🎵 AotW AOTW: Henry Gross (A&M SP 4416)

[LPJim]

Henry Gross
HENRY GROSS
A&M SP4416

Henry Gross was a former lead guitarist of Sha-Na-Na and had a hit song "Shannon" in 1976.

SIDE ONE
Simone 4:30/ Come ON Say It 3:32/ The Ever Lovin' Days 2:12/ Lay Your Love Down 3:49/ *Meet On the Corner 3:21.

SIDE TWO
Now I'm Gonna Love You 3:32/ With the Sleep in My Eyes 3:59/ Fly Away 3:06/ Skin King 3:46/ **Sweet Sassafras 3:50.

All songs by Henry Gross, Sweet City Songs Inc. ASCAP except *by Rod Clements, R&M Music Productions Inc. ASCAP and ** Art Williams, Sweet City Songs Inc. ASCAP.

Produced by Terry Cashman and Tommy West for Cashwest Productions.
Production Assistant: Terence P. Monogue/ Recording and Mixing Engineer: Bruce Tergesen, assisted by Blaise Castellano, Corky Stasiak, Tom English and Dave Masson.

Recorded at the Hit Factory, New York 1973/ With love to Robert Wachs, Richard Joffe, Eliot Cahn, Jake Atikian and Jeff Green.
Acoustic & electric guitars and strings designed by Philip J. Petillo and Jake Atikian/ Art Direction by Roland Young.

Music credits:
Henry Gross - acoustic & electric guitar/ Stu Woods - bass/ Tommy West - piano/ Arnie Lawrence - flute/ Tasha Thomas, Marty Nelson & Tyrone Babboza - background vocals/ Steve Gadd - drums/ George Devens - percussion/ Joe Macho - bass/ Eric Weissberg - violin/ Michael Kamen - ARP Synth/ Rondo Rappone - addt. vocals/ Alan Swartzberg - percussion/ Dave Sanborn - alto sax/ Terence Minogue - horn arrangements/ Gene Bianco - harp.

CD Reissue: Available as a 2-for-1 with PLUG ME INTO SOMETHING (A&M SP 4502) through the official website.

Visit Henry Gross' official site for more information:

www.henrygross.com

JB

 

[Mike Blakesley]

Henry Gross was popular here when the PLUG ME album was released. We sold quite a few copies of it. So, I put this album in stock too. It never sold nearly as well as PLUG ME but has some good songs. "Come On Say It" was my personal fave.

There is a Henry Gross compilation available on Varese Sarabande that has quite a few of his good A&M songs along with his later hits.

 

[Dave]

A much better-received sequel to Henry Gross's debut album, Henry Gross (ABCX 747); recorded in 1971 for ABC... After which Gross recorded this album and a follow-up, Plug Me Into Something on A&M, before moving onto Lifesong records, owned by the then, late-Jim Croce producers, Terry Cashman & Tommy West, who also recorded a few LP's on ABC, then quickly becoming Henry's sheppherds, right after Croce's death...

A good-to-average effort, and my first copy did NOT have the lyrics, which I frequently saw in copies of this thereafter... Still, I think Plug Me Into Something is a bit more worth waiting for...


Dave