Jimmy James & His Blue Flames (1979/EP 7") Blue Flames Records - 5205

 

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Blues Rock

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This is a 1979 unofficial/bootleg 7″ EP (33⅓ RPM) released on Blue Flames Records (catalog no. 5205), attributing the recordings to Jimi Hendrix under his stage name "Jimmy James". The band, Jimmy James and the Blue Flames, was a short-lived 1966 Greenwich Village group fronted by Hendrix (then "Jimmy James") alongside 15-year-old Randy California, bassist Randy Palmer and drummer Danny Casey.

Tracks:

A1. Bright Lites, Big City (3:16)

A2. I'm A Man (4:25)

B1. No Such Animal Pt.1 (2:27)

B2. No Such Animal Pt.2 (2:36)

Personnel:

Guitar and vocals - Jimmi Hendrix

Guitar - Randy Wolfe (his stage name Randy California)

Bass - Randy Palmer

Drums - Dan Casey

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Guest keyboardists occasionally sat in during live performances, most notably: Al Kooper or Barry Goldberg. These musicians joined the group temporarily, particularly during their backing slot for John Hammond Jr. at the Cafe au Go Go, but they were not official members of the band's stable lineup.

Booker T. & The MG's - Time Is Tight (1998) Stax - 3SCD-4424-2

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Rhythm & Blues, Soul

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Time Is Tight is a 1998 three-CD compilation box set by Booker T. & The MG's, released by the Stax label. A remastered 3CD set containing 65 tracks with a total duration of approximately 3 hours and 51 minutes. The collection features the band's hits from 1962 through 1971, including "Green Onions" and the title track "Time Is Tight," along with numerous LP tracks and failed singles. The third disc is dedicated to previously unreleased live recordings (mostly from 1992–1994) and rarities, including a version of "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" featuring guest artist Neil Young.

American instrumental rhythm & blues and soul combo, formed 1962 in Memphis, Tennessee. Best remembered as the in-house backing band of the Stax record label. The band’s name is a combination of organist Booker T. Jones's first names and the acronym for “Memphis Group”, MG. Other members were Al Jackson Jr. (drums), Steve Cropper (guitar) and Lewis Steinberg (bass guitar) who was replaced by Donald "Duck" Dunn in 1963...

CD1

1. Green Onions

2. Behave Yourself

3. Jellybread

4. Home Grown

5. Burnt Biscuits

6. Chinese Crackers

7. Mo' Onions

8. Tic-Tac-Toe

9. Fannie Mae

10. Soul Dressing

11. Can't Be Still

12. Boot-Leg

13. Outrage

14. Be My Lady

15. My Sweet Potato

16. Hip Hug-Her

17. Summertime

18. Slim Jenkins' Place

19. Groovin'

20. Soul Sanction

21. Pigmy

22. Booker's Notion

23. I Can Dig It

24. Expressway (To Your Heart)

25. You Don't Love Me

26. Never My Love

27. Blue On Green

28. Ode To Billy Joe

CD2

1. Soul Limbo

2. Heads Or Tails

3. Be Young, Be Foolish, Be Happy

4. Hang 'Em High

5. Willow Weep For Me

6. Over Easy

7. Time Is Tight

8. Johnny, I Love You

9. Lady Madonna

10. Mrs. Robinson

11. Soul Clap '69

12. I've Never Found A Girl (To Love Me Like You Do)

13. You're All I Need To Get By

14. It's Your Thing

15. Something

16. Sunday Sermon

17. McLemore Avenue

18. Beatles Medley

19. Chicken Pox

20. Melting Pot

CD3

1. Gotta Serve Somebody

2. Lay Lady Lay

3. MG Party

4. Terrible Thing

5. Hole In The Wall

6. (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay

7. Booker's Theme

8. Albert's Rap

9. Born Under A Bad Sign (with Albert King)

10. Medley: I'm With You/I Don't Mind/Oh, Baby Don't You Weep

11. Meditation

12. Green Onions

13. Sarasota Sunset

14. I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now) (with Boz Scaggs)

15. Hang 'Em High

16. Time Is Tight

17. (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay (with Neil Young)

