Peter Straker - This One's On Me-

©1977 EMI EMC3204
320 Kbps Vinyl rip

Album produced by Roy Thomas Baker and Freddie Mercury.Two singles were released: 'Ragtime Joe' b/w 'Saddest Clown'; and 'Jackie' b/w 'I've Been To Hell And Back'

Peter was friend of Freddie Mercury, as a result of which Freddie produced and financed this album. Peter later appeared in The Great Pretender video, as two backing singers (in two sets of drag).

tracks: 01 Ada, 02 I've Been To Hell And Back, 03 The Day The Talkies Came, 04 Heart Be Still, 05 Alabama Song, 06 Ragtime Piano Joe, 07 Jackie, 08 The Annual Penguin Show, 09 The Saddest Clown, 10 Vamp

Coverart and lyrics included

Kewi University Of Swing

Terracotta me, baby

©1983 ( idiot records / Wea )
320 Kbps Vinyl rip

Two students Kees (KE) and Willem (WI) released this on their own idiot records label (previous 1000 idiots, meaning that there always be 1000 idiots would buy their stuff). It's not easy to categorise their music, it's just too strange. Try some Squeeze with a bit of David Bowie mixed with Gruppo Sportivo and Nits.

Some tracks do end very adrupt. That's not a fault in ripping or coding but it's the way te Kewis intended them.

tracks: 1. Little Asia 2:50 / 2. Greatest Tut 2:14 / 3. The Little Lonely Accordeon 1:02 / 4. Girls on Vacation 2:12 / 5. Robin Hood 3:07 / 6. Doremifa 1:56 / 7. Right Left 3:54 / 8. Monday 3:14 / 9. The Battle of Peak A Boo 2:13 / 10. Biggles 2:44 / 11. Someone 3:12 / 12. Terracotta Me Baby 3:06 / 13. Kewi Music 2:42Coverart included

John Lennon

The Lost Sleepy Blind Lemon Lennon Album

©1990 ( Library Product 2341 )

1. Serve Yourself (Lennon) 08:28 Piano 1980 Phallic version2. You Saved My Soul (With Your True Love) (Lennon) 01:32 Take 2 19803. The Worst Is Over (Lennon) 02:19 Acoustic Demo (date unknown)4. When A Boy Meets A Girl (Lennon/McCartney) 02:10 Take 1 Acoustic 19705. Shes A Friend Of Dorothy (Lennon) 04:12 Take 7 Piano 19806. One Of The Boys (Lennon) 03:07 Acoustic Demo (date unknown)7. He Got The Blues (Lennon) 02:39 Acoustic Demo (date unknown)8. (Medley) (Traditional) 05:31 (unidentified) (date unknown) John Henry (The Steel Driving Man) (Traditional) Concert (date unknown) I Aint Got Time (Eddins) Concert (date unknown)
9. Cookin (In The Kitchen Of Love) (Lennon) 02:43 Take 1 Piano (date unknown)10. Free As A Bird (Lennon) 03:27 Take 1 1977
11. People (Lennon) 01:56 Acoustic Demo (date unknown)12. Caribbean (Torok) 03:05 Outtake Some Time New York City (date unknown)
13. Well (Baby Please Dont Go) (Ward) 05:53 Outtake Imagine Jun 197114. (Medley) (Lerner/Lane) 03:01 (unidentified) (date unknown) Only The Lonely (Know The Way I Feel) (Orbison/Melson) Outtake Double Fantasy 1980 (Just Like) Starting Over (Lennon) Instrumental Double Fantasy 1980 Gone From This Place (Lennon) Instrumental Double Fantasy 198015. Gone From This Place (Lennon) 03:22 Acoustic Demo 198016. Memories (Howling At The Moon) (Lennon) 02:02 Electric (date unknown)17. Memories (Howling At The Moon) (Lennon) 02:36 Take 2 Piano (date unknown)
18. Mucho Mongo (Lennon) 02:58 Take 2 Acoustic 1974

