Still Shakin'Buddah 5683, 1976
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Produced by Richard Robinson
Photograph by Peter Hujar
Recorded at Pacific High, San Francisco
Engineers: Phill Sawyer & Richard
Olsen
Remix at A&R, New York City
Remix Engineer Ralph Moss
Recorded at Bell Sound Studios, New York City
Engineer. Alan Corbeth
Remixed at Bell Sound
Remix Engineer Alan Corbeth
1976 was the year when many thought the Flamin' Groovies would have their breakthrough. They had a new record deal with Sire and had just released the wonderful "Shake Some Action". The band's former record company was quick to hook on and released this collection of tracks from Flamingo and Teenage Head mixed with live in studio recordings. The sleeve notes says those songs were recorded just before the recordiing of Teenage Head, on 13 January 1971.
Side A
Teenage Head (Loney-Jordan) 2:53
Evil Hearted Ada (Roy A. Loney) 3:19
Comin' After Me (Loney-Jordan) 3:36
Have You Seen My Baby (Randy Newman) 2:52
Walkin' The Dog (Thomas) 3:28
Doctor Boogie (Loney-Jordan) 2:32
Keep A Knocking (R. Penniman) 2:12
Side B
Recorded Live in Studio A, 13 January 1971
Shakin' All Over 5:15 (Heath)
That'll Be The Day (Allison-Holly-Petty) 2:20
Louie Louie (Richard Berry) 6:45
My Girl Josephine (Domino-Bartholomew) 2:10
Around And Around (Chuck Berry) 3:00
Rockin' Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu (Smith-Vincent) 3:00
Going Out Theme (Loney-Jordan-Alexander-Lynch-Mihm) 0:30
I'm a bit ambivalent to this disc. I prefer the Flamin 'Groovies own songs in front of cover-songs. But the cover songs they do show what a good live band Flamin' Groovis was. The entire B side is recorded live in the studio including "Walkin 'The Dog' on the A side (which is not mentioned on the cover). All tracks are later released on CD. To get all the live tracks (and album tracks as well) I'll recommend Flamingo CD BIG BEAT CDWIK 926 and Teenage Head CD BIG BEAT CDWIK 926. To rate the disc is difficult, but I give 7/10.
The sleeve notes by Richard Robinson can be seen here.