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McGuinness Flint - BBC Sessions (1970-1974)

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I'm continuing my effort to post BBC sessions of lesser known musical acts. Here's a BBC album by the British band McGuinness Flint. This consists entirely of studio sessions.

This also continues my efforts to post "Top of the Pops" sessions. (As usual, note that's a reference to the BBC radio show, not the BBC TV show of the same name. Note that every single song here is sourced from Top of the Pops sessions. However, the vast majority of these have been officially released on the album "Malt and Barley Blues." It's a pretty damn hard to find album, but it does exist. However, three of the songs are unreleased. Those are tracks 15, 16, and 17. I figure the reason they're unreleased is because they come from a short time when then band was actually called "Coulson, Dean, McGuinness & Flint," so one might argue they technically didn't belong on a McGuinness Flint album. Anyway, those three come from my great unknown source of Top of the Pops sessions. I believe those three haven't been available to the public until now.

McGuinness Flint was formed in 1970 by Tom McGuinness, a bassist and guitarist with Manfred Mann, and Hughie Flint, a drummer with John Mayall's band. It also included vocalist and keyboard player Dennis Coulson, and multi-instrumentalists and singer-songwriters Benny Gallagher and Graham Lyle. 

This caused a problem, because the band was named "McGuinness Flint," but in my opinion the main reason for their success was the songwriting of Gallagher and Lyle. The band had a big hit with their very first release in 1970, "When I'm Dead and Gone," which went all the way to Number Two in the British singles chart. The next year, they had another hit with "Malt and Barley Blues," which also made the Top Five in Britain. Both of those songs, plus most of their other songs from those years, were written by Gallagher and Lyle. So it wasn't surprise that Gallagher and Lyle left the band by the end of 1971 to start their own career as a duo. They would have a lot of success, though they didn't have more hit singles until 1976. They also would have success writing songs for each other. For instance, Lyle co-wrote "What's Love Got to Do with It," which was a Number One hit in the U.S. for Tina Turner in 1984.

After Gallagher and Lyle left, the band had trouble coming up with new material. For their next album, released in 1972, they had the smart idea of releasing an album, "Lo and Behold," consisting entirely of Bob Dylan songs that hadn't been released by Dylan yet at that time. That is represented by the three unreleased songs I mentioned above, when the band was briefly known as Coulson, Dean, McGuinness & Flint. The band then resumed as McGuinness Flint for two more albums, released in 1973 and 1974. But those flatlined with the public, not making the albums chart at all. The band then broke up in 1975.

Here's the Wikipedia page on the band:

McGuinness Flint - Wikipedia 

By the way, it appears McGuinness Flint performed a short concert for the BBC in 1975. If anyone has it, please let me know and I'll be sure to post it.

This album is an hour and six minutes long. 

01 When I'm Dead and Gone (McGuinness Flint)
02 Mister Mister (McGuinness Flint)
03 Bodang Buck (McGuinness Flint)
04 Dream Darlin' Dream (McGuinness Flint)
05 I'm Letting You Know (McGuinness Flint)
06 Heritage (McGuinness Flint)
07 Malt and Barley Blues (McGuinness Flint)
08 Conversation (McGuinness Flint)
09 Rock On (McGuinness Flint)
10 Who You Got to Love (McGuinness Flint)
11 Happy Birthday Ruthy Baby (McGuinness Flint)
12 Faith and Gravy (McGuinness Flint)
13 Mama Mine (McGuinness Flint)
14 Oh My Love (McGuinness Flint)
15 Get Your Rocks Off (Coulson, Dean, McGuinness & Flint)
16 Lo and Behold (Coulson, Dean, McGuinness & Flint)
17 Odd and Ends (Coulson, Dean, McGuinness & Flint)
18 Ride on My Rainbow (McGuinness Flint)
19 Rocking Chair (McGuinness Flint)
20 [I Don't Like Your] Country Music (McGuinness Flint)
21 Siren Sadie (McGuinness Flint) 

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The cover photo is from a photo shoot taken at Manchester Square, in London, in December 1970. From left to right: Tom McGuinness, Graham Lyle (sitting in blue shirt), Hughie Flint, Benny Gallagher, and Dennis Coulson (sitting in brown jacket).



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