HANSON
Now Hear This 1973
Tracklist
Traveling Like A Gypsy 6:15
Love Knows Everything 3:08
Mister Music Maker 4:27
Catch That Beat 3:48
Take You Into My Home 3:11
Gospel Truth 5:03
Rain 5:10
Smokin' To The Big "M" 9:53
LINEUP
Junior Hanson - guitar and lead vocals; backing vocals on "Love Knows Everything" and "Take You Into My Home"; bass guitar on "Rain"
Jean Roussel - electric piano, organ, clavinet, Mini-Moog synthesizer; piano on "Gospel Truth"
Clive Chaman - bass guitar on all tracks except for "Love Knows Everything" and "Rain"
Conrad Isidore - drums on all tracks except for "Love Knows Everything"
Additional Personnel
Jimmy Thomas - superstring; backing vocals on "Take You Into My Home", "Rain" and "Smoking to the Big 'M'"
Rebop Kwaku Baah - congas
Bobby Tench - backing vocals on "Love Knows Everything", "Gospel Truth" and "Rain"; guitar on "Catch That Beat"
Godfrey McLean - drums and backing vocals on "Love Knows Everything"
Delisle Harper - bass guitar on "Love Knows Everything"
Chris Wood - flute on "Mister Music Maker"
Ken Cumberbatch - piano on "Catch That Beat"
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Magic Dragon 1974
Track listing
"Rocking Horseman"
"Modern Day Religion"
"Down into the Magic"
"Rock Me Baby"
"Love Yer Need You"
"Boy Meets Girl"
"American Beauty Rose"
"Looking at Tin Soldiers"
"Magic Dragon"
Credits
Junior Hanson (guitar and vocals)
Glen LeFleur (drums)
Neil Murray (bass)
Brother James (percussion)
Marlo Henderson (guitar)
Andre Lewis (keyboards)
No, this is not the MMMBop, crappy pop brother band, this Hanson (also known as Junior Marvin's Hanson) was a British-based rock band formed by Junior Hanson in 1973. Signed to Emerson, Lake and Palmer's label Manticore, their debut album Now Hear This, was released in 1973 and featured Bobby Tench of The Jeff Beck Group and Humble Pie fame. Smokin' To The Big M is an awesome instrumental. Still can't figure out how Jimmy Thomas is credited as background vocalist on an instrumental? They must have been smoking a big M when they printed that! Anyways, Junior decided to do his Ritchie Blackmore impersonation for the next album by letting everyone go and hiring a brand new set of musicians for the follow up album Magic Dragons. The result was a slightly funkier sound, but still a good album nonetheless. Robscurities has not been able to confirm the rumor that Venus Flytrap turned down an invitation to join the band.
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