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Rock - Rock & Roll - Prog-Rock/ Art Rock - Psychedelic
Year.1970 Label.Cube Records
Year.1998 Label.Repertoire Records
Catalog #.REP 4691-WY
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Review by by Bruce Eder
The single most accomplished album to be recorded by any of the Birmingham rock bands (which include the Moody Blues), Shazam is sort of Sgt. Pepper with an attitude, a mixture of expansive progressive rock worthy of the Beatles and high-energy music honed by years of playing loud on-stage. The rendition of Tom Paxton's "The Last Thing on My Mind" pushes these guys simultaneously into Byrds and Jimi Hendrix territory, while "Beautiful Daughter" is one of the most unabashedly pretty records of this era, and "Cherry Blossom Clinic Revisited" is defiantly strange. The album only exists as an import from Japan, paired up on one CD with the earlier Flowers in the Rain album (all songs in print domestically or a better German version filled out with five live tracks from London's Marquee Club, off of the super-rare Something Else EP).
Musicians :
Carl Wayne - Vocals
Roy Wood - Vocals, Guitar
Trevor Burdon - Guitar
Chris Ace Kefford - Bass
Bev Bevan - Drums
Tracks listing :
'Shazam' (72:49)
01 Hello Susie (4:51)
02 Beautiful Daughter (2:51)
03 Cherry Blossom Clinic Revisited (7:40)
04 Fields of People (10:58 )
05 Don't Make My Baby Blue (6:02)
06 The Last Thing on My Mind (7:36)
Bonus Tracks :
07 So You Want to Be a Rock & Roll Star [live] (3:00)
08 Stephanie Knows Who [live] (3:03)
09 Something Else [live] (2:24)
10 It'll Be Me [live] (2:37)
11 Sunshine Help Me [live] (5:12)
12 Piece of My Heart (4:03)
13 Too Much in Love (2:27)
14 (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher [live] (3:31)
15 Sunshine Help Me (6:34)
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Year.1970 Label.Cube Records
Year.1998 Label.Repertoire Records
Catalog #.REP 4691-WY
Rip. : ExactAudioCopy v0.95b1
Encoder : ape (Monkey's Audio 3.99)
.rar : 412.20 Mo
with : Front/Back/Cd label/All Insides and eac.log
Review by by Bruce Eder
The single most accomplished album to be recorded by any of the Birmingham rock bands (which include the Moody Blues), Shazam is sort of Sgt. Pepper with an attitude, a mixture of expansive progressive rock worthy of the Beatles and high-energy music honed by years of playing loud on-stage. The rendition of Tom Paxton's "The Last Thing on My Mind" pushes these guys simultaneously into Byrds and Jimi Hendrix territory, while "Beautiful Daughter" is one of the most unabashedly pretty records of this era, and "Cherry Blossom Clinic Revisited" is defiantly strange. The album only exists as an import from Japan, paired up on one CD with the earlier Flowers in the Rain album (all songs in print domestically or a better German version filled out with five live tracks from London's Marquee Club, off of the super-rare Something Else EP).
Musicians :
Carl Wayne - Vocals
Roy Wood - Vocals, Guitar
Trevor Burdon - Guitar
Chris Ace Kefford - Bass
Bev Bevan - Drums
Tracks listing :
'Shazam' (72:49)
01 Hello Susie (4:51)
02 Beautiful Daughter (2:51)
03 Cherry Blossom Clinic Revisited (7:40)
04 Fields of People (10:58 )
05 Don't Make My Baby Blue (6:02)
06 The Last Thing on My Mind (7:36)
Bonus Tracks :
07 So You Want to Be a Rock & Roll Star [live] (3:00)
08 Stephanie Knows Who [live] (3:03)
09 Something Else [live] (2:24)
10 It'll Be Me [live] (2:37)
11 Sunshine Help Me [live] (5:12)
12 Piece of My Heart (4:03)
13 Too Much in Love (2:27)
14 (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher [live] (3:31)
15 Sunshine Help Me (6:34)
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