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All songs are written by Mike d'Abo. The album is produced by Chris Demetriou. In 1998 I discovered that this album was made of red vinyl. You don't see that when you take the album out of the sleeve, but when you hold the album to a light backgroup and you will see that the album is indeed made of red vinyl.

The musicians on this album are:

Bass guitar : Mo Foster
Drums : Grant Serpell
Acoustic Guitar : Mike Jopp, John Kongos
Guitar : Mike Lentin
Percussion : Ray Cooper (on "Poor Man's Son")
Trombone : Keith Christie (on "Salvation Song")
Concertina : Jimmy Robertson (on "Battlefield")
Organ : Mike Moran (on "My Life")
Harmonica, Tenor & Soprano Saxes & Flutes : Lyn Dobson
Vocals & keyboards: Mike d'Abo

It's always interesting to look at the musicians of an album. We will find Mo Foster back in the Smith & d'Abo band. Grant Serpell plays drums in Sailor, who took Smith & d'Abo on tour through Europe. Mike Moran can be found as the main musician on Dave Clark's soundtrack album "Time".

09-74 Broken Rainbows	A & M AMLH 63634
side one:	side two:
Fuel To Burn	Handbags And Gladrags
This Is Me	Sitting On A Wood Floor
Broken Rainbows	Pappa Didn't Tell Me
The Last Match	My Load
I Go Where My Spirits Leads Me	Hold On Sweet Darling

All Songs on this album are written by Mike d'Abo.

"Handbags And Gladrags" on this album is not exactly the same song as on the "d'Abo" album on Uni UNLS 114.

This album is produced by Elliot Mazer, and the musicians on this album are:

Rhythm guitar : Teddy Irwir, Rab Noakes, Graham Nash
Banjo : Bobby Thompson
Bass Guitar : Gary Taylor, Elliot Mazer
Drums : Denny Seiwell
Harmonica : Graham Nash
Pedal steel guitar : Ben Keith
Backing vocals : The Jordanaires
Electric guitar : Mike Bloomfield, Teddy Irwin
Organ : Mark Naftalin
Dobro : Ben Keith
Cowbell : Elliot Mazer
Piano, electric piano, clarinet, tambourine, vocals : Mike d'Abo

However, even though Mike d'Abo didn't have any chart success, he could persuade many well known musicians to play on his albums. Artists like Albert Lee, Chris Spedding, Mo Foster, John Kongos, Graham Nash, Mike Bloomfield, and The Jordanaires are well known to all of us.

00-87 LP Indestructible	President PTLS 1084
MC Indestructible	President PTLC 1084
side one:	side two:
Loving On A Shoestring	Thank You
Love Indestructible	Wonder Of A Woman
Horns Of Memphis	Slow Burning Love
Nobody Else But You	Whose Geart?
Easy Street	Ships
Time Warp	Revival

The above album is very hard to get. So far the copy that I have is the only one I saw so far. It was recorded at three different studios, every time with another engineer as well:

- Herne Place Studios, Sunningdale (recording engineer: Roger Howorth)
- Gooseberry South Studios, London (recording engineer: John Gibbons)
- Millstream Recording Studio, Cheltenham (recording engineer: Mick Dolan)

Mike d'Abo used the following musicians:

Drums: Zak Starkey (yes, the son of .....)
Bass: Charlie McCracken (Dik Cadbury on "Revival")
Guitar: Mick Moody (Dik Cadbury solos on "Shoestring" and "Revival")
Piano: Mike d'Abo
Synths: Eddie Hardin, Mike d'Abo (Matt Clifford on "Revival")
Sax solos: "Bimbo" Acock
Brass: "Bimbo" Acock, Danny Ellis
Backing vocals: Lynn Sheppard, Dik Cadbury, Mike d'Abo, Regine Candler.

The album is produced by Mike d'Abo & Eddie Hardin. We know Eddie from The Spencer Davis Group and Hardin & York and countless contributions to albums from all kind of artists. It's also nice to see that Mike wrote the song "Ships" together with his Manfred Mann mate Tom McGuinness. This is a bit funny, because there were no Mike d'Abo/Tom McGuinness songs released when they played together in the Manfred Mann group.

00-88 LP Tomorrow's Troubador	President PTLS 1090
MC Tomorrow's Troubador	President PTLC 1090
side one:	side two:
Tomorrow's Troubador	Build Me Up Buttercup
Twinkle In The Eye	Just Like A Woman
Velvet Glove	The Mighty Quinn
Hurricane	Handbags And Gladrags
Isle Of Debris	Fox On The Run
Jump Boogie And Jive	Rock 'n' Roll Crusade

This album was released as Mike d'Abo & His Mighty Quintet.

The album "Gulliver's Travels" is a rare and hard to find Mike d'Abo album, but this one is even more hard to find. I discovered this album in 1991, but didn't find a copy until Mike d'Abo himself told me to go to the office of the record company President Records in London. There I met the managing director David Kassner, who gave me a copy of the album. Later he also took care that I got the three singles that Mike released on the President label.

