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2 unusual facts about Zoot Money's Big Roll Band


Zoot Money's Big Roll Band

The outfit signed with Decca Records, releasing a solitary 45rpm single that year before switching to EMI's Columbia label.

Money joined Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated for a short spell before rejoining the band, but fashions were drifting from straight RnB towards more experimental sounds and an emphasis on songwriting.


Dynamite Daze

# "(Take Me Back To) Dear Old Blighty" - 1:27 (piano – Zoot Money; composed: A.J. Mills, Bennett Scott, F. Godfrey,

Eddie Harris

From 1970 to 1975, he experimented with new instruments of his own invention (the reed trumpet was a trumpet with a saxophone mouthpiece, the saxobone was a saxophone with a trombone mouthpiece, and the guitorgan was a combination of guitar and organ), with singing the blues, with jazz-rock (he recorded an album with Steve Winwood, Jeff Beck, Albert Lee, Ric Grech, Zoot Money, Ian Paice and other rockers).

Phillip Goodhand-Tait

He wrote and recorded songs that have also been recorded by Larry Williams; Roger Daltrey ("Oceans Away" - on the LP, Ride a Rock Horse - and "Parade" and "Leon" - both on the One of the Boys album); Gene Pitney ("You Are" and "Oceans Away"); Zoot Money ("No One But You") and Love Affair ("Bringing on Back the Good Times", "A Day Without Love" and "Baby I Know").


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