CD Front and Back

Johan Timman - Trip Into The Body (1981)

©1981 Fleet/Ariola 203911

256 Kbps

Johan Timman released this album of electronic music in 1981. Nobody had heard from him before (but he had played in the Dutch progressive rockgroup Think Tank) and nobody has heard from him again (although he played on Bolland & Bolland's "In The Army Now")

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"Trip Into The Body" is a conceptalbum about... A trip into the body (you would never have guessed). He wrote, recorded, produced and played all the instruments (Moogs, vocoders) himself. The music has aged very well and sounds quite fresh. A comparison to Kraftwerk, Kitaro, Jean-Michel Jarre and Yello Magic Orchestra comes to mind but the concept and the music is more original. Well, it was in 1981.

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Warning: Don't let young children listen to "The Brain", they could easely be scared by the BRAAAAIIIIINNNN.

-Tracks: Trip into the body [6:30] / The Brain [5:52] / The Heart [4:03] / The Blood (The march of the white and the red corpuscles) [6:22] / The Blood cells and the Antibodies (Look out for the killer) [5:45] / The Windpipe [0:43] / The Lungs [5:12] / The Hemoglobin [0:42] / Inside the Tympanic Cavity [1:21] / Hearing (Ocean of sound) [6:57]

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Oblique - Oblique

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1985 CBS 26218

320 Kbps
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Tags: Ambient, Electronic, New Age, Experimental, Instrumental, Easy Listening.Oblique is Gerard Stokkink and Tom Bachmann. The album is used as music for the danceperformance "Oblique" from the Shusaku & Dormu Dance Theatre (Don't expect a dance-album now...). The LP was highly acclaimed as it was listed by MusicMaker as 'one of the best Dutch albums ever'.

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Nevertheless Oblique never made another album again and stopped in 1988 as a band in order to fully focus on composing music for audio-visuals.

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toetsen: Gerard Stokkink; drums, percussie: Tom Bachmann; producer: Oblique; producer +engineer: Emile Elsen; design: Yvonne Roth; fotografie: Ronald Loosveld; schilderij: Jean-François André; bas: Oswald Kiemeneij; bas: Ed Simpson Baikie; gitaar: Hans Hollestelle; gitaar: André de Wert; toetsen: Jaap Hamburger; sax, klarinet: Michael Moore; sax: Tom Barlage; sopraan: Conny van Kuik;

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Tracks: 1. Blue Mountain 4:38 (Gerard Stokkink) 2. Sculpture 5:05 (Gerard Stokkink,Tom Bachmann) 3. Endless cruise 4:51 (Gerard Stokkink) 4. Archer 0:23 (Tom Bachmann) 5. Rose 6:12 (Gerard Stokkink) 6. Anemone 1:29 (Gerard Stokkink,Oswald Kiemeneij) 7. Policeman in the sand 4:07 (Gerard Stokkink) 8. Arena 3:54 (Gerard Stokkink,Tom Bachmann) 9. Yellow turtles 5:00 (Gerard Stokkink,Tom Bachmann) 10. Travellers 1:55 (Gerard Stokkink) 11. Ramblas 4:20 (Gerard Stokkink) 12. Seals 3:15 (Gerard Stokkink)

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Alice Cooper - School Days (The Early Days)

Warner Bros. 1973 (recorded 1969)

CD-rip 320 Kbps

You have a choice. You can turn me off..

(from "Beautiful Flyaway")

School Days is a compilation of the bands first two albums "Preties For You" and "Easy Action" wich are two of the strangest sounding albums of all time. Highly experimental, psychadelic rock with a twist.

I've read many reviews telling that these albums are bad. Well, if you expect another "School's Out" or "Killer" then you can be dissapointed, I guess. If you're listening with an open mind then you'll discover some great music. There are some great guitar riffs and the lyrics, although incomprehensible most of the times, fit in well.

