The Cousins - The Cousins Instrumental (1966) - Lp

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The Cousins is een Belgische gitaarband ontstaan eind jaren vijftig die onder meer de single ‘Kili Watch’ uitbracht.

De band startte onder de naam ‘Les jeunes équipes’, maar tijdens een optreden in een Brusselse club wijzigden ze de naam naar The Cousins. In 1960 werd de band ontdekt door platenbaas Jean Kluger.

The Cousins is een de eerste echte Belgische rock 'n roll groep in de stijl van The Shadows.
De groep bestond uit Gus Derse, Adrien Ransy, André Van den Meersschaut, Guido Van den Meersschaut, Jean Huymans en Pol Précaux. Ze kwamen uit Brussel en begonnen als Les Jeune Equipes.
Na een optreden in de Brussel club Les Cousins, veranderde ze hun naam naar The Cousins. De groep scoorde een enorme hit in 1960 met het nummer Killy Watch. Wat meteen de ondergang ook betekende voor de groep. Het nummer verkocht meer dan 1.000.000 exemplaren en er kwamen perikelen over de royalties, waarna Gus Derse de groep verliet en de groep 'The Killy Jacks' oprichtte.

The Cousins kon na de megadebuutsingle Killi Watch nog 5 jaar genieten van het succes.

Vooral live waren ze graag gezien gasten, al konden ze nooit hun succes van weleer herhalen. Toch is het een kunst van zo'n groot nummer te maken.

Ook kregen ze als eerste rock 'n roll groep in België succes in het buitenland.
Tot zelfs in Scandinavië, Zaïre en Argentinië. In 1966 was het verhaaltje uit. 20 jaar later kwamen ze af en toe nog samen voor een eenmalig optreden.   http://www.bing.com/translator

Side A
A1.  Bouddha
A2.  Deep In The Valley
A3.  The Robot
A4.  Dansevise
A5.  Manhattan Spiritual
A6.  Pep’s

Side B
B1.  Anda
B2.  Apache
B3.  Madagascar
B4.  Tel-Aviv
B5.  Swingova
B6.  S.O.S.

Credits
Compiled By – Claude Lefrancq

Notes 
Release 1966 LP, in the series "Bestseller" - IBC (International Bestseller Company)
A Palette Recording.
Genre: Rock, Pop
Style: Rock & Roll
Length:
Label: Palette
Catalog# PPB 224

Vinyl:  Good
Cover:  Good

€ 15.00

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Matchbox - Matchbox (1979) - Lp

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Matchbox is an English rockabilly band that formed in Middlesex, in 1971 by Iain "Houndog" Terry, Fred Poke, Jimmy Redhead and Wiffle Smith.

Named after a Carl Perkins’ classic, Matchbox were one of several 70s rock ‘n’ roll revivalist bands from the UK to make the jump from club favourites to chart stars. The band was formed in 1971 by two former members of Contraband - bass player Fred Poke and his brother-in-law Jimmy Redhead.
They were joined by an old schoolfriend of Poke’s called Steve Bloomfield. Capable of playing almost any stringed instrument, Bloomfield had made a living as a session player for Pye Records and was on several Mungo Jerry hits. Matchbox’s debut single came out on Dawn in 1973, after which Redhead’s departure left a line-up of Wiffle Smith (vocals), Rusty Lipton (piano), Bob Burgos (drums), Bloomfield (guitars), and Poke (bass).
They subsequently recorded Riders In The Sky for Charly (they had previously recorded a Dutch-only album on Rockhouse). Smith and Lipton then departed, and former Cruisers vocalist Gordon Waters joined. The band was signed to a minor label and completed Setting The Woods On Fire in just over two days in October 1977, but as the record company were virtually bankrupt Chiswick took over its distribution. By this time, however,
Matchbox had signed up with Raw Records - which issued a single - and this led to complications. Chiswick did not promote the band because Matchbox were not signed to the label, and Raw declined to promote them because they did not own the album. In desperation the group bought themselves out of their contract and signed a new agreement with Magnet. At this point they had been joined by vocalist Graham Fenton, previously with the Wild Bunch, the Houseshakers and the Hellraisers, and now Redhead returned, along with another guitarist, Gordon Scott.
The first Magnet single, ‘Black Slacks’, missed out, but the second - a Steve Bloomfield original called ‘Rockabilly Rebel’ - made the charts.
A string of hit singles followed. One further line-up change came about when Bloomfield decided he did not want to tour anymore, and Dick Callan was brought in as a replacement for live appearances. Apart from Matchbox recordings, the group also put out a version of Freddie Cannon’s ‘Palisades Park’ under the pseudonym Cyclone. Steve Bloomfield released a solo album entitled Rockabilly Originals. The group is known as Major Matchbox outside the UK.

