Moxy II (album)

Infobox Album
Name = Moxy II
Type = Album
Artist = Moxy


Released = 1976
Recorded = April 1976 Toronto
Sound Stage Sudios
Genre = Hard rock, Heavy metal
Label = Mercury Records
Producer = Jack Douglas
Edward Leonetti
Length = 35:40
Reviews = Allmusic rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:4zcyxdjbjoly link]
Last album = "Moxy
1975
This album = "Moxy II"
1976
Next album = "Ridin' High"
1977

"Moxy II" is the second album by the Canadian hard rock and Heavy Metal band Moxy, released in 1976. The album was recorded in Toronto, Canada at Sound Stage studio in April 1976 with Jack Douglas producing. The album produced two songs that hit the charts in Canada with "Take It Or Leave It" that reached number 14 and "Cause There's Another" that reached number 16 on the Top 30 on CHUM (AM) in Toronto Canada, [cite web | title= Chart at CHUM AM| work= 1050chum.com|url= http://www.1050chum.com/index_chumcharts.aspx?artist=7551] and the KISS-FM Texas hits "Midnight Flight" and "One More Heartbreak". The album sold well because of strong live appearances that included tours with Black Sabbath, [cite web | title= Black SabbathTour dates for 1976 | work=Black Sabbath.com |url=http://www.black-sabbath.com/tourdates/1977.html] Boston and Triumph [cite web | title= Bio at CanadianBands.comTopic:Triumph | work=CanadianBands.com |url= http://www.canadianbands.com/Moxy.html] with heavy promotion by the label (Polydor) (Mercury Records). The album was highly acclaimed on release by Geoff Barton in the UK music publication, Sounds (magazine), following which the magazine made the album available to readers for the special price of £1.50.

Credits

*Buzz Shearman - vocals
*Earl Johnson - Slide guitar, Guitar & His Dixie Entertainers
*Buddy Caine - Guitar
*Terry Juric - Bass
*Bill Wade - drums, percussion
*Mika Sharun - Vocals (Background)
*Steve Byron - Vocals (Background), Assistant
*The Wisconsin Kid (Background vocals)
*Edward Leonetti - Producer
*Jack Douglas - Producer
*Jay Messina - Mixing, Mixing Engineer
*Lee DeCarlo - Engineer

*Recorded April, 1976 in Toronto, Canada at Sound Stage Sudio
*Mixed May, 1976 in New York at The Record Plantmulti-listen item
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title = Through The Storm (1976)
description = "Through The Storm " From 1976 Album Moxy II , By Earl Johnson multi-listen item
filename = Moxy_-_Cause_Theres_Another.ogg
title = Cause There's Another (1976)
description = " Cause There's Another " From 1976 Album Moxy II ", by Buddy Caine, Buzz Shearman

Track listing

# Cause There's Another - 3:43 (Buddy Caine, Buzz Shearman)
# Take it or Leave It - 3:42 (Buddy Caine, Buzz Shearman)
# Through the Storm - 3:59 (Earl Johnson)
# One More Heartbreak - 2:37 (Earl Johnson)
# Slippin' Out - 4:01 (Earl Johnson, Bill Wade, Terry Juric)
# Midnight Flight - 3:29 (Earl Johnson)
# Change in My Life - 4:37 (Buddy Caine, Buzz Shearman)
# Tryin' Just for You - 4:28 (Buddy Caine, Buzz Shearman)
# Wet Suit - 4:52 (Buzz Shearman, Buddy Caine, Terry Juric, Bill Wade, The Wisconsin Kid)

Reissued

Moxy’s original catalogue of albums were again available starting in 1993 when Valerie Shearman ("Buzz" widow) oversaw the release of all of Moxy's back catalogue of albums on CD through Pacemaker Records, and again starting in 2003 this time through Unidisc Music Inc.

References

External links

* [http://www.Moxy.ca Moxy official website]