I've made two changes. 1. I've replaced de lame live version of "Levity Ball" with a much better sounding studio version. 2. I've added the studio version of "Nobody Likes Me" as a bonustrack. This hilarious song (mini-musical!) is recorded in 1969.

Be warned though, these tracks are way different from other Alice Cooper songs. They are so strange you have to hear it for yourself...

tracks: Titanic Overture / Sing Low Sweet Cheerio / Today Mueller / Living / Fields Of Regret / No Longer Umpire / Levity Ball / B.B. On Mars / Reflected / Apple Bush / Earwings To Eternity / Changing, Arranging / Mr. And Misdemeanor / Shoe Salesman / Still No Air / Below Your Means / Return Of The Spiders / Laughing At Me / Refrigerator Heaven / Beautiful Flyaway / Lay Down And Die, Goodbye / Nobody Likes Me

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Jackson Browne

Solo Acoustic Live

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Soundboard recording 2002

320Kbps

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For more than two decades Jackson Browne has remained one of America's most important musical voices. Solo Acoustic Live finds Jackson Browne delivering tender takes from his deep catalog, completely stripped of their Seventies-era excess production. Browne is in fine voice as he digs out tunes like "These Days" (first done by Velvet Underground singer Nico in 1968) and "Lives in the Balance" (a mid-Eighties anti-Reagan diatribe that sounds especially appropriate today). He wraps things up with a threadbare rendition of "The Pretender" that cannot mask the story of a youthful idealist being beaten down by the passing years. Needless to say, Browne's strength has always been songwriting, and Solo Acoustic delivers those songs with no extra baggage.

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CD I

01. I’m Alive - 02. Farther On - 03. The Barricades Of Heaven - 04. Looking Into You - 05. Something Fine - 06. Call It A Loan - 07. Ready Or Not - 08. Late For the Sky - 09. These Days - 10. Red Neck Friend - 11. The Pretender - 12. For Everyman

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CD II

01. In The Shape Of A Heart - 02. Your Bright Baby Blues - 03. Fountain Of Sorrow - 04. Never Stop - 05. Lives In The Balance - 06. Before The Deluge - 07. Sky Blue and Black - 08. Linda Paloma - 09. Running On Empty - 10. Rosie - 11. Doctor My Eyes - 12. About My Imagination - 13. I Am A Patriot - 14. Sleep's Dark And Silent Gate - 15. Take It Easy

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CD III

Soundcheck

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CD I

CD II

CD III

First posted by http://musictravellerstwo.blogspot.com/

The Monkees - The Missing Links I/II/III

Vol I: 1987 / Vol II: 1990 / Vol III: 1996

CD rip 320Kbps

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Not encumbered by budget restrictions or lack of songs, The Monkees recorded a substantial amount of material that never saw the light of day. In the early phase, it was due to an overabundance of masters, and later, it was because of a waning public interest. These are the periods from which these Missing Links Volumes are drawn from.

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VOL I

Apples, Peaches, Bananas and Pears (2:16) / If You Have the Time (2:09) / I Don't Think You Know Me (2:15) / Party (2:46) / Carlisle Wheeling (3:20) / Storybook of You (2:52) / Rosemarie (2:29) / My Share of the Sidewalk (3:07) / All of Your Toys (3:09) / Nine Times Blue (2:10) / So Goes Love (3:08) / Teeny Tiny Gnome (2:28) / Of You (1:58) / War Games (2:33) / Lady's Baby (2:27) / Time and Time Again (2:49)

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VOL II

All the King's Horses [TV Version] (2:18) / Valleri [TV Version] (2:34) / St. Matthew [Mix 1] (2:45) / Words [TV Version] (3:04) / Some of Shelly's Blues (2:33) / I Wanna Be Free [TV Version] (2:49) / If I Ever Get to Saginaw Again (2:46) / Come on In (3:11) / I'll Be Back Up on My Feet [TV Version] (2:39) / Michigan Blackhawk (2:17) / Hold on Girl (2:46) / The Crippled Lion (2:52) / Changes (2:28) / Mr. Webster (2:55) / You Just May Be the One [TV Version] (2:00) / Do Not Ask for Love (2:59) / Circle Sky [Live 1968] (2:28) / Seeger's Theme (0:45)

