(Westcoast/AOR) Pages (pre-Mr.Mister) - Дискография 1978-1981 (3 альбома), FLAC (tracks+.cue) lossless

#777Продолжительность: 32:46
Треклист:
1. Clearly Kim
2. This Is For The Girl
3. Let It Go
4. Listen for the Love
5. Love Dance
6. If I Saw You Again
7. Interlude + It's All Right
8. Room At The Top
9. I Get It From You

#777Продолжительность: 34:23
Треклист:
1. I Do Believe In You 4:02
2. The Sailor's Song 4:20
3. Take My Heart Away 3:46
4. Future Street 4:10
5. Who's Right, Who's Wrong 4:19
6. Chemistry 5:16
7. Two People 4:25
8. Keep On Movin' 4:02

#777Продолжительность: 37:24
Треклист:
1. You Need A Hero 3:43
2. Tell Me 3:50
3. O.C.O.E. (Official Cat Of The Eighties) 4:57
4. Come On Home 3:26
5. Sesatia 4:31
6. Only A Dreamer 4:36
7. Automatic 3:57
8. Fearless 4:06
9. Midnight Angel 4:29

Pages was an American pop rock band of the late 1970s and early 1980s. The band consisted of Richard Page and Steve George on vocals and keyboards, supported by various studio musicians, some of whom from time to time were considered part of the band proper. Although Pages was highly regarded for its well-crafted pop and jazz-fusion sound, the group did not achieve commercial success, and disbanded after recording three albums. Pages is perhaps best known as the launching pad for the recording careers of Page and George, who later formed Mr. Mister and topped the charts during the mid-1980s with pop classics such as "Broken Wings" and "Kyrie."
Pages grew out of a long friendship between Richard Page and Steve George dating back to their high school days in Phoenix, Arizona. After high school, the two occasionally played together in bands in Los Angeles and Las Vegas. For a time, Page relocated to San Diego to attend music school.
In 1977, emerging teen idol Andy Gibb, recently relocated in Los Angeles, recruited Page and George to perform vocals and keyboards as part of his backing band. Gibb, whose first single, "I Just Want To Be Your Everything," was racing to the top of the charts, completed his backing band by adding Peter Leinheisen on lead guitar, Jerry Manfredi on bass and Russ Battelene on drums.
Gibb toured with this group of musicians throughout 1977. Toward the end of the year, the group recorded a demo tape of original jazz-fusion material. This tape came to the attention of former Blood, Sweat & Tears drummer Bobby Colomby, who liked what he heard and signed the group, now called "Pages," to Epic Records. In addition to the regular musicians, Page's cousin John Lang was informally the group's lyricist (Lang could not play a musical instrument and claimed he was tone deaf).
Pages' eponymous first album, released in 1978, featured tracks ranging from light funk ("Clearly Kim"), calypso ("Love Dance") and driving rock ("Room At The Top") to smooth, harmonious ballads ("This Is For The Girls," "I Get It From You") and luscious instrumentals ("Interlude").
The album featured an impressive array of session musicians. The roster of talent included Colomby, Philip Bailey (Earth, Wind & Fire), Steve Forman, Dave Grusin, Claudio Slon, Victor Feldman and Michael Brecker. Although Page provided most of the lead vocals, George took the lead on "Let It Go" and "Listen For The Love."
Colomby was quoted as saying that "Pages represents the mainstream of contemporary music. They utilize various elements and combine them into an original and tasty mixture that will appeal to all formats of radio." Despite Colomby's prediction, radio found it hard to place the group's sound. Neither Pages nor its single "If I Saw You Again" made the Billboard charts. Leinheisen and Battelene went their own way after the album was recorded.
After the commercial failure of their debut album, Pages went back to the studio to record their 1979 follow-up, entitled Future Street. Charles "Icarus" Johnson joined on acoustic and electric guitar, and George Lawrence was brought in on drums.
According to Page, "Jerry [Manfredi], Steve [George] and myself were writing all the music but it just didn't sound right. Everybody knew it, but it was left unspoken for a long time because of that lingering bond. With Charles and George everything went perfect for the first time. The potential was just staring us in the face".
Once again produced by Colomby, the album blended the finely crafted overtones of the first album with a somewhat hard-edged pop-rock sound with progressive overtones. Additional musicians and artists on Future Street included Kenny Loggins (backing vocals and songwriting on "Who's Right Who's Wrong"), George Hawkins, Joey Trujillo, Jay Winding and Steve Lukather George took lead vocals on "Two People." Another detail is that the cover sleeve was designed by John Lang.
The opening track, the energetic "I Do Believe In You," peaked at number 84 on the Billboard Hot 100 in December 1979.
Success failure brought them to switch to another record label, Capitol Records. They also found a new producer: the awardwinning musician/composer/producer Jay Graydon. In January 1981 a third album titled Pages produced two singles: "You Need a Hero" and "Come on Home". These singles were the two Colomby produced tracks on the album.
At that moment Pages consisted of Richard (lead and background vocals), Steve (backing vocals, Fender Rhodes, synthesizer: Yamaha CS-80 - Oberheim - ARP 2600, Mini-Moog, clavinet, electric power oboe and grand piano) and John Lang (co-writer). Despite of the fact that some of L.A.'s best musicians like Charles Johnson (guitar), Neil Stubenhaus (bass), Ralph Humphrey (drums), Steve Khan (electric guitar), Jeff Porcaro (drums), Paulinho DaCosta (percussion), Vince Colaiuta (drums), Tom Scott (sax), Jay Graydon (guitars, synthesizer programming, producer), Mike Baird (drums) and Al Jarreau (vocal flute) contributed to this album, it did not sell well.
So by the end of 1981 they decided to end this project. Richard and Steve returned to the session circuit. Page was part of the well-known back-up vocal trio of Richard Page, Tommy Funderburk and Tom Kelly (Bob Carlisle was invited to take Richard's place after he formed Mr. Mister). Unless their lack of success with Pages, they earned a lot of musical respect and they became recommended songwriters and backing vocalists. Many well-known producers like David Foster and Quincy Jones appealed to them. They performed on albums of Al Jarreau, Donna Summer, Chaka Khan, REO Speedwagon, Kenny Loggins, Pointer Sisters, Molly Hatchet and Twisted Sister. Richard and Steve also did the vocals for Village People, together with Chicago's Bill Champlin and Tom Kelly (songwriter of Madonna's world hit "Like a Virgin").