After 1978, the line-up consisted of Graham Fenton (lead vocalist), Steve Bloomfield (lead guitar, vocals), Gordon Scott (rhythm guitar), Fred Poke (bass guitar) and Jimmy Redhead (drums).

Redhead had left in 1973, Smith in 1977 and Lupton in 1978 to tour with Chuck Berry. Dick Callan joined Matchbox on guitar, saxophone and violin until approximately 1985, writing many of the band's B-sides.

Their third album “Matchbox” (1979) delivered the band's biggest hits include: "Rockabilly Rebel"  and “Buzz Buzz A Diddle It”.

Matchbox's entry into the mainstream big time with their first Magnet album. Some of Steve Bloomfield's classics, "Rockabilly Rebel", "Hurricane" and "Everybody Needs A Little Love" plus some of the band's greats "Rockin' At The Ritz" and "Buzz, Buzz A Diddle It".


 Side A
A1.  Rockabilly Rebel  (2:44)
A2.  Buzz Buzz A Diddle It  (2:46)
A3.  Seventeen  (2:13)
A4.  Tell Me How  (2:02)
A5.  Hurricane  (2:50)
A6.  Everybody Needs A Little Love  (2:46)

Side B
B1.  Rockin’ At The Ritz  (2:49)
B2.  Hi-Fly Woman  (2:36)
B3.  Love Is Going Out Of Fashion  (2:33)
B4.  Poor Boy  (2:30)
B5.  Lord Mr Ford  (3:21)
B6.  Black Slacks  (2:40)

 Credits
Notes

Release Date: November, 1979 
Genre: Rock & Roll 
Style: Rockabilly 
Length: 42:!7
Label: Magnet Records
Catalog# 1A 062-63514

Vinyl:  Good
Cover:  Good

€ 7.00

Bo Hansson - Music Inspired By Lord Of The Rings (1972) - Lp

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Bo Hansson (April 10, 1943 – April 23, 2010) was a Swedish musician best known for his four instrumental albums released in the 1970s.

Hansson spent his early life in a remote village in the pine forests of northern Sweden, but a change in his parents' fortunes forced a move to Stockholm and they were forced to leave the young Hansson behind, in the care of family friends. As a teenager he joined his parents in Stockholm, where he soon became interested in the burgeoning rock and roll scene and taught himself to play the guitar, before joining the band Rock-Olga.

After the rock and roll craze gave way to jazz and blues in the late fifties, he joined 'Slim' Notini's Blues Gang as a guitarist. Hansson was able to move on and form his own blues group The Merrymen, who supported The Rolling Stones on an early Scandinavian tour.

In 1966, Hansson saw American jazz organist Jack McDuff perform at Stockholm's Gyllene Cirkeln Club, and was so captivated by the performance that he decided to leave The Merrymen to expand his musical horizons. Encouraged by fellow Merryman Bill Öhrström, he eventually acquired his own Hammond organ. Öhrström became an A&R man and producer at Polydor Sweden, and introduced Hansson to other musicians, one of whom was drummer Janne Carlsson. Hansson and Carlsson immediately hit it off and were signed by Polydor under the band name Hansson & Karlsson, playing up-tempo Hammond organ based music and releasing three albums between 1967 and 1969. They became immensely popular in their home country and some parts of Europe, and even reached the ear of Jimi Hendrix, who took time out from his tour to jam with the duo, along with George Clemons on drums and Georg Wadenius on guitar, at the Klub Filips in Stockholm in late 1967. Hendrix went on to record a Hansson song, "Tax Free".