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VOL III

Theme from the Monkees [TV Version] (0:50) / Kellogg's Jingle (0:13) / We'll Be Back in a Minute (0:22) / Through the Looking Glass [Alternate Version] (2:36) / Propinquity (I've Just Begun to Care) (3:21) / Penny Music (2:40) / Tear the Top Right Off My Head (2:05) / Little Red Rider (3:18) / You're So Good (2:43) / Look Down (2:52) / Hollywood (2:17) / Midnight Train [Demo Version] (2:29) / She Hangs Out [Single Version] (2:35) / Shake 'Em Up (2:10) / Circle Sky [Alternate Mix] (2:32) / Steam Engine [TV Version] (2:25) / Love to Love [Alternate Mix] (2:30) / She'll Be There (2:35) / How Insensitive (2:33) / Merry Go Round (1:44) / Angel Band (3:26) / Zor and Zam [TV Version] (2:08) / We'll Be Back in a Minute #2 (0:23)

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Vol II

Vol III

Harry Nilsson - A Touch Of Nilssongs

Released: Never, compilation made 2008

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This is a compilation of Nilsson involved songs wich I gathered over the past years. Most of them are not very common, a few are collectors items, some are weird, a few are mashed-up but all are great.

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01 A mash-up of "Just Let Go in LA" & "One" by DJ Earthworm.

02 A mash-up of "Starry Eyed Surprise" & "Everybody's Talking" by Paul Oakenfold.

03 This cover of "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" was recorded for Hal Willner's 1988 tribute album Stay Awake: Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films. Nilsson donated his performance royalties from the song to the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence. This is the complete track including Sun Ra's track "Technicolor Pachyderms"

04 The Heebeegeebees - Oh Me (What more can I say) is a parody on Nilssons' humming.

05 In 1974 Harry and Phil Spector wrote "A love like yours" together. Harry recorded it in 1975 with Cher and nicked the duo "Nilssonny & Cher" refering to the former partner of Cher, Sonny.

06 The monkees recorded "Daddy's Song". Davy Jones made this alternative version with a spoken part in the song.

07-18 Harry wrote these.

07 Lori Cullen - Me And My Arrow /08 Reid Jamieson - Nobody Cares About The Railroads Anymore / 09 Anthony Green - Me And My Arrow /10 Asylum Street Spankers - Think About Your Troubles / 11 Jonathan FireEater - Don't Forget Me / 12 David Cassidy - The Puppy Song / 13 Mary Hopkin - The Puppy Song / 14 Michael Nesmith - Rainmaker / 15 Pandemonium - 1941 / 16 The Turtles - The Story Of Rock'n Roll / 17 Mutual Admiration Society - Think About Your Troubles / 18 The Format - The Lottery Song.

19 John Lennon wrote "Old Dirt Road" together with Harry. This is the acoustic version by John.

20 - 22 Harry Nilsson and Phil Spector wrote these songs together in the 60's.

20 the Ronennetes - Paradise / 21 "This Could Be the Night" was recorded by the Modern Folk Quartet and was used as the theme to the rock concert film The Big TNT Show / 22 the Ronennetes - Here I Sit

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John Miles

Transition-

Released: 1985 WEA International

LP rip 192 Kbps

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This is a out of print album by John "Music Was My First Love" Miles. I do not concern this as one of his best albums but it's deffenatly one of his hardest to find albums and it contains the hearttearing "Blinded" track.

