Latest Updates - John Mayall

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Comment by South Shields Football Club SUBS:

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers Decca LK 4804 Friday July 22nd 1966 is the great original album with Eric Clapton reading The Beano Comic Biffo The Bear-Dennis The Menace and the great tracks All Your Love,Hideaway,Little Girl & Steppin'Out.

John Mayall died this year and he was the great Rhythm & Blues Music of 1966 and The famous LP-The Great icon.


Terry.

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Comment by MR B PAGE:

R.I.P. John Mayall.

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Comment by Paul Goldstein1:

A rare occasion of an album crashing into the British album charts way into the Top 10 without a hit single to accompany it, when this was at a time when albums still usually only sold on the back of hit singles. It was the following year when Psychedelia exploded that this started to change.

This was John's second album, but the first yet only to feature new guitarist Eric Clapton, who added that thick new undercoat to the group's sound, and even sing lead on one track, his first version of Robert Johnson's Rambling On M y Mind, which he re-recorded solo years later.

This album proved even more that Britain had well and truly become this second major ground for creativity.

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Comment by Paul Goldstein1:

I thought it was only in the UK this stereo version was not issued in the UK.

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Comment by Kevin Walsh1:

Essentially a belated, retitled US edition of the 1968 UK “The Diary Of A Band - Volume 2.”

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Comment by Kevin Walsh1:

Is “Gimme Some Lovin” shown in quotes and lower case because it’s a snippet heard on the venue’s PA system, or because the band warmed up with it?
Without that track, the remaining six cuts were released in the US in 1971, and just the two cuts on side one run over 24 minutes:

https://www.45worlds.com/vinyl/album/ps589