Snafu (album)
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| Studio album by Snafu | ||||||||||
| Released | 1973 | |||||||||
| Recorded | The Manor Studio, Oxfordshire | |||||||||
| Genre | Rock, funk, R&B, country rock | |||||||||
| Label | WWA: WWA 003 | |||||||||
| Producer | Vic Smith | |||||||||
| Snafu chronology | ||||||||||
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Snafu is the first album by Snafu. It has an unusual funky tone for what is essentially an R&B band. The album was issued on the short-lived WWA record label, founded in 1973 by Black Sabbath manager Patrick Meehan.
The track "Goodbye USA" was released as a single, b/w "Dixie Queen" (written by Peter Solley), on the Vertigo label.[1] "Drowning in the Sea of Love" was released as a promo single by Capitol.[2]
Cover
The cover art, including photography and the entire gate-fold sleeve inner, is by Roger Dean. The front cover image detail, apparently of an Eastern ploughman in a paddy field with two water buffalos, is revealed to be, in the full-sized inner image, the same scene on a record player turntable.
Track listing
All songs written and composed by R. L. Harrison and M. Moody, except where noted.
| Side one | ||||||||||
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| No. | Title | Length | ||||||||
| 1. | "Long Gone" | 5:18 | ||||||||
| 2. | "Said He the Judge" (Harrison, Moody and Solley) | 4:25 | ||||||||
| 3. | "Monday Morning" | 3:00 | ||||||||
| 4. | "Drowning in the Sea of Love" (Gamble and Huff) | 5:39 | ||||||||
| Side two | ||||||||||
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| No. | Title | Length | ||||||||
| 5. | "Country Nest" (Harrison and Solley) | 5:14 | ||||||||
| 6. | "Funky Friend" | 3.54 | ||||||||
| 7. | "Goodbye USA" | 4.25 | ||||||||
| 8. | "That's the Song" (Solley and Marcellino) | 4:27 | ||||||||
Musicians
- Bobby Harrison - lead vocals, percussion
- Micky Moody - guitars, backing vocals, mandolin
- Pete Solley - keyboards, backing vocals
- Colin Gibson - bass
- Terry Popple - drums
- (uncredited - fiddle)
- (uncredited - backing vocals)
Other personnel
- Vic Smith - producer and engineer
- Malcom Koss - co-ordinator
- Roger Dean - photography and cover design