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| From | "David Bash" <bashpop@earthlink.net> |
| Subject | Re: OldTapes/Sky High |
| Date | Sun, 29 Jun 2003 21:44:18 -0700 |
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I wrote:
> > begging for a CD release of Jigsaw's great and ultra-rare
> > album of 1972, Aurora Borealis!)
Then garymaher@j... wrote:
> The "Jigsaw" LP ain't half bad, by the way. They did something really
> funny -- Sky High kicks off the A side, and the song that kicks off side
> two is completely different but has an almost identical beginning -- same
> boing boing boing, same string part, just a different chord progression.
> Good to hear there's another LP of theirs out there. Maybe it'll surface
> someday . . .
>
> g
Actually, there are several other Jigsaw albums, as the band's albums span
from 1970 through the early '80s. If I recall correctly their first album,
which I think is called Leatherwood Square, was kind of a concept album a la
side two of The Small Faces' Ogden Nut Gone Flake, but not as good and even
less song oriented. Stupidly, I got rid of that LP years ago without giving
it a real chance. Aurora Borealis was next and it's great, kinda like
Badfinger's Magic Christian Music but with a lead vocalist who sounds like
Tommy Evans at 35 RPM. The next one, Broken Hearted, from 1973, was kind of
a blue-eyed soul album, with several songs reminding me of The Stylistics
(!). Next was "I've Seen The Film, I've Read The Book, which was more of a
straight, orchestrated pop album which definitely foreshadowed "Sky High",
and contained the original version of "Who Do You Think You Are?", which was
a hit in the US by Bo Donaldson and The Heywoods (much better than Billy,
Don't Be A Hero, IMHO). Then came the Sky High album, and a few after that
which veered towards disco.
Broken Hearted and I've Seen The Film, I've Read The Book were issued on CD
in Japan a few years ago (I remember Not Lame carried them for awhile).
Both of those albums were originally on the BASF label in the UK (there was
no US release on either of these). Aurora Borealis and Leatherwood Square
were originally issued on Philips, which might explain why they weren't
issued on Japanese CD along with the others.
There, that's much more than you ever wanted to know about Jigsaw!
--
Pop Rules!!!!!
Take Care,
David
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