 

Scrubbaloe Caine ‎- Round One (1973) Vinyl RCA Victor - APL1-0263

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Blues Rock, Boogie Rock, West Coast Rock

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Scrubbaloe Caine was a Canadian rock music group, active from 1970 to 1975. Round One is the debut and only studio album by the band, released in 1973. Recorded at RCA Victor's Music Center of the World in Los Angeles, it's a blues-rock record produced by David M. Kershenbaum with a lineup that included future Loverboy guitarist Paul Dean and Guess Who bassist Jim Kale.

In 1975  planned a second album to be titled Street Level. The album was never completed or released, and the band broke up in 1976.

Tracks:

1. Edmonton Rain 3:01

2. Do I Love You (Does A Guitar Play The Blues?) 3:51

3. Rosalie 3:27

4. Gonna Keep An Eye On You 3:30

5. Daybreak 5:29

6. Trouble 5:03

7. Feelin’ Good On Sunday 3:04

8. Travelin’ 3:48

9. Crazy ‘Bout A Blues Guitar 7:07

Personnel:

Bass, Vocals - Jim Kale

Drums, Percussion, Vocals - Bill McBeth

Keyboards, Harmonica, Lead Vocals - Al Foreman 

Lead Guitar - Jim Harmata

Lead Guitar, Slide Guitar - Paul Dean

Violin, Lead Vocals - Henry Small

 

The Glitterhouse - The Almost Complete Recordings 1966 to 1974 (2006) No Label

 

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Psychedelic Pop, Blue-Eyed Soul

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The Almost Complete Recordings 1966 to 1974 is a 23-track compilation by the Los Angeles pop-psych band The Glitterhouse, originally issued as a homemade CD-R in 2002 by keyboardist Moogy Klingman (later of Utopia) on his Moogy Music label essentially a band-approved, unlabelled bootleg that was later reissued as a proper 2006 CD. It gathers the band's only studio album Color Blind (1968, produced by Bob Crewe), three cuts from the Barbarella soundtrack, early 1966–67 fairy-tale singles ("Rumplestiltskin", "Alice in Wonderland"), the 1967 "New York Blues" audition tape, 1968 in-house demos, and 1974 reunion demos cut at Secret Sound (the studio Klingman shared with Todd Rundgren).

Tracks:

1. Tinkerbell’s Mind 4:40

2. Princess Of The Gingerland 4:19

3. Sassafrass And Cinnamon 4:07

4. Child Of Darkness 4:18

5. I Lost Me A Friend 4:13

6. Times Are Getting Hard 3:45

7. Where Have You Been Hiding? 2:48

8. Hey Woman 3:57

9. Happy To Have You Here Again 3:25

10. Barbarella 2:40

11. Love Drags Me Down 3:40

12. I Love All The Love In You 3:48

13. Rumpelstiltskin 2:23

14. Ode To An Unknown Girl 2:02

15. Alice In Wonderland 2:28

16. New York Blues 3:37

17. Born To The Blues 2:06

18. It’s Going To Take Some Time 1:46

19. Grandma, Why Do You Live In Harlem? 4:07

20. Going Home 4:56

21. Rainbow Child 3:27

22. For Ann, Liz And Harvee 3:09

Notes

LP Color Blind 1968 / tracks: 1-9

From The Movie "Barbarella" 1968 / tracks: 10-12

The Early Singles 1966/1967 / tracks: 13-15

The Audition Tape 1967 / track: 16

In House Demos 1968 / tracks: 17-18

Reunion Demos 1974 / tracks: 19-22

Personnel:

Mike Gayle - lead vocals, lead guitar

Hank Aberle - guitar, violin, harmony vocals, lead vocals (22)

Al Lax - bass, harmony vocals

Moogy Klingman - keyboards, lead vocals (19)

