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"See My Baby Jive" is a 1973 song by the British glam rock band Wizzard. Written and produced by Roy Wood, "See My Baby Jive" was the second single by Wood's band and their first to reach number one in the UK singles chart, spending four weeks at the top of the chart during May and June 1973. [3]
Their biggest hit was with their second single. "See My Baby Jive", Wood's faithful and affectionate tribute to the Phil Spector-generated 'Wall of Sound', made No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart for four weeks. [8] It sold over one million copies globally, and was awarded gold disc status. [9]
"See My Baby Jive" 1973 Single Wizzard "Ships in the Night" 1987 Starting Up: Solo "Sing Out the Old (Bring in the New)" 1980 Single Solo "Sneakin'" 1977 Super Active Wizzo: Wizzo Band "The Song" 1975 Mustard: Solo "Songs of Praise" 1973 Boulders: Solo "Starting Up" 1987 Starting Up: Solo "The Stroll" 1977 Single Wizzo Band "Take My Hand" 1975 ...
Roy Wood was born on 8 November 1947 [6] in Kitts Green, a suburb of Birmingham, England.For some years the legend persisted that his real name was Ulysses Adrian Wood, until it was revealed that this was probably the result of somebody close to the Move in their early days filling in such names on a 'lifelines' feature for the press as a joke.
Boulders is the debut solo album by English musician Roy Wood, recorded from 1969 to 1971 and released in July 1973 by Harvest Records.Wood began work on the album as a whimsical side-project away from his band the Move, and conceived it to explore numerous instruments he had collected in the 1960s but felt unable to use in the Move.
According to Wood, while Mustard is the follow-up album to Boulders, it is "also quite a different mixture of songs". [6] Unlike Boulders – which Stephen Thomas Erlewine describes as a pastoral, homemade-style "collection of pop vignettes" – Mustard is a more fully fledged pop album, lessening the amount of studio effects and absurdist humour in favour of a grander sound, with chiming ...
He joined up again with Roy Wood in the latter's new band, Wizzard, with whom he had two British number one hit singles, "See My Baby Jive" and "Angel Fingers", as well as the No. 4 Christmas classic "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday" (all 1973).
Wizzo Band were an English jazz rock band formed by Roy Wood after Wizzard split in 1975, fulfilling his ambitions to create an ensemble that was more jazz-orientated than rock or pop.