmer Gantry)   (4:58)
A2.   Games People Play  (lead vocal Lenny Zakatek)   (4:22)
A3.   Time   (lead vocal Eric Woolfson backing vocal Alan Parsons)   (5:04)
A4.   I Don’t Wanna Go Home  (lead vocal Lenny Zakatek)   (5:03)

Side B
B1.   The Gold Bug  (instrumental)   (4:34)
B2.   The Turn of a Friendly Card (Part One)  (lead vocal Chris Rainbow)   (2:44)
B3.   Snake Eyes  (lead vocal Chris Rainbow)   (3:14)
B4.   The Ace of Swords  (instrumental)   (2:57)
B5.   Nothing Left to Lose  (lead vocal Eric Woolfson)   (4:07)
B6.   The Turn of a Friendly Card (Part Two)  (lead vocal Chris Rainbow)   (3:22)


Personnel

Produced and engineered by Alan Parsons
Executive producer: Eric Woolfson
Mastering consultant: Chris Blair
Sleeve concept: Lol Creme and Kevin Godley


Additional instrumentation

"The Gold Bug", which references the same-titled short story by Edgar Allan Poe, includes a whistling part by Parsons (in the style of Ennio Morricone's early themes for Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Western films, such as A Fistful of Dollars) and wordless vocals by Rainbow, while the main theme is played on an alto saxophone
The saxophone player, originally credited as Mel Collins, is instead credited on the liner notes for the remastered edition as "A session player in Paris whose name escapes us"; this refers to the fact that the saxophone part is a composite of several separate takes. 
Similarly, the accordion part on "Nothing Left to Lose" is credited in the liner notes to "An unidentified Parisian session player". 
Also on "The Gold Bug", the newer liner notes credit a "Harmonized Rotating Triangle" to drummer Stuart Elliott. This refers to the phasing sound effects heard throughout the rhythm-free introduction to the piece.


Notes
Release: 1980
Format:  LP, Vinyl
Genre:   Progressive Pop
Label:   Arista Records
Catalog#   203000

Vinyl: Goed (VG)
Cover:  Goed (VG)

 Prijs: €10,00

donderdag 23 november 2023

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Rose Royce - Strikes Again (LP) (1978) - €10,00

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Strikes Again is the third album released by the Funk band Rose Royce on the Whitfield label in August 1978. It was produced by Norman Whitfield.

Rose Royce‘s third album contains two killer ballads: “I’m in Love (And I Love the Feeling),” and the much recorded “Love Don’t Live Here Anymore” which Gwen Dickey works like Mary J. Blige wishes she could. Norman Whitfield‘s productions often included doses of classical elements and this album is no exception, the sampling and borrowing occur frequently. “Angel in Disguise,” another sweet ballad, sounds a bit contrived.

As an American Soul and R&B group, Rose Royce had come a long way since their debut album Car Wash (1976). 
Rose Royce II: In Full Bloom (1977) was their follow up album and established them as an incredibly sharp outfit. As with Car Wash, Norman Whitfield again served as producer and was proving to be something of a harmonious relationship. In late 1977 Rose Royce entered the Fort Knox Recording Studios in LA to begin work on their third studio album, Strikes Again (1978). 
Norman Whitfield again served as producer and arranger and in addition, the new album would also benefit from some fine orchestral direction laid down by legendary composer and arranger Gene Page.
Rose Royce Strikes Again, became the first of the groups albums that I purchased in 1979. I remember first buying the single ‘Love don’t live here anymore’ around September 1978, and turned out to be something of a rarity with the A side label pasted on both sides of that precious piece of 7” vinyl. In fact, ‘Love don’t live here anymore’ turned out to be a huge hit in the UK eventually peaking at the #2 position in the singles chart. 
It was (no doubt) on the strength of that single which prompted me to invest in the album - and it certainly didn’t disappoint. Strikes Again really illustrates what a diverse and classy act Rose Royce was, and many might even argue that (as a group) they hit their creative best with this third album. 
It remains a mystery then why the group’s second single, the mid-tempo groove ‘I’m in love (and I love the feeling)’ only managed to peak at #51 in the UK chart? Thankfully, the single faired far better in the US where it reached #5 on the R&B chart.
Strikes Again provides some fantastic examples of the group at their funky best, ‘Do it, do it’ is a continuous rhythmic ride of slapping bass guitar, and stinging brass - an enduring slice of funk that still packs a punch almost 40 years on. 
‘First come, first served’ is another funk laced floor filler, which (like ‘Do it, do it’) was also penned by Norman Whitfield. However, whilst these dance tracks still hold up well today, there is simply no getting away from the fact that this album’s strength remains in its soulful ballads. 
Gwen Dickey’s (aka Rose Norwalt) exquisite vocals dominate these memorable, romantic tracks and remain etched in the memory. 
For me, the album winner has always been ‘Angel in the Sky’, a soulful sublime track that showcases Dickey’s velvet vocals to the max. Interestingly enough, ‘Angel in the Sky’ was set to be the third single release in the UK but for some mysterious reason it was cancelled. 
One can only assume that the label’s confidence took a knock on the back of the poor chart position of ‘I’m in love (and I love the feeling)’.


