Ray Russell                    Ready Or Not (1977)

 

 

 1 Ready Or Not (Russell/Foster)

 2 The Whole Of Tomorrow (Russell)

 3 Amy In May (Russell)

 4 Slave (Russell)

 5 Liberty Caps From The Coast (Russell)

 6 Living For The City (S.Wonder)

 7 The Clapping Song (L.Chase)

 8 Teaser For Lisa (Russell)

 9 Sweet Surrender (Foster/Whitehead)

10 Eighth House (Russell/Foster)

11 What Trousers Are These (Russell)

12 Q (Foster)

Bonus tracks:

13 Sweet Surrender (backing track)(Foster/Whitehead)

14 The Clapping Song (backing track)(L.Chase)

15 The Pain Of Love (R.Webb)

16 I Need Your Love (Foster/Whitehead)

17 The Clap (The Clapping Song) (outtake)(L.Chase)

 

All arrangements by Ray Russell except tracks 15,16 by Bruce Baxter.

Produced by Kaplan Kaye.

Recorded at Island Studios, Basing Street, London, Nov-Dec 1976.

and at Air Studios, Oxford Street, London, Jan 1977.

Engineered & mixed by John Punter.

Assistant engineers: Steve Prestige (Air), Dave Hutchins (Island).

Bonus tracks produced by Bruce Baxter & Mike Cooper.

Recorded at Pye Studios, Great Cumberland Place, London, July 1977.

Digitally re-mastered by Rik Walton at The Old Surgery Studio, Sussex.

 

Ray Russell - acoustic & electric guitars

Tony Hymas - piano,Fender Rhodes piano,synthesizer

Chris Parren - clavinet

Mo Foster - bass

Peter Van Hooke, Simon Phillips - drums

John Punter, Kaplan Kaye - percussion

Al Greed - vocal on 7

Annie Kavanaugh - vocals on 7,9

Moon Williams - vocals on 9

Denny McCaffrey - on 4,15,16

 

             Ready Or Not [lp] : 1977 DJM Records 20506

             Ready Or Not [cd,bonus tracks] : EU 2004 Angel Air   SJPCD-155