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Episode 301 – Fandango – Last Kiss

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Core Band:

  • Lead Vocals, Guitar [Lead Guitar] – Joe Lynn Turner
  • Percussion – Walter Santos (11)
    • Credits with Fandango
    • Also did his own “Street Corner Symphony” albums
    • Was previously in the Stanky Brown Group
  • Piano, Organ, Synthesizer [Moog], Strings, Clavinet – Larry Dawson
    • Went on to record with Jaguar and Deep Forest
  • Vocals, Bass Guitar – Bob Danyls
    • Just a few credits outside of Fandango
  • Vocals, Drums – Lou Mondelli
    • Went on to work with the Lundstrom Singers and The Payne Brothers
  • Vocals, Guitar [Lead & Slide Guitars] – Rick Blakemore
    • Discogs lists him as going on to work with Girlschool and Ted Nugent but I can’t find any other sources to verify this
  • Vocals, Piano, Organ – Denny La Rue*

Additional Musicians:

  • Arranged By [Strings], Conductor [Strings] – David Campbell
  • Harmonica – Jimmy Hall (tracks: A5)
    • First credit is from 1957 on Discogs. He was born in 1949 so They may have him confused with a country music composer named Jim Hall.
    • Other credits include Kiki Dee, Grand Funk Railroad and Wet Willie
  • Vocals – Jimmy Hall (tracks: A2)

Technical:

  • Engineer [Assistant] – David Ruffo
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    • Lots of credits through the early 2000s
  • Engineer [Assistant] – Sean Fullan
    • Started out working in Europe alongside Glyn Johns
    • Worked with The Rolling Stones, Duran Duran, Metallica, and Lou Reed but not Metallica and Lou Reed.
  • Engineer [Recording and Remix] – Gus Mossler
    • Worked with John Denver, National Lampoon and Nilsson, but not the creepy bathrobe album.
  • Producer – Neil Portnow
  • Production Manager [Production Assistant] – Paula Jeffries
  • A&R – Marge Meoli
  • Management [Artist Direction] – Ed Newmark Associates, Inc.

Album Art & Booklet Review

  • Art Direction – Gribbitt*
    • 400+ credits on Discogs including Frank Sinatra, Donna Summer, Parliament, Joe South, and Barbi Benton
  • Art Direction – Tim Bryant (2)
    • Art director at RCA
    • Worked with Doc Severinsen, Sun Ra, The Four Tops, Poco, and The Legendary Lefty Frizzell
  • Design [Fandango Logo] – Peach Arts
    • Only credits are the first two Fandango albums
  • Photography By – Ron Slenzak
  • Illustration – Ed Scarisbrick
    • The project he worked on directly before this was the cover for Cheech and Chong’s Up in Smoke, also worked with Gary Wright and B.B. King

Inner sleeve acknowledgements:

SPECIAL THANKS to Ian Copeland and everyone at Paragon, Art Robbins & Johnnie, Ken Newman, John Davis, Paula Jeffries, Tom Flynn and Peach Arts, Butch Wright, Les Sobel, Jeff Kievit, Greg Hanley, Wet Willie, Victor’s House of Music, Mascara Music, the memory of Joe Polizzi, Buzz Bland, Paul Brennan, Tom Durbvrow, Alan Grubman, Sherry Thomas, Jan DeGeer, The “P” Town Boys, Rick & Ted & The Boys from Anaheim, Shawn and Dave, Joe Pollard & Syndrums, C & C Case Co. and Ed, Gus and Neil.

Mixed with the use of the Aphex Aural Exciter.

Jimmy Hall appears through the courtesy of Epic Records by special arrangement with Sound Seventy Management Inc.

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Setlist

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Album Tracks:

Side One:

  1. Last Kiss (Danyls, La Rue, Turner, Dawson, Blakemore)
  2. Sure Got The Power (La Rue, Blakemore)
  3. Mexico (La Rue, Turner, Blakemore)
  4. Losin’ Kind Of Love (Turner)
  5. Hotel La Rue (La Rue, Blakemore)

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  1. Feel The Pain (La Rue, Turner, Blakemore)
    • Written-By [Synthesizer Introduction], Synthesizer [Introduction] – Larry Dawson
  2. City Of Angels (La Rue, Blakemore)
  3. The Mill’s On Fire (La Rue, Blakemore)
  4. I Keep Going/Hard Bargain (La Rue)

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