Mercury Records Collection: SR-61129: Out Of Crank

SR-61129: Out Of Crank / Keith

Label Type :	red Mercury type B1
Matrix Number :	SIDE-A	SR 61129-A- M1 MR II E
	SIDE-B	SR 61129-B- M1 MR I E

Comments

a cut-out hole on jacket cover. with original Mercury inner sleeve.

Inside The Groove

One of the fine products backed up with famous producers Jerry Ross.

Personal Impression (and brief notes)

It's Keith's second album, a follower of his famous 1st album “98.6 / Ain't Gonna Lie”. Like the 1st album, this contains many pure Pop tunes. It's a nice example of late-1960's Soft Rock in the U.S. I love this kind of sound too much.

And we must note the great producer Jerry Ross. Maybe he is one of the important key-person in the 1960s, in a sense he was a “bridge” or “missing link” between Pops (with some Soul) in the 1960s and Philadelphia Soul in the 1970s. As a matter of fact, look at the name of the songwriters of B-4: you can see Kenny Gamble's name along with Jerry Ross himself.

Strictly Personal Rating (to what extent I could enjoy this album)

9 out of 10

Track Listing

SIDE-A
A-1	2-40178	Sugar Man (D. Randell - S. Linzer)	2:14
A-2	2-40004	Candy Candy (A. Wayne - J. Ross)	2:33
A-3	2-40002	Easy As Pie (B. Carl - J. Ross - D. Cohen)	2:23
A-4	2-40179	Making Every Minute Count (J. Morier)	2:30
A-5	2-40006	Hope Girl (V. Mellrose - D. Hess)	2:25
SIDE-B
B-1	2-40005	Sweet And Sour (M. Barkan - V. Mellrose)	2:18
B-2	2-40010	There's Always Tomorrow (J. Renzetti - J. Ross)	2:40
B-3	2-40001	Daylight Savin' Time (M. Shuman - J. Ross)	2:49
B-4	2-40007	Times Gone Bye (Gamble - Ross)	2:15
B-5	2-40008	Happy Walking Around (B. Keefer)	2:35
B-6	2-40009	Be My Girl (Spector - Sands)	2:25

Personnel

Personnel/recorded date/master numbers confirmed with the Ruppli's discography.
(“The Mercury Labels - A Discography” by Ruppli and Novitsky, Greenwood Press, 1993)

Recent CD reissue (Cherry Red RPM-273) contains all tracks from MG-21102 / SR-61102, MG-21129 / SR-61129, plus a few more tracks previously available only on 45rpm.

Keith (vo).
Arranged by Jimmy Wisner (A-1, A-2, A-4, A-5, B-1) and by Joe Renzetti (A-3, B-2, B-3, B-4, B-5, B-6)

A-1, A-4: Recorded in July 1967.
All the rest: Recorded on May 8, 1967.