Stretch - Why Did You Do It?: The Best of Stretch (1975-78/2007)

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Title: Why Did You Do It?: The Best of Stretch
Year Of Release: 1975-78/2007
Label: Repertoire Records
Genre: Boogie Rock, Blues Rock, Classic Rock, Funky Rock
Quality: Mp3 320 / Flac (image, .cue, log)
Total Time: 48:29 + 51:17
Total Size: 211/584 Mb (scans)
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Stretch - Why Did You Do It?: The Best of Stretch (1975-78/2007)


Tracklist:

1. Miss Jones (Elmer Gantry, Gregory Kirby) - 3:04
2. Knives In Their Backs (Gregory Kirby) - 3:55
3. Jonah And The Whale (Gregory Kirby) - 4:50
4. Why Did You Do It? (Gregory Kirby) - 3:30
5. Take You Down (Gregory Kirby) - 3:59
6. Feelin' Sad (Eddie "Guitar Slim" Jones) - 5:25
7. Can’t Judge A Book (Willie Dixon) - 6:12
8. Hold Up The Light (Elmer Gantry, Gregory Kirby) - 3:22
9. That’s The Way The Wind Blows (Elmer Gantry, Gregory Kirby) - 3:45
10. If The Cap Fits (Elmer Gantry) - 3:26
11. The Way Life Is (Gregory Kirby) - 4:03
12. Hold On (Elmer Gantry, Gregory Kirby) - 3:23
13. Living On The Highway (Don Nix, Leon Russell) - 3:08
14. Miss Dizzy (Elmer Gantry) - 4:00
15. Fixin’ To Die (Bukka Wyatt) - 3:36
16. You Can’t Beat Your Brain For Entertainment (Elmer Gantry) - 3:09
17. Buzz Fly (Elmer Gantry) - 1:54
18. Rock And Roll Hoochie Coo (Rick Derringer) - 3:09
19. Write Me A Note (Elmer Gantry) - 4:37
20. Tomorrow’s Another Day (Elmer Gantry) - 4:51

Line-up::
Elmer Gantry (Dave Terry) - Vocals, Guitar
Kirby Gregory (Graham Gregory) - Guitar, Vocals
Paul Martinez - Bass (1974-75)
Craig Collinge - Drums (1974)
John Wilkinson - Keyboards (1974)
Jim Russell - Drums (1974-76)
Hiroshi Kato - Guitar (1974)
John Cook - Keyboards (1975)
Dave Evans - Bass (1975-76)
Steve Emery - Bass (1976-79)
Jeff Rich - Drums (1976-78)
Nicko Mcbrain - Drums (1978-79)

The story of Stretch and their one great song, Why Did You Do That Thing?, is odd but wonderful. It begins with a group of musicians cobbled together by Fleetwood Mac's manager to impersonate the real Mac for a US tour. The ruse failed and – the faux Mac unmasked – the tour fell apart amid acrimony.

Except they weren't a funk band. An unstable admixture, thrown together by circumstance, Stretch couldn't make up their minds what they were – dabbling in country, rock and folk. At the height of their success, they were even supporting Rainbow. The fabulous, punchy jazz-funk beat of Why … was more or less a stylistic accident; Gantry's Barry White-esque growl a put-up job. But it is a simply fantastic song – one that stands the test of time long after that curious mid-decade phase of dodgy genre-melding experimentation was swept away by punk's merciless anti-music.



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Very nice, thanks for sharing.
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