By 1969, Janne Carlsson had become a successful comedian and TV host, and Hansson decide to break up the partnership. Entranced by a copy of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, which he had purloined from his girlfriend, he moved into a friend's vacant apartment and started writing. When the unfortunate friend returned, he found that he had been evicted from his apartment after numerous complaints about the noise Hansson was creating.

Hansson retreated to a remote cottage on an island off Stockholm where he, drummer Rune Carlsson and engineer Anders Lind, who had worked previously with Hansson & Karlsson, spent the winter of 1969 recording what was to become Hansson's debut solo album on a borrowed four track recorder.
The resourceful Lind was even able to gain use of the only eight track recorder in Sweden at that time at the Swedish National Radio station, on the pretext that he was interested in buying one himself and wanted to test it. Once there, he persuaded session musicians Gunnar Bergsten and Sten Bergman to flesh out the recordings.



 Music Inspired by Lord of the Rings is an instrumental progressive rock album. As its title suggests, it is a concept album based on author J. R. R. Tolkien's high fantasy novel, The Lord of the Rings. The album was originally issued in Sweden in late 1970, under the Swedish title of Sagan om ringen, and was subsequently re-released internationally as Music Inspired by Lord of the Rings in September 1972. The album reached the Top 40 of the UK Album Chart and was eventually certified gold in the UK and Australia. It was also moderately successful in America, where it reached number 154 on the Billboard Top LPs & Tapes chart. Music Inspired by Lord of the Rings remains the only release by Hansson to have reached the UK and US charts and as a result, it is by far his best known and most successful album.


Side A
A1. Leaving Shire  (3:28)
       (Första vandringen)  
A2. The Old Forest & Tom Bombadil  (3:43)
       (Den gamla skogen / Tom Bombadil)  
A3. Fog on the Barrow-Downs  (2:29)
       (I Skuggornas rike)  
A4. The Black Riders & Flight to the Ford  (4:07)
       (De svarta ryttarna / Flykten till vadstället)  
A5. At the House of Elrond & The Ring Goes South  (4:40)
       (I Elronds hus / Ringen vandrar söderut)  

Side B
B1. A Journey in the Dark  (1:10)
       (En vandring i mörker)
B2. Lothlórien  (4:01)
B3. Shadowfax  (0:51)
       (Skuggfaxe) 
B4. The Horns of Rohan & The Battle of the Pelennor Fields  (3:57)
       (Rohans horn / Slaget på Pelennors slätter)  
B5. Dreams in the House of Healing  (1:56)
       (Drömmar i Läkandets hus)  
B6. Homeward Bound & The Scouring of the Shire  (2:54)
       (Hemfärden / Fylke rensas)  
B7. The Grey Havens  (4:57)
       (De grå hamnarna)  

All tracks composed by Bo Hansson, original song titles in parenthesis.


Personnel
Notes
Released: 1972
Recorded: Late 1969 – early 1970, Studio Bo Hansson's summer house on Älgö in the Stockholm archipelago and Studio Decibel in Stockholm 
Genre: Progressive rock, space rock, psychedelic rock 
Length: 38:13 
Label: Charisma Records
Catalog# CAS 1059

Vinyl:  Good
Cover:  Good

€ 10,00

Snafu - Snafu (1973) - Lp

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Snafu was a British rhythm and blues/rock band of the 1970s, featuring vocalist Bobby Harrison and the slide guitarist Micky Moody.

In 1972, vocalist and drummer Bobby Harrison had just left blues-rock outfit Freedom and started to record his first solo LP, 'Funkist'. Featured on this album was Micky Moody, then lead guitarist with the ailing Juicy Lucy. The collaboration between the two was so successful, that after the demise of Juicy Lucy they decided to form a completely new group and play American-inspired funk and R&B-flavoured rock.

