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Yeah - I love good horn charts.  That's something that's totally been lost in pop music.   I'm only 50, Gary.  I remember lots of music from that era, but I have no idea if there was any radio airplay in Kansas City, where I am from.  I'll check 'em out.

On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 10:06 PM, Gary Brumm <gabru@comsec.net> wrote:

 

Yes, they had (and still have) a great horn section.  I did sound for them back in the 70’s with their original (I think) horn section that went on to form

Tower of Power (who I also did sound for back then).  Lydia’s pipes are still in great shape!  There was a lot of good music back then and

I have very fond memories (what parts I can remember that is) of working with a lot of those bands in their early days (or is the daze J).

 

 

From: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com [mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of sdavmor
Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2011 7:36 PM
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] famous brush

 

 

On 06/04/2011 02:01 PM, lsf5275@aol.com wrote:
> Sadly john, you've missed out. Here check this out. Lydia looked like
> a college girl but sang like nothing else. They were/are from San
> Francisco - late 60s and early 70s
> From the first Cold Blood album.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPegLTUKl7Y&feature=related

A great band with fabulous horn charts (if you like that sort of
thing...I do). Lydia had one hell of set of pipes on her.
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