Shocking Blue - With Love From (1972) - Lp

Shocking Blue was a Dutch rock band, formed in The Hague in 1967.
The band spawned a number of psychedelic rock hits throughout the counterculture movements era during the 1960s and early 1970s, including Never Marry a Railroad Man, Mighty Joe, Love Buzz, Blossom Lady, Inkpot and "Venus".
The latter became their biggest hit and went to No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and many other countries during 1969 and 1970.

Shocking Blue was founded in 1967 by Robbie van Leeuwen. The group had a minor hit in 1968 with "Lucy Brown is Back in Town". After Fred de Wilde left in 1968, Mariska Veres took over the vocals and the group charted a world-wide hit with the song "Venus", which peaked at No. 3 in the Netherlands in the fall of 1969. The song was released in America and Great Britain at the end of the year, and it reached No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in February 1970. It subsequently sold 350,000 copies in Germany, and topped the U.S. chart for three weeks, the first song from the Netherlands to do so. It sold over one million copies there by January 1970, and received a gold record awarded by the Recording Industry Association of America. Global sales exceeded five million copies. The song was based on "The Banjo Song" (1963) by The Big 3.
Other hits include "Send Me a Postcard" in 1968/69 and "Long and Lonesome Road" (often mistakenly named as "Long Lonesome Road") in 1969. Shocking Blue's songs also received quite a large amount of radio airplay on Dutch channels.
"Venus" was followed by "Mighty Joe" (flip-side "Wild Wind") in 1969 and "Never Marry a Railroad Man" (flip-side "Roll Engine Roll") in 1970, which both sold over a million records, the latter also become a top ten hit in several countries around the world. Latter songs – including "Hello Darkness" (1970), "Shocking You", "Blossom Lady" and "Out of Sight, Out of Mind" (1971), "Inkpot", "Rock in the Sea" and "Eve and the Apple" (1972) and "Oh Lord" (1973) were successful in Europe, Latin America and Asia, but failed to chart in the U.S..

In 1974 both Robbie Van Leeuwen and later Mariska Veres left the group, leading to their split. Veres started a solo career until 1982. Her singles "Take Me High" (1975) and "Lovin' You" (1976) were mainly popular in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. Other known singles were "Tell It Like It Is" (1975), Dusty Springfield's "Little By Little" (1976), and "Too Young" (1978). Most of these songs today are rare.
Shocking Blue made a comeback in 1979, and recorded "Louise" as their first single since their breakup back in 1974. However, the song was never released for unknown reasons. They did however, perform live with their earliest songs such as "Venus" and "Never Marry a Railroad Man" in 1980. They made another comeback in 1984, and later recorded "Jury and the Judge" with "I Am Hanging on to Love" on B-side, and yet another unreleased song "Time Is a Jetplane" in 1986.
Drummer Cor van der Beek died on April 2, 1998 at the age of 49 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Mariska Veres died of gallbladder cancer on December 2, 2006 at the age of 59 in The Hague, Netherlands.

All the songs on this Dutch Compilation "With Love From Shocking Blue" are composed by Robbie van Leeuwen.

Side A
A1.  Follow The Sun  (2:44) 
A2.  Sleepless At Midnight  (2:28) 
A3.  Boll Weevil  (2:40) 
A4.  Poor Boy  (4:50) 
A5.  Velvet Heaven  (3:22) 
A6.  I Am Woman  (3:00) 
A7.  Demon Lover  (6:00)

Side B
B1.  Love Sweet Love  (3:12) 
B2.  Little Cooling Planet  (4:55) 
B3.  Scorpio’s Dance  (3:40) 
B4.  Waterboy  (2:30) 
B5.  The Butterfly And I  (3:50) 
B6.  Don’t See You  (2:44) 
B7.  Moonlight Night  (4:55)

Notes
Release: 1972
Genre: Nederpop
Format: LP
Label: Capri Records
Catalog# CA 38-g
Prijs: €5,00

Vinyl: Lichte Gebruikerssporen
Hoes: Goed

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Stevie Woods - Take Me To Your Heaven (1981) - Lp

Stevie Woods (born Joseph Stephen Woods, Jr.; July 2, 1951 – January 28, 2014) was an American R&B musician and singer.
Woods, a former Marine, graduated from Austin Community College.
In the 1970s and 1980s Stevie was married to Hollywood actress/entrepreneur Cheri Woods (née Lewis). In 1985 they had a daughter, Tiana Woods, now an L.A.-based singer/songwriter and front woman for the band Varna. Cheri later chronicled their life together in her 2001 self-published book Death Row Madam: Exposing Sex and Drugs in the Entertainment Industry. According to it, Stevie Woods was a cousin of American actor Philip Michael Thomas.

Woods was born in Chatham, Virginia, to jazz great Rusty Bryant. In the late 1970s, he was a member of the funk band Crowd Pleasers.
In the early 1980s, his two singles, "Steal the Night" and "Just Can't Win 'Em All", reached top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100. After his brief U.S. fame fizzled, Woods relocated to Germany, where he successfully re-launched his career, releasing the single "Rock Me Baby" and starring in the musical Starlight Express. In 2010, his all three early-1980s albums were re-issued on CD by Wounded Bird Records.
The following year, he released the album Quiet Storm.

This was the debut album for vocalist Stevie Woods, who had Top 40 hits with Steal The Night & Just Can't Win Em All. The album features a multitude of West Coast players and even as a version of Through The Years, which became a hit for Kenny Rogers just a few months after this release.

