Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Vigrass And Osborne - Queues (1972 uk, wonderful folk orchestrated soft rock with first-rate backing musicians, 2013 SHM remaster)



British Folk pop soft rock duo of Paul Vigrass and Gary Osborne, come together here with a wonderful harmony sound – a mode that's somewhere between the A&M work of Lambert & Nuttycombe, and maybe the best America albums of the 70s – set to these great arrangements that feature lots of cool keyboards from sound library genius Alan Hawkshaw! Jeff Wayne arranged and produced the set – and his touches here clearly make him the third member of the group – as the care of presentation really makes the album way different than it might be otherwise – one of those really unique, really special little 70s records that never got its due at the time. Titles include "Men Of Learning", "Virginia", "Sail Away", "Forever Autumn", and "Don't You Worry".  
D.G.
Tracks
1. Men Of Learning - 3:18
2. Don't You Worry - 3:48
3. Ballerina - 3:35
4. Mississippi Lullabye - 2:43
5. Virginia - 3:27
6. Sail Away - 3:23
7. Forever Autumn - 2:50
8. An Invitation - 5:30
9. Remember - 2:35
10.The End - 4:40
11.Mr. Deadline - 2:50
12.Remember Pearl Harbor - 3:32
Music by Jeff Wayne, all Lyrics by Paul Vigrass, Gary Osborne

Personnel
*Paul Vigrass - vocals 
*Gary Osborne - vocals
*Jeff Wayne - Moog synthesizer
With
*Chris Spedding, Caleb Quaye, Clive Hicks, Martin Kershaw - Guitars
*Alan Hawkshaw - Keyboards
*Pete Morgan - Bass
*Barry Morgan - Drums
*Ray Cooper, Terry Emery, Alan Graham - Percussion
*Barry St. John, Doris Troy, Harry Vokales, Jimmy Thomas, Judith Powell, Liza Strike, Rob Freeman - Backing Vocals