While they achieved great success in Canada, the band never had a song in the Top 40 in the United States, although "Lunatic Fringe" became a hit on album-oriented rock radio.
Red Rider was formed in Toronto in 1975 when Peter Boynton (keyboards, synthesizers, vocals), Ken Greer (guitars, keyboards, backing vocals) and Rob Baker (drums) joined up with Arvo Lepp (guitar) and Jon Checkowski (bass) and began playing around Toronto, performing both original and cover music.
Tom was invited to one of the band's gigs in London, Ontario to rehearse with them. Boynton, Greer and Baker were impressed with Tom's playing and songwriting but Lepp and Checkowski were not as enthused over him and decided to leave the band.
Jeff Jones (formerly with Ocean and the original bassist for Rush) was then brought in on bass, and it was the lineup of Cochrane, Boynton, Greer, Baker and Jones that were signed to Capitol and released their first album Don't Fight It in October 1979.
With the singles "White Hot" and "Don't Fight It", the album quickly reached gold status.
Released shortly after the successful single "White Hot," Don't Fight It shows Red Rider balancing between the folk roots of lead singer Tom Cochrane and the more progressive rock tendencies of the rest of the band. Indeed, while the single "White Hot" (which is also included here) was different enough from other commercial music on the radio at the same time to attract some attention, the rest of the album is fairly traditional pop/rock. (The track "Good News," for example, sounds almost distressingly like one of the Doobie Brothers' soul-tinged pop songs.)
The album reached number 146 on Billboard's Pop Albums chart while "White Hot" reached number 20 on the Canadian charts and number 48 on the Pop Singles chart in 1980 and "Don't Fight It" reached number 75.
The song "White Hot" is about poet Arthur Rimbaud and his travels through Africa.
Side A
A1. Don’t Fight It (4:25)
A2. How’s My Little Girl Tonight (4:05)
A3. Iron In The Soul (3:00)
A4. Make Myself Complete (3:40)
A5. Good News (3:59)
Side B
B1. White Hot (5:07)
B2. Talkin’ To Myself (3:30)
B3. Just The Way It Goes (3:46)
B4. Look Out Again (3:47)
B5. Avenue “A” (3:23)
Companies, etc.
- Phonographic Copyright (p) – Capitol Records, Inc.
- Copyright (c) – Capitol Records, Inc.
- Manufactured By – Capitol Records, Inc.
- Produced For – Quiet Stalker Productions
- Published By – Rumphyboobah Music
- Published By – Chesterfield Music
- Recorded At – Sunset Sound
- Recorded At – Clover Recorders
- Recorded At – Eastern Sound
- Recorded At – Manta Sound
- Pressed By – Capitol Records Pressing Plant, Los Angeles
Credits
- Artwork – J. Zugec
- Backing Vocals, Guitar, Steel Guitar, Keyboards – Ken Greer
- Bass, Vocals – Jeff Jones
- Drums, Percussion – Rob Baker
- Engineer – Gary Gray, Jim Isaacson, Ken Friesen, Toby Scott
- Engineer [Assistant] – David Taylor, Fraser Hill, Michael Edward Jackson, Richard McKernan
- Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals, Guitar – Tom Cochrane
- Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals, Keyboards – Peter Boynton
- Management [Direction] – Bruce Allen
- Mastered By – KP
- Photography By – Denise Grant
- Producer – Michael James Jackson
- Remix – Greg Ladanyi, Jim Nipar
Notes
Release: 1979
Genre: Rock
Format: LP
Label: Capitol Records
Catalog# ST-12028
Prijs: €8,95
Vinyl: Goed
Cover: Goed
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