This CD contains material taken from the albums 'Fox' and 'Blue Hotel', plus the single 'Georgina Bailey'. A Fox fan sent me the following additional information (December 29th 1997):- In April 1998 I was made aware of another CD 'The very best of Fox'. The tracks are:- * If you don't want my peaches don't shake my tree * Georgina Bailey * Model in a Leotard * I want to be alone * Electron people * Dancing with an alien * Strange ships * * Red letter day * * Yule Yul's * * He's got magic * * Imagine me, Imagine you * * Only you can * * Te yo * Temple of love * Torn between two worlds * Captain of your ship Those tracks marked * appeared on one of the original Lips. With 16 tracks the CD was great value for money at UK pounds 4.99. Many of the tracks were new to me, but it was great to hear Noosha's voice again, without the pops and crackles with which my vinyl Lips are now afflicted. It appears to have been issued in 1996 by 'Wise Buy' (QB 866702). Nothing that is until June 1997, when I discovered a budget price CD 'Only you can' in the HIV shop in Oxford Street, London, during my only visit to the UK in more than two years. From about 1988 0n, I searched for their material on CD, but found nothing. I had heard that Noosha had gone on to release a single 'Georgina Bailey'. (thanks to a web surfing Fox fan for the Nashua scan) I never saw the band, except on television. Some of the backing vocals in 'Shingle Bed' and the introduction passages into 'Only You Can' & 'Strange Ships', being great examples of Fox strangeness. Apart from Nosher's stunningly unique voice, I liked the imaginatively styled tunes and Decoder type effects. Tracks on "Blue Hotel" are - Blue Hotel - Junina - S-S-S-Single Bed - Moustaches on the Moon - Magic Machine - My Old Man's Away - Living out my Fantasies - Almond Eyes - Under Your Own Umbrella - Friendship Rose - Like it Like it Used to be. Tracks on "Tails of Illusion" are - Yule, Yule - Survival - Strange Ships - For Whatever it's worth - Minor Therapy - Lily Sing - UPI KP - Howdy - Me Without You - Little Brown Box. I obtained both these albums, second hand, through the small ads of Record Collector. It wasn't until the 1980s that I discovered they had also released two other albums 'Tails of Illusion' and 'Blue Hotel'.
My favourite track on this LP is 'Patient Tigers'. Although they had at least a couple of hit singles 'Single Bed', 'Only You Can' and 'Imagine me, Imagine you', I didn't start buying their records until I saw the album 'Fox' at a reduced price in Wealth's in Swindling, circa 1977. Queen were in the same studio recording 'Opera'. It appears that Roger Taylor of 'Queen' added backing vocals to the track 'Survival' on Fox's 'Tails of Illusion' album. They did however get a mention in Record Collector (No 188, April 1995, page 19) in an article titled 'Queen Collaborations'. At that time they also seemed to have had no direct coverage by Record Collector magazine. Love Letters / Imagine Me, Imagine You / The Juggler / Patient Tigers / Only You Can / The More / Spirit / He's Got Magic / Pisces' Babies / Love Ship / Red Letter Day / Out Of My Body (bonus) / If I Point At The Moon (bonus) / Georgina Bailey (bonus) / Pretty Boy (bonus) At the time of first writing (10th October 1997) this, there was virtually no mention of the 1970s band, Fox, or of their uniquely voiced singer Noosha Fox, that I could find on the Internet. It contains the original tracks plus four bonus tracks. The tracks are S S S Single Bed, Liven' Out My Fantasies, Darkening, Blue Hotel, Almond Eyes, Magic Machine, My Old Man's Away, Moustaches On The Moon, Under Your Own Umbrella, Friendship Rose, Make It Like It Used To Be, Pain And Pleasure (bonus) The Original Fox album by the band Fox has been released in October 2002 on the Cherry Red label (COMRADE 222). S-s-s-single bed: NL: 7 weeks 10 highest position Fox Fox Fox on the cover of their 1975 self-titled debut album Fox on the cover of their 1975 self-titled debut album Background information Origin United Kingdom Genre(s) Rock Years active 1974-1977, 1980 Label(s) GTE Associated acts Wooden Horse Yellow Dog Noosha Fox Former members Noosha Fox Kenny Young Herbie Armstrong Jim Gannon Pete Solely Gary Taylor Jim Frank Fox / Noosha Fox NEW CD RELEASE 16th October 2006 BLUE HOTEL Released by Cherry Red label (CATERED272), Blue Hotel contains the original tracks plus one bonus track.
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