Side A

A1. Fly Away   (4:04)   

A2. Just Can’t Win’em All   (4:10)   

A3. Take Me To Your Heaven   (4:03)   

A4. Steal The Night   (3:47)   

A5. Through The Years   (4:26)  

Side B

B1. Wanna Be Close To You   (4:38)   

B2. Read Between The Lines   (3:52)   

B3. Throw A Little Bit Of Love My Way   (4:25)   

B4. Gotcha   (5:00) 

Companies, etc.

• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Cotillion Records
• Copyright (c) – Cotillion Records
• Manufactured By – Atlantic Recording Corporation
• Recorded At – Rusk Sound Studios
• Mastered At – Allen Zentz Mastering
• Pressed By – Specialty Records Corporation

Credits

• Arranged By – Gene Page (tracks: A5, B3), Greg Mathieson (tracks: A1 to A4, B1, B2, B4)
• Arranged By [Horns & Strings] – Jerry Hey (tracks: A1)
• Arranged By [Horns] – Jerry Hey (tracks: B1)
• Backing Vocals – Bill Champlin, Carmen Grillo, Jim Haas, Jon Joyce, Julia Tillman Waters, Luther Waters, Marti McCall, Maxine Willard Waters, Oren Waters, Paulette McWilliams, Sally Stevens, Stephanie Spruill, Tom Kelly
• Bass – David Shields, Ed Watkins, Les Hurdle, Nathan East
• Cello – Armand Kaproff, Doc Davis, Paula Hockhalter, Ron Leonard
• Concertmaster [Violin] – Harry Bluestone (tracks: A4, B3), Sid Sharp
• Drums – Ed Greene, James Gadson, Keith Forsey, Ndugu Chancler, Michael Baird
• Engineer – David Clark, Juergen Koppers, Steven D. Smith
• Guitar – Charles Fearing, Paul Jackson, Jr., Ray Parker, Jr., Steve Lukather, Stevie Woods, Tim May, Trevor Veitch
• Harmonica – Les Thompson 
• Harp – Verlye Mills
• Keyboards – Clarence McDonald, Greg Mathieson
• Mastered By – Brian Gardner
• Mixed By – Juergen Koppers
• Percussion – Paulinho Da Costa
• Producer – Jack White
• Saxophone – Ernie Watts, Gary Herbig, Vel Selvan
• Synthesizer – Michael Boddicker
• Trombone – Bill Reichenbach), Charlie Loper, Randy Alcroft
• Trumpet – Chuck Finley, Gary Grant, Jerry Hey, Larry Hall
• Viola – David Schwartz, Denyse Buffum, Gary Nutty Combe
• Violin – Bonnie Douglas Shure, Don Palmer, Erno Neufeld, Israel Baker, Jack Shulman, Mari Botnick, Marshall Sosson, Nate Ross, Paul Shure, Sheldon Sanoy, Steve Plummer 

Notes

Release: 1981

Genre: Soul, Funk, Disco

Label: Ariola

Catalog# 204235

€10.00

Vinyl: Goed

Cover:  Lichte Gebruikerssporen

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Solution - Fully Interlocking (1977) - Lp

Solution were a Dutch progressive rock band that existed from 1970 to 1983, during which time they released six studio albums and one live album. They incorporated jazz, rock, pop and soul influences, becoming more commercial on their fifth and sixth albums.
Fully Interlocking is the fourth album by the Dutch symphonic rock group Solution. It was released in 1977 by The Rocket Record Company. The line "Fully interlocking" appears on jigsaw puzzle boxes, as referenced on the album cover.
Like the preceding album Cordon Bleu, Fully Interlocking was produced by Gus Dudgeon and released on the label he set up with Elton John. Another name reappearing from Cordon Bleu was engineer Phil Dunne, while Hipgnosis again did the artwork. This time the recording location was switched from Wales to The Sol in Cookham, England.

Fully Interlocking comprised four jazzy instrumental pieces sandwiched by two vocal songs, the lyrics of which were written by singer Guus Willemse.
This album shares the highest quantity of instrumental tracks with their first album Solution (1971); the other four albums they released included more songs with lyrics. "Give Some More" was released as a single in Europe, backed by an edit of "Chappaqua" from Cordon Bleu. "Empty Faces" was also a 45, with "French Melodie" as the B-side.
Fully Interlocking charted in the Netherlands on 5 November 1977, reaching #30 and spending 7 weeks on the chart.

Side A
A1. Give Some More  (5:21)
A2. Carousel  (7:16)
A3. Sonic Sea  (7:17)

Side B
B1. Free Inside  (6:17)
B2. French Melodie  (4:34)
B3. Empty Faces  (6:32)

Personnel

Tom Barlage: alto sax, soprano sax, flutes, string-ensemble, organ, percussion, electric piano
Willem Ennes: electric piano, acoustic piano, organ, synthesizer, string-ensemble
Guus Willemse: bass guitar, lead vocals
Hans Waterman: drums

• All backing vocals by Tom, Willem and Guus.
• Ray Cooper - congas and percussion on "Give Some More" and "Free Inside"
• Stuart Epps - additional backing vocal on "Empty Faces"

Producer: Gus Dudgeon.
Engineer: Phil Dunne.
Assistant engineer: Stuart Epps.
Mastering: Ian Cooper at Utopia Recording Studios.
Recorded by Moonlight.

Notes
Release: 1977
Genre: Symphonic rock
Length: 37:37
Format: LP
Label: EMI-Bovema Records
Catalog# 5C 062-99506
Prijs: €10,00

Vinyl: Goed
Hoes: Goed

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