Ennismore

According to Russo's Collector's Guide, fifty years ago to-day (20 October 1972), Colin Blunstone's Ennismore (Epic S EPC 65278) was released in the U.K.  The release in the U.S. and Canada (Epic KE 31994) was 26 February 1973.

The same day, "I Don't Believe in Miracles" b/w "I've Always Had You" (Epic S EPC 8434) was released in the U.K.  The release in the U.S. and Canada (Epic 5-10948) was 22 January 1973.

"I Don't Believe in Miracles"

The day after I listened to Journey, I listened to Ennismore and noticed a few small things about songs on that album.

In the second verse of "I Don't Believe in Miracles," there's the line "And so you've won again, you win them all."  "All" is sung with a glissando (from G to F), and that musical range gives something of a sense of the word's meaning.

Ennismore

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Collection Audit:

This morning I listened to Colin Blunstone's Ennismore.  I noticed a couple things about two songs, but since they're not major points, I'm putting them in the same post. 

The first thing I noticed is in "I Don't Believe in Miracles."  After the line "I believe I was your game, your ball" in the lead vocals, the backing vocals echo, "Your ball."  There's something of a glissando on that "ball" though, so the pitch is raised as the word is sung, which anticipates the next line in the lead vocals: "If you threw me up, then I would fall." 

The other thing I noticed is that in "Andorra" after "rain" in the line "But down the mountains came the rain to soak our head," there's a guitar part that seems to represent raindrops.

Some notes on Ennismore from my Collection Audit project.

An-other thing I noticed when I listened to the album this morning is that I have a few notes wrong in the bass part for "I Want Some More," which I'll get to correcting in a few days.