Missionaria Protectiva

        Born in 1943 in New Jersey, Wright played keyboards on record by B.B. King, Jerry Lee Lewis, Ringo Starr, Harry Nilsson and Ronnie Spector and in the late ’60s formed band the New York Times who soon changed their name to  Spooky Tooth  and ran from 1967 to 1974 and while co-leading that band also played on George Harrison’s  All Things Must Pass . After Spooky Tooth, Wright struck solo paydirt with 1975’s  The Dream Weaver , one of the first rock albums to be made almost entirely with synthesizers. The title track and “My Love is Alive” both reached #2 in the US. The Dream Weaver WB,1975 https://www.sendspace.com/file/kfwi2t

        Like many of his contemporaries ( Ginger Baker , Bill Bruford), Jon Hiseman was a jazzman who crossed into the rock world. In another time, he would have been at home driving a big band. His work with Colosseum, one of the UK’s first and greatest fusion bands, is the most celebrated, but prog enthusiasts need to check out the two albums by Tempest, with a young Allan Holdsworth on guitar. He also joined the rock and jazz influences to blues on one of John Mayall’s most ambitious pieces, the side-long “ Bare Wires ” suite. COLOSSEUM Live At Montreux 1969 Repertoire,2023 https://www.sendspace.com/file/hpnvic

        Sisters Barbara (Bibs) and Phyllis (Jiggs) Allbut started out singing with a group called The Starlets in New Jersey alongside Bernadette Carroll and Linda Malzone. They had some minor local hits and wound up doing backup work in the studio.  When Linda Malzone left, Linda Jankowski (later Jansen) became the new lead singer.        After a failed attempt at a record deal with producer Gerry Granahan, the Allbut sisters turned their focus to education. Phyllis Allbut was in teacher’s college at the time and Barbara was accepted into the Juilliard School for her abilities as a music arranger.       Granahan eventually decided he saw hit potential in the song they had performed for him in their audition, a version of  Till , and asked them to record it in the studio. Released on his Caprice label it became their first single under their new name, The Angels, and also their first hit (#14 in the US).    ...