Joel "Bishop" O’Brien - drums, lead vocals (18)

The Buoys (1971/1999) Citadel - CITADEL 8865

 

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Pop Rock

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The Buoys were an American pop/rock band from the early 1970s. Its membership included Bill Kelly, Fran Brozena, Jerry G. Hludzik, Carl Siracuse and Chris Hanlon, based in the Wilkes-Barre-Scranton, Pennsylvania, area. The group released their self-titled debut album in 1971 on Scepter Records, which also included the song "Give Up Your Guns", a hit in Europe. The Buoys are best known for their recording of Rupert Holmes's "Timothy", a song deliberately written to get banned, based on the theme of cannibalism.

Tracks:

1. Give Up Your Guns (4:15)

2. Castles (2:24)

3. Sunny Days (1:42)

4. Memories (3:18)

5. The Prince Of Thieves (4:17)

6. Streams (2:47)

7. These Days (2:45) 1969

8. Timothy (2:42)

9. Tell Me Heaven Is Here (3:30)

10. Bloodknot (2:09)

11. Tomorrow (3:22)

12. Absent Friend (3:48)

13. Pittsburgh Steel (4:08)

14. Good Lovin' (2:25)

Notes

Tracks: 1-5, 8-12, originally released on Scepter Records in 1971(only studio album).

Tracks: 6,7,13,14 Bonus

Personnel:

Bass, Vocals – Jerry G. Hludzik

Drums, Percussion – Chris Hanlon

Guitar, Flute, Vocals – Bill Kelly 

Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals – Fran Brozena

Guitar, Keyboards, Flute – Carl Siracuse

Cello – Sally Rosoff (12)

Spectrum - Milesago (1971/2004) Black Rose Records - BR 178

 

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Progressive Rock [Masterpiece]

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Spectrum are an Australian progressive rock band which formed in April 1969 and broke up in April 1973... Spectrum released their debut studio album, Spectrum Part One, in March 1971, although it did not include the hit single. Their second album, Milesago, was released in December 1971, as the first Australian rock music double album. It is also the first Australian rock album to be recorded using a 16-track recorder...

Tracks:

1. But That's All Right 4:23

2. Love's My Bag 4:17

3. Your Friend And Mine 7:22

4. Untitled 4:31

5. Play A Song That I Know 3:49

6. What The World Needs (Is A New Pair Of Socks) 7:18

7. Virgin's Tale 3:27

8. A Fate Worse Than Death 4:43

9. Tell Me Why 1:47

10.-13. The Sideways Saga (Part 1-4)

a. The Question 1:07

b. The Answer 2:16

c. Do The Crab 4:55

d. Everybody's Walking Sideways 2:44

14. Trust Me 6:04

15. Fly Without Its Wings 10:08

16. Mama, Did Jesus Wear Make Up? 2:10

17. Milesago 7:14

Originally released as 2LP in December 1971 [Harvest]

Personnel:

Michael Rudd - Acoustic & Electric Guitars, Recorder, Vocals

Lee Neale - Organ, Harpsichord, Piano, Vocals

Bill Putt - Bass

Ray Arnott - Drums, Percussion, Vocals

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Jeremy Noone - Saxophone (4,5,8)

David Clarke - Saxophone (4,8)

Steve Miller - Trombone (4)

Simon Wettenhall - Tuba (8)

Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True (1977) Columbia - CK 35037

 

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New Wave, Pub Rock, Power Pop

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Declan Patrick MacManus (born 25 August 1954), known professionally as Elvis Costello, is an English singer, songwriter, record producer, author, and television host...

"My Aim Is True" is the debut studio album by Elvis Costello, originally released in the United Kingdom on 22 July 1977 on Stiff Records.

Tracks:

1. Welcome To The Working Week

2. Miracle Man

3. No Dancing

4. Blame It On Cain

5. Alison

6. Sneaky Feelings

7. Watching The Detectives

8. (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes

9. Less Than Zero

10. Mystery Dance

11. Pay It Back

12. I'm Not Angry

13. Waiting For The End Of The World

Notes

"Watching The Detectives" released in the UK as a single in October 1977, was added to the US release as the last track on side one. It has subsequently appeared as the final track on the album on reissues.

