Tracks Side 1:

1 Penny for your thoughts (2:43) (Saturday Club, 27 September 1967)

2. Technicolor Dream (2:58) (Saturday Club, 27 September 1967)

3. my girl the month of may (3:07) (Saturday Club, 27 September 1967)

4. Pandora of Golden heebie jeebies (2:56) (Top gear, 29 November 1967)

5. Toyland (2:33) (Top gear, 29 November 1967)

6 love is A beautiful thing (2:28) (Top gear, 29 November 1967)

7 Magic handkerchief (3:18) (Saturday Club, 02 July 1968)

8. all along the Watchtower (3:19) (Saturday Club, 02 July 1968)

9. still as A stone (3:03) (Sounds like Tony Brandon, April 25, 1969)

10 My friend (3:00) (Sounds like Tony Brandon, April 25, 1969)

Tracks Side 2:

1. gypsy girl (2:03) (Radio one club, 30 June 1969)

2. movie star baby (2:45) (Radio one club, 30 June 1969)

3. I got A line on you (2:24) (Dave cash, 24 September 1969)

4. friends in St. Louis (3:11) (Dave cash, 24 September 1969)

5. all I can (2:39) (Dave cash, 24 September 1969)

6 Loosen up (3:08) (13 January 1970)

7 strange little friend (2:58) (13 January 1970)

8 Make US all believe (4:18) (Sounds of the seventies, 15 September 1970)

9 pyramid (6:16) (Sounds of the seventies, 15 September 1970)

The Alan Bown set, later known as The Alan Bown! or just Alan Bown, were a British band of the 1960s and 1970s whose music evolved from jazz and blues through soul and rhythm- and -blues and ended up as psychedelia and progressive rock. The band achieved limited chart success, and is best known for the role it played in developing the careers of numerous musicians including Mel Collins, John Helliwell, Robert Palmer, Jess Roden and Dougie Thomson.
Alan Bown (born Alan James Bown, 21 July 1942, died 16 December 2014, Slough, Berkshire Slough), a trump player, joined the embers in 1963, when he left the RAF. This group played both American rhythm and blues and jazz, and were a very successful live act, playing at venues like the star Club, Hamburg at the same as the time Beatles. Bown left the group to join The John Barry Seven, who were backing Brenda Lee, and toured and restringsd with the band until it broke up in 1965; Barry having made Bown the leader of the touring band, so he could spend more time composing.

Bown then formed The Alan Bown set in c may 1965, initially with three former members of The John Barry Seven:-Jeff Bannister (lead vocals and organ) (born Jeffrey Bannister, 7 January 1943), Dave Green (sax, clarinet and flute) and Stan Haldane (bass) together with Pete Burgess (gui tar) and VIC Sweeney (drums). They played American R & B and soul, and played the same club circuit as Georgie fame and the blue flames and Cliff Bennett and the rebel rousers. In 1965, Tony Hatch signed to them to Pye records but their first single "can't let her go" / "I'm the one" did not chart. In 1966 green what replaced by John Helliwell and shortly after Jess Roden joined as a vocalist, allowing Bannister to concentrate on keyboards. They book on ready steady go! and at the Windsor Jazz Festival and began headlining London's Marquee Club.

This line up released 3 singles, none of which charted, although "emergency 999" later became a Northern Soul club anthem. The Alan Bown set and Jimmy James and the vagabonds were both restringsd live and released on a joint album London swings: live at the Marquee Club with one side each. In November 1966 Burgess what replaced by Tony Catchpole and in 1967 the band released "gonna fix You Good (everytime you're bad)" / "I really, really care" and restringsd the soundtrack for Jeu de massacre a French film featuring Jacques Loussier. They restringsd for the BBCs rhythm and blues programs in 1966 and Saturday Club in 1967.

When the band's Pye records contract expired in 1967, Bown reformed the band as "The Alan Bown!" a psychedelic band on Verve of records, they finally released their first full album outward Bown in 1967 and book on top gear. The album included a cover of Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower", a stage version which "directly inspired Hendrix's arrangement of the song". In 1968 they performed "we can help you" on top of the POPs; This what pressing plant at no. 26 on the UK charts but the went on strike, so they could not capitalise on the exposure.

In 1969 they changed to Derma records where they had a minor hit with "still as stone". As with many bands at the time, they restringsd cover version for the BBC, appearing on the "Jimmy young show", "The David Symonds Show" and others, as restricted needle time required "live" performances between the records. their next album The Alan Bown! [had been restringsd when Roden left the band. Robert Palmer joined and the vocals were re-restringsd by him, before the album's UK release, although the Roden vocals were issued in the US. The band appeared on BBC TVs disco two (which became The Old Grey whistle test).

In 1970 the band changed labels yet again, this time to Iceland of records. they restringsd the album lists, but Palmer promptly left, being replaced by Gordon Neville, who re-restringsd the vocals before the album what eventually released. The single "Pyramid" which released before Andy Brown replaced Haldane and Mel Collins joined on saxophone. they restringsd another album stretching out and re-appeared on disco two. Bannister left but what not replaced then Dougie Thomson replaced Brown and Derek Griffiths, formerly with the type of Woods, replaced Catchpole. This line up continued until February 1972 Bown then formed a new band with Dave Lawson (keyboards), Tony Dangerfield (bass) and Frank White (guitar) replaced by Pete Goodall, formerly with thunderclap Newman, Nick Payn (tenor saxophone and flute) and Alan Coulter (drums), but After a major tour, Bown finally disbanded the group in July 1972. (en.wikipedia.org)


Jess Roden - lead vocals (track 1-12)
Robert Palmer - lead vocals (track 13, 14, 16, 17)
Gordon Neville - vocals (track 18, 19)
Alan Bown - trumpet, flugelhorn
John Anthony - saxophones, Restringsr
Jeff Bannister - organ, piano
Tony Catchpole - guitars, lead vocals (track 15)
Stan Haldane - bass
VIC Sweeney – drums, percussion

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