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With manager Anthony at his side, he would go on to even greater success as a solo performer. Peter Frampton was gone by this point, having struck out on his own after 1971's Rock On. Side 1 features Steve Marriott- penned rock and roll Side 2 offers classic R&B covers Side 3 is a collection of Marriott's acoustic songs and Side 4 excerpts a live concert performance from Glasgow. The 1973 double-LP Eat It featured a unique concept for each side.

Steve Marriott took a pointed jab at Andrew Loog Oldham, whose Immediate label went out of business in 1969, with 'Theme from Skint (See You Later, Liquidator).' Humble Pie was not only the band's first album for A&M but their first under the auspices of American manager Dee Anthony, a straight-talking Bronx native who, over the years, also counted among his clients Spooky Tooth, Traffic, Tony Bennett and Peter Allen! Lemon's reissue comes with new artwork and sleeve notes by Malcolm Dome, and of course features the original album artwork by Aubrey Beardsley. Peter Frampton's gentle 'Earth and Water Song' provides a respite from the band-composed 'One Eyed Trouser Snake Rumba' and a cover of bluesman Willie Dixon's 'I'm Ready.' Drummer Jerry Shirley took the lead vocal on his song 'Only a Roach,' a country-and-western ode to a popular substance.

Hit the jump for details on Lemon's new editions!įor the A&M debut Humble Pie, the band took an even heavier approach than that of Yesterday. Rolling Stone's Mike Saunders is considered by some to have coined an entire sub-genre of rock when he described the album as 'Here, Humble Pie were a noisy, unmelodic, heavy metal-leaden shit-rock band, with the loud and noisy parts beyond doubt.' (Steppenwolf's 'Born to Be Wild' and its 'heavy metal thunder' lyric, however, is likely the phrase's first usage in a rock context.) The band's second album, Town and Country, was a somewhat quieter affair, even featuring a cover of Buddy Holly's 'Heartbeat.' As Safe as Yesterday emphasized the band's blues-rock sound, though not without touches of folk and pop.

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Top 10 hit right out of the gate, it was inevitable that the single would lead to a full album by the recently-formed unit.

Humble Pie's first single,' Natural Born Woman' (or 'Natural Born Boogie,' augured for great things to come.

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The series does not include the two studio albums that arrived between Humble Pie and Eat It, namely Rock On (1971) and Smokin' (1972). On March 27, Lemon will reissue Humble Pie (1970), Eat It (1973) and Thunderbox (1974) in remastered editions with new liner notes drawing on interviews with the band members. For its series of three remastered original albums, Cherry Red's Lemon Recordings imprint is looking forward, though, to the band's time at Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss' A&M Records between 19. Signed to Andrew Loog Oldham's Immediate label, also home to the Small Faces, Humble Pie launched its career with 1969's As Safe as Yesterday Is.

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Marriott left the Small Faces in late 1968 to join Peter Frampton, Greg Ridley and Jerry Shirley in Humble Pie, free of the pop expectations of his former band. There's plenty of buzz over here about Universal U.K.'s upcoming Small Faces remasters, but another project of Small Faces frontman Steve Marriott is also getting some reissue love.

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