Side A 
A1.  Get Up Off Your Fat - 4:35
A2.  I’m In Love (And I Love The Feeling) - 3:41
A4.  First Come, First Serve - 3:19
A5.  Love Don’t Live Here Anymore - 3:55

Side B 
B1.  Angel In The Sky - 4:56
B2.  Help - 3:53
B3.  Let Me Be The First To Know - 3:52
B4.  That’s What’s Wrong With Me - 6:37


Rose Royce
  • Gwen Dickey – lead vocals
  • Kenny Copeland – trumpet, lead vocals
  • Kenji Brown – guitar, lead vocals
  • Lequeint "Duke" Jobe – bass, vocals
  • Michael Nash – keyboards
  • Henry Garner – drums, vocals
  • Freddie Dunn – trumpet
  • Michael Moore – saxophone
  • Terry Santiel – congas
Additional musicians

Notes
Release:  1978
Format:  Vinyl, LP (Gatefold)
Genre:  Soul, Funk
Label:  Warner Bros. Records
Catalog#  WB 56527

Vinyl:  Goed (VG)
Cover:  Goed (VG)

Prijs: €10,00

woensdag 22 november 2023

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Status Quo - Rockin´ All Over The World (LP) (1977) - €10,00

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Rockin' All Over the World is the tenth studio album by British band Status Quo. It is their first to be produced by Pip Williams and the first to feature Andy Bown as a regular contributor to the band; he would later join the band officially in 1982. Released in November 1977, it reached #5 in the UK.

After releasing the hard and perhaps excessively raw Live! album in March 1977, Status Quo decided it was time to give a new turn to their music, trying to achieve a cleaner and fresher sound. 
Recruiting Pip Williams to produce the new album, this was the first time since 1972 that Quo gave such control to someone outside the band. 
Subsequently, Williams played an essential part in the British band's evolution. A clean, focused, and friendly pop record, Rockin' All Over the World displeased the band's hard rock-oriented fans. Guitars were left in the background and the band's famous wall of sound -- tough guitars and a powerful rhythmic base -- was nowhere to be found, even though it had been an important element of the band's sound during the first half of the '70s. 
Strangely enough, a lot of the album's songs would become live favorites of the bandmembers and fans alike in the years to come. 
The first single issued from the record, "Rockin' All Over the World," Status Quo's cover of a barely known song from ex-Creedence Clearwater Revival leader John Fogerty, became a huge success all around Europe and, paradoxically, grew to be one of the group's most recognized anthems. Indeed, 21 years later, the song, retitled "Runnin' All Over the World," would be released again as the official signature to Sport Aid's Race Against Time event. 
Other songs that would claim an obligatory presence in the band's live shows over the upcoming decades included the silly but hooky "Dirty Water," the boogie rocker "Hold You Back," and the country-rocker "Can't Give You More" (featured with a different approach in Rock Til You Drop). 
The straightforward and danceable "Baby Boy" and the soft ballad "For You" also stood out among the record's winners. 


Side A
A1.  Hard Time - 4:45
A2.  Can’t Give You More - 4:15
A3.  Let’s Ride - 3:03
A4.  Baby Boy - 3:12
A5.  You Don’t Own Me - 3:03
A6.  Rockers Rollin' - 4:19

Side B
B1.  Rockin’ All Over the World - 3:36
B2.  Who Am I - 4:30
B3.  Too Far Gone - 3:08
B4.  For You - 3:01
B5.  Dirty Water - 3:51
B6.  Hold You Back - 4:30


Status Quo

Additional personnel


Notes
Release:  1977
Format:  Vinyl, LP
Genre:  Hard rock
Label:  Vertigo Records
Catalog#  9102014

Vinyl:  Goed (VG)
Cover:  Goed (VG)

Prijs: €10,00

maandag 20 november 2023

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Tumbleweeds - Tumbleweeds (LP) (1974) - €10,00

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Tumbleweeds is een toonaangevende Waalwijkse countrygroep die in de jaren zeventig met de hit Somewhere Between Nederland ook internationaal op de country-kaart zet. 
Tumbleweeds wordt in 1967 opgericht in Waalwijk door de broers Ton, Berry en Ad Masseurs (respectievelijk steelgitaar, zang/gitaar en drums), aangevuld met bassist Dick van Krimpen, gitarist James Bordes en zus Laura (zang). 
Ton en Ad Masseurs hebben hiervoor al gespeeld in de formatie Shaking Arrows. Na enkele bezettingswisselingen bestaat de groep in 1972 uit Ad, Berry en Ton Masseurs, zuster Ine Masseurs, die de zang voor haar rekening neemt, James Bordes en basgitarist John Koogje

De Tumbleweedsgingen naar de Verenigde Staten (1973/1974). Ondanks de optredens en uitvoeringen van zelf geschreven liedjes werd Hermans ontevreden met het repertoire, hij vond ze niet meer in de tijd passen. In 1975 had de band een nummer-1-notering in de Nederlandse hitparades met Merle Haggards Somewhere Between.

