Tales Of Old Grand-Daddy
by Marcus Hook Roll Band

Tales Of Old Grand-Daddy by Marcus Hook Roll Band
Year: 1973
Overall rank: 48,241st   Overall chart history
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Award Top albums of 1973 (493rd)
Award Top albums of of the 1970s (4,548th)
Award Best albums of all time (48,241st)

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Overall rank: 48,241st | 1970s rank: 4,548th | 1973 rank: 493rd  Overall chart history
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From 06/26/2012 17:34 | #45391
These recordings could more or less be called the missing link between Easybeats and Flash & the Pan.
After the split up of the Easybeats songwriters George Young and Harry Vanda did a lot of production for other artists, but also went into the studios to record for themselves with various other musicians. One of these projects was called Marcus Hook Roll Band, and an full album plus a couple of singles were released under that name. Not much promotion was made and the records were not released in many countries.

Musically it comes as a natural continuation of the style that the Easybeats had played on the last album "Friends" with songs like "St Louis". Musically a great rock/soul album with both Harry Vanda and George Young on lead vocals. Wally Allen of The Pretty Things was also a big part of this project, which makes it even more interesting. George Young's two AC/DC brothers Angus and Malcolm are also here.

There are some real gems here; "Natural Man" and "Shot in the Head" were fine singles and "Cry For Me" and "Silver Shoes and Strawberry Wine" are great songs.

Originally released in in 1973 but unfortunately this is a pretty hard to find album today; it was re-released on CD in Australia in the 1990's, but it's already deleted again. Hopefully it's will be released in Europe and America too, since it's a must buy for any fan of Vanda/Young and the Easybeats. A lot of the other obscure Vanda/Young record projects would be perfect as bonus tracks.
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