10660 - SUGARLOAF ALIVE IN AMERICA (2006)
SUGARLOAF
''ALIVE IN AMERICA''
RECORDED AT EBBETS FIELD, DENVER, CO, JULY 1975
2006
56:09
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1 Buzzard Stomp Back Door Man 14:49
2 Chest Fever 05:10
3 Kiss The Sky 07:22
4 I Got A Song 05:29
5 Don't Call Us, We'll Call You 04:53
6 The Boogieman 07:19
7 Bread And Butter 02:33
8 Green Eyed Lady 08:27
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Jerry Corbetta
Bob Webber
Bob Raymond
Myron Pollock
Bobby Pickett
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ABOUT THE ALBUM
www.bobyeazel.com/JerryCorbettaPage3.htm
A live recording was made at Ebbets Field in Denver in July of 1975 that was released in 2006 on the Renaissance Label as Sugarloaf Alive in America. It was a good show and a nice sounding recording, but I was not at all happy with the packaging of the CD. The owner of the label stole photos from this site that were from 1970 and 1971 with Yeazel, MacVittie, and Bobby Pickett, and was prepared to release them this way. At my insistence, he finally decided to use the photo I sent him from the top of this page for the cover with a very poor looking design backing it. After telling him several times that Bobby Pickett was not on the CD, which is further proven when the individual band members are introduced during the show, he still put Bobby's name on the front cover and credits him on the inner sleeve as playing guitar on the disc. He also placed small versions of the pics from 1970-71 on the inner sleeve and took information from another site for the liner notes. At least it didn't turn out like he originally intended which was made to look just like it was a release from 1970 or 1971.
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BIOGRAPHY/AMG
Steve Huey
Best known for their 1970 AM pop classic "Green-Eyed Lady," Sugarloaf was formed in 1969 in Denver out of the ashes of the Moonrakers, which had released an album in 1968. Singer/keyboardist Jerry Corbetta and guitarist Bob Webber founded the group, adding Moonraker mates Bob MacVittie on drums and Veeder Van Dorn on rhythm guitar, plus bassist Bob Raymond. Originally dubbed Chocolate Hair, the band lost Van Dorn after just a few months when he joined Mescalero Space Kit. On the strength of their demos, the band was signed to Liberty, and changed their name to Sugarloaf, after a Colorado mountain popular with skiers (the record company was concerned about the possible racial overtones of Chocolate Hair). Sugarloaf recorded their self-titled debut album in 1970, and the single "Green-Eyed Lady" -- co-written by Corbetta and based on a piece of a scale exercise in a practice book -- slowly became a nationwide hit, catching on in more and more markets until it finally peaked at number three on the pop charts. For the follow-up album, 1971's Spaceship Earth, Sugarloaf added guitarist/songwriter Bob Yeazel, who had previously played on two albums as part of a Denver band called the Beast. Spaceship Earth didn't produce any hits, and disagreements over the band's choice of producers followed. Yeazel wound up leaving prior to the release of 1973's I Got a Song, which appeared on the smaller Brut label and featured former Beast drummer Larry Ferris. Resurfacing on Claridge in 1975, Sugarloaf finally scored that elusive follow-up hit with the title track from their fourth and final album, Don't Call Us -- We'll Call You. However, they subsequently disbanded. Corbetta went on to release a solo album on Warner Bros., and later worked with Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons as a writer, producer, and backing musician.
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''ALIVE IN AMERICA''
RECORDED AT EBBETS FIELD, DENVER, CO, JULY 1975
2006
56:09
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1 Buzzard Stomp Back Door Man 14:49
2 Chest Fever 05:10
3 Kiss The Sky 07:22
4 I Got A Song 05:29
5 Don't Call Us, We'll Call You 04:53
6 The Boogieman 07:19
7 Bread And Butter 02:33
8 Green Eyed Lady 08:27
**********
Jerry Corbetta
Bob Webber
Bob Raymond
Myron Pollock
Bobby Pickett
**********
ABOUT THE ALBUM
www.bobyeazel.com/JerryCorbettaPage3.htm
A live recording was made at Ebbets Field in Denver in July of 1975 that was released in 2006 on the Renaissance Label as Sugarloaf Alive in America. It was a good show and a nice sounding recording, but I was not at all happy with the packaging of the CD. The owner of the label stole photos from this site that were from 1970 and 1971 with Yeazel, MacVittie, and Bobby Pickett, and was prepared to release them this way. At my insistence, he finally decided to use the photo I sent him from the top of this page for the cover with a very poor looking design backing it. After telling him several times that Bobby Pickett was not on the CD, which is further proven when the individual band members are introduced during the show, he still put Bobby's name on the front cover and credits him on the inner sleeve as playing guitar on the disc. He also placed small versions of the pics from 1970-71 on the inner sleeve and took information from another site for the liner notes. At least it didn't turn out like he originally intended which was made to look just like it was a release from 1970 or 1971.
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BIOGRAPHY/AMG
Steve Huey
Best known for their 1970 AM pop classic "Green-Eyed Lady," Sugarloaf was formed in 1969 in Denver out of the ashes of the Moonrakers, which had released an album in 1968. Singer/keyboardist Jerry Corbetta and guitarist Bob Webber founded the group, adding Moonraker mates Bob MacVittie on drums and Veeder Van Dorn on rhythm guitar, plus bassist Bob Raymond. Originally dubbed Chocolate Hair, the band lost Van Dorn after just a few months when he joined Mescalero Space Kit. On the strength of their demos, the band was signed to Liberty, and changed their name to Sugarloaf, after a Colorado mountain popular with skiers (the record company was concerned about the possible racial overtones of Chocolate Hair). Sugarloaf recorded their self-titled debut album in 1970, and the single "Green-Eyed Lady" -- co-written by Corbetta and based on a piece of a scale exercise in a practice book -- slowly became a nationwide hit, catching on in more and more markets until it finally peaked at number three on the pop charts. For the follow-up album, 1971's Spaceship Earth, Sugarloaf added guitarist/songwriter Bob Yeazel, who had previously played on two albums as part of a Denver band called the Beast. Spaceship Earth didn't produce any hits, and disagreements over the band's choice of producers followed. Yeazel wound up leaving prior to the release of 1973's I Got a Song, which appeared on the smaller Brut label and featured former Beast drummer Larry Ferris. Resurfacing on Claridge in 1975, Sugarloaf finally scored that elusive follow-up hit with the title track from their fourth and final album, Don't Call Us -- We'll Call You. However, they subsequently disbanded. Corbetta went on to release a solo album on Warner Bros., and later worked with Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons as a writer, producer, and backing musician.
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