"Say You Don't Mind" b/w "Let Me Come Closer to You"

According to Russo's Collector's Guide, fifty years ago to-day (28 January 1972), Colin Blunstone's "Say You Don't Mind" b/w "Let Me Come Closer to You" (Epic S EPC 7765) was released in the U.K.  Apparently, "Let Me Come Closer to You" was listed as just "Let Me Come Closer."

One Year

According to Russo's Collector's Guide, fifty years ago to-day (24 January 1972), Colin Blunstone's One Year (Epic E 30974) was released in the U.S. and Canada.

This is the specific edition I have (the only Blunstone album I have as a record).  Here are some pictures:

On the paper sleeve (the sleeve the record goes into before going into the cardboard sleeve), there's a short article on Argent:

ARGENT:
A New British Sound

There's a whole new thing coming out of the English music scene these days.  It's a new approach.  A new excitement.  A new sound.  It's the music of the tightly knit quartet led by Rod Argent.  (Ken Emerson of Fusion calls him "the best organist/pianist in rock.")  They are called:  Argent.

The group made their initial impact with their first album.  it catapulted the unit into English Top Ten charts and recognition as one of the most successful working bands in the British Isles.  They are now star performers in America, too - with appearances at the Boston Tea Party, New York's Fillmore East, Chicago's Kinetic Playground and The Whiskey in Los Angeles.  The boys have gotten around in a hurry.  So has "the good word" on them.

Guthrie Bester of Penthouse Magazine describes the effects:  "There are three parts to the Argent sound.  One is the pure and tensil [sic] line of the soloists, especially on guitar and organ.  The second is the clear, polished vocal work, individually and together.  And finally there is the material, one of the best original repertoires in rock.  Argent, in fact, was one of the first groups to get into what has become the new British sound.  Low-keyed, melodic, often unamplified songmaking that promises to be the big sound after the era of non-Cream that we have been into the last year.  Watch carefully now while rock and roll gets listenable and lovely, without losing any of its punch.  If you want to know where it's all going, listen to Argent.  Because Rod and company are helping to get us there."

Ring of Hands is the second Argent album.  it is uncommonly provocative, assuredly imaginative.  It sings of love and intimacy and other strange phenomena that create mind-paintings.  Argent is pure silver and gold.

Colin Blunstone's Collected

Yester-day, I happened to see the cover of Colin Blunstone's Collected compilation album, and I realized that (to some degree and probably just coincidentally) the cover art resembles that of the Beatles' A Hard Day's Night.

The entirety of the cover of Collected and each individual Beatle's row on the cover of A Hard Day's Night both show the same person with a variety of expressions.