Bassist Mick de Boer vervangt John Koogje. Aan het eind van het jaar verschijnt het tweede, titelloze, album "Tumbleweeds", waarmee de groep in Nederland doorbreekt. 
Ton Masseurs tekent zelf voor de productie. Met de Merle Haggard-cover Somewhere Between scoort de groep met een tweede plaats in de top 40 een mega-hit in de zomer van 1975. 
Het nummer is een onvervalste meezinger en derhalve een evergreen van de Nederpop. Het album, dat in 1974 al een negende plaats haalt, verkoopt na "Somewhere Between" in 1975 nog beter en bereikt de derde plaats in de albumlijsten. 
De tweede single die dat jaar verschijnt, "It Might As Well Have Rained", doet het met een vijftiende plaats ook niet slecht. 



Side A
A1.  I Believe In Music - 3:07
A2.  You’re Still On My Mind - 2:17
A3.  Somewhere Between - 2:51
A4.  Mojave - 1:57
A5.  Bobby McGee - 3:44
A6.  Southern Queen - 3:01

Side B
B1.  Everybody Has His Own Dogs - 2:52
B2.  Reno - 2:33
B3.  Lead On Me - 2:17
B4.  Tumbleweed Polka - 2:22
B5.  Kentucky Hills Of Tennessee - 3:40
B6.  Country Girl - 3:05


Companies, etc.
Credits

Notes
Released:  1974
Format:  Vinyl, LP
Country:  Netherlands
Genre:  Country
Label:  BASF – 17 25551-4

Vinyl:  Goed (VG)
Cover:  Goed (VG)

Prijs: €10,00

zondag 19 november 2023

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GQ - Face To Face (LP) (1981) - €10,00

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GQ was an American group, formed in The Bronx, New York, primarily noted for its success in funk, R&B, soul music and disco
The core membership of the group commenced playing professionally, under different group names, as of 1968.

Face to Face is the third and final album by American soul/disco group GQ, released in 1981 on the Arista label. It peaked at #18 on the R&B chart and #140 on the pop listing. 
 Two singles, "Shake" and "Sad Girl", were released; the latter became the group's third to chart on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at #93.
Known as a four-piece band in their heyday, by the release of this album, GQ had been reduced to a trio, with the departure of drummer Paul Service. Service was not officially replaced on this release, and thus, only the remaining three members are featured on the cover. 
The drum work on the album was performed by session drummers Howard King and Chris Parker.

GQ are remembered for two very different things: uptempo disco-funk jams ("Disco Nights," "Standing Ovation") and covers of Billy Stewart ballads. 
And they excelled in both areas. But by 1981 (the year in which Face to Face first came out as a vinyl LP), the popularity that GQ had enjoyed in 1979 and 1980 was starting to fade. 
Face to Face, which was the Bronx outfit's third album as GQ (in 1976, they recorded an album titled Soul on Your Side as the Rhythm Makers), wasn't as commercially successful as 1979's Disco Nights or 1980's Two. 
Unlike those albums (both of which went platinum in the United States), Face to Face didn't contain any blockbuster hits. But Face to Face did make it to number 18 on Billboard's R&B albums chart, and it contained the number 23 R&B hit "Shake." 
Stylistically, Face to Face (which Funky Town Grooves reissued on CD in 2011) isn't a major departure from Disco Nights or Two. 
There are glossy funk/dance grooves (including "You've Got the Floor," "Boogie Shoogie Feelin'," and the Chic-influenced "Shake"), and while Face to Face doesn't contain any Billy Stewart covers, GQ's proficiency with romantic soul ballads is evident on "Sad Girl" and "Dark Side of the Sun" (which has a Stylistics/Blue Magic type of feel and is quite Philadelphia-sounding). 
Meanwhile, "You Put Some Love in My life" is a romantic slow jam with a Caribbean flavor (the tune draws on both Jamaican reggae and Trinidadian calypso/steel band music). 


Side A
A1.  Shake - 5:01  
A2.  You Put Some Love In My Life - 3:42  
A3.  Shy Baby - 3:58  
A4.  Sad Girl - 3:04  
A5.  I Love (The Skin You’re In) - 4:51  

Side B
B1.  Boogie Shoogie Feelin’ - 5:27  
B2.  Dark Side Of The Sun - 5:04  
B3.  Face To Face - 4:35  
B4.  You’ve Got The Floor - 5:08



Companies, etc.
Credits
Notes
Release:  1981
Format:  LP, Vinyl
Genre:  Soul, Disco
Label:  Arista Records
Catalog#  204095

Vinyl:  Goed (VG)
Cover:  Goed (VG)

Prijs: €10,00