ONCE UPON A TIME.....Is This What You Want?
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JACKIE LOMAX Is This What You Want? (Apple,1969) - Rock |
His musical roots lay in the sweaty all-night rock sessions at Liverpool’s Cavern Club during the Merseybeat boom of 1962, singing and playing bass guitar with a group called The Undertakers, who often dressed in funereal suits, top hats and black ribbons. But such was his promise that by 1968 he was poised for fame in his own right when The Beatles launched their own Apple record label and included Lomax on their roster of new artists.
The Beatles lead guitarist George Harrison, an early fan of The Undertakers, wrote a song especially for Lomax — Sour Milk Sea — which was released as one of Apple’s “First Four” singles, along with Mary Hopkin’s Those Were The Days and the Black Dyke Mills Band’s Thingummybob.
Sadly for Lomax, however, the fourth single was The Beatles’ tour de force Hey Jude, and although Sour Milk Sea featured the formidable combined musical and production talents of Harrison, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and Eric Clapton, it sank without trace.
With Harrison’s encouragement , Lomax completed his debut album Is This What You Want? (1969) . But in spite of an extensive campaign which marketed him as the new Jim Morrison – moody genius with a great voice – the record flopped as badly as the single. “We tried and tried,” Tony Bramwell of Apple recalled. “The material was great, but we just couldn’t get it to fly … It looked good, sounded good — and didn’t work.”
TRACKLIST : Speak To Me
Is This What You Want?
How Can You Say Goodbye
Sunset
Sour Milk Sea
Fall Inside Your Eyes
Little Yellow Pills
Take My Word
The Eagle Laughs At You
Baby You're A Lover
You've Got Me Thinking
I Just Don't Know
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