Pigs on the Wing and Other Favorites Additional discographical (usually original label, year of release), biographical information was added by Lawrence Azrin. Also, check out the links at your leisure.
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The album title comes from a tenement street in Glasgow, near where Bruce grew up; the street, since demolished, was famous as the largest unbroken houserow in Europe, stretching for over a mile. The front cover photo was taken near the Harmony Row tenement. / ... Click on the Link above, to view the original album
Time:
5:07
Artist:
Jimi Hendrix [Billed as 'The Jimi Hendrix Experience']
* - Mitchell based his drum part on Ronnie Stephenson's drumming on John Dankworth's "African Waltz" {UK singles release: Feb 1961/ UK Columbia} // ** - for the BBC music discussion show "Late Night Line-Up"
... ALSO ... This also chronicles the forgotten history of Motown Records; from 1970 to 1973, Motown’s "Black Power" subsidiary label, Black Forum, released politically charged albums by Stokely Carmichael, Amiri Baraka, Langston Hughes, Bill Cosby & Ossie Davis, and many others. / Click on Link above, to view this compilation.
Real name: Betty Jo Haskins / * - All the songs on the CD are written by him // Musicians on the CD include: John Mayer, Jon Batiste, Steve Winwood and Ray Parker Jr.
Oi! band from Sunderland, England; started in 1979, broke up in 1984 and reformed in 1989. // Click on the Link above, Left to view the original EP, with a (fragile photocopied) picture sleeve, pasted onto a card sleeve, 250 copies.
Formerly a founding member/ second guitarist and singer in legendary SF group (over-hyped by Columbia Records) Moby Grape. He was the son of legendary Academy Award-winning "Golden Age" actress Loretta Young, who won the "Academy Award for Best Actress" in 1947 for her role in "Farmer's Daughter".
The album title comes from a tenement street in Glasgow, near where Bruce grew up; the street, since demolished, was famous as the largest unbroken houserow in Europe, stretching for over a mile. The front cover photo was taken near the Harmony Row tenement. / ... Click on the Link above, to view the original album
* - When Roger Waters and Nick Mason inadvertently erased one of Gilmour's completed guitar solos, "Snowy" White (real name: "Terence Charles White") was asked to record a solo on "Pigs on the Wing". Although his solo was left off from the vinyl release, it was included on the 8-track cartridge version. White performed on the "Animals" tour.
* - Full CD title: 'My Time Is The Right Time (Original Rocksteady And Reggae Classics 1966-71'' / Click on the Link above, to view the original single
Time:
7:14
Artist:
The Beltones [Billed on single as 'The BeLLtones']
This is the last Steve Miller Band album with original members Boz Scaggs and Jim Peterman / This album was voted #353 in the third edition of Colin Larkin's "All Time Top 1000 Albums (2000)"
Time:
7:20
Artist:
Andre Williams [Billed as ' Andre Williams And His Orchestra']
Song:
Rib Tip's [Full title 'Rib Tips (Pt. 1 and 2)' / Sounds more than a little like 'Shot Gun'? - LsA]
* - he also wrote 'For Your Love' and 'Heart Full Of Soul', their previous two singles / Music critic Cub Koda described this as a "minor-key pop classic" and Beck's solo as "equal parts classical and James Bond soundtrack"
* - FULL title: "This Is Howlin' Wolf's New Album. He Doesn't Like It. He Didn't Like His Electric Guitar At First Either"; before this album, there were 4 compilation albums of singles, plus the year before (1968) the album 'The Super Super Blues Band', with Muddy Waters and Bo Diddley.
John Simon was the producer, but he was so appalled at what he considered the lack of musical professionalism from the band, that he asked the label not to put any producer's credit on the record.
