He was talking about the band taking risks by doing Rock & Roll. While researching this story I was reading some writing by Marty and I have to admit it was hilarious. I am actually quite mystified why they kept trying to represent that their was a band called Fireworks. So essentially the whole Fireworks thing should have just been released using Marty McCall’s name. This is when I discovered that on this album the entire band was replaced from the previous. So I decided to do some research on who Fireworks were. One album they are called “Fireworks Featuring Marty McCall” but this album they are called “Marty McCall & Fireworks” and of course a couple albums they were just “Fireworks”. The whole naming of “Fireworks” is an issue for me. Produced For – Pete Drake Productions, Inc. Strings – Byron Bach, Carl Gorodetzky, Conni Ellisor, Dennis Molchon*, Gary Vanosdale, George Binkley, Marvin Chantry, Roy Christensen, Samuel Terranova, Sheldon Kurland Piano – Charles Cochran, Hargus “Pig” Robbins Guitar – Andy Reiss, Bill Hullett, Billy Sanford, Harold Bradley, Phil Baugh, Ray Edenton Published By – Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp. Mastered At – International Automated Media Recorded At – International Automated Media While his vocals weren’t the best his songwriting was top notch.ĥ – (Your Love Is Lifting Me) Higher And Higher – 3:14īacking Vocals – Dennis Correll, Fred Field, Joni Dias, Kirsten Konte, Mickey Rooney, Jr., Patty Bolton, Regunia Peoples, Tim Correllīacking Vocals – Donn Thomas, Leon Patillo Now that’s it’s years later and I am more able to recognize good music whether I like it or not I do recognize that Scott was probably one of the best artists of the period. Certainly a good album by good metrics but for Scott is wasn’t his usual dominance of the charts. “Learning To Live Like Jesus” made it to #6 and “This Little Child” made it to #20. This album wasn’t one of his most successful with only two charting singles. Let’s remember that it was guys like him that made the money for the labels so they could experiment with the artists that I liked and wanted to listen to. It’s strange that wile we would never listen to artists like Scott we always had a strong respect for what he did. I’ll be the first to admit I never listened to his work back in the 80’s but he was still well known to me and my circle of friends. Not saying this is a bad thing it’s just where Scott positioned himself in the industry. Scott’s sixth studio album strongly leans to the Worship music genre. We have included those tracks for your listening pleasure. The electronic release of the album includes 5 bonus tracks recorded at the Bremen Germany stop of the same tour. However this is all part of listening to a Larry production. Some tracks are chopped off and the sound quality varies greatly from track to track. I do fault his however for some of his editing choices. In his defense though redoing the Jacket would have cost a lot of money so I don’t fault him. In typical Larry form he did not redo the jacket to represent these extra tracks but instead put an insert in the album to explain. Well actually the first pressing had 4 tracks but subsequent pressings actually had 6 tracks. Larry released the album with side 1 having 5 tracks from the opening set and 4 tracks on Side 2 from Larry. Alwyn Wall and the Barratt Band opened for Larry and stayed on to back Larry’s set. According to Larry, Cliff Richard, The Vapors, Vic Coppersmith, and several members of Eric Clapton’s band were in attendance. This live album was recorded at the Dominion Theatre In London on Dec 26th 1980. Photography By – Barbara Redman, Steve Meilach Instruments, Vocals, Producer, Engineer, Composed By – Lamb It’s a pretty good album and I’m guessing you never heard it in the 80’s so give it a chance now.ġ5 – In The Morning / I Love The Lord – 3:36Ĭomposed By – Dana Langford, Joel ChernoffĬover, Illustration – Julius CissĮngineer, Photography By – Peter Yesner It has kind of a folky sound, not Don Francisco folky but more of a traditional folk sound. They are very good performers and I can say that based on this album I would have loved to have caught one their live shows. While it’s obviously not evangelical in nature the songs are good and cross over easily to the evangelical community. I was pleasantly surprised at how much I liked this album. The album was recorded Live at Messiah College in Grantham, PA on June 29, 1980. But then again we grew up in a town with one Jewish family so I guess we weren’t going to get any exposure to their culture. This album was on Sparrow Records so really we should have had some exposure to it. I have to admit that I had no idea the sub genre of the CCM genre even existed in the 80’s. They are generally credited with being responsible for the origin of popularized Messianic Jewish music. Lamb was formed in the early 70’s by Joel Chernoff and Rick Coghill.
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