Thursday, February 27, 2025

The Babys : Silver Dreams: Complete Albums 1975 - 1980 (Box Set) ..And MORE


 The Babys

 are a 

British 

Rock group

 best known

 for their songs

 "Isn't It Time

and

 "Every Time I Think of You". 

Both songs 

were composed by 

Jack Conrad 

and

 Ray Kennedy

and each 

reached No. 13 

on the U.S. 

Billboard 

Hot 100 

and 

No. 8 

on the 

Cashbox chart

 in the late 1970s. 

"Back on My Feet Again" 

also reached 

the U.S. 

Top 40 

in 1980. 

The original

 Babys 

line-up 

consisted of

 founding member

 keyboardist/guitarist

 Michael Corby

and in order 

of joining the group,

 vocalist/bassist

 John Waite

drummer

 Tony Brock 

and 

guitarist 

Wally Stocker.

The group signed

 a contract 

with

 Chrysalis Records 

that was the

 highest ever 

for a 

new music act 

at the time. 

Two studio albums, 

The Baby's

 and

 Broken Heart

were well received. 

After recording

 their third album, 

Head First,

 in 1978, 

co-founder

 Michael Corby

 was replaced by 

Jonathan Cain 

as keyboardist 

and 

Ricky Phillips

 took over as

 bassist. 

From late 1978

 until the breakup

 in 1981, 

The Babys 

line-up consisted of 

vocalist

 Waite, 

drummer

 Brock, 

bassist 

Phillips, 

guitarist 

Stocker, 

and

 keyboardist 

Cain.

Aftermath

Jonathan Cain

 had joined

 Journey

 just as that band 

was on the verge

 of mainstream success. 

John Waite 

embarked on a 

successful solo career, 

peaking with a 

number one 

American hit

 in 1984 

with

 Chas Sandford 

and 

Mark Leonard's

 "Missing You" 

from his

 second solo album

 No Brakes.

Waite and Cain 

reunited with

 Ricky Phillips

 at the end 

of the 1980s

 to form the

 hard rock/glam

 rock-infused

 supergroup 

Bad English, 

scoring

 several hits 

from their

 1989 

self-titled album. 

Tony Brock 

spent many years 

drumming for

 Rod Stewart, 

as well as

 drumming

 and co-producing

 for

 Jimmy Barnes

 and producing 

for

 Keith Urban.

Wally Stocker 

went on to join 

Brock 

in 

Rod Stewart's band

 and briefly

 joined 

Air Supply

 in the mid-1980s,

 later playing in a 

reformed version

 of 

Humble Pie

 in the 1990s. 

Phillips played

 with

 Styx

 for over 20 years, 

from 

2003 

to early

 2024

Saturday, February 22, 2025

J.D. Souther: John David Souther/ Black Rose


John David Souther

 (November 2, 1945 – September 17, 2024) 

was an

 American singer, 

songwriter, 

and actor. 

He was

 "a principal architect of

 the Southern California

 sound and a 

major influence

 on a 

generation of songwriters". 

Souther wrote 

and co-wrote

 songs recorded by

 Linda Ronstadt 

and some of

 The Eagles 

biggest hits,

 including

 "Best of My Love",

 "Victim of Love",

 "Heartache Tonight

and

 "New Kid in Town". 

"How Long", 

which appeared on

 The Eagles' 

Long Road Out of Eden

came from

 Souther's 

first solo album. 

He recorded two hit songs

 in his solo career:

 "You're Only Lonely"

 (1979) 

and

 "Her Town Too

(1981),

 a duet with 

James Taylor

He had a brief 

acting career 

and appeared 

on TV 

and in movies. 

He played with 

The Eagles 

on their

 2008 farewell tour.

 John David Souther

 is the 

debut album

 American

 singer-songwriter

  J.D. Souther,

released in 1972.

 The song 

"How Long

was recorded by

 The Eagles

 for their 2007 album

 Long Road Out of Eden,

 from which it was

 released as a single.

 It was a 

Grammy award winner 

for them under the 

Best Country Performance

 by a Duo or Group

 with Vocal category. 

Background

Souther 

was one of the 

first artists

 signed by 

David Geffen 

to Asylum Records.

 Souther had 

previously collaborated

 with Glenn Frey

 in a folk duo called

 Longbranch Pennywhistle.

 Souther later joined with

 Chris Hillman

 and

 Richie Furay

 to form

 The Souther-Hillman-Furay Band 

after the release

 of his solo debut.

 They recorded

 two albums

 before he returned 

to his solo career.

Black Rose 

is the 

second album

 by American 

singer-songwriter 

J.D. Souther

released in 1976.

 It includes

 Souther's version

 of 

"Faithless Love" 

released by 

Linda Ronstadt in 1974. 

Ronstadt would later cover 

"Simple Man, Simple Dream" 

and

 "Silver Blue"

 from this album.

Reception

In his retrospective

 review for Allmusic,

 critic 

William Ruhlmann 

called it an

 "excellent album steeped in

 the Southern California 

country-rock sound 

of the '70s". 

In a review for 

Rolling Stone, 

Stephen Holden wrote,

 "John David Souther’s

 second solo album

 benefits from a beautiful, 

all-star 

Peter Asher production. 

More sophisticated

 than either

 his first album 

or the two 

Souther-Hillman-Furay albums, 

Black Rose

 underscores

 Souther’s melodic writing, 

his strongest point, 

with some genuinely 

innovative arrangements 

by

 David Campbell, 

the classically 

trained musician

 who scored

 “Prisoner in Disguise" 

for Linda Ronstadt. 

"Silver Blue," 

much of which 

Campbell has scored

 as a duet for 

voice and plucked

 double bass

 and violas,

 is a starkly

 arresting production, 

while setting

 "Faithless Love" 

into a semiformal 

piece for voice, 

acoustic guitar 

and chamber ensemble

 transforms a

 prettier-than-average 

country-rock ballad 

into an eloquent one.

 "Doors Swing Open,"

 a complex tune 

based on ninth

 and minor sixth chords, 

boasts an elegantly

 lush arrangement 

that both gives

 it shape 

and highlights 

its lovely chromaticism."


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