City Boy - City Boy (1976) (Full Album)

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01 (Moonlight) Shake My Head And Leave 00:00
02 Deadly Delicious 04:26
03 Surgery Hours (Doctor Doctor) 09:06
04 Sunset Boulevard 12:10
05 Oddball Dance 18:27
06 5000 Years / Dont Know Can't Tell 23:32
07 The Hap-Ki-Do Kid 32:12
08 The Greatest Story Ever Told 35:25
09 Haymaking Time 40:12
Lol Mason - lead vocals, percussion
Mike Slamer - lead and rhythm guitars, backing vocals
Steve Broughton - rhythm and 12-string guitars, lead vocals, mandolin, percussion
Max Thomas - keyboards, backing vocals, 12-string guitar
Chris Dunn - bass, backing vocals, acoustic guitar
Roger Kent - drums, percussion
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[@morganevans423]

Agree with all the comments here, the best band no one has heard of. Fantastic stuff.

[@gringo3002]

Yes, but quite a few people have heard the lead guitarist...

[@antoniomccoy9451]

They cool but the 70’s German British band “Lake” is the best band no one has heard of

[@macastro448]

Achei que só eu curtia city boy

[@davidoran123]

C'mon people! These guys are so amazing, give a listen. Been a fan since 1976

[@macastro448]

Boa amigo

[@judgebates3696]

For the longest time I thought I was the only person that appreciated this group!!

[@morleychallenged]

You may be lucky that way. Mutt Lange did much better with Def Leppard later, but maybe we are all confused now.

[@antonnee]

Had never heard of the group; just found out about them a few months ago. Little by little will start buying their whole discography.

[@ariinkeroinen2615]

Still what a pretty good year of rockin' - that time of mighty '76! 😊 ❤

[@rebbeshort]

Knowing about this band has been one of the greatest musical pleasures of my life.

[@danielvibez4000]

very beautiful comment.

[@MrPer59]

Reb Short same to me

[@mattweldon5159]

Still listen to all their albums....never gets old, super underated!!!!! They tell me it's haymaking time again.......

[@paulhare662]

First heard this in a record store in 76. Bought the record and became a fan. Saw then live at the Marble Bar in the Congress Hotel in Baltimore. Myself and a friend were the only ones there who knew their music. We got invited backstage for Heinekens after the show. Quite an evening. Still have Mike Hammers guitar pick.

[@andrewvida3829]

I first heard it in 76 as well, when I'd moved to LA to attend engineering school at USC.

[@stefanrenberg2198]

Mike Slamer

[@macastro448]

Bela história

[@MartyDeAngeloSEstudios]

Produced by the Legendary Robert "Mutt" Lange!! Excellent!!

[@svogender]

Yep...It's an awesome production...!!! Sound killer..!!!

[@alisonaydin7548]

Loved City Boy back in the 70's. Ardent fan. Chris Dunn's father Leslie was a great friend of my father Michael Preston. Our families often got together socially. Alison

[@andrewmello367]

Do you know what they are up to now? City boy is the greatest band no one knows about.

[@Bebbeth]

Chris Dunn is on youtube... he commented The Day the Earth Caught Fire kzbin.info/door/6LBXhCWjXg0ErAggS06Brg

[@cdtheduck]

@@Bebbeth facebook.com/groups/2408151547/?multi_permalinks=10157078439506548

[@cdtheduck]

@@andrewmello367 facebook.com/groups/2408151547/?multi_permalinks=10157078439506548

[@oldiedrummermarkus]

Absolutely best rock ✌️👌👌🥁🥁❤️❤️❤️ wunderbar diese musikalische Zeit 😀😀 I never forget

[@lmsmuffin]

I still have this album. Takes me back to being a teenager. 😊

[@jjvladimir6070]

I can't get over how good this album is. It grows on you with each listen and then you start to crave it, like a junky craving a fix.

[@svogender]

Yeah... That's how I felt back in 76..!! I still come back to CITY BOY and i'm still in love...!!

