UNIT 4+2 1st Album - Orig UK Mono LP - Unboxed Red Decca - Unit Four Plus Two

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UNIT 4+2

1st Album

Original UK Mono LP released on Decca Records in 1965. Front-laminated sleeve. Unboxed Red Decca labels. Original polylined innersleeve.

Unit 4 + 2 were a British pop band, who had a number one hit in the UK Singles Chart in 1965 with the song "Concrete and Clay". The track topped the UK chart for one week.

Brian Parker was guitar player and songwriter in The Hunters in 1962, and he decided to form a vocal harmony group. He asked his friend 'Buster' (David) Meikle to join him. Tommy Moeller, then in his last year at school, had a reputation as a singer when Meikle and Parker asked him, and Peter Moules, who was also at school with Moeller, to join what became a vocal harmony group called Unit 4.

Unit 4 were later joined by Russ Ballard on guitar and Bob Henrit on drums (forming the + 2) for a six piece, four part vocal harmony group. Moeller was singer and frontman, from the first show as the Unit 4 vocal group to the last show as Unit 4 + 2 as vocal group with instruments. As Unit 4 + 2, the sextet issued their debut single, on Decca . "The Green Fields" reached number 48 in the UK in 1964. Their second single release "Sorrow and Pain" was less successful.

Unit 4 + 2's song "Concrete and Clay" became a big hit the following year, reportedly thanks to exposure on the pirate radio stations of the day. The disc was recorded using the skill of two guest musicians, Russ Ballard and Bob Henrit (two of Parker's former bandmates from their Roulettes days), who debuted earlier at venues such as Cheshunt Boys' Club, together with Buster Meikle, as members of The Daybreakers. As well as its chart topping exploits in the UK, "Concrete and Clay" was a worldwide hit, and the group suddenly found themselves on radio playlists across the globe.[2] In America, a competing cover version by Eddie Rambeau (produced by Bob Crewe) split sales, with Rambeau reaching No.35 on the Billboard Hot 100 and Unit 4 + 2 peaking at No.28. Cashbox bracketed the two competing versions together on its chart, and they reached a combined peak of No.12.

Decca released a hastily put together album, also entitled Concrete and Clay, to capitalise on the success, but it was not as notable in style or content as the single. Nevertheless, the next single release "You've Never Been in Love Like This Before" reached the Top 20 in the UK, and No.95 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US. "Concrete and Clay" returned to the Top 20 of the UK Singles Chart in 1976, courtesy of Randy Edelman's cover version. More recently, the original song appeared in the soundtrack to the film, Rushmore.

The band underwent two changes when bass player Rodney Garwood joined the band in 1964, and on Brian Parker's departure Howard 'Lem' Lubin joined. The next change came in 1967 when Russ Ballard (who went on to form the highly successful Argent) joined full time, having already played some of excellent guitar work with Brian Parker on the original recording for Concrete And Clay in 1964.

Tracks Are :-

Side One

Concrete And Clay
Sorrow And Pain
Couldn't Keep It To Myself
You'll Remember
Cotton Fields
500 Miles

Side Two

La Bamba
You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'
Swing Down Chariot
Wild Is The Wind
The Girl From New York City
Cross A Million Mountains

Released on 'Decca Records' in 1965

Catalogue No. LK 4697

Disc is in EX condition (couple of  surface marks)

Sleeve is in EX condition (corner crease / light wear)

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