Personnel:

Elvis Costello – vocals, guitar, piano and drumsticks on "Mystery Dance"

John McFee – lead guitar, pedal steel guitar, backing vocals

Sean Hopper – piano, organ, backing vocals

Johnny Ciambotti – bass, backing vocals

Mickey Shine – drums

Stan Shaw – organ on "Less Than Zero"

Nick Lowe – backing vocals, piano, drumsticks and bass on "Mystery Dance"

Andrew Bodnar – bass on "Watching the Detectives"

Steve Goulding – drums on "Watching the Detectives"

Steve Nieve – organ and piano overdubs on "Watching the Detectives"

A Foot In Coldwater (1972/2003) Unidisc Music Inc. - AGEK-2158

 

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Hard Rock, Blues Rock

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A Foot In Coldwater is a Canadian hard rock and blues-rock band from Toronto, formed in 1970 and active through the 1980s. Their self-titled debut album, released in 1972 on Daffodil Records, is widely considered an underrated gem of the early Canadian rock scene. 

The album features the band's signature hit, "(Make Me Do) Anything You Want," a saccharine ballad that reached the Top 25 on Canadian charts in both 1972 and 1974, eventually being inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2019.  Other notable tracks include the hard rock-oriented "On the Wind," the heavy blues of "In Heat," and the melodic "Who Can Stop Us Now." In 1973, released the second album, and so on...

Tracks:

1. On The Wind 4:05

2. Yalla Yae 3:49

3. Deep Freeze 3:47

4. (Make Me Do) Anything You Want 5:16

5. Who Can Stop Us Now 3:24

6. Alone Together 3:08

7. Fallen Man 3:59

8. In Heat 6:11

9. Lady True 2:27

Notes

Tracks: 1 to 8, originally released on Daffodil Records in 1972.

Bonus track: "Lady True" Single A-side 1973.

Personnel:

Bass, Acoustic Guitar – Hughie Leggat

Conductor [Strings] – Doug Riley (tracks: 2,4,7)

Drums, Percussion – Danny Taylor

Organ, Clavinet – Bob Horne

Rhythm Guitar, Slide Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Bass – Paul Naumann

Strings – The Daffodil String Ensemble (tracks: 2,4,7)

Vocals – Alex Machin

Argent - Hold Your Head Up: The Best Of Argent (2022) Edsel Records - EDSL0104 + The Singles Collection (2008) Varèse Sarabande - 302 066 880 2

 

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Crossover Prog, Contemporary Pop Rock

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This is the best overall review of the bands work. Argent were a British rock band formed in 1969 by former Zombies keyboardist Rod Argent... They had three UK Top 40 singles: "Hold Your Head Up", "Tragedy" and "God Gave Rock And Roll To You".