[@cristinaturatti5571]

,. 😊

[@macastro448]

É noix

[@scottroach2418]

Had this album in high-school in the 70s then lost it. Been searching on and off for the last 45 years. Brings me back

[@paulschumacher1263]

Superb album. They made quite a few, but this was still their best. Fantastic harmonies, playing, commentary, and humor. Thanks for posting.🙂

[@svogender]

the world need you badly City Boy..so please.......REUNITE

[@NoWayOut55]

Loved this band...one of the forerunners of the English/Aussie 'Harmony Bands.' Hap-ki-do kid rocks

[@joek6401]

Knew the first time I heard this on KMET (Los Angeles) that it was a one-of-a-kind band, and crazy talented album. Went down to Tower Records on the Sunset Strip, and bought it immediately! Sadly, it didn't get the massive airplay it takes for a band to get widely known, but I never, ever forgot how talented these guys were, and I try to turn friends on to them, any chance I get, even 40+ some years later. Honestly, I'd call them my all time favorite underplayed band. This LP reminded me of Boston's first LP, which was packed front to back with great songs, as this album is. My personal favorite, 5,000 Years, Don't Know, Can't Tell...

[@alfio26]

my words ! but i see your comment after having writen mine...hi,hi,hi......the power of goood music........enlaching! Keep "active" !

[@sgillman16]

What song was playing on that station? They only had 2 songs that hit the billboard hot 100 here in the USA. 5-7-0-5 (which made the top 40), and What A Night.

[@waski672]

@@sgillman16 kmet was known for album rock. They debuted full albums. At least they did in the mid 70’s.

[@kjellgullberg5901]

Sitting in my boy room 74 and listening on this record. Wonderful

[@davidoran123]

so good, so amazing, great songs, vocals and guitars.

[@alfiogiovanelli4987]

One of the BEST UNKNOWN BANDS .....EVR!!!......~~~~~~..but may be one day rediscovered in all their fururabilllica consciousness....???....to be continued.....!!....Nice day to all you there out!!!!....Smiles and drags and drops from the THE PINK...(wishUw-here2)

[@donmoore7785]

Unknown?

[@FredoLaredo]

Yes! Largely unknown! one of my pallies got this from a DJ at a local radio station, because they wouldn't paly anything off of it! Stupid Fools!

[@tedlevin5760]

I've always been a fan of complex layered production, such as, All Things Must Pass, Queen, Ambrosia (Somewhere I've never traveled), Genesis, 10 CC, The first Boston album, (until radio wore it out), The Fixx, and this is a great example. I have loved this album since it first came out and arrived at the Progressive Rock station that I worked at in Erie Pa.

[@paulhare662]

Radio will never wear out More Than a Feeling. If I'm ever stranded on a desert island. I'm taking a copy of More Than a Feeling. If I get to take 3 songs, I'll take Surgery Hours and Walk Away by the James Gang.

[@ericmckayrq]

Same ! I’ll have to check out the fixx

[@detlevdiegel6465]

Absolutely! Deadly Delicious one of my G,. O. A. T. s... Busy trying to remember what the Apple dance song title was.... Everything's ripe and nuts are blue, {>;)€

[@ariinkeroinen2615]

So mighty yes, some a newly came thing to me... 😊 But it was for now, some absolutely minds breaking and Worlds opening just to me! ❤ Great stuff allover! 😅😂 Wow, just gotta luv it anyways! 🎉

[@mojodano1]

This and Be Bop Delux were both so Talented, New and Different !!! just never got the Recognition they deserved !!!

[@susanrussell3001]

Only 9 comments..I can't believe it give this band a good listen ..this and all there albums you will find that you just found a new band to fall in love with..unbelievable ,talented musicians and like so many great albums you must listen more then once.you owe yourself a small time to listen for a life time of (I Believe)a great band to look forward to when that mood hits ya to kick back with the headphones and enjoy the new( yet old) band you decided to give a chance to BRAVO FOR YOU.. and if not Well you took a chance and that says more about you then I could ever say about a band ...

[@NickRatto]

Ditto

[@HamiltonVanMan]

Saw City Boy in Toronto oh so many years ago.

