Label: RPM Records (UK), RPM 128
Style: Progressive Rock, Psychedelic Rock
Country: London, England
Time: 66:17
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 365 Mb
When
keyboardist Eddie Hardin (born 19th February 1949, South London) was
recommended in 1967 by family friend and Manfred Mann vocalist Paul
Jones for the vacant position in the then internationally popular
Spencer Davis Group he could scarcely have believed that his
introduction to the world of professional music would have led to a
career that is now well over a quarter of a century old. On joining the
band in April 1967, he teamed up with Davis, guitarist Phil Sawyer and
drummer Pete York (born 15th August 1942, Middlesborough) they took off
on an American tour followed by a cameo appereance in the film "Here We
Go Round The Mulberry Bush". They also scored two UK hits, "Time Seller"
(No.30) and "Mr. Second Class" (No.35), before, in the summer of '68,
both Hardin and York left to begin work as a duo - 'The smallest big
band in the world' as they were initially dubbed by the music press.
Securing
a record deal with Bell Records, the duo released an album (SBLL 125)
and single (BLL 1064) both called "Tomorrow Today" in mid '69 and found
themselves in considerable demand on the European live circuit, gigging
with the likes of Deep Purple, The Nice and Keef Hartley. One concert in
a youth hostel in Hamburg-Blankenese was recorded without the pair's
knowledge and released as a bootleg disc which the duo only found out
about when fans used to bring it to gigs for them to sign. Eddie Hardin
eventually tracked down a copy of this excellent quality recording and
set about "bootlegging the bootleggers"! The 1970 LP "Smallest Big Band
In The World" (SBLL 136) was followed by 1971's "For The World" (Decca
SKL 5095) before the pair went their separate ways by releasing solo
LP's - Hardin with "Home Is Where You Find It" (TXS 106) and York with
"Pete York Percussion Band" (TXS 109), both on Decca Records.
(spaceritual.net/hardin/hy.htm)
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