REISSUE
NO.3
DUE
SOON
ZOOT
MONEY'S BIG ROLL BAND -
IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN ME
(Columbia 33SX
1734) 1965 |
Following
on from the successful CD releases of the Big Roll Band's
early recordings: Zoot
Money's A's and B's Scrapbook and
Zoot! Live at
Klook's Kleek, Repertoire Records
is soon to reissue a third album - It
Should Have Been Me, featuring
many of the classic numbers that contributed to the
band's success in the 1960s.
We don't know the exact release date yet (so there's
no point in asking!) but rest assured we'll let you
know as soon as we hear when it is, at which point you
can dust off your credit card and order this unique
slice of musical life from the decade everyone who was
there claims not to be able to remember. |
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This record changed the world
when it was first released...
it must be true, it said so in Record Collector.
Now it's finally available on CD.
ORDER YOUR COPY NOW!!
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SOMETHING
IN THE AIR
MONDAY,
OCTOBER 18, sees the release of a new version of "Something
In The Air", the 1969 hit by Thunderclap Newman, with
Zoot Money on lead vocals.
It's
one of two tracks on an advance EP featuring Zoot taken from
"Pick 'N Tell", the forthcoming album from the new-look
Thunderclaps. The other is "Old Soul Singer", by
Pete Brown. The album was produced by Simon Hanhart (Tin Machine,
Fish, Marillion, Asia and The Children In Need single 'Perfect
Day').
Something
In The Air (Keen)
Zoot Money (vocals/keyboards); Pete Goodall (guitar)
Gary Leiderman (bass); Russell Gilbrook (drums); John Mitchell
(additional guitar)
Old
Soul Singer (Brown)
Zoot Money (vocals); Pete Goodall (guitar); Michael Bailey
(bass); Richard Bailey (drums); Dick Heckstall-Smith, Nick
Payne, Noel Norris (brass section); Dave Moore (keyboards);
Siggi Josiah, Lynn Jackamann (backing vocals)
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Thunderclap
Newman first recorded and released 'Something In The Air"
in 1969, and immediately had a Number One hit on their hands.
With the single and album gaining runaway success, the band
hit the road and proved to be a crowd pleaser, with guitarist
Pete Goodall joining the action. The band was originally put
together by Pete Townshend, although he did not perform with
the band.
CIVIL
UNREST
'Something In The Air' is a political anthem that has been
performed numerous times since 1969, covered by numerous and
very diverse artistes, but the time is right for the band
that instigated the song to give it a new breath of life.
2004, and is life really so different? Terrorism...Crime...War...Poverty?
But the song is also about the fact that there is hope, hope
that civilisation can actually change, and become just that
... Civilised.
WAR
The 2004 version has tried to stick to the spirit of the 1969
version but obviously with a line up change (including of
course, the addition of Zoot Money), and 35 years of evolution,
there has to be a change in the overall feel. Producer Simon
Hanhart, also the man behind the massive reworked single 'Perfect
Day', worked hard to create a track that lived up to the legacy
of the song, but also stamped its own mark on the new millennium.
From
the liner notes of Something In The Air, Hanhart Creative
Industries HCI CD001, release date 0ctober 18, 2004
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;RD Crusaders 2003.
l-r: Gary Moore, Richard Desmond, Zoot, Roger Daltrey, Greg Lake
and Nick Newall. |
Following on from last
year's success with the RD Crusaders, Zoot joins
old friends Roger Daltrey, Greg Lake, Gary Moore and drummer
Richard Desmond for two more nights of star-studded fundraising
in London in October - the rock and roll way. Featuring a host
of celeb musical guests, tickets, including dinner, are a snip
at £750. See gigs. |
MONEY IN THE
JUKE
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a quick fix of R'n'B, the Big Roll way? Want to hear Zoot
playing the guitar? Pining for a quick snatch of the unique
Zoot Money sound?
We
have sixteen generous sound clips for your delectation,
picked from throughout Zoot's career. Follow the link,
listen and enjoy!!!
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ZOOT'S SURPRISE PARTY, THURSDAY
SEP 30
AT THE
BULL'S
HEAD, BARNES |
BULL'S
GETS TOUGH WITH START TIMES
Attention funseekers!!!
Zoot's Surprise Party will henceforth be starting PROMPTLY at
8.30 pm and not the formerly lax time of 9.00pm. Zoot says:
"Start earlier....more music. Apologies to all who have
felt cheated but now my advancing years insist I be drinking
my Horlicks by 11.01pm...and so does the guy next door!"
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NEW COMPILATION FEATURES ZOOT
Privately released on October 18 on the Cuppa
Records label, Welcome To Planet Woodstock is a
new compilation of songs from the independent songwriter Woodstock
Taylor, whose work has been described as "a fine balance
between rock/pop tradition and inventive lunacy."
The track list includes a number of songs
produced by Zoot Money and also featuring him on keyboards.
For more information, click
here.
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SEVEN GONGS
FOR
ZOOT-PRODUCED TRACK
Road Movie - the
Director's Cut: (available from Cuppa
Records)
Clone
July,
from Woodstock Taylor & the Aliens' debut CD, produced
by Zoot and also featuring the talents of Colin Hodgkinson,
Ronnie Johnson, Marc Johnson and Pete Brown, was Jazz
Track of the Day on indie music site GarageBand on
May 18, and has won accolades in SIX more
categories: During May it achieved No 1 for Best Female
Vocals, Best Lyrics and Moodiest Track, plus Best
Elevator Track (go figure), Most Original Track and Most Rockin'
Track. Garageband operates a blind reviewing policy, so ratings
are based purely on listeners' impressions of the music itself.
Check out Clone July for yourself
at GarageBand.
Following
the success of the album's title track, voted Track of the
Year 2003 by Radio Six International, and a long spell on
the Radio Six playlist, Road Movie
is now online at Sonic
Garden for your listening pleasure.
Both
tracks are available on a 4-song EP entitled
Summer Hysteria, now available
from Cuppa Records, and
also on the newly-released compilation album Welcome To
Planet Woodstock.
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