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  SAILOR  Sailor  (Epic,1974) - Pop       Sailor’s 1974 self-titled debut album is a delightful mix of light hearted, red light district folk tunes such as “Blue Desert” “Josephine Baker” “Sailor’s Night On The Town” and “The Girls Of Amsterdam” with its nod toward the ladies of the night in the nation where the group was to enjoy its greatest success, with the album containing no less than four Top Five hits there. One of them, the gorgeous acoustic, vocal harmony filled “Traffic Jam” was selected by Epic Records to be the band’s first UK single as well as the opening track for the album. Unfortunately the tune did not draw the attention at home that it did in the Netherlands. “Sailor” also includes some excellent cabaret style tunes, “The Street” “Blame It On The Soft Spot” to name but two. TRACKLIST: Traffic Jam                       Blue Desert                ...

  CHANTER SISTERS  First Flight  (Polydor,1976) - Soul, Funk, Pop       What if Dusty in Memphis , but glam? That’s the improbable synthesis suggested, if not entirely executed, behind the bold pop-art colors of the Chanter Sisters’ 1976 album First Flight . That cover is hard to look away from, but how can this kitschy bauble be at all listenable, much less a work of art? Yet sisters Doreen and Irene Chanter deliver an album loaded with vocal chops, heart and invention, saturated hues and big soulful pipes providing a consistent entertainment, with curious bona fides. TRACKLIST: Cuckoo-Cuckoo                         Darlin'                         Side Show                         Hound Dog                         Band O...

  GROVER WASHINGTON Jr.  The Best Is Yet To Come  (Elektra, 1982) - Jazz       As with Washington's earlier WINELIGHT, the collection includes an irresistible single; the title track is driven by one of Patti Labelle's best-ever vocals. While Bobby McFerrin is also among the guest singers (“Things Are Getting Better”), it's the instrumental work by Grover and company – bassist Marcus Miller, keyboardist Richard Tee and percussionist Ralph McDonald are among the players here – that keeps the grooves flowing. Mellow, soulful and featuring a variety of tempos and arrangements that are always light on their feet, THE BEST IS YET TO COME is a terrific display of Washington's talents as songwriter, producer and performer. TRACKLIST: Can You Dig It                         The Best Is Yet To Come                         More Than Meets The Eye ...

  MARLENA SHAW  Just A Matter Of Time  (Blue Note,1976) - Jazz       This was Ms. Shaw’s swansong for Blue Note before she jumped ship to Columbia in 1977. The album’s opener, the buoyant ‘It’s Better Than Walkin’ Out’ with its slurping hi-hat patterns finds Shaw jumping on the disco bandwagon but she adapts to her new musical surroundings with aplomb and panache. Boasting a big, anthemic chorus, dancing string lines and a throbbing dance groove, the tune was released as a single (the 12-inch single version, Blue Note’s first ever release in that format, is added as a bonus cut). Better still is the lovely Gwen Guthrie-co-written tune, ‘This Time I’ll be Sweeter,’ a song that was first recorded by the UK’s own Linda Lewis. ‘Think About Me’ struts along with a sassy funk vibe while the mid-tempo ‘You & Me’ is almost ethereal with its swirling harps. ‘Love Has Gone Away’ – a souped-up cover of a Spinners’ tune – is pure disco and ‘Take My Body’ (written b...

  MINNIE RIPERTON  Perfect Angel  (Epic,1974) - Soul       Perfect Angel owes more to a Van Morrison album of the early 70s than to any out-and-out soul record. It's bucolic, laid back, freewheeling and a pleasure from start to finish. Its mix of sultriness and innocence reminds us if just how great a loss Riperton – who died tragically young of cancer in 1979 – was to the world. TRACKLIST: Reasons                      It's So Nice (To See Old Friends)                      Take A Little Trip                      Seeing You This Way                      The Edge Of A Dream                      Perfect Angel                      Every ...

