Wednesday, 22 November 2017

The Hassles - The Hassles 1967 (1992 EMI)


On the Hassles' self-titled debut, the band displayed a naive enthusiasm and a slightly better-than-average blue-eyed soul, covering several hits and standards like "A Taste of Honey," "Fever," and "You've Got Me Hummin'," as well as Traffic's "Coloured Rain" in standard Rascals style. Most of the album is nothing spectacular, but a pair of Billy Joel's tracks -- "Every Step I Take (Every Move I Make)" and "I Can Tell" -- show a budding songwriting talent, with the material fitting in quite nicely alongside established songs. [In 1992, the album was reissued on CD as part of EMI's "Legends of Rock & Roll" series with a generous eight bonus tracks recorded around the same time. The disc was pulled off the market shortly after its release at the request of Joel, who still seems embarrassed by his juvenilia despite the charm of the album.](allmusic.com)


A nice pop album and i hope you will enjoy

SB1


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14 comments:

  1. dc_animal22 November 2017 at 17:23

    Thanks for the Hassles!

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  2. YankeeBoy22 November 2017 at 17:51

    When I went to get the album I got this message: File download limit exceeded. You can only save it to Yandex.Disk

    Any chance of a re-up? Thanks.

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    1. Superbillie123 November 2017 at 12:11

      Hello YankeeBoy, you can download it if you use yandex disc. After install the software you can download the album to your pc. After you once downloaded a file you can delete the software from your pc and it will still work without problems. I use it for a long time and it is very fast and without problems.
      Kind regards
      Frank

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  3. Terry A.22 November 2017 at 18:57

    File download limit exceeded for both flac and mp3. I don't know if it will reset overnightor not.

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    1. Superbillie123 November 2017 at 12:18

      Hello Terry, please read what i wrote to YankeeBoy's comment.
      You only can use it if you download and install the software. If you do that everything works fine.

      Kind regards
      Frank

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  4. Bear From Delaware23 November 2017 at 04:23

    I've been searching for this disc for ages, thanks for posting it.

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  5. heylee23 November 2017 at 21:32

    Thank you for sharing this great piece of work.

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  6. turpin chris24 November 2017 at 19:39

    hello, i try to use yandex disc, but it is in russian and i inderstand nothing !!! :-))

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    1. Superbillie125 November 2017 at 09:38

      Hello christophe, try this site: https://disk.yandex.com/download/#pc

      Hope it will works for you
      Frank

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  7. turpin chris25 November 2017 at 17:46

    thank you very much
    christophe

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  8. Greeny26 November 2017 at 04:33

    Thanks, Frank, interesting one... - Actually, I had the second LP "Hour of the Wolf" on an old HD (long crashed) but I never had a clue that it featured Billy Joel (and Jon Small). I always thought that Attila was the initial Joel (and Small) project...

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  9. Greeny26 November 2017 at 04:35

    By the way, the line "Every Step I Take (Every Move I Make)" rings a certain (police) bell, doesn't it?

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  10. Greeny26 November 2017 at 05:02

    Bass player Howard Blauvelt went on to form Ram Jam of bamalam-fame...
    By the way, you have to see the front sleeve of The Hassles' 45er "You've Got Me Hummin'",- it's bizarre, absurd and absolutely silly ... 60ties style with a spicy smell of narcissism or other substances...

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  11. Unknown26 November 2017 at 20:20

    Cheers for this super album from 1967 Frank.

    There is splendid musicianship, and Billy Joel's displays magnificent skill on the organ.

    There are fabulous readings of A Taste Of Honey and When I Get Home, that are significantly different to the Beatles recordings.

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