CD1

1. Hold Your Head Up (Rod Argent/Chris White) (1971)

2. God Gave Rock And Roll To You (Russ Ballard) (1973)

3. Christmas For The Free (Rod Argent/Chris White) (1973)

4. Liar (Russ Ballard) (1969)

5. Schoolgirl (Russ Ballard) (1969)

6. Dance In The Smoke (Rod Argent/Chris White) (1969)

7. It's Only Money (Part 2) (Russ Ballard) (1973)

8. Clown (Rod Argent) (1975)

9. Tragedy (Russ Ballard) (1972)

10. It's Only Money (Part 1) (Russ Ballard) (1973)

11. Sweet Mary (Rod Argent/Chris White) (1970)

12. Celebration (Rod Argent/Chris White) (1970)

13. Lothlorien (Rod Argent/Chris White) (1970)

14. Man for All Reasons (Russ Ballard) (1974)

CD2

1. Thunder And Lightning (Russ Ballard) (1974)

2. The Jester (Rod Argent) (1975)

3. Highwire (Rod Argent) (1975)

4. Love (Russ Ballard) (1974)

5. Keep On Rollin' (Rod Argent/Chris White) (1971)

6. Be My Lover, Be My Friend (Rod Argent/Chris White) (1972)

7. Like Honey (Rod Argent/Chris White) (1969)

8. Sleep Won't Help Me (Rod Argent/Chris White) (1970)

9. Pleasure (Rod Argent/Chris White) (1970)

10. The Coming Of Kohoutek (Rod Argent/Chris White) (1974)

11. Once Around The Sun (Rod Argent/Chris White) (1974)

12. Infinite Wanderer (Rod Argent/Chris White) (1974)

13. Circus (Rod Argent) (1975)

14. Candles On The River (Rod Argent/Chris White) (1973)

Personnel:

Rod Argent – keyboards, backing and lead vocals (1969–1976)

Bob Henrit – drums (1969–1976)

Russ Ballard – guitar, lead vocals (1969–1974)

Jim Rodford – bass guitar, backing vocals (1969–1976 died 2018)

John Verity – guitar, lead vocals (1974–1976)

John Grimaldi – guitar (1974–1976 died 1983)

Argent - Greatest: The Singles Collection (2008) Varèse Sarabande - 302 066 880 2

This is the best overall review of the bands work. Hold Your Head Up single version cuts the song play time in half. The other single versions is better of songs over the album versions and this compilation has every song off anthology.

Argent were a British rock band formed in 1969 by former Zombies keyboardist Rod Argent... They had three UK Top 40 singles: "Hold Your Head Up", "Tragedy" and "God Gave Rock And Roll To You".

Tracks:

1. Liar (3:14)

2. Schoolgirl (3:28)

3. Dance In The Smoke (6:22)

4. Sweet Mary (3:14)

5. Lothlorien (7:55)

6. Pleasure (4:56)

7. Celebration (2:57)

8. Cast Your Spell Uranus (4:34)

9. Hold Your Head Up (3:19)

10. Be My Lover, Be My Friend (5:22)

11. I Am The Dance Of Ages (3:46)

12. Tragedy (3:36)

13. God Gave Rock And Roll To You (3:24)

14. It's Only Money, Pt 2 (3:38)

15. Man For All Reasons (3:08)

16. Thunder And Lightning (3:34)

17. The Jester (3:41)

18. Time Of The Season (Live) (6:41)

Notes

Tracks: 1,2,4,7,9,12 to 16 from the singles versions (1970-74)

Track: 3 from the album Argent 1970

Tracks: 5,6,8 from the album Ring Of Hands 1971

Tracks: 10,11 from the album All Together Now 1972

Track: 17 from the album Circus 1975

Track: 18 from the album Encore: Live In Concert 1974

Organ, Piano, Piano [Pianette], Vocals – Rod Argent

Bass Guitar, Vocals – Jim Rodford

Drums, Percussion – Robert Henrit

Guitar, Vocals – Russ Ballard (1-16,18)

Guitar - Jim Rodford (5,6,8)

Guitar – John Grimaldi, John Verity (17)

Ginhouse (1971/1993) Green Tree Records - GTR 012

 

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Heavy Hard Prog Rock

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English band formed in Newcastle (UK) from the ashes of local band Household. They only released one album (1971 label: B & C Records). Disbanded in 1972. "Original B & C copies of Ginhouse sell at a median price of $150."

Tracks:

1. Tyne God 5:27

2. I Cannot Understand 4:16

3. The Journey 5:55

4. Portrait Picture 5:42

5. Fair Stood The Wind 2:48

6. And I Love Her (Lennon/McCartney) 3:09

7. Life 4:27

8. The Morning After 5:11

9. The House 3:30

10. Sun In The Bottle 5:03

Personnel:

Bass Guitar, Vocals – Stewart Burlison

Drums – Dave Whitaker

Lead Guitar, Vocals – Geoff Sharkey