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If Only for a Moment

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Released
  
July 1969

Artist
  
Blossom Toes

Producer
  
Giorgio Gomelsky

Length
  
43:51

Release date
  
July 1969

Label
  
Marmalade

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Genres
  
Psychedelic rock, Hard rock, Freakbeat

Similar
  
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If Only for a Moment is the second L.P. by the Blossom Toes, released in 1969.

Contents

Line-up features a guest appearance on sitar from US folk musician Shawn Phillips.

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Track listing

Side one
  1. "Peace Loving Man" (Brian Godding) – 4:52
  2. "Kiss of Confusion" (Godding) – 4:45
  3. "Listen to the Silence" (Jim Cregan) – 4:50
  4. "Love Bomb" (Godding) – 7:39
Side two
  1. "Billy Boo the Gunman" (Godding) – 7:08
  2. "Indian Summer" (Cregan) – 5:55
  3. "Just Above My Hobby Horse’s Head" (Richie Havens) – 2:53
  4. "Wait A Minute" (Cregan) – 5:49
Bonus tracks (2007 Sunbeam Records)
  1. "Postcard" (45 A-side) – 2:55
  2. "Everyone’s Leaving Me Now" (45 B-side) – 4:45
  3. "Ever Since a Memory" (demo) – 4:25
  4. "Nobody But" (demo) – 4:03
  5. "Peace Loving Man" (demo) – 6:29
  6. "Listen to the Silence" (live) – 3:58
  7. "New Day" (demo) – 5:16

"Bears the influence of heavy California psychedelia and Captain Beefheart in its intricate, interwoven guitar lines and occasional gruff dissonance, leavened by close harmonies and sparkling guitar interplay" – Richie Unterberger, www.allmusic.com

Personnel

  • Jim Cregan – lead and rhythm guitars, lead vocals (3, 6, 8)
  • Brian Godding – lead and rhythm guitars, lead vocals (2, 4, 5), organ, piano
  • "Big" Brian Belshaw – bass, lead vocals (1, 7)
  • Barry Reeves – drums (all but 1), percussion, congas (1)
  • John "Poli" Palmer – drums (1)
  • Shawn Phillips - 12-string acoustic guitar (7), sitar (7)
  • Giorgio Gomelsky - backing vocals (4)
  • Paragon Publicity - design (sleeve design)
  • Blossom Toes, Giorgio Gomelsky - producer
  • Reggie King - producer (assistant)

    • Songs

    1Peace Loving Man4:53
    2Kiss of Confusion4:45
    3Listen to the Silence4:50

    References

    If Only for a Moment Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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