JACKSON HEIGHTS The Fifth Avenue Bud LP VERTIGO 1972 UK orig+foc+swirl 6360 067
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JACKSON HEIGHTS
LEE JACKSON, JOHN McBURNIE, BRIAN CHATTON
plus MIKE GILES, LAWRIE WRIGHT, DAVE WATTS
Formed by former Nice bassist and vocalist Lee Jackson when The Nice split in 1969.
The name was taken from a district of New York. Musically they were more pop-orientated
than The Nice, but they built up a good live reputation through relentless touring.
Their debut album on Charisma made little impact although it did contain a fine version
of an old Nice favourite Cry Of Eugene and another highlight was a similarly gentle,
atmospheric song Insomnia. They re-emerged a couple of years later on Vertigo with 5th Avenue Bus,
an album of melodic, well constructed and somewhat orchestrated pop-orientated materialt
"THE FIFTH AVENUE BUS"
Produced by Lee Jackson
1972 LP VERTIGO RECORDS 6360 067
MADE IN ENGLAND ORIGINAL PRESSING ON VERTIGO "Swirl" LABEL
Released in an unlaminated gatefold sleeve with a die-cut door
This version: on cover "The Fifth Avenue Bus"; on label "5th Avenue Bus"
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Barcode: none
LABEL: VERTIGO - SWIRL LABEL - B&W TEXT
Catalog on cover: (rear) 6360 067 VO PRICE CODE
Catalog on labels: (on Side A): none
(on Side B): 6360 067 (6360 067.2)
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Stamped): 6360067 1Y//1 1 1 2
Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped): 6360 067 2Y//1 1 1 2
On label (Side B only): rim text reads "All Rights.........Prohibited"
? 1972
Produced by Lee Jackson at Trident for Stonewall Productions
Rights society / Publishing: Copyright Control, United Artists Ltd.
On Back Sleeve: 6360 067 VO PRICE CODE
On Inside Sleeve (left panel): Produced by Lee Jackson/Assisted by Al Shepheard
Printed and made by Howards Printers (Slough) Ltd.
from my records collection
tracklisting
Side A: TRAMP - DOG GOT BITTEN - AUTUMN BRIGADE
LONG TIME DYING - SWEET HILL TUNNEL
Side B: LAUGHING GEAR - HOUSE IN THE COUNTRY
RENT A FRIEND - LUXFORD - PASTOR ROGER
grading
RECORD from VG to VG(+) [SIDE A] and VG+ [SIDE B] but (please, read above description)
SLEEVE VG but (please, see pictures and read above description)
5th Avenue Bus is much more oriented toward singer/songwriter-type, folk-rock songs than
the Nice ever were, with little of the art rock that the Nice helped pioneer in sight. Nonetheless,
the record and its songs were kind of nondescript, as mildly pleasing as some of the singing and melodies were.
Often the songs used vocal harmonies with a Crosby, Stills & Nash/America flavor, though here
sometimes used with mainstream early-'70s British rock arrangements, a combination that wasn't
all that arresting. Other cuts like "Luxford" had a more suitable acoustic soft rock sound, though
the songs themselves weren't knockouts. Ex-King Crimson drummer Michael Giles played on the record,
though he didn't stretch his prog rock chops here too often, and there are only flashes here
and there -- perhaps in "Sweet Hill Tunnel," and the tensely wistful parts of "Pastor Roger",
of the somber grandeur to which the Nice had once aspired...(AllMusic)
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