[@robbipericak1321]

I have three of their albums. This one is actually their first and self titled City Boy, released in '76. The two following, released in '77 are "Dinner at the Ritz" and "Young Men Gone West". I love this album, though Dinner at the Ritz is my favourite. The music gets into your head and is very layered and lovely . . . . I forgot about them for years and am now happy to revisit.

[@danielvibez4000]

it is indeed lovely. with the soft voices and all.

[@sgillman16]

This was actually released in 75

[@sgillman16]

Dinner 76, Young Men 77, Book Early 78, The Day T.E.C.F. 79, Heads 80, It's Personal 81

[@waski672]

My favorite is The day the earth caught fire. But I do love their other albums. I have 3 of their cd’s lol I lost 2 albums that were on cassettes 🙁 I was drinking wine tonight and thought “ tonight is a City boy kind of night.” Living in the past a bit but idc I’m enjoying myself. ✌️😎🍷

[@macastro448]

Boa❤

[@chorebunny8080]

I just heard of em randomly I bought 3 vinyl for 50 cents each ..... I'm stoked 🤗

[@macastro448]

Vende p mim esses vinis

[@steveblomerth]

I have the original LP and this first album was their best work.

[@taklampan650]

Great album!

[@ericmckayrq]

Holy shit! It’s got everything I love

[@alc6276]

Excellent. Thanks for posting.

[@jgfergus]

Fantastic album!!

[@aleksandarfrick2656]

I cant belive this band stop playing because they cant find label 1982 .

[@markshepherd6145]

Saw this band at Leeds University in 1976/77? Didn't know anything about them until then. One of the best concerts I've been to. Bought the album the next day! Still occasionally dig it out for a play.

[@donmoore7785]

Thank you for posting this. I'm looking forward to hearing the entire Oddball Dance - the track posted on YT for 7 years doesn't include the "Anyone for tennis... I'm a loony" verse with farting sounds :) Just scored this and Dinner at the Ritz double CD for $13.55 on Ebay. Psyched. I lived off my badly warped LP since the early 80's.

[@cdtheduck]

It may or may not be of interest but my acoustic guitar was de-tuned deliberately just to add to the chaos!!

[@tedlevin5760]

I would like to add, The Moody Blues, Yes, Supertramp, Pink Floyd, and Crack The Sky to great groups with a complex layered sound. Of course there are more.

[@cdtheduck]

You may be interested to know that we tried to get Ken Scott to produce our first album as we all adored the sound of "Crime Of The Century" Needless to say, Ken was not available so out venerable A&R guy, Chris Peers AKA Crisp Ears, found Mutt for us and THAT was the beginning of what should have been!

[@syuriy2222]

01 (Moonlight) Shake My Head And Leave 00:00 02 Deadly Delicious 04:26 03 Surgery Hours (Doctor Doctor) 09:06 04 Sunset Boulevard 12:10 05 Oddball Dance 18:27 06 5000 Years / Dont Know Can't Tell 23:32 07 The Hap-Ki-Do Kid 32:12 08 The Greatest Story Ever Told 35:25 09 Haymaking Time 40:12

[@FredoLaredo]

Oh! Me Oh My! Thx for posting this! Burned thru my copies long ago! Deadly Delicious!

[@paulhare662]

City Boy fans, another little heard band of this era that I was fond of, The Southerland Brothers and Quiver. Sweet Cousin, You Got Me Anyway.

[@James-dt7ky]

[@grahamharley4895]

Effing brilliant. Haven't listened to this for ten years. Originally introduced by my younger brother on a cassette in his car. Great shame such talented guys went for harder rock in their follow ups and faded away. I'm told that they were going to release Hapkido kid as a single but were pipped at the post by that crap Kung fu fighting by Carl Douglas which might have gone to No 1? On such fine lines is the future drawn.

[@craiggerrard5117]

I don't think that's true, although it's possible. Kung fu Fighting was released in September 1974, way before this album. Hapkido Kid was released as a single and they performed it on Top of the Pops, I think it is on You Tube.