        KISS fans will recognize Anton Fig as the man who “sat in” for Peter Criss on both the Dynasty and Unmasked albums. More widely, he was known as the house drummer for the Late Show with David Letterman from 1986 through Letterman’s retirement in 2015. Aside from that, he was and still is the drummer of choice for all of former KISS guitarist Ace Frehley’s various solo works including Frehley’s Comet. Anton is known as “The Thunder From Downunder,” with a penchant for Jazz inspired, Fusion filled swoons that could bring even the cheesiest of 80s Rock to life in a way that most drummers of the era couldn’t or weren’t allowed to. In retrospect, Anton Fig is one of the most proficient drummers of the 70s and 80s Hard Rock and Heavy Metal era, with a style that has come to define the incredible output of Ace Frehley as a solo artist.  ACE FREHLEY Frehley's Comet Atlantic, 1987 https://www.sendspace.com/file/n4f62ctj

  STILLWATER  I Reserve The Right!  (Capricorn,1978) - Southern rock       They look like they just got off work for the day at the farm, so you know without the image they'd better have some chops to warrant this record's release. Lead guitarist Rob Walker's "Alone on a Saturday Night" is a beautiful song, with drummer Sebie Lacey getting the honors for the lead vocal. It is the tune that stands out and grabs you on a decent outing produced by Stillwater and engineer Tad Bush for Buddy Buie Productions. The title track sounds like it is a cross between Duke & the Drivers meets Bachman Turner Overdrive sans Randy Bachman; it is truck-driving rock without the production qualities of "Alone on a Saturday Night" or the other subdued highlight here, "Women (Beautiful Women)." The vocals simply don't cut it on the title track, "I Reserve the Right," and they're equally rough on "Keeping Myself Alive," which is an exer...

  RUNESTAFF  Runestaff  (Heavy Metal Records,1985) - NWOBHM       Runestaff began life in Ipswitch, England in 1980. Originally the group was an all male progressive rock band. Their first recording would be a three track demo cassette released in 1982. Guitarist/vocalist Andy Page would leave the band apparently frustrated over the direction of the band. Vocalist Joanna Symes was brought in and in a twist of fate Andy Page decided to return.       And while the group are often lumped in with the NWOBHM movement the truth is their sound owes a great deal more to American rock than to what was in their own backyard. With Joanna Symes on the mic (who sounds a great deal like Pat Benatar) the band offers up thirty minutes of enjoyable rock. And while obviously being on more of a metal oriented label did not help the band it was actually the tragic death of original keyboard player Kaust Rakhit in 1985 that would set the stage for the group’s bre...

  FRANKIE MILLER  Standing On The Edge  (Capitol,1982) - Rock       Frankie Miller’s eighth solo album “Standing On The Edge” was his first away from the Chrysalis label and was also at that point his rockiest and most polished effort. The bar room backing or stripped back blues and soul of the earlier albums being replaced with a polished, sleek and far more rocky production. Musically and arrangement wise this was more akin to Bad Company, Foreigner or even Whitesnake than the old blues and soul feel of its predecessors. Thats to take nothing away from those albums by the way as each and every one of them was a classic in its own right. TRACKLIST: Danger Danger                          Standing On The Edge                          Zap Zap                          ...

  COWBOY  5'll Getcha Ten  (Capricorn,1971) - Country rock       Shades of Poco and Buffalo Springfield shine through. Lovely arrangements and the guitars of Boyer/Talton and Kowalke come through like sunshine on a summers day. TRACKLIST: She Carries A Child                         Hey There Babe                         5'll Getcha Ten                         The Wonder                         Shoestrings                         Lookin' For You                         Seven Four Tune                         Right On Friend       ...

  CLANCY  Seriously Speaking  (WB,1975) - Jazz-Funk rock       Formed in London, England in 1975,  Clancy quickly became a popular live attraction, blending skilled musicianship with the relaxed, goodtime atmosphere of contemporaries Kokomo and ‘pub rock’ favourites Bees Make Honey. They secured a major record contract with Warner Brothers Records, but sadly their two albums for the company failed to recreate the atmosphere of live performances.   TRACKLIST: Back On Love                      Lose Me                      Body To Body                      Steal Away                      Sign Of The Times                      Southern Boogie           ...

