Tuesday, July 18, 2023

HEADS, HANDS AND FEET - st 2LP 71 w Tracks LP 72 w 3 Songs from HERO Sndtrk LP 72 w Old Soldiers Never Die LP 73 w Home From Home (The Missing Album) CD 95


 REPOST:  I'm reposting this as it really needed to be organized.  From Discogs write-up:

Heads Hands & Feet were a British rock and country rock band.

Part of the Harris/Colton/Smith production company. Harris is Johnny Harris who composed the Bloomfield film soundtrack recorded in 1969. The group performed live at The Royal Albert Hall in 1970 as members of the Johnny Harris Orchestra for his Movements concert as the opening act for Dionne Warwick which was engineered by Eddie Offord. Tony Colton also co-wrote and co-produced with Johnny Harris for such artists as Richard Harris and Shirley Bassey. They also co-wrote and performed the soundtrack for "The World Of Georgie Best" BBC documentary from 1970 with Johnny Harris who was a member of the band as arranger and producer. They shared the same agent in Daniel Secunda.

Initially the group coalesced as a studio outfit in Advision Studios backing artists such as Shirley Bassey etc. In their downtime they recorded two albums worth of material. The October to December '68 sessions were shelved and belatedly released 1995 as Home From Home (The Missing Album), 1969 sessions were put out under the Poet And The One Man Band moniker on UK Verve and US Paramount.

In 1971, they released their proper debut on Capitol Records as a double album in the United States, but as a single disc in Europe (on UK Island). They were the opening act at the free Hyde Park, London concert on July 3. They opened for Humble Pie & Grand Funk Railroad.

Their second album, Tracks, followed the next year, but despite critical acclaim, internal tensions in the band resulted in a breakup in 1973 before the group's third release, Old Soldiers Never Die. (Their unreleased 1970 album was released in 1996 as Home from Home.)

The members of Heads Hands & Feet provided the core backing for Jerry Lee Lewis's second album, The Session, recorded in London from 7 to 11 January 1973.

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1 comment:

Viacomclosedmedown on youtube said...

BigGray said...
Bought these both on vinyl in '72 and '73, after buying their debut double LP in '71. One may be excused for thinking them Southern veterans, with the very American country sound. Actually, they're English, though guitarist / pianist Albert Lee was in Emmylou Harris's Hot Band in the '70s and the Everly Brothers band post '84. Singer Tony Colton produced the first album by Yes, and bassist Chas Hodges was, for many years, half of the good time, pub singalong duo, Chas and Dave.

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