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Pass It Around (Smokie album)

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Released
  
14 February 1975

Artist
  
Smokie

Label
  
Rak Records

Length
  
44:17

Release date
  
14 February 1975

Producers
  
Mike Chapman, Nicky Chinn

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Recorded
  
Audio International Studios in London

Pass It Around (1975)
  
Changing All the Time (1975)

Genres
  
Pop rock, Glam rock, Hard rock

Similar
  
Smokie albums, Pop rock albums

Smokie pass it around


Pass It Around is the debut studio album by British rock band Smokey (later renamed Smokie), released in 1975.

Contents

The album features eleven original group songs and two Nicky Chinn / Mike Chapman compositions. The Chinn / Chapman written title track was chosen to be Smokie's debut single. "Pass It Around" / "Couldn't Live" was released on 21 March 1975 but failed to succeed in the BBC Radio 1 playlist. The problem was playlist controllers who thought that ambiguous lyrics might be expounded to be a reference to smoking marijuana. As a result, the single flopped to reach the UK Top 50.

In order to promote Pass It Around, Smokie extensively tour Britain starting on 24 April 1975 as support act to Pilot, who scored a UK #1 hit with "January". Despite all the promotion activity, neither album nor single managed to chart in the UK.

Smokie

  • Chris Norman – lead vocals and guitar
  • Terry Uttley – bass and backing vocals
  • Pete Spencer – drums and vocals
  • Alan Silson – lead guitar, backing vocals, lead vocal on "A Day at the Mother-in-Law's"
  • Technical personnel

  • Produced by Mike Chapman in association with Nicky Chinn for Chinnichap
  • Engineer – Pete Coleman
  • Recorded at Audio International Studios in London
  • Tape operators – Pete Silver and Phil Colman
  • Mastered by Chris Blair at EMI, Abbey Road
  • Cover photography – Gered Mankowitz
  • Songs

    1Pass It Around3:07
    2Daydreamin'2:17
    3Oh Well - Oh Well3:17

    References

    Pass It Around (Smokie album) Wikipedia


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