Saturday, July 21, 2007

The Army Blues [1972]

Cool oddity for lounge rock collectors as this is members of the United States Army Band in a spin-off band named The Army Blues "constantly striving to stay abreast of the fast moving, ever evolving music of today...", in other words the 'hip' wing of the military band. They do a flipped out "Proud Mary" (Creedence song) with a wacko vocal that makes the LP worth it alone, but also versions of "Superstar", "Heaven On Their Minds", "I Don't Know How To Love Him" (from Jesus Christ Superstar)), "14th Street Bridge Song", "Summertime", "The Way Of Love" and get a lounge band with horns sound overall with some vocals and some instrumentals. Official non-commercial US Army issue. What they do to "Proud Mary" is the main recommendation here... [PM]

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