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Roy Young - Roy Young Band & Mr. Funky (Reissue) (1971-72/2005)

Roy Young - Roy Young Band & Mr. Funky (Reissue) (1971-72/2005)

BAND/ARTIST: Roy Young

  • Title: Roy Young Band & Mr. Funky
  • Year Of Release: 1971-72/2005
  • Label: Synton Archive
  • Genre: Rock & Roll, Funk/Soul, Boogie-Woogie, Brass Rock
  • Quality: Flac (image, .cue, log)
  • Total Time: 01:14:06
  • Total Size: 421 Mb (scans)
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Roy Young - Roy Young Band & Mr. Funky (Reissue) (1971-72/2005)


Tracklist:

Roy Young Band:
01. Roy Young Band/Mr. Funky
02. She's Gone Away
03. Lovely Rita
04. Revolution
05. Road Of Life
06. Turn On Your Lovelight
07. Baigollaigocks
08. Fortune Teller
09. The Light Is Dark Enough

Mr. Funky:
10. Roll It On
11. Give It All To You
12. Nowhere To Go
13. Mr. Funky
14. Wild Country Wine
15. Rag Mama Rag
16. Lady
17. New Sun New/ Horizon
18. Song Without End
19. Like My Mama Boogie Woogied

Line-up::

Roy Young Band:
Roy Young - piano & vocals
Alan Townsend - trumpet,trombone
John Lee - trombone
Cliff Davis - drums,percussion
Dave Wendells - guitar
Howie Casey - tenor&baritone saxes
Paul Simmons - bass guitar

Mr. Funky:
Roy Young - keyboards, vocals
Eddie Thornton - trumpet
Ricky Dodd - tenor sax, flute & harmonica
Ronnie MacDonald - tenor sax
Owen McIntyre - guitar
Nick South - bass guitar
Rod Coombe - drums
Cliff Davies - drums & vibes
John Lee - trombone
Robin Jones - percussion
Dave Wendells - guitar
Alan Townsend - trumpet
Ricky Dood - tenor sax,flute,harmonica

Young was born in London and moved with his family to Oxford at the age of five. He learned to play boogie-woogie piano at home and in snooker clubs, left school at age 14, and joined the Merchant Navy. While in Australia, he saw the film Blackboard Jungle, and, after returning to England, began a career as a professional singer and musician.

In 1958 he auditioned successfully for Jack Good's TV show Oh Boy!, singing and playing piano in the style of Little Richard, and performed regularly on other British TV pop music shows including Drumbeat, where he was backed by the John Barry Seven, and Boy Meets Girls. Billed as Roy "Rock 'em" Young, he recorded his first single, "Just Keep It Up" / "Big Fat Mama" in 1959 for Fontana Records. He released several more singles on the Fontana and Ember labels over the next two years, but they were not commercial successes. Young performed at the 2i's Coffee Bar in Soho, and toured the UK and Ireland with Cliff Richard and the Shadows, among others.

In 1961, he began working at the Top Ten Club in Hamburg, where he played with Tony Sheridan and the Beat Brothers, who briefly included Ringo Starr, and recorded with Sheridan. He then won a contract to play at the rival Star-Club, where he met the Beatles, and began performing with them in spring 1962. According to Young, Brian Epstein offered him a place in the group once they had returned to England and signed a record contract, but Young turned down the offer because he had a contract with the Star-Club.

Young returned to England in 1964 and joined Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers – also managed by Epstein – as their keyboard player and second vocalist, regularly duetting with Bennett on covers of Sam and Dave songs, including "I Take What I Want" and "Hold On, I'm Comin'". The group toured with the Beatles in 1966, and Young featured on their hit version of the Beatles' "Got To Get You Into My Life", produced by Paul McCartney. He continued with the Rebel Rousers until they split up in 1969, and then formed the Roy Young Band, who released two albums, The Roy Young Band (1971) and Mr. Funky (1972); band members included Dennis Elliott, later of Foreigner and Onnie McIntyre, later of the Average White Band. The band backed Chuck Berry on tour. in 1971, under his own name, Young recorded the song "Baby, You're Good For Me," written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, for the Albert Finney film, Gumshoe.

In 1976, Young recorded with David Bowie for the album Low, which was released the following year. He continued to perform with the Roy Young Band in Canada and the US, and also worked with, and managed, Long John Baldry in the 1970s. He toured the US in the 1980s with Ian Hunter and Mick Ronson, and also performed at Star-Club reunion concerts with Tony Sheridan, Howie Casey, Johnny Gustafson and Jimi Magnole.

He released an album, Still Young, in 2006, featuring songs written by Dennis Morgan.

Young died at the age of 83 in Oxford on 27 April 2018


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  • whiskers
  •  wrote in 13:52
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Many thanks
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  • mufty77
  •  wrote in 17:51
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Many thanks for lossless.