All Together Now

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I listened to Argent's All Together Now because (according to Russo's Collector's Guide) it was released to-day in 1972.  As usual, I worked on lyric transcription and noticed a few things.

There's some interesting elements in the chorus in "I Am the Dance of Ages":

Ride on the rising tide
Walk on the water
Spray with each burning day
I'm going high

There's alliteration ("Ride on the rising tide / Walk on the water"), assonance ("Ride on the rising tide / Walk on the water"), and internal rhyme ("Ride on the rising tide" "Spray with each burning day").

I think there's a small Bach reference in "Be My Lover, Be My Friend."  The song changes at about 4:01 and goes into an organ interlude.  At about 4:04, there's a trill between A and G - the same trill that starts Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 (I looked up the notation).  I've written about Bach-influenced trills with the Odessey and Oracle material, but I think this is more of an intentional quotation than a mere influence.