Mercury Records Collection: SRM-1-642: Blueprint For Discovery

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SRM-1-642: Blueprint For Discovery / Jerry Peters

Label Type :	red Mercury type C
Matrix Number :	SIDE-A	SRM 1-642 A-1 D PR
	SIDE-B	SRM 1-642 B2-I-II D PR

Comments

Inside The Groove

Producer/arranger/keyboardist/songwriter Jerry Peters' only leader album.

Personal Impression (and brief notes)

Jerry Peters is a hard-working producer/arranger/songwriter as well as a keyboard player (both acoustic/electric). This is his only leader album left on Mercury label in 1972.

The album itself shows diversity of sound - from acoustic ballads, soulful arrangements with strings (like Philly Soul), to strong, rhythmic and even funky soul tracks, etc. The music and the entire mood is very attractive and is even beyond the category of Soul, but unfortunately(?!) Jerry Peters' own vocal is not good... His arrangements, songwritings are superb on this album, but his own vocal is the only (and the biggest) drawback. This might be the primary reason Jerry Peters never recorded another leader album(s).

BTW, Rock fans will be interested to find the name of Joseph Porcaro, a father of the Porcaro brothers of the famous studio band TOTO.

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

7 out of 10

Track Listing

SIDE-A
A-1	2-49958	If You Leave Me Now (Prologue) (J. Peters)	1:26
A-2	2-49959	If You Leave Me Now (J. Peters)	4:23
A-3	2-49951	Long Before You And I (J. Peters)	4:12
A-4	2-49955	Did I Step On Your Heart (J. Peters)	3:06
A-5	2-49960	Going In Circles (J. Peters - A. Poree)	8:14
SIDE-B
B-1	2-49954	Love Song (L. Duncan)	5:30
B-2	2-49956	White Shutters (J. Peters)	4:33
B-3	2-49952	Kuri Monga Nuie (Big Black Dog) (B. Cole)	5:37
B-4	2-49953	Let Me Forget (J. Peters)	6:52

Personnel

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

Jerry Peters (vo, kbd, arr) with:
Larry J. McGuire (tp, flh), Ernie Watts (ts, ss), Mike G. Altschul (sax), David N. Crawford (fl, a-fl),
Dean Parks (g), Arthur Adams (g), Wayne Douglas (b),
Harvey Mason (ds, perc), Joseph Porcaro (ds, perc), Bobbye Hall (conga),
Stephanie Spruill, Patricia Holloway, Venetta Fields, Maxine Willard, Jessica Shux,
Annesther Shux, Brandy Shux, Dianna Shux, Maria Shux (background vocals).
Recorded at Sound Factory West, Los Angeles, CA, in June 1972?

Overdubbed strings by:
Janice A. Gower (vln), Charles Veal (vln),
Rollice Dale (viola), Ron Cooper (cello).
Recorded at RCA Recording Studios, Los Angeles, CA in 1972.

Produced by Jerry Peters, Keg Johnson and Richard Aaron for Organic Sound Productions.
Arranged by Jerry Peters.