Biography
Blue Mink were a British five-piece pop group that existed from 1969 to 1974. Over that period they had six Top 20 hit singles in the UK Singles Chart, and released five studio based albums. According to AllMusic: “they have been immortalised on a string of compilation albums, each recounting the string of effervescent hits that established them among Britain’s best-loved pop groups of the early 1970s.
Roger Coulam (keyboards) formed the band in the autumn of 1969, with Madeline Bell (vocalist), Roger Cook (vocalist), Alan Parker (guitarist), Herbie Flowers (bassist), and Barry Morgan (drummer). Most of the songs were written by Cook and Roger Greenaway. Flowers, Morgan and Parker all worked with Coulam at London’s Morgan Studios. The four of them recorded several backing tracks, with which Coulam approached Bell and Greenaway, (who had been half of David and Jonathan), as vocalists. Greenaway declined, but put forward Cook (the other half of David and Jonathan). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Mink
Album & Cover
Cover Location: Hipgnosis Studio, London, UK
Who Did What: Illustration – G. Hardie. Cover Design – Hipgnosis
Label: EMI EMC 3021(UK)
Source: Vinyl. Album. Cover. Art, The Complete Hipgnosis Catalogue: Aubrey Powell
Tracklist
| Side One Stop Us Let Him Stay Quackers Song For Madeline Non Commercial Blues Morning Glory |
Side Two I Wanna Be Around (With You) Mouth Eyeballs Yesterday’s Gone Talking Drum Morning Dew |
Credits
Engineer – George Nicholson, Gregg Jackman
Producer – David Mackay
Performers – Alan Parker, Ann Odell, Barry Morgan, Herbie Flowers, Madeline Bell, Ray Cooper, Roger Cook
