- The Sweet (album)
Infobox Album
Name = The Sweet
Type = compilation
Artist = Sweet
Released = July 1973
Recorded =
Genre = Rock
Length = 30:28
Label = Bell
Producer =Phil Wainman
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:jbfwxqtaldje link]
Last album = "The Sweet's Biggest Hits "
(1972)
This album = "The Sweet"
(1973)
Next album = "Sweet Fanny Adams"
(1974)"The Sweet" was the first album to be released in the US by the band Sweet. This album contains the singles the band actually played on up to 1973, and did not include the songs with backing musicians. It contains the UK hit singles "Little Willy", "Wig-Wam Bam", "Hell Raiser" and "Block Buster". Commercially it did not do well, only reaching #191 in the charts.
Track listing
# "Little Willy" (
Nicky Chinn ,Mike Chapman ) - 3:13
# "New York Connection" (Connolly/Scott/Tucker/Priest) - 3:35
# "Wig-Wam Bam" (Chinn-Chapman) - 3:03
# "Done Me Wrong All Right" - (Connolly/Scott/Tucker/Priest) - 2:58
# "Hell Raiser" - (Chinn-Chapman) - 3:15
# "Block Buster! " - (Chinn-Chapman) - 3:12
# "Need a Lot of Lovin'" (Connolly/Priest/Scott/Tucker) - 3:00
# "Man from Mecca" (Connolly/Scott/Tucker/Priest) - 2:45
# "Spotlight" (Connolly/Scott/Tucker/Priest) - 2:47
# "You're Not Wrong for Loving Me" (Connolly/Scott/Tucker/Priest) - 2:58Personnel
*
Brian Connolly : Lead vocals
*Steve Priest : Bass, vocals
*Andy Scott : Guitars, vocals, synthesizers
*Mick Tucker : Drums, vocalsources
*http://www.bsnpubs.com/bell/bell.html
*http://www.jugi3.ch/homepage/sweet.htm
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