Stories - Please, Please

[@freddymodad5431]

Got this tune in my head and three days later rediscovered it on You Tube. Memories of Germany in the Army in 73. Music was brilliant back then.

[@moorlock2003]

Stories made their mark. "Brother Louie" was No. 1 for 3 weeks. They had 3 other charting singles ("I'm coming Home", No. 42, "Mammy Blue" No. 50, and "If it feels good do it", No. 88). Their album "About Us" (which is a Power Pop classic and totally unlike "Brother Louie") made the Top 30. The albums that preceeded and followed ("Stories" and "Traveling Underground") are great too. Stories is a band worth far more attention than just "Brother Louie".

[@giltamag]

Was in the mountains doing drugs for two weeks, had only this cd. Its ever tatooed in my brain. What a group. Still have to go back and jam every now and then.

[@toronto55]

This was one of the best bands that didn't make it as far as they deserved.

[@moorlock2003]

Great dynamics in "Please Please", the stunning centerpiece of Stories' second album, "About Us".

[@blaineselkirk9946]

I just stumbled on this. Great album! Great musicality.

[@cforssi]

Great album. I bought this when it first came out. Anything that Michael Brown does is always first rate!!

[@jimbo200953]

Nice sing brings a lot of memories back.

[@mdnathan]

remember this as if it was yesterday when they played Carnegie Hall with the Raspberries. What a dream show :-) (Note: At that show, the Raspberries did a cover of "The Loco-Motion." Todd Rundgren was in the audience and not that far after, Grand Funk had a version out in the marketplace!)

[@beatlefan64]

"About Us" what a great album. I own it on vinyl and CD! :)

*Beautiful folding cover!!!*

[@johnsupz9608]

Please Please has always been a favorite cut of this album for me the second being "Darling" !

[@groundhog713]

Great song off of the About Us L.P.. RIP Michael Brown.....

[@AlexAlexon3897]

One of the best songs I've heard. Rumour has it that Ian Lloyd nearly joined Rainbow just before Graham Bonnet was found.

[@jimbo200953]

Good song ,brings old memories back 1973

[@luzmariaa3347]

Love this voice 🎉

[@Khultan]

Just heard this song TODAY: I am much LOVING THIS : ) : ) Thank you, Wormpiano : )

[@crazyelf62]

In the late 70's I went into a Woolco store and they had boxes and boxes of cut-out albums for $1. I left there that day with about 50 great albums, including all three Stories albums. I went back several times because they kept getting more and more new shipments of cut-outs. Wish I had bought them all, I could make a killing on EBay. But the Stories albums are great, this one and Travelling Underground. The first one is OK.

[@friendlier]

Absolutely in my top ten of underrated albums. An absolute jewel. Ian Lloyd's voice was the best of all the "hoarse" 70's male singers, including Rod Stewart and Stevie Marriott.

[@wonderfulhuman161]

I could hear how early Rush might have been influenced by this group in the vocals and composition in part. I wasn't familiar with this group but liking what I am hearing- thanks wormpiano .) btw, wtf is a wormpiano? lol

[@mykidsarebrilliant]

Moe Berg introduced me to this song. Very excellent!

[@KathrynSedgwick]

Last I heard, about ten years ago, Steve Love was working in a music store in upstate NY or Connecticut (can't remember which), very happily out of the music business.

[@finylvinyl66]

That second album is a gem.

[@larryhayden2008]

Kiss songs

[@larryhayden2008]

Kiss

[@TheOldTapeArchive]

Gotta love how almost all classic rock stations selectively pick the same "classic" (i.e. you've heard them all before) songs, and ignore gems like this. Perhaps Better Call Saul will end it's run with this song...

[@baracatjr]

This record is a prog power pop gem.

[@JIMSOWDER]

EXCELLENT !

[@kaitlynlubniewski]

A rare gem

[@musikfanat]

I saw them in 73 or 74. I think Kenny Aaronson was playing bass along with Mike Brown from the Left Banke on keyboards...

[@RadicalRoots23]

love it

[@musikfanat]

I saw them in San Jose, CA in '73. what a great show. I think the great Kenny Aaronson was playing bass with them...

[@sonhovinilico]

Very good

[@TighelanderII]

Wow, this sounds like "Fly by Night" from Rush.

[@jason75]

Thats what I thought, it sounds like Rush

[@musikfanat]

Long before Rush...

[@warrenrosenthal716]

Thought the same.

[@warrenrosenthal716]

@@musikfanat Fly by night came out in 75

[@chrisdrummond8893]

Reminds me of Rush.

[@stoker20]

Yep, this is the LP I have.

[@sleepingincognito]

Sound like RUSH............... BIG TIME

[@jimrader5299]

almost forgot this one. adds something to beatles (esp. paul) unlike badfinger. distinctive vocal sounds. the grand arrangement and mannered cover painting, however, quaintly recall the '70s. this got lot of airplay on WNEW-FM. but I don't miss that time, my early 20s, rife w/ pain and disappointment.

[@peppercub]

can't stop playing this track. they don't sound american to me.

[@freefall4444]

Yes I can hear it to I was looking for more songs on youtube for them . They never let me post any good stuff I had about 10 vids BUT got pissed off when they kept telling me about copy sh!t . Grandpa left me n my cussin all the old Lps from his record shop nere l.a. so i have all this stuff My dad tried to take it but its ours Ive put most of it on cd :-)

[@sleepingincognito]

A BIT OF FLY BY NIGHT

[@danodell4462]

Ian got his recompense, by the hand of Louie C K!!! Louie found Ian and hired session guys to back him, for the title song of his FX tv show "Louie".

[@toronto55]

Their 2nd album was an unfortunate secret. Louie Louie was their supposed 1-hit but anyone who got the album realized the band was much more. In fact most of the albums' songs were better than their "hit". The guitarist Steve Love, played with another band JOBRIATH; again 2 cool albums but bad management...and AIDS...cut that.

[@meteor-or2gd]

you right.

[@firedragon2888]

Remind me of Rush

[@Khultan]

: )

[@jason75]

Kinda sounds like rush..

[@toronto55]

Guitarist Steve Love left Stories for Jobriath,then seemingly vanished.What happened to him? (Jobriath died from AIDS...and as it was a rather gay-oriented band...I wonder if Love went this way too?)

[@TighelanderII]

Wow, that cover art sucks! (unless it's meant to look that way, then it's fabulous!)