Baker Street Philharmonic ?By The Light Of The Moon LP 1970 Mike Vickers Moog
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Baker Street Philharmonic ?By The Light Of The Moon LP 1970 Mike Vickers Aust
Original Australian pressing on Calendar
Mike Vickers (born Michael Vickers, 18 April 1940 in Southampton, Hampshire, England) is a British musician who came to prominence as guitarist, flautist and saxophonist with the 1960s band, Manfred Mann. He originally played flute and saxophone but with the increasing popularity of guitars in bands it was decided that Manfred Mann should have a guitarist in its line-up. Vickers volunteered for this role but he was always happiest playing woodwind. His tough flute soloing on hard blues tracks such as "Without You" prefigured the work of Ian Anderson with Jethro Tull five years later. As the group were all multi-instrumentalists who delighted in instrumental solos, multi-tracking was used to allow Vickers to perform on guitar and woodwind on the same recordings, while drummer Mike Hugg similarly doubled on vibraphone.
He was jointly credited with the group's early hit singles and contributed a few tracks to albums, such as "The Abominable Snowmann" and "You're for Me". Band-mate Tom McGuinness described him as "the nicest one of the group...nice nearly all the time. But when he's nasty he just can't be nice about it" and added "He collects saxophones - which we buy for him".
At this time, McGuinness wrote, Vickers was already "recording with his own orchestra and looks like becoming a definite threat to Semprini" and shortly after, at the end of 1965, he quit the band, though the solo album, entitled I Wish I Were a Group Again, did not appear until 1968. At about the same time he conducted the orchestra for the live recording of the Beatles' "All You Need Is Love", which was shown on live TV across the world when communications satellite technology was celebrated by a worldwide link-up.
In 1970 he produced this record with assorted colleagues under the name of the Baker Street Philharmonic and included a Moog Synthesizer among the instrumentation.
Arranged By – Mike Vickers
Bass Guitar – Brian Odgers, Herbie Flowers
Drums – Clem Cattini
Guitar – Alan Parker, Brian Daly, Vic Flick
Harpsichord – Roger Coulam, Ronnie Price
Organ – Steve Gray
Percussion – Stan Barratt*
Piano – Roger Coulam, Ronnie Price
Producer – Mike Vickers
Strings – The Charlie Katz Novelty String Ensemble
Vocals – The Breakaways
A1 Daydream 3:01
A2 Romeo And Juliet (From The Film 'Romeo And Juliet') 2:16
A3 Something 3:04
A4 Midnight Cowboy (From The Film 'Midnight Cowboy') 2:36
A5 Don't You Cry 2:17
A6 Mah-Na-Mah-Na (From The Film 'Sweden, Heaven And Hell' 2:48
B1 Lion In Winter (From The Film 'Lion In Winter') 3:00
B2 Sanctus (From The Film 'If') 1:52
B3 Sea Of Crises 3:35
B4 Sea Of Tranquility 2:23
B5 Sea Of Fertility 3:15
B6 Ocean Of Storms 2:52
CONDITION:
SLEEVE: VG+ Laminate great, minor bumps etc, name on back (see pic)
RECORD: VG+ Spindle marks
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