Bobby Harrison had a background of playing with Procol Harum, and participated in the recording of their all-time classic, "A Whiter Shade of Pale". Soon after, however, Harrison was told to leave the band due to 'internal differences'. After Procol Harum, Bobby Harrison formed Freedom, whose first line-up recorded a couple of singles and a soundtrack for an Italian film. Commercial success sadly eluded them and Freedom disbanded in 1972. After that, Bobby would occasionally gig with Juicy Lucy where he became friends with guitarist Micky Moody.

Born in 1950 into a Northern working-class family, Micky Moody from an early age became infatuated with the sound of the electric guitar. Later - when Moody had formed his first band at school - his father managed to get him his first gigs at the local working men's club. This band, called The Roadrunners, featured on bass and vocals one of Micky's classmates from school, Paul Rodgers, later the lead singer of Free.

As the band started to improve, another bass player from the Middlesbrough area, Bruce Thomas (later of Quiver and Elvis Costello's Attractions), was drafted and the group changed their name to The Wildflowers. After three months the group disbanded, and Moody went back to Middlesbrough to study classical guitar. However, he soon joined a local band called Tramline and was also a member of The Mike Cotton Sound. In July 1970, Moody was invited to join Juicy Lucy, with whom he stayed for three albums until Snafu was formed in October/November 1972.

Bobby Harrison and Micky Moody started writing together and auditioning new band members. They found former Tramline drummer Terry Popple (previously with Van Morrison), bass player Colin Gibson (formerly of Ginger Baker's Airforce) and keyboard /fiddle player Pete Solley (later in Whitesnake). Gibson suggested the name Snafu, a term he lifted from a Captain Beefheart song "Big Eyed Beans From Venus" on their 1972 album, Clear Spot. The musical influences were mainly American, and came from bands such as The Allman Brothers Band and in particular Little Feat, one of Bobby Harrison’s favourite bands.

Richard Branson, who had recently built The Manor Studio, and had started recording a long composition by an unknown guitarist, Mike Oldfield, was also impressed with the efforts of Snafu, who arrived at The Manor Studio to record their first LP. In fact, Oldfield was working on Tubular Bells while Snafu were there and Pete Solley played briefly on the recording.
The band's first, eponymously titled, LP and single received good reviews but were less successful commercially. However, at the time when 'Snafu' was released, the group successfully toured Europe with The Doobie Brothers and then the U.S. with The Eagles.

 Snafu is the first album by Snafu. It has an unusual funky tone for what is essentially an R&B band.
The album was issued on the short-lived WWA record label, founded in 1973 by Black Sabbath manager Patrick Meehan.

The track "Goodbye USA" was released as a single, b/w "Dixie Queen" (written by Peter Solley), on the Vertigo label. "Drowning in the Sea of Love" was released as a promo single by Capitol.


The cover art, including photography and the entire gate-fold sleeve inner, is by Roger Dean.
The front cover image detail, apparently of an Eastern ploughman in a paddy field with two water buffalos, is revealed to be, in the full-sized inner image, the same scene on a record player turntable.


Side A
A1. Long Gone  (5:18)
A2. Said He The Judge  (4:25)
A3. Monday Morning  (3:00)
A4. Drowning In The Sea Of Love  (5:39)

Side B
B1. Country Nest  (5:14)
B2. Funky Friend  (3:54)
B3. Goodbye U.S.A.  (4:25)
B4. That’s The Song  (4:27)

All songs written and composed by R. L. Harrison and M. Moody, except where noted. 


Musicians
Other Personnel
  • Vic Smith - producer and engineer
  • Malcom Koss - co-ordinator
  • Roger Dean - photography and cover design
Notes

Release: 1973
Recorded: The Manor Studio, Oxfordshire 
Genre:  Rock, funk, R&B, country rock 
Label:  WWA Records
Catalog#  WWA 003

Vinyl:  Good
Cover:  Good

€ 10,00