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1. Once In Your Life 3:56 / 2. Run 3:49 / 3. Blinded (It Wasnt Love At All) 6:32 / 4. You're The One 4:33 / 5. I Need Your Love 4:57 / 6. Hard Time 4:18 / 7. Who Knows 4:02 / 8. Don't Lie To Me 4:31 / 9. Watching Over Me 3:57

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John Miles

Play On

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Released: 1983 WEA International

LP rip 128 Kbps

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This is an other out of print album by John Miles. Kind of John Parr/Cliff Richards rock with a reverie to Earth, Wind and Fire. "The Right To Sing" is a great ballad and could have been a big hit if he hadn't released "MUSIC' a few years earlier.

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Take Me to My Heaven (3:31) / Song for You (4:09) / It Wasn't Love at All (4:42) / Ready to Spread Your Wings (4:49) / I'll Never Do It Again (4:53) / Heart of Stone (4:35) / Home (5:15) / Close Eyes, Count to Ten (4:29) / Carrie (3:48) / The Right to Sing (3:44)

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Both albums posted by request. The quality is a bit poor but enjoyable.

The Monkees - Monkee Mania 2002 Live in Toronto

Released: 2002. No Label.

CD rip 320Kbps

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This is a CD of The Monkees live concert show performed by Micky Dolenz and Davy Jones in Toronto Canada January 2002. This CD was never available in stores, and was only available from a merchandise booth at the Monkees 2002 concerts, and is now out of print. 

Label: Not On Label  

Sold at gigs 

Credits:

Arranged By - Al Renino , Jerry Renino 

Directed By, Bass, Vocals - Jerry Renino 

Drums, Percussion - Sandy Gennaro 

Engineer - Tom Winch 

Guitar, Vocals - Wayne Avers 

Keyboards, Vocals - Dave Alexander (4) 

Mastered By - Al Renino , John Battaglia 

Producer - Jerry Renino 

Saxophone - Sam Albright 

Saxophone, Flute, Keyboards, Vocals - Aviva Maloney 

Trombone - Gregory Briggler* 

Trumpet - Eric Blondo* 

Vocals, Guitar, Drums, Timpani - Micky Dolenz 

Vocals, Guitar, Percussion - Davy Jones  

Notes: Recorded Live at Casino Rama in Toronto, ON, January 2002. 

Tracklisting:

01 Intro/Last Train To Clarksville 

02 Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow) 

03 The Girl I Knew Somewhere 

04 A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You 

05 I'll Love You Forever 

06 Randy Scouse Git 

07 Nice To Be With You 

08 Goin' Down 

09 Girl 

10 That Was Then, This Is Now 

11 Oliver Medley (Consider Yourself, I'll Do Anything, Who Will Buy? 

12 She Hangs Out 

13 Since I Fell For You 

14 Valleri 

15 Porpoise Song/Listen To The Band 

16 Daydream Believer 

17 Pleasant Valley Sunday 

18 (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone 

19 I'm A Believer 

Eric Woolfson

Freudiana

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Released: October 11, 1990

EMI records.

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1990's "Freudiana" was the last album that singer/composer Eric Woolfson collaborated on with Alan Parsons. The main reason to release this as a Eric Woolfson album instead of an APP album is that halfway the project Eric wanted to make a musical of it and Alan did not.

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It features the same musicians that have played on APP albums including Alan Parsons, Ian Bairnson, Stuart Elliot, Chris Rainbow, John Miles and Eric Woolfson himself.

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So, this is a Eric Woolfson album but it is much more a Alan Parsons Project album than any of Alan Parsons afterlife (man, were you able to listen to "a valid path" without pressing the next button for 5 times?).

