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Ridin' High (Moxy album)

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Released
  
1977

Length
  
31:83

Artist
  
Moxy

Producer
  
Jack Douglas

Genres
  
Hard rock, Heavy metal

Recorded
  
March 1977 Toronto

Ridin' High 1977
  
Under the Lights 1978

Release date
  
1977

Label
  
UNIDISC MUSIC INC.

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Moxy II, A Tribute to Buzz Shearman, Under the Lights, Moxy V, Moxy

Ridin' High is the third album by the Canadian hard rock band Moxy, released in 1977. The record got good reviews and got the band nominated for a Juno Award (Canada's Grammy) in 1977 for Most Promising Group of the Year. The album produced two Texas hit songs "Are You Ready", and "Ridin' High", as for Canada the album was considered too hard/heavy for Canadian radio at the time and consequently only the slowest paced song "Another Time Another Place" received any airplay in the band's home country. The album still sold well in Canada and especially in Southern USA because of strong live appearances that included shows with AC/DC and Trooper.

Contents

In the words of Earl Johnson "I remember going in doing radio interviews and Ridin High was the single and they would put it on and all the needles would just go tilt over right into the red and the station engineer would be freaking out. And I'm going, we're not going to get any airplay with this. I just knew it. And you know, we were a concert act",

Credits

  • Buzz Shearman: vocals
  • Earl Johnson: Guitar - Slide guitar
  • Buddy Caine: Guitar - Electric guitar
  • Bill Wade: drums
  • Terry Juric: Bass
  • Jack Douglas - Producer
  • Edward Leonetti - Producer
  • Mike Jones - Engineer
  • Recorded in Toronto at Sounds Interchange in March 1977.
  • Mixed in New York City at The Record Plant in March 1977.

    • Track listing

    1. "Nothin' Comes Easy" - 4:22 (Earl Johnson)
    2. "Rock Baby" - 4:48 (Earl Johnson)
    3. "Sweet Reputation (Symphony for Margaret)" - 3:54 (Buzz Shearman, Bill Wade, Earl Johnson)
    4. "I'll Set You on Fire" - 3:17 (Buddy Caine)
    5. "Ridin' High" - 4:03 (Earl Johnson)
    6. "Young Legs" - 3:46 (Bill Wade)
    7. "Another Time Another Place" - 4:39 (Earl Johnson)
    8. "Are You Ready" - 3:52 (Buddy Caine, Buzz Shearman)
    9. "Nothin' Comes Easy (Reprise)" - 1:02 (Earl Johnson)

    Reissued

    Moxy’s original catalogue of albums were again available starting in 1994 when Valerie Shearman ("Buzz" widow) oversaw the release of all of Moxy's back catalogue of albums on CD through Pacemaker Records, and again in 2003 this time through Unidisc Music Inc.

    Songs

    1Nothin' Comes Easy4:24
    2Rock Baby4:49
    3Sweet Reputation (Symphony for Margaret)3:57

    References

    Ridin' High (Moxy album) Wikipedia
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