Extravaganza (album)

Infobox Album | Name = Extravaganza
Type = Album
Artist = Stackridge


Released = January 1975 (UK)
Recorded = 1974
Genre = Rock
Length = 42:34
Label = Rocket Records,
Sire Records,
Stallion Records,
(CD re-issue)
Angel Air,
(CD re-issue)
Producer = Tony Ashton
Chronology = Stackridge
Last album = "The Man In The Bowler Hat"
(1974)
This album = "Extravaganza"
(1975)
Next album = "Mr. Mick"
(1976)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = UK. Single label
Type = album


Lower caption = label (Rocket Records)|

"Extravaganza" is the fourth album by the British rock group Stackridge. The album was produced by Tony Ashton at AIR Studios, London.

The album was originally released in the UK on Elton John's Rocket Records label. Stackridge was the first group signed to the new label.

A different version of the album was released by Sire Records in the U.S and Canada. This version removed 2 songs already released on "Pinafore Days" and added "Do The Stanley" from a UK single and "The Indifferent Hedgehog" from the UK album "The Man In The Bowler Hat".

Track listing

#"Spin 'Round The Room" (Rod Bowkett/Lucy Vernon) 2:45
#"Grease Paint Smiles" (Rod Bowkett/Bathos) 4:04
#"The Volunteer" (Andy Davis/Smegmakovitch) 5:05
#"Highbury Incident (Rainy July Morning)" (Andy Davis/Rod Bowkett/"Mutter" Slater) 4:02
#"Benjamin's Giant Onion" (Rod Bowkett/Bathos) 4:04
#Happy In The Lord (Phil Welton) 3:51
#Rufus T. Firefly (Rod Bowkett) 4:51
#No One's More Important Than The Earthworm (Gordon Haskell) 5:12
#Pocket Billiards (Rod Bowkett) 4:04
#Who's That Up There With Bill Stokes (Rod Bowkett/Andy Davis) 4:36

Track Listing: U.S. version, Sire Records SASD-7509

#Do The Stanley (Wabadaw/Sleeve) 2:53
#"Grease Paint Smiles" (Rod Bowkett/Bathos) 4:04
#"The Volunteer" (Andy Davis/Smegmakovitch) 5:05
#The Indifferent Hedgehog (Andy Davis/Smith) 3:15
#"Benjamin's Giant Onion" (Rod Bowkett/Bathos) 4:04
#Happy In The Lord (Phil Welton) 3:51
#Rufus T. Firefly (Rod Bowkett) 4:51
#No One's More Important Than The Earthworm (Gordon Haskell) 5:12
#Pocket Billiards (Rod Bowkett) 4:04
#Who's That Up There With Bill Stokes (Rod Bowkett/Andy Davis) 4:36

Personnel

*Andy Davis - (Andy Cresswell-Davis) guitar/mellotron/vocals
*Michael Evans - violin
*Michael "Mutter" Slater - flute/vocals
*James "Crun" Walter - bass
*Keith Gemmell - saxophones/clarinet/flute
*Paul Karas - bass/vocals
*Rod Bowkett - keyboards
*Roy Morgan - drums