As part of my ongoing sorting and salvage project, I have been reviewing lost albums and even stax o’wax that would be otherwise discarded, save for one or two interesting tracks that are long forgotten.
After sorting through about one thousand LP’s, I took a few dozen LP’s over to Blind Joe Death on the weekend and hit him with a few surprises, including Do Not Diturb (knock knock), by The Broken Homes (from the “Weird Science” soundtrack), and the Blue Moves double-LP by Elton John from 1976.
I haven’t really given much listening time to Elton in over 20 years, but I was once a very big fan of his 1969-1976 period, especially his first double-LP, “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road”. Apart from “Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word”, Blue Moves is a forgotten album from the Elton John catalog, and while the critics almost unanimously panned it, there are enough interesting tracks that I thought it worthwhile to offer it here.
Joe loved the southern groove of “Boogie Pilgrim”, which features backing vocals from both the Cornerstone Institutional Baptist and the Southern California choirs under the direction of Rev. James Cleveland, but it is the instrumental arrangements in “Out Of The Blue” and “Theme From A Non-Existent TV Series” that caught my ear for my pending salvage project.
Track Listing:
1) Your Starter For…
2) Tonight
3) One Horse Town
4) Chameleon
5) Boogie Pilgrim:
6) Cage The Songbird
7) Crazy Water
8) Shoulder Holster
9) Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
10) Out Of The Blue:
11) Between Seventeen And Twenty
12) The Wide-Eyed And Laughing
13) Someone’s Final Song
14) Where’s The Shoorah?
15) If There’s A God In Heaven (What’s He Waiting For?)
16) Idol
17) Theme From A Non-Existent TV Series:
18) Bite Your Lip (Get Up And Dance)
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