  BLUE ASH  No More, No Less  (Mercury,1973) - Rock, Power pop       Peers of Big Star and the Raspberries, Ohio's Blue Ash rejected the then-prevalent prog rock, heavy metal and singer-songwriter navel-gazing in favour of succinct mid-60s influenced, harmony-drenched three-minute nuggets. No More, No Less is a classic of what would later be termed powerpop. TRACKLIST: Abracadabra (Have You Seen Her)                          Dusty Old Fairgrounds                          Plain To See                          Just Another Game                          I Remember A Time                          Smash My Guitar         ...

       Bassist Ian Hill is the only original member of the heavy metal institution Judas Priest remaining from the band's 1970 formation. Longtime lead singer Rob Halford joined up in 1973, supplanting founding vocalist Al Atkins. Guitarist Glenn Tipton joined in 1974, and drummer Scott Travis joined in 1989. Since Tipton sparsely tours these days for health reasons, guitarists Richie Faulkner and Andy Sneap currently fill the gap. JUDAS PRIEST Killing Machine CBS,1978 https://www.sendspace.com/file/kw1i5a

          Wayne Fontana was born Glynn Ellis in Manchester, England, on 28 October 1945. He started his musical career at school with a skiffle group called The Velfins and later formed a Rock & Roll outfit called The Jets, with whom he worked the pubs and clubs of Greater Manchester.       In 1963 the group was spotted playing in Manchester’s Oasis Club and asked to undertake an audition for Philips/Fontana Records at the same venue on the following evening in front of a live audience.       Their debut Fontana single – released a few months later – was a cover version of Bo Diddley ‘s Roadrunner , which enjoyed moderate success.       A year and two more singles later, though, they finally hit the chart jackpot with a cover of Major Lance’s American hit Um Um Um Um Um Um which reached #2 in Britain, and in 1965 their single Game Of Love topped the British and American charts.       During the sa...

  FOTOMAKER  Fotomaker  (Atlantic,1978) - Power pop      T he 1978 debut album from the band Fotomaker – a 70’s so-called “super group” that consisted of members of the Raspberries and The Rascals . Hailing from Long Island New York, bass player Gene Cornish and drummer Dino Danelli from The Rascals teamed up with guitarist/vocalist Wally Bryson of the Raspberries to get things rolling. The band was completed with the addition of keyboardist/vocalist Frankie Vinci and guitarist/vocalist Lex Marcshesi . TRACKLIST : Where Have You Been All My Life                        Can I Please Have Some More                        All There In Her Eyes                        Two Can Make It Work                        The Other...

  ATTITUDES  Ain't Love Enough: The Best Of...  (BMG,2018) - Pop rock       Attitudes, one of the most feel-good rock bands growing out of Los Angeles in the 1970s, will make waves yet again, this time in the world of streaming with a Best of album. Attitudes, composed of keyboardist David Foster, drummer Jim Keltner, bass guitarist Paul Stallworth, and guitarist/lead singer Danny Kortchmar, met as session musicians while jamming at the hip Studio B at the famed Record Plant in Los Angeles. TRACKLIST : Being Here With You Drink My Water Sweet Summer Music Let's Talk Turkey Ain't Love Enough Chump Change Romeo Honey Don't Leave LA Squank Turning In Space Lend A Hand Street Scene Chan...

       O n the one hand, it's noble of Scott Gorham to rename his Lynott-less version of Thin Lizzy for the purposes of a recording career. On the other, given that the music they make would fit snugly on to a late-70s Lizzy album – right down to singer Ricky Warwick's inflections and asides – it seems a little self-defeating. The stand-out is the most Lizzyesque song, Bound for Glory , with one of those twin lead guitar lines kicking into a riff filled with empty space: it's like 1976 all over again. Conversely, the worst song is where they take things too far and step outside Lizzydom: Kingdom of the Los t revs up the Celtic folk influence nicely, then charges into a boozealong chorus more suited to one of those aggressively Irish punk bands from the US. Between those two poles falls plenty of enjoyable melodic hard rock, never poor, though not always scaling the heights. But then Thin Lizzy were never the most consistent of studio bands, so maybe that's fitting. ...