A&M Corner :: View topic - AOTW: Head East - HEAD EAST (SP-4680)

LPJim · Posted: Wed 2/3/10 8:52 pm

Head East
HEAD EAST
A&M SP-4680

Roger Boyd - keyboards, vocals
Steve Huston - drums, vocals
John Schlitt - lead vocals
Dan Birney - bass, vocals
Mike Somerville - guitar, vocals

TRACKS:

Open Up the Door (Huston)
Man I Wanna Be (Somerville)
Nothing to Lose (Birney)
Since You Been Gone (Russ Ballard) -- #46 as a single

Pictures (Huston)
Get Up and Enjoy Yourself (Schlitt)
I'm Feelin' Fine (Boyd)
Dance Away Lover (Schlitt)
Elijah (Charles Sabatino)

Produced by Jeffrey Lesser

HEAD EAST entered the Billboard Top 200 on March 11, 1978 and charted for 14 weeks, peaking at # 78, according to Whiburn's "Top Pop Albums."

Reissued on CD in 2005 as a two-for-one with GETTIN' LUCKY on the Hip-O
Select label.

http://www.head-east.com/index.html

JB
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AM Matt · Diamond Member Joined: 04 Nov 2003 Posts: 608

The song "Since You Been Gone" was also done by Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow (from their 1979 "Down To Earth") & being played on classic rock radio than the Head East version. Matt Clark Sanford, MI

Mike Blakesley · Posted: Thu 2/4/10 12:54 am

I thought this was the LP that would put Head East over the top. It's their best record (along with FLAT AS A PANCAKE) in my opinion - the song "Open Up the Door" is a great opener and the anthem "Get Up And Enjoy Yourself" was a great concert staple back in the day.

The two-fer mentioned above is a VERY nice package and makes a nice collector's item, since it's a Hip-O Select item. Well worth finding.
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toeknee4bz · Posted: Sun 2/7/10 2:07 am

I agree that "Since You Been Gone" and "Open Up The Door" are the real smokers on this LP (Can I say 'smokers'?... Oh, well... never mind). ANYWAY, another great tune, a 'sleeper', is "Dance Away Lover". Too bad it didn't get any airplay. For that matter, it's a shame that none of these really broke through. I know there was an audience out there who would've jumped on the bandwagon if this LP had been promoted right.

Definitely their best effort after FLAT AS A PANCAKE. I just wish that the albums in between (GETTIN' LUCKY and GET YOURSELF UP) were as good as these in their entirety.

Tony
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