Eruption & Precious Wilson Leave A Light 1979 LP DJ Promo One Way Ticket
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Eruption & Precious Wilson Leave A Light 1979 LP DJ Promo One Way Ticket "One way Ticket" was the hit but I was always partial to "Leave a Light"
This album was staring at me for a while at my local record store. Something about the cover interested me, as well as knowing Eruptions biggest hit “One Way Ticket” was on there. So I picked it up. This album is packed with awesome grooves and an overall joyful selection of songs. The entire album is an easy listen at the same time as being well put together.
I personally have the feeling Eruption lives in the shadow of their producer’s predecessor Boney M. But as they sometimes sound similar, the reduction of Caribbean feel makes it feel much more like a decent album in stead of a guilty pleasure. This by the way is not me picking on Boney M. as I think they are as well much better then what they are accounted for.
This album might be one of Frank Farian’s masterpieces. As we all know he sometimes influences the music more than the people you might see performing them, but this only proves his geniality. This album is perfect as it is, it serves it’s purpose. Therefore I leave a 5 star review on this, if you ever run into this and if you are slightly into Boney M. or disco music in general, it’s a must buy!
Eruption were a British disco, R&B and soul recording act in the 1970s and 1980s. They are best known for their covers of Ann Peebles's "I Can't Stand the Rain" and Neil Sedaka's "One Way Ticket", which were big disco hits in 1978 and 1979.
In 1979, Eruption and Boney M. were both featured in the 1979 German film Disco Fever. Precious Wilson left the group in the same year to pursue a solo career and was replaced by singer Kim Davis. The group enjoyed their third German top 10 hit with "Go Johnnie Go" from the third album Fight Fight Fight. Shortly after, a tragedy hit when Davis succumbed to a brain hemorrhage, although some sources claim she died in a car accident. The band decided to continue and singer Jane Jochen stepped in. A new recording, a cover of Del Shannon's "Runaway" was released in December 1980, and peaked at No. 21 in the German charts. After a compilation album in the spring of 1981 and the single release of "You (You Are My Soul)" from Fight Fight Fight, the band signed to Ralph Siegel's Jupiter Records.
By now, without the lead vocals of Precious Wilson, success was drastically diminishing, and the singles from their fourth album Our Way received little notice. In 1983, the drummer Eric Kingsley left Eruption, and Andi Weekes Barbados joined the group to play drums during last two years of the band's activity. In 1985, Eruption disbanded. In 1988, a new version of "I Can't Stand the Rain" was released. In 1994, Farian released the CD Gold – 20 Super Hits which featured five remixed and two original Eruption titles and 13 tracks from Precious Wilson's solo album. The new version of "One Way Ticket" was released as a single in the same year to promote the compilation. In 1997, Wilson became the legal owner of the trademark Eruption. She continues to tour promoting her solo projects, and also as Eruption with her new group, but none of the band's original members perform in the latest line-ups.
One Way Ticket" was covered by British disco band Eruption for their second album, Leave a Light. The song became a big hit in Europe in the first half of 1979, topping charts in Austria and Switzerland, and reaching top 10 across Europe. This song inspired the item song "Hari Om Hari" from the Hindi film Pyara Dushman (1980). "One Way Ticket" is now one of the band's trademark hits, along with their cover of "I Can't Stand the Rain".
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