Genre: Pop Rock
Label: Scorpio
Format: 33RPM,
Size: 12"

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The Honeydrippers Volume One 12" Vinyl EP

The Honeydrippers

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SKU:
SCOLP90220
UPC:
075679022011
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Vinyl EP Features Jimmy Page, Robert Plant & Jeff Beck!

The Honeydrippers: Volume One is an EP released on 24 September 1984, by a band led by rock singer Robert Plant. The project originated when Atlantic Records president Ahmet Ertegün wanted to record an album of his favourite songs from the 1950s. Plant was chosen because Ertegün had seen his pick-up band the Honeydrippers performing 1950s standards. Included in the band were Chic front man Nile Rodgers, and former Yardbirds guitarists Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page—the latter was also Plant's former band mate in Led Zeppelin.

"A telling thing about Robert Plant at his peak is how he would sneak on-stage with Rockpile and sing Elvis songs, or how Swan Song signed Dave Edmunds when his retro-rock was about the furthest thing from the monolithic Zeppelin of Physical Graffiti. Plant always harbored deep, abiding love for early rock & roll, a fact that was often obscured by his restlessness, too, a side that he indulged on his first two post-Zep solo albums -- glistening, modern albums with a heavier debt to Robert Fripp than Little Richard. Two albums in, he switched tactics for the EP detour The Honeydrippers, Vol. 1, an unabashedly retro-rock project that hauled out five golden oldies from the pre-Beatles era and served them up authentically, or at least as authentic nostalgia. There is a certain sense of pastiche here, particularly in how "Sea of Love" is drenched in oceans of strings, far more than on the Phil Phillips original, which manages to evoke the era of lily white pop covers in a way that no straightforward cover could, but that's part of the charm of the record. Some may find this kind of pastiche a bit distancing, even campy, but there's a genuine warmth in Plant's performance, and his ad-hoc group of Honeydrippers -- including Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page in uncredited cameos -- have a great time running through these handful of oldies, particularly 'Rockin' at Midnight.' It may not be much more than a lark, but it's truly fun, even if it might have been slightly more fun making it than it is listening to it. [A remastered expanded version of The Honeydrippers, Vol. 1 was reissued as part of the 2006 box set Nine Lives and was then reissued as a separate disc the following year.]" - Stephen Thomas Erlewine, allmusic.com

Features:
• Vinyl EP

Musicians:
Robert Plant, vocals
Jeff Beck, guitars ("I Got a Woman," and "Rockin' at Midnight")
Jimmy Page, guitars ( "Sea of Love" and "I Get a Thrill" )
Nile Rodgers, rhythm guitar
Paul Shaffer, piano
Dave Weckl, drums
Wayne Pedziwiatr (a.k.a. Pedzwatwater), bass
Keith Evans, saxophone ("Rockin' at Midnight")

Selections:
Side A:

1. I Get A Thrill
2. Sea Of Love
3. I Got A Woman
Side B:
4. Young Boy Blues
5. Rockin' At Midnight

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