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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 ...
The original release included an insert with song lyrics on one side and photos of the band members on the other. [4] It was reissued on CD in 1999 but was soon deleted. An expanded remastered edition, which includes all the A-sides and B-sides of the group's first four singles from 1972–1973 as bonus tracks, was released on CD in November 2006.
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.
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). [5]
Harvest Records was created by EMI in 1969 to market progressive rock music, [1] and to compete with Philips' Vertigo and Decca's Deram labels, and the independent Island label. . Harvest was initially under the direction of Malcolm Jones, [1] and was distributed in North America by EMI's US affiliate, Capitol Reco
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 ...