MARMALADE - JODY - the lost 1972 album w/Hugh Nicholson & Dean Ford - Radancer, Blue power pop

A fan-sequence of what a Marmalade album could have looked like in 1972 if they hadn't broke up. This consists of 2 unreleased songs from 1971 with Junior Campbell, 5 unreleased "demo" songs from 1972 with Hugh Nicholson (some later rerecorded for the Blue debut and Our House is Rockin) as well as the hit Ra-dancer single. The album is arranged thematically to represent a slow breakup, and paired with images of classic actresses so you can better feel the heartache.
Radancer
Just One Woman (4:02)
Mr. Heartbreaker (7:26)
Can You Help Me? (10:33)
Sunset Regret (19:05)
Jody (23:40)
Stay With Me Baby (26:49)
Middle of a Night (Part 1,2,3) (30:52)
Out of a Dark Night (39:38)

[@groverbaker6404]

Marmalade was THE best band that never really caught on here..but they should have!! Loved all of their releases!!! Killer stuff and awesome band!!! Hell yeah!!!!!!!

[@mdm7905]

It's a shame this was never released. They were a tight band, even though they had bubblegum overtones. Great slow jam on the last song.

[@regiscornu5183]

Very very Good Album !!!

[@oldmcmetal322]

Maybe I had to get older to realise how good this band was. Even so, it is just an unofficial reminder that this band had more to offer than some light weighed chart stompers.

[@grahams1097]

Hi Garrett. This showed up on the island in Scotland. It's great. Thanks. I'll be listening to it a good few times! Saw Marmalade live 1975 when they popped up (unannounced) at the university union. Curtains back, lights up and Sandy Newman carried it off brilliantly.

[@SKIVKISS]

Great recordings TNX

[@maryjones4770]

This is really good....This many Marmalade songs altogether ....I have a couple of the Demos that finally ended up on a CD..

[@ligiafreitas3968]

Maravilha essa banda!!!.16-9-21 Brasil

[@patrickhingant1087]

Belle période psychédélique à souhait ! on sent l'idée du concept album et du progressif.

[@royphillips7435]

Strange to have all women screen Goddesses of the 40s in the video some 30 odd years before this group were even formed ! Not complaining mind 😊

[@paulovalentini5558]

Very nice!

[@naiduvga1612]

cant believe that all these got reused and made even lotsa hits. and am only hearing it now

[@splotbang8296]

Reflections of My Life is a masterpiece that has stood the test of time. Unfortunately, they never came close to writing another song anywhere near that one. One hit wonders despite being brilliant musicians.

[@finslaw]

I'm not so sure. Reflections is great but has the same chord progression throughout. I personally think Hugh's brief era has songs just as good, like Middle of a Night.

[@neptunedownunder]

actually we had 11 top ten hits....just saying..do your homework

[@splotbang8296]

@@neptunedownunder I did. I was referring to U.S. charts even though I'm Canadian. Reflections reached #10 on the U.S. charts in '69 which is an incredible achievement. It really is a moving song that should have charted top 5 in my opinion. Three other Marmalade songs subsequently charted in the U.S., one of them hitting #49. I don't mean to be offensive in saying that those three songs would not have charted if Reflections had not caught everyone's attention.

[@Olegzyan]

great band! underrated though.

[@finslaw]

I think they are underrated because of the bubblegum covers they had to release as singles, especially their #1 Obla Di Obla Da. However if you flipped that single there was a great original B-side called Chains, and many other cover singles had a better B-side original IMO (Wait a Minute, No Use in Hanging on.)

[@bigtone1348]

The bad publicity about under age groupies destroyed their careers.

[@alsinclair5589]

What is the title of this album and did it ever get an official release?

[@finslaw]

I'm not sure how seriously the band pursued using these songs on an album, although it seems unlikely Hugh would have allowed it to include Junior's old songs. The 1972 songs are all listed as demos but they sound ready for prime time to me. Otherwise, what sounds like a good title?

[@julyanpaul3688]

The very first sentence under the image tells you that this is "A fan-sequence of what a Marmalade album could have looked like in 1972 if they hadn't broke up." The first comment is "It's a shame this was never released."