[@grahamharley4895]

@@craiggerrard5117 Hi, I bow to your better memory. I've probably been desperate to find a reason for them not making the big-time?

[@craiggerrard5117]

@@grahamharley4895 Thanks for the reply. It's my guess that the reason for their failure in this respect was timing. Their albums came out just as punk was hoovering up all of the media's attention and it was difficult for a group like this to get much air play except on specialist shows. A pity.

[@svogender]

​@@craiggerrard5117 Hi guys..!! Yeah.. It's unbelieving that an act at this level only got on hit (5705) it's a scandale..!!!

[@macastro448]

Viajo nas músicas dos cara!!

[@NickRatto]

In the mid 70s ,I stumbled upon this ,Configuration of unexplained talent with songs of every moral of this thing known as life ..and well I did enjoy the collaboration of sound they strung through our minds with a thought of Time. but ,Hay Making Time , struck me most , but each piece has its own MESSAGE listen.. please and always be kind,

[@THECLARENCES]

Ahead of their time! xoxo The Clarences

[@sudicalwig]

Great band! I hear some SPARKS in their music. But it's definitely original!

[@alfio26]

one of the best best (unknown to the main) EVER ! Lyrics à la Rabelais et Dante Alighieri ( they tell eternal themes in a very simple and pleasent way)....have all the Lp's (buyed about 40-45 years ago.....) / i still listen surprised every time as were the first time i hear them; this mean for a song that it is damn GOOD !!.....Ciao from a "dandy" fashioned casual weared '54...........smoker but no trace of Lung accidents!! ah,ah,ah,!!! A big Hello to all the sane no smokers i've let beyond me (dead)..........Namastei and "spasiba"!!

[@rebbeshort]

"Non smokers die every day!" - Bill Hicks

[@JamieMarshallMusician]

I remember Chris Dunn when he worked at Jones And Crossland

[@Bebbeth]

Chris Dunn kzbin.info/door/6LBXhCWjXg0ErAggS06Brg

[@davidgilmourfanatic]

Love this album. I'm not sure how I did this, but I have two vinyl albums of this particular album.

[@jean-mariecarli8836]

thanks you.

[@user-iv8zj9jp2c]

este grupo lo escuche gracias a un amigo muy querido que ya murió GRACIAS TOBI por esto...

[@vitorferreira3655]

Muito boommm!!!

[@Baribrotzer]

Lol Mason - lead vocals, percussion Mike Slamer - lead and rhythm guitars, backing vocals Steve Broughton - rhythm and 12-string guitars, lead vocals, mandolin, percussion Max Thomas - keyboards, backing vocals, 12-string guitar Chris Dunn - bass, backing vocals, acoustic guitar Roger Kent - drums, percussion

[@hklinker]

My first time hearing this band, apart from the 5705 single a million years ago. Substantial 10cc vibe but not the same thing. Ha ha - lots going on. This is going to take a while! Good.

[@THECLARENCES]

Imagine City Boy and Mitchell Dancik And The Senators touring together?!? They are very similar in styles!!! xoxo The Clarences

[@James-dt7ky]

[@THECLARENCES]

@@James-dt7ky That's awesome!!! xoxo The Clarences

[@creathechiboi]

thanks youtube

[@mojodano1]

I first had my chance " at the OddBall Dance !! "

[@gringo3002]

Mike Slamer on guitar.

[@jean-mariecarli8836]

debut du rock progréssif

[@user-cx2jm6kc3v]

😮

[@dmitrydmitrov4751]

❗❗❗

[@chorebunny8080]

😋🥰🤩

[@macastro448]

Alguém aí querendo curtir um city boy comigo ...

[@user-te7yo1ci7m]

Обычный pop-rock , скучный и неинтересный .

[@user-ud9ie2fi5u]

Владимир, с этим коллективом я познакомился в 1977 году. Мне нравится именно этот альбом.

[@user-ud9ie2fi5u]

Ошибся я маленько. Альбом Обед в Рице, очень недурно.

[@olehblashchuk9483]