WHEN I GO OUT GAMBLIN'
THEY WANNA JINX ME
AND BRING ME
BAD LUCK
40 Blue Fingers,
Freshly Packed
and
Ready to Serve
is the
debut studio album
by the blues band
released in 1968.
The album reached
number 12
in the
UK Albums Chart.
This album
has three
Freddy King covers;
"Lonesome Whistle Blues"
"See See Baby"
and
"San-Ho-Zay"
Background
Chicken Shack's
first single
“It's Okay With Me Baby /
When My Left Eye Jumps”
was released in 1968
shortly before their
first LP release
40 Blue Fingers,
Freshly Packed and
Ready to Serve
was released
later that year.
Christine Perfect
composed and sang
the song on side A
of the first single
and
Stan Webb
composed and sang
the song on
the flip side.
Neither side
of the first single
was included
on the
first LP release.
The first
non-album single
and the debut LP
attracted
a lot of attention.
40 Blue Fingers…
ended up having
considerable
chart success
(No. 12 on the British Album Charts).
Stan Webb
and
Christine Perfect
both wrote two songs
for the album
and the
rest of the songs
were blues covers.
Webb sang
lead vocals
on all of
his compositions
as well as
all of the covers.
Perfect sang lead
only on her
compositions.
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