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Tracks: "The Nirvana Principle" 3:44 / "Freudiana" 6:20 / "I Am a Mirror" 4:06 / "Little Hans" 3:15 / "Dora" 3:51 / "Funny You Should Say That" 4:36 / "You're On Your Own" 3:54 / "Far Away From Home" 3:11 / "Let Yourself Go" 5:26 / "Beyond the Pleasure Principle" 3:13 / "The Ring" 4:22 / Sects Therapy" 3:40 / "No One Can Love You Better Than Me" 5:40 / "Don't Let the Moment Pass" 3:40 / "Upper Me" 5:16 / "Freudiana" 3:43 / "Destiny" 0:51 / "There But For the Grace of God" 5:56

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tracks 1 - 9

tracks 10 - 18

Omar And The Howlers

Hard Times In The Land Of Plenty

- CD rip, 320 kbbs / Label: CBS 450948 2

Released in 1987.

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Omar signed with CBS/Columbia Records in 1987 and cut "Hard Times in the Land of Plenty". This third album was a breakthrough for the band, receiving extensive airplay in the USA and Canada and earning an Edison award in Holland and sold in excess 500,000 copies!

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Since then there have been another dozen albums, all of them featuring Omar’s guitar and voice, which reviewers describe as a cross between Howlin’ Wolf in his prime and the warning growl of a large primate. I didn't make this up myself, it's says so on his homepage.

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The music is heavy bluesrock oriented. And if you happen to like swamprock than you got lucky because it has a strong Creedence Clearwater Revival feeling.

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Tracklisting:

1. Hard Times in the Land of Plenty 2. Dancing in the Canebrake 3. Border Girl 4. Mississippi Hoo Doo Man 5. Don't Rock Me the Wrong Way 6. Same Old Grind 7. Don't You Know 8. You Ain't Foolin' Nobody 9. Shadow Man 10. Lee Anne

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Carmel - More, More, More; 3 albums by Carmel

London Records 1984, 1986, 1987

cd-rip 320 Kbps

Their first single "Storm" reached No 1 in the independent charts and CARMEL was signed immediately to London Records. Carmel exploded onto the international stage with the release of the singles 'Bad Day' and 'More, More More' both of which went top 20. Their first album, "The Drum is Everything" reached 19 in the UK charts and by 1985 Carmel McCourt was named Best Jazz Vocalist.
In 1986 they released their second album "The Falling" which put them firmly in the spotlight. The single Sally went to No.5 in the French charts and legendary singer Johnny Halliday joined Carmel for a duet.
The 1987 album "Everybody's Got a Little... Soul" and the following single " It's All In the Game", both went gold.
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If you happen to like Duffy, you're gonna like this too. If you don't like Duffy than give this a chance starting with "The Falling"
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Drum Is Everything: 1. More, More, More / 2. Stormy Weather / 3. Drum Is Everything / 4. I Thought I Was Going Mad / 5. Prayer / 6. Rockin' on Suicide / 7. Rue St. Denis / 8. Willow Weep for Me / 9. Tracks of My Tears / 10. Bad Day
The Falling: 1. I'm Not Afraid of You / 2. Let Me Know / 3. Tok / 4. Falling / 5. Mama Told Me NT to Come / 6. Mercy / 7. Easy for You / 8. Sticks and Stones / 9. Sally
Everybody's Got a Little...Soul: 1. Hey Hey / 2. It's All In The Game / 3. Every Little Bit / 4. Nothing Good / 5. Azure / 6. Sweet And Lovely / 7. Jazz Robin / 8. Lay Down / 9. I Do And Do / 10. Hey Hey (Baby) / 11 It's All In The Game (12'')

The Drum Is Everything

The Falling

Everybody's Got a Little Soul

Tommy Denander

Less Is More

©1995 Nobel House Music

320 Kbps

As a follow up to my "vacation" post here is another Tommy Denander album. Again, the Pocaro brothers are present. Mike Porcaro on bass, Jeff Porcaro on drums, Steve Porcaro programming.

Don't know why this one's subtitled 'part one'. A 'part two' hasn't seen the light of day, yet. 

Tracklist: 01. Forever / 02. Window To Your Heart / 03. Sincere / 04. I'll Be Your Friend / 05. Sorry / 06. The Way You Love / 07. Exit Hollywood No:5 / 08. Manitou / 09. 5492-