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Track List
01) Something in the Air
02) Hollywood #1
03) The Reason
04) Open the Door, Homer
05) Look Around
06) Accidents
07) Wild Country
08) When I Think
09) The Old Cornmill
10) I Don't Know
11) Holllywood Dream (instrumental)
12) Hollywood #2
13) Something in the Air (single version)
14) Wilhemina
15) Accidents (single version)
16) I See It All
17) The Reason (single version)
18) Stormy Petrel
01) Something in the Air
02) Hollywood #1
03) The Reason
04) Open the Door, Homer
05) Look Around
06) Accidents
07) Wild Country
08) When I Think
09) The Old Cornmill
10) I Don't Know
11) Holllywood Dream (instrumental)
12) Hollywood #2
13) Something in the Air (single version)
14) Wilhemina
15) Accidents (single version)
16) I See It All
17) The Reason (single version)
18) Stormy Petrel
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First Released
1970
Progressive Rock
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Hollywood Dream was a 1970 album by Thunderclap Newman, their first and only album release.
The album was produced by The Who's guitarist and songwriter Pete Townshend, who was also responsible for the band's initial formation. Townshend helped the group to obtain a recording contract with Track Records, a company formed by Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp, who were managers of The Who. Townshend also played bass on the album, credited under the pseudonym "Bijou Drains", although the later CD releases do not credit him. Track Records licensed the recordings to Atlantic Records for initial release in the U.S.
The group's first single "Something in the Air", was a UK number 1 hit and is the song for which Thunderclap Newman are best known. The single also reached #25 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the U.S. The album was recorded after the initial U.K. success of the first single.
The album as originally released in 1970 opened with "Hollywood", with the title track, an instrumental by young guitarist Jimmy McCulloch, appearing toward the end of Side 2. The album then culminated in a reprise of "Hollywood" (featuring a miscellany of instruments including soprano saxophones, glockenspiel, sleigh bells, a Japanese battle cymbal and a Chinese temple block) and finally "Something in the Air".
In the mid 1970s the album was reissued in the U.S. with different cover art by MCA Records. The CD release in 1991 moved "Something in the Air" to become the opening track. It also added the single versions of "Something In The Air" (the single version's mix differed from the album version), "Accidents" and "The Reason", and the three non-album B-sides as bonus tracks.
"Something in the Air" makes a brief appearance in the 1969 film The Magic Christian starring Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr. It also appears on the accompanying soundtrack LP.
The band
John "Speedy" Keen – lead vocals, drums, percussion, acoustic guitar, conga, glockenspiel, gong, maracas
Andy Newman - piano, organ, soprano saxophone, bass saxophone, oboe, tin whistle, glockenspiel, cor anglais, Bengali flutes, Japanese battle cymbal, hand bell, Indian finger cymbals, sleigh bells, Chinese temple block, vocals
Jimmy McCulloch - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, maracas, wood block, backing vocals
Additional musicians
Chris Morphet - harmonica (tracks 4 & 5)
Pete Townshend (originally credited as Bijou Drains) - bass
Ian Green - string arrangement ("Something in the Air")
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Hollywood Dream was a 1970 album by Thunderclap Newman, their first and only album release.
The album was produced by The Who's guitarist and songwriter Pete Townshend, who was also responsible for the band's initial formation. Townshend helped the group to obtain a recording contract with Track Records, a company formed by Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp, who were managers of The Who. Townshend also played bass on the album, credited under the pseudonym "Bijou Drains", although the later CD releases do not credit him. Track Records licensed the recordings to Atlantic Records for initial release in the U.S.
The group's first single "Something in the Air", was a UK number 1 hit and is the song for which Thunderclap Newman are best known. The single also reached #25 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the U.S. The album was recorded after the initial U.K. success of the first single.
The album as originally released in 1970 opened with "Hollywood", with the title track, an instrumental by young guitarist Jimmy McCulloch, appearing toward the end of Side 2. The album then culminated in a reprise of "Hollywood" (featuring a miscellany of instruments including soprano saxophones, glockenspiel, sleigh bells, a Japanese battle cymbal and a Chinese temple block) and finally "Something in the Air".
In the mid 1970s the album was reissued in the U.S. with different cover art by MCA Records. The CD release in 1991 moved "Something in the Air" to become the opening track. It also added the single versions of "Something In The Air" (the single version's mix differed from the album version), "Accidents" and "The Reason", and the three non-album B-sides as bonus tracks.
"Something in the Air" makes a brief appearance in the 1969 film The Magic Christian starring Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr. It also appears on the accompanying soundtrack LP.
The band
John "Speedy" Keen – lead vocals, drums, percussion, acoustic guitar, conga, glockenspiel, gong, maracas
Andy Newman - piano, organ, soprano saxophone, bass saxophone, oboe, tin whistle, glockenspiel, cor anglais, Bengali flutes, Japanese battle cymbal, hand bell, Indian finger cymbals, sleigh bells, Chinese temple block, vocals
Jimmy McCulloch - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, maracas, wood block, backing vocals
Additional musicians
Chris Morphet - harmonica (tracks 4 & 5)
Pete Townshend (originally credited as Bijou Drains) - bass
Ian Green - string arrangement ("Something in the Air")
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