Circus, Planes, and Never Even Thought

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Yester-day, I got some more albums that are relevant to this project.  I think I was supposed to get them for Christmas but my parents forgot or something, but anyway, I now have two more Colin Blunstone albums (Planes and Never Even Thought) and a physical copy of Argent's Circus (I've had a digital copy for a few years now).

Planes has an-other version of "Care of Cell 44" (slightly retitled as "(Care of) Cell 44"), which I'm very excited to listen to.  I think I'm going to do the same thing with these as I'm doing for Still Got That Hunger - for a year or so, I'm just going to enjoy them as a listener and not try to analyze them.

I feel like I should also mention that I got a Cannonball Adderly album (Cannonball's Sharpshooters by the Cannonball Adderly Quintet).  Rod Argent's mentioned Cannonball Adderly in a few interviews, so I pickt this out a long time ago (I think last year) and had my parents save it for me for some future time (which - as an unemployed person - is how most of my record shopping is done).

A few months ago, I also found an anthology of Curtis Mayfield & the Impressions that includes "You Must Believe Me" and "It's All Right," which the Zombies covered in radio broadcasts.

I've been doing this sort of thing for about five years now; the Zombies mention someone in an interview, and then sometimes I go and look for albums by them.  I'm not sure it's helpt very much in finding influences on the Zombies' music, but it's certainly given me some great stuff to listen to.