The Move - Don't Make My Baby Blue (High Quality)

[ssn0651]

Deep Tracks plays this at times . Great Post ESaetre , Thanks .

[gahrzahk]

From what I read, they toured for this album in the States in a used VW van. When they got to the recording office in NYC, one of the execs was like "Oh yeah, you're...uh, the... uh...the Move...uh, yeah, I got one of your records...somewhere..." and he dug beneath a whole pile of LPs to find Shazam.

[MrHekkus]

I really rated the Move...but I think what they're trying to do here doesn't work with this song; wrong tempo.

[verd3]

I love underground garage Detroit fuzz rock

[du11GGo]

Wow! What a sound....... so heavy it has it's own gravitational field. I spent all afternoon trying to get that sound using Strats and various amps at Corporate Guitar. Oddly, closest I got was with a Billy Joe Assh*le signature Jr. and the big line6 on blue crunch with some knob fiddling. And a boat load of watts.......

[talpajam]

would love to know what gear is being used here...sounds like Orange amps and some kind of 335 style guitars..just heavy kids.

[spacepatrolman]

@talpajam yea roy has a gibson 335 but also a black les paul

[elswano1]

really good underground album of its day!

[maida1982a]

"Shazam", if  I recall, was one of the first truly "heavy" albums. Not metal, not Zep-like, just heavy. What COULDN'T Roy do well??

[hogcontroller]

Harmonies at the end. What a capper! Love that heavy bass too.

[bendobrin]

just too good for words. best cover of this ever and great sound.

[thefarmerpa]

WOW!

[SkeebWilcox]

From what I basically consider to be one of the two best rock and roll albums EVER recorded (the other being The Velvet Underground's "Loaded"), this is the centerpiece to one of the greatest single SIDES of an album I have ever heard in my 45 years of listening to rock and roll and 30+ years on the air. Carl Wayne could SING...

[FinnMove]

I think this was the sense of humour of Roy Wood. I admit at first I didn´t like this.

But Wood put heavy rock arrangements by the Shadows song.

[spacepatrolman]

Its realy a frankie lane song listen to the video it has fuzz tone guitar .

[bendobrin]

just a staggeringly great 'rock' song. wish i could turn on my radio and hear it now.

thanks for mentioning the Shadows version of this song. i didn't know about it and it is very, very good.

[FinnMove]

Although The Move was not essentially a heavy

rock band, from this one is much to learn to those who

call themselves heavy.

Very cool guitar/ bass- riffs and thundering

drums. And a very nasty guitar- solo- part.

[stigjig]

this was a top 10 hit for the SHADOWS in 1965. believe it or not

[NeilThompson30]

The Shadows did a great version.

The original is by Frankie Laine in 1963.

[FinnMove]

I believe. This version is some kind of the sense humour of Roy Wood. But I like this.

[FinnMove]

Shazam is a good strange album.

But funny there´s nothing brand new. Hello Susie was recorded by Amen Corner before.

Cherry Blossom Clinic was a new version.

Beautiful Daugher was played in concert in 1968- 69. Trevor Burton was still in The Move

playing( he left early 1969 ). And other songs are covers !

[spacepatrolman]

feilds of people was ars novas the move took out one verse and put in a long guitar solo .

[FinnMove]

A long guitar solo ? I have heard that

it is Roy Wood playing there electric sitar.

There were plenty of instruments in Wood´s

collection. Sitar is also heard in Rick Price´s Lightning Never Strikes Twice.

[FinnMove]

A very good track of Shazam Fields of People

deserves a place here. Robin Hood phones and

the Sheriff of Nottingham answers.

[ESaetre]

Yes he does.

'Fields of People' is a superb song, and one of my favourites from this excellent album!

[spacepatrolman]

cheriebibo has a video of fields of people its very inspirational

[spacepatrolman]

@FinnMove fields of people was originaly by ars nova with one extra verse there were audio tracks of that album in imeem but that site is gone

[FinnMove]

The Move one of the groups realised how to mix

heavy rock and melodic songs.

I admit first time I heard this I feared and

and hated it. But Roy Wood is sometimes very hard to be understood. Recommended !

[NeilThompson30]

Who was the first heavy rock band in this country? A tricky one - but The Move's Shazam album came out in Feb 1970 and Black Sabbath's debut came out in March 1970.

There we have it - it's a fact that Birmingham invented heavy metal -

but it wasn't Judas Priest

it wasn't Black Sabbath

it was THE MOVE!

[rhinohouse]

Well... I worship the Move. But Spooky Tooth got pretty heavy there about 68-69. Check out "Spooky Two." I believe that lp was a major influence on "Shazam"

[spacepatrolman]

ALRIGHT NOW WE ARE GETTING HEAVY

[spacepatrolman]

triple tracked guitars with doubletracked wah wah solos

[metal1313]

black sabbath eat yer fricken heart out!!! this rocks and is sooo heavy

[spacepatrolman]

@metal1313 bev bevan played drums with black sabbath at a later moment

[NeilThompson30]

First time I've heard this properly. I had this album shortly after it came out and this track jumped from start to finish (the rest of the album was fine!) I blame Bev's heavy bass drum!

[spacepatrolman]

put a coin on the bass drum

[spacepatrolman]

I meant to say put a coin on the tone arm to weigh it down