LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

Overnight Sensation (Hit Record) Play On Party’s Over I Don’t Know What I Want Rose Coloured Glasses All Through The Night Cruisin Music I Can Hardly Believe You’re Mine Cry Hands On You Starting Over Recorded and released in 1974. The group changed line up, two left , two came in, including Nebraskan Scott McCarl and former Cyrus Eyrie (the pre cursor Raspberries band) member Michael McBride. ‘Starting Over’ contains an all time classic 45 single, the epic aural movie Overnight Sensation, which still racks up radio plays today. Of the album Rolling Stone wrote: “The Raspberries have at last realised their potential. They’ve become the premier synthesizers of sixties pop influences extant. Even more importantly, the end results of their adroit collages of musical knowledge often equal or surpass their models’ original creations”. It is the sort of state bands today like the Coral and the Stands are trying to reach. McCarl more recently had a track from his 1996 album ‘Play On’ included on a Mojo cover mount CD. His version of the Beatles ‘Yes It Is’ graced this summer 04’s Mojo Beatles Red and Blue issue. McCarl’s Lennonisms were a perfect match for the Raspberries, and his later version of the Raspberries Nobody Knows (from the Fresh LP) was included on the debut RPM vinyl 7” single, also reviewed in Mojo