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Lola Versus Powerman And The Moneygoround fue un álbum raro en la carrera de este magnifico grupo The Kinks, un álbum que ni siquiera entró en las listas a pesar del apoyo de su sencillo Lola que vendió muy bien en el todo el mundo, en los Estados Unidos el Lp vendió bastante bien y colmó las expectativas, pero en Inglaterra pasó desapercibido. The Kinks por entonces estaban vetados para presentarse en EUA pero a finales de la década consiguen ese tan preciado permiso y deciden emprender una gira por aquél país tan lejano, donde todos sus contemporáneos habían viajado varias veces y con éxito. La grabación de este álbum duro un poco más de lo pensado, pero lograron el sonido que ellos pretendían; El Lp recibió muy buenas críticas pero las ventas no fueron buenas, la gira por EE.UU tuvo muchas cancelaciones y no pudieron lograr ese sueño tan anhelado de conquistar América y que tanto deseaban. Habían pasado 4 años desde su anterior éxito (Sunny Afternoon/I'm Not Like Everybody Else) que había sido número #1 y el sencillo de apoyo de este álbum (Lola/Berkeley Mews) se posicionó en el 2do puesto de las listas y su siguiente trabajo como para reforzar las ventas (Apeman/Rats) se situó en el puesto número #5. Estos dos registros serían lo más importantes que harían The Kinks en las listas finalizando la década, ya que su siguiente trabajo en aparecer en los charts sería recién en el año 1971 (Supersonic Rocket Ship/You Don't Know My Name) número #16. Una obra conceptual bastante aceptable, con las letras muy directas y criticas, muy al estilo que The Kinks nos tenía acostumbrado. El álbum no defrauda, pero estaba un poco alejado a lo que la banda nos tenía acostumbrado. Los primeros días de la música beat y del R&B habían cambiado las mayoría de las bandas habían de amoldarse a las épocas y The Kinks no serían menos...God Save The Kinks
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hi mr roadrunner thanks for great music. i apologise for troubling you again but im searching for a track from 1967 by a band called the executives with a song called smokey atmosphere. i just wondered if you hsd it. is there anyway you could help at all. thanks
Thank you so " Roadrunner"
All the best, Albert
I saw The Big Three, years ago in Liverpool, this band had a very good live reputation
They played with 3, but for sure ,one of the loudest on there live performances !!
Here more info about this UK band
The Big Three
Personnel:
ADRIAN BARBER ld gtr A B
JOHNNY GUSTAFSON bs, vcls A B E
JOHNNY HUTCHINSON drms A B C D
BRIAN GRIFFITHS gtr, vcls B E
PADDY CHAMBERS bs, vcls C
BILL FARON gtr, vcls C D
PAUL PILNICK D
NIGEL OLSSON drms E
45s:
1 Some Other Guy/Let True Love Begin (Decca F 11614) 1963 37
2 By The Way/Cavern Stomp (Decca F 11689) 1963 22
3 I'm With You/Peanut Butter (Decca F 11752) 1963 -
4 If You Ever Change Your Mind/You've Got To Keep Her Under Hand (Decca F 11927) 1964 -
5 Some Other Guy/Let It Rock/If You Gotta Make A Fool Of Somebody (Polydor 2058 343) 1973 -
The group was earlier known as Cass and The Casanovas when it was fronted by lead singer and rhythm guitarist Brian Casser back in 1959. Casser was a poor singer and the other members soon ousted him. He left to form Casey Jones and The Engineers (who briefly included Eric Clapton in their line-up). Later he became a TV actor and fronted another group Casey Jones and The Governors, which worked in Germany with some success.
Meanwhile back on Merseyside The Casanovas became The Big Three and soon established a good reputation as a live act playing loud R&B material with Hutchinson's unusually raucous drumming for the times. They often backed local solo singers like Cilla Black.
Their live sound is captured best on their Live At The Cavern EP, which is their most collectable disc. It features covers of Ray Charles' What'd I'd Say, Chuck Berry's Reelin' And Rockin', Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah and the group's own song Don't Start Running Away. They also recorded another live set at The Oasis Club in Manchester, but it never made it onto vinyl.
Eventually Brian Epstein dropped them from his management because of their wild behaviour! They moved to another agency but their original line-up split in November 1963 and it was left to Johnny Hutchinson to put together a new line-up with Faron (of Faron's Flamingoes) and another Flamingo member Paddy Chambers. The new line-up (C) recorded a live version of You Better Move On for the Live At The Cavern album. Chambers and Hutchinson didn't get on and Chambers left after a few months. He later joined The Dominoes (Kingsize Taylor's backing band) before forming Paddy, Klaus and Gibson. He was replaced by Paul Pilnick (formerly of Lee Curtis and The All Stars, he was later in Stealer's Wheel). This line-up (D) recorded a version of Sam Cooke's Bring It On Home To Me entitled If You Ever Change Your Mind, which was a good arrangement and their only disc to feature strings. Neither this or Sam Cooke's original version made the UK Charts, though The Animals later had a hit with it in 1965.
By 1964 The Big Three had split for good. By then Johnny Gustafson had joined The Merseybeats. He also released two solo 45s for Polydor in 1964 and 1965. Then in 1965 he worked briefly with Brian Griffiths as The Johnny Gus Set. Later in 1973 the two teamed up again with Nigel Olsson of Elton John's band and using The Big Three name recorded an album, Resurrection. It didn't sell and afterwards Brian Griffiths emigrated to Canada and Johnny Gustafson returned to his career as a session musician. His credits include albums with Roxy Music, Ian Hunter, Gene Pitney and Shirley Bassey. He was also on the original album cast of Jesus Christ Superstar.
Back in 1964 the band had one cut, Bring It On Home To Me, on Decca's At The Cavern (LP) compilation. In 1985 See For Miles reissued this compilation on vinyl with The Big Three At The Cavern EP added to it, and again in 1994 on CD as Live At The Cavern.
Hi Roadrunner
I saw here the request for The Executives with " Smokey atmosphere", I can help you if you want, I have this song but NOT in great quality, it's a rip from Vinyl
You can send me a mail for this request to my Gmail account
Greetings, Albert
Hi Dave, unfortunately I can not help you, I do not have this song...Sorry
Albert1946 thank you very much for your kindness and share the song with Dave
Greetings
God save Roadrunner!!
jajaja thank you
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