Showing posts with label Herbie Armstrong. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Herbie Armstrong. Show all posts

Friday, December 04, 2009

Fox
Tails Of Illusion 

©1975 tracks 1-10 / 1976 track 11
BGO Records.  320 Kbps CD rip.

Noosha was relegated to backing vocals for half the songs on the late 1975 follow-up album, Tails of Illusion, with the other songs sung by Young. The album enjoyed neither the critical nor the sales success of its predecessor; without Noosha's distinctive voice, casual listeners did not associate the songs with the band that had recorded "Only You Can". Although it was sabled down by the critics in 1975 it's a nice album nevertheless.
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The band returned to the charts in April 1976 when "S-S-S-Single Bed" was a Top 5 UK hit and topped the Australian chart. This track is added as a bonustrack.
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Tracklist: 01. Yuli Yuli 3:36 / 02. Survival 4:26 / 03. Strange Ships 4:39 / 04. For Whatever It's Worth 2:47 / 05. Little Brown Box 4:07 / 06. Minor Therapy 4:53 / 07. Lily Sing 3:10 / 08. Kupu Kupu 5:45 / 09. Howdja 3:25 / 10. Me Without You 4:07
Bonustracks: 11. S-s-s Single Bed 3:48
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Click here to download a Tom Mix 12" extended remix of "S S Single Bed":
Fox
Fox 

©1975 tracks 1-11 / 1976 tracks 12-15
Cherry Red Records  320 Kbps CD rip.

The band's self-titled debut album was released in 1975. The lead single, "Only You Can", was a Top 10 hit in the UK Singles Chart, the follow-up "Imagine Me Imagine You" also reached the Top 20[1] and "He's Got Magic" was a hit in some European countries. Also the track "Love Ship" was played extensively on Radio Caroline, and was subsequently adopted as one of their theme tunes in the 1970s.
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Noosha Fox (Susan Traynor) - vocals, harmonies
After FOX she went solo and had a minor hit with "Georgina Bailey". She als recorded "The Heat is On" wich became a big hit for Agneta Faltskog a few years later.
Kenny Young - rhytm guitar, vocals
After FOX he became a record producer but he will always be known for writing the song "Under the Boardwalk" for The Drifters in the 60's.
Herbie Armstrong - lead guitar, vocals
Before and after Fox he was a bandmember of Van Morrison. He made one soloalbum wich can be found here.
Gary Taylor - bass, vocals
After FOX he made a few solo albums and worked as a sessionmusician. In the 60's he was a member of "The Herd" together with Peter Frampton
Pete Solley - keyboards, vocals
Pete Solley joined Whitesnake on keyboards in 1977 for "Snakebite" and also joined Procul Harum for "Something Magic". Then started as a writer/producer (f.i. Romantics - What I Like About You) 
Jim Frank - drums, percussion, vocals
Worked as a soundengineer for Alice Cooper and Peter Gabriel and played drums on several albums by various artists.
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Tracklist: 01.Love Letters 2:50 / 02.Imagine Me, Imagine You 3:22 / 03.The Joggler 3:12 / 04.Patient Tigers 3:05 / 05.Only You Can 3:03 / 06.The More 1:06 / 07.Spirit 2:52 / 08.He's Got Magic 3:32 / 09.Pisces Babies 3:42 / 10.Love Ship 2:48 / 11.Red Letter Day 3:12
Bonustracks: 12.Out of My Body 2:58 / 13.If I Point At The Moon 3:06 / 14.Georgina Bailey 3:58 / 15.Pretty Boy 3:32
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Thursday, August 21, 2008

Herbie Armstrong
Back Against The Wall

- CD rip, 320 kbbs / Label: MMC
Released in 1983.
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Now Herbie is running a Restaurant together with his Swedish-born wife Elizabeth, in Hampshirecalled The Fountain Inn & Thai Restaurant but once Herbie was a great musician.
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Herbie's steps in music are very closely related to Van Morrison. It starts in 1964 when Herbie and Van played together in The Manhattan Showband and in Brian Rossi and the Golden Eagles. Van Morrison left to form Them, and asked Herbie to go with him, but Herbie stayed instead but they were re-united when Them stopped and Van starts making soloalbums. In the 70's and 80's Herbie plays on Van Morrison's albums. Herbie also played in Fox. They had hits in the 70's with "Only You Can", "Imagine Me, Imagine You" and "He's got Magic".
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On "Back Against The Wall" are some great musicians:
Herbie Armstrong (vocals, guitar)
Patrick O'Hearn (bass)
Pee Wee Ellis (sax)
Mark Isham (trumpet, keyboards)
Peter Van Hooke (drums)
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Tracklisting:
1 LOSING YOU - 2 HORSES OF STEAM - 3 YOU TAKE ME UP - 4 FRIDAY'S CHILD - 5 BACK AGAINST THE WALL - 6 HEAVEN ONLY KNOWS - 7 JOSIE - 8 LET IT RUN - 9 SAVE THE LAST DANCE - 10 COMING IN FROM THE RAIN
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