AMBROSE SLADE Beginnings LP FONTANA 1969re unofficial reissue SLADE
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AMBROSE SLADE
Formed in the Wolverhampton area and originally known as The In-Be-Tweens, they started out as a cover band
but were then 'discovered' by manager Chas Chandler. Their early image was of a skinhead group
but after these recordings they shortened their name to Slade and the rest is history.
Needless to say Ambrose Slade's recorded output changes hands for hefty sums.
The album includes cover versions of Steppenwolf's Born To Be Wild,
The Amboy Dukes' Journey To The Center Of The Mind and Zappa's Ain't Got No Heart
"BEGINNINGS"
<reissue, originally published in 1969>
LP FONTANA RECORDS STEREO STL 5492
MADE IN EUROPE LATE-80S UNOFFICIAL REPRESSING
Barcode and Other Identifiers
LABEL: FONTANA - WHITE LABEL - BLACK TEXT
Catalog on cover: (rear only) STL 5492 886 766TY
Catalog on labels: STL 5492 (886 766 TY) [886 766 1Y / 886 766 2Y]
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): STL 5492 A1 BE
Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): STL 5492 B1 BE
On labels: Stereo
? 1969
Rights Society: Ashton Music Ltd., Carlin Music Corp., Metric Music Ltd.,
Flamingo Music Ltd., Mecolico, Tyler Music Ltd., Jobete-Carlin Music,
Northern Songs Ltd., Leeds Music Ltd.
On back cover: Noted by Peter Jones
Production: Ambrose Slade and Roger Wake
Sleeve Design: Linda Glover
from my records collection
tracklisting
Side A: GENESIS - EVERYBODY'S NEXT ONE
KNOCKING NAILS INTO MY HOUSE - ROACH DADDY
AIN'T GOT NO HEART - PITY THE MOTHER
Side B: MAD DOG COLE - FLY ME HIGH - IF THIS WORLD WERE MINE
MARTHA MY DEAR - BORN TO BE WILD - JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF YOUR MIND
grading
RECORD EX but (please, read above description)
SLEEVE VG(+) but (please, see pictures and read above description)
Of course, little of what you'd expect from Slade is actually in place, although Noddy Holder's vocals,
naturally, are unmistakable. The songwriting duties are split between well-executed covers
and full band compositions -- the Holder/Jim Lea team of future renown has still to crystallize itself,
and their one joint effort, the hauntingly folky "Pity the Mother," has little in common with anything the future held.
But the opening "Genesis" will be familiar to anyone who rocked out to the second album's
"Know Who You Are," proving that the band already knew a great song when they wrote one,
and a cover of "Born to Be Wild" sets them up for the definitive version featured on the first live album.
A floor-shaking slam through the Amboy Dukes' "Journey to the Center of Your Mind,"
and a suitably deranged romp through Frank Zappa's "Ain't Got No Heart," meanwhile,
demonstrate the band's musical versatility, and still Beginnings stands as, indeed,
a fine beginning. But things were going to get a lot better than this...(AllMusic)
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