Format: LP
Label: Polydor 2424 071
Year: 1973
Origin: Kingston, Ontario, 🇨🇦
Genre: rock, rock soft
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Value of Original Title: $50.00
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Release Type: Albums
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Ontario, Soft Rock Room, 1970's
| Track Name | Length | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Follow Me | 03:09 | |
| 2 | You've Gone Away | 03:42 | |
| 3 | I Wish I Were Going Back Home | 03:31 | |
| 4 | Faces | 03:56 | |
| 5 | I Know I Can | 03:36 |
| Track Name | Length | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Still Lovin' You | 02:47 | |
| 2 | Hold Me | 03:28 | |
| 3 | Uncle Dad And Auntie Mom | 03:38 | |
| 4 | Everybody's Going His Own Way | 03:22 | |
| 5 | Living In The Country | 03:10 |
Cliff Edwards - Transition LABEL 02
Cliff Edwards - Transition LABEL 01
Cliff Edwards - Transition BACK
Transition
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Kingston's Cliff Edwards was a founding member of The Five Bells, an enormously popular soft-rock group that formed in the mid-'60's and scored several hits throughout the following decade. Edwards went on to a fairly successful solo career while still in the band and released albums on Polydor, Columbia and A&M Records over the course of the next fifteen years. Eventually, he left the music industry to work as a set designer and camera operator for CKWS-TV in Kingston, and later wrote and produced a kids' show entitled The Corner Shop. Most recently, Edwards rejoined The Bells for a series of reunion concerts in 2003, and helped to oversee the compilation of a greatest hits album for the group.
Transition was released in 1973 on Polydor Records, and was recorded at Toronto Sounds Studios, with production by Edwards and engineering by Peter Houston. Edwards' musical backing consisted of Brian Edwards on bass and Rayburn Blake (both of whom were in Mashmakhan and Riverson together) on guitar, Leon Aronson on piano, Wayne Stone (of Grant Smith & The Power, Motherlode and Dr. Music) on drums, and backup singers Rhonda Silver, Dianne Brooks, Laurel Black and Stephanie Taylor. It all adds up to an LP of country and folk-rock in an early '70's singer-songwriter vein. "You've Gone Away" is a melancholy, atmospheric tune by Marty Reno (who performed with and wrote songs for Gene MacLellan). "Faces" is another morose number written by MacLellan himself, while "Still Lovin' You" (by Ken Tobias) is more upbeat, with a couple of funky breaks and a sweetly-crooned fade out. And "Hold Me," an Edwards original, is a softly rocking number with nice work on organ and electric guitar.
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