Many of you enjoyed the other Daly-Wilson Big Band album (see there for the history and scandals), so here's another. Our vocalist this time around on a couple of tracks is Marcia Hines, who went on from here to become one of the biggest pop stars in 1970s Australia. After this album, she recorded his first (and best) solo album "Marcia Shines" in 1975.
There's not as much attention paid to this particular release, as neither Mobb Deep or DJ Shadow have sampled this one - but perhaps you could be the first? To be straight with you, this is not as good an album as the Kerrie Biddell one, with a few seriously bad tracks, but it's got its moments - good Rhodes workout in "Theme From the Rockford Files"; a version of Herbie Hancock's "Chameleon", which features some wah-wah trumpet; and Marcia is good on "Ain't No Mountain High Enough".
The band had just come back from a world tour around this time, interestingly having extensively toured Russia, which was unusual in those days, and having performed at the White House in Washington. Not sure what Nixon (or possibly Ford) made of this ...
Strangely enough, as part of their national tour that year, they visited a number of high schools, including mine, and it inspired me to write some brass parts for my band. Luckily for you, the cassettes of this have long since disintegrated ...
Marcia Hines with the Daly Wilson Big Band, 1975Thanks again to Micko and the Midoztouch community for this rip.
TRACKLIST
01 El Boro
02 Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans
03 Theme From The Rockford Files
04 Chameleon
05 Satin Doll
06 The Way We Were
07 Ain't No Mountain High Enough
08 Jimmy Webb Medley: Up Up And Away - Wichita Lineman - MacArthur Park
PERSONNEL
Trumpets - Don Raverty, Norm Harris, Lary Elam, Warren Clarke & Pat Crichton
Trombones - Ed Wilson, Herbie Cannon, Merv Knott & Peter Scott
Saxaphones - Doug Foskett, Paul Long, John Mitchell & Bob Pritchard
Vocals - Marcia Hines
Drums - Warren Daly
Bass - John Helman
Guitar - Dave Donovan
Keyboards - Ray Alridge
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Produced by Warren Daly and Ed Wilson
Recording and Mixing Engineer - Martin Benge
Recorded at EMI Studios Sydney
Marcia Hines appears by arrangement with Wizard Records
Photography - Phillip Mortlock
Art Direction - Ken Smith
24 comments:
Thanks a million.
hi Simon, this one tops the previous by far! (to me..)
thanks, it also SOUNDS great.
peace, E-mile
hey e-mile and k02, glad you're enjoying. Loved the Stevie mix too e-mile!
hi simon, my fav on that album was come lay some lovin on me, (that orchestration screams for a fat Wu-Tang Clan song or a creepy sci-fi horror flick?!) yep I heard it, that gay has some amazing albums for us :-)
glad you liked the SW-songs btw.
peace, E-mile
typo, meant guy were I typed gay,
no offense [:-) (need to clean my keyboard sometime, it's sticky as hell - or try to type a bit slower)
peace E-mile
:)
What a great premise for a blog. Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for this one! Although I'm deeply in love with Marcia Hines' voice, my favourites are two instrumentals: "Theme From The Rockford Files" and "Chameleon" (almost as good as Herbie's original).
I appreciate your hard work!
Jur.
hey Simon,
you post and I just download.
simply great sharings!
thank you!
peace & love
Hi Great LP.
Loved it.
Many thanks.
Thanks, Micko & Simon. Just listening to that first one the other day...
Just discovered your blog. Great music choice, especially this one. Love it. Thanks for sharing
Great, thanks!
Djalma
thanks for this.
You know, you must be the only guy in the world who knows this big band version of 'Chameleon', but not Maynard Ferguson's - which every high school and community college band in the US plays on every concert from 1974 until today. You should be thankful that you've managed to avoid that fate so far.
Duh-dot! Duh-dot! Duh-dot! DAAAAA!
kill me please
Thanks
I see this band with Marcia Hines in 1975
on tour in Saint-Petersburg
Great concert!
Thank you again
Hi guys,
I've now posted the solo album that Marcia Hines did after this Daly Wilson one : "Marcia Shines"(1975) - great funky soul album. Go get it! :)
Simon
arrggh that was the wrong link :
Marcia Shines is correct
another one here :
http://fraykerbreaks.blogspot.com/
The Marcia shines album was real good ! hope this one will be too.
Thanks
Simon or anybody do have a copy of Live at the Cellbound, Too Good for a One Night Stand? Just already downloaded the rest of the other albums by that group.
Hi henry -
No sorry - that one's a bit hard to find these days. it's "cellblock", not "cellbound" btw ...
THANKSSSSSSSSSS!
Fantastic, 6 years later and the link is stil alive! Thanks mate!
We play both Chameleon and Satin Doll in my BigBand - these are a hoot. Thanks.
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