The album title is "Tomorrow's Troubador", which causes confusion, even at the office of President, because on the single "Tomorrow's Troubador" they spell the LP title right, but on the second single from the album they spell the album title as "Tomorrow's Troubadour". Can anybody tell me what is right and what is wrong ? At least I can tell you that Mike is singing "Troubador".

Side one has all new songs, while the first five songs of side two are songs that made Mike d'Abo famous as a writer and/or singer of Manfred Mann. The song "Tomorrow's Troubador" is really a fantastic song and is one of the most played songs in my house since I got the album from David Kassner.

The album was produced by Mike d'Abo and Dik Cadbury and engineered by Mick Dolan. The songs were recorded at the Millstream Sudios, Cheltenham, a place in the neighbourhood of where Mike lives today.

00-75 Family Portrait

A & M Records 86 768 XAT (Holland)

side one:

Love Story

Nino Tempo & Apris Stevens

Late Again

Stealers Wheel

All Kinds Of people

Burt Bacharach

Lay Down

The Strawbs

Goodbye To Love

The Carpenters

Ain"t No Sunshine

Bill Whithers

Just An Old Fashioned Love Song

The Sandpipers

side two:

Part Of The Union

The Strawbs

Blue Moon

Blue Haze

Smackwater Jack

Quincy Jones

Tijuana Taxi

Herb Alpert

Everybody's Gotta Live

Arthur Lee

Belinda

Mike d'Abo

White Line Fever

The Flying Burrito Bros.

This is the only vinyl compilation album I've found so far with a track by Mike d'Abo. A & M Records choose one of the best Mike d'Abo songs for this "Family Portrait" album, which has a string of great names. It's nice to see Mike d'Abo among such names.

When playing the Mike d'Abo track for the first time, I immediately heard that it wasn't exactly the same track as Mike released it on his album "Down At Rachel's Place".

00-91 The Immediate Record Company Anthology	Dojo DO BOX 1 (UK)
disc 1:
Hang On Sloopy	The McCoys
Not Fade Away	Cyril Davis
I'm Not Saying	Nico
Down In The Boondocks	Gregory Phillips
I'm Your Witchdoctor	John Mayall
Mary Anne	Glyn Johns
You Stole My Love	The Mockingbirds
Someday	Jimmy Tarbuck
The Man With All The Toys	The Variations
Fever	The McCoys
You're So Good To Me	The Factotums
Think	Chris Farlowe
Baby Don't You Do	The Poets
So Much In Love	Charles Dickens
Going Back	Goldie
I Got You Babe	Aranbee Pop Symphony Orchestra
Softly Softly	London Waits
You Baby	The Turtles
Sitting On A Fence	Twice As Much
Out Of Time	Chris Farlowe
Snake Drive	Eric Clapton
Ride On Baby	Chris Farlowe

disc 2:
Life Is But Nothing	P.P. Arnold
My Way Of Giving	Chris Farlowe
Crystal Ball	Twice As Much
(Tell Me) Have You Ever Seen Me	Apostolic Intervention
Backstreet Girl	Nicky Scott
The First Cut Is The Deepest	P.P. Arnold
Yesterday's Papers	Chris Farlowe
Here Comes The Nice	The Small Faces
Changing Of The Guard	Marquis Of Kensington
She Was Perfection	Murray Head
Moanin'	Chris Farlowe
Itchycoo Park	The Small Faces
The Thoughts Of Emerlist Davjack	The Nice
Little Miss Understood	Rod Stewart
Come Home Baby	Rod Stewart & P.P. Arnold
(If You Think You're) Groovy	P.P. Arnold
Tin Soldier	The Small Faces
Would You Believe?	Billy Nicholls
Lazy Sunday	The Small Faces
Handbags And Gladrags	Chris Farlowe
Choker	Eric Clapton & Jimmy Page
Angel Of The Morning	P.P. Arnold

disc 3:
America	The Nice
The Universal	The Small Faces
On The Bombsite	Duncan Browne
Paint It Black	Chris Farlowe
Brandenburger	The Nice
Steelin'	The All Stars (feat. Jeff Beck)
(If Paradise Is) Half As Nice	The Amen Corner
Gullivers Travels	Mike d'Abo
Afterglow	The Small Faces
Man Of The World	Fleetwood Mac
Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonight	Earl Vince & The Valiants
So Much To Say (So Little Time	Rod Stewart
Hello Susie	The Amen Corner
Natural Born Boogie	Humble Pie
Get Back	The Amen Corner
Mad John	The Small Faces
Happy Days Toy Town	The Small Faces

I bought the above 3 CD-set during a visit to London in October 1992.

Immediate has released a great number of great records, which is proved by this fantastic compilation. Mike d'Abo is involved in a great number of songs. In the 20 page souvenir booklet which is included with this CD-set is a short story per song, and I will give these stories when Mike d'Abo is mentioned:

Rod Stewart - Little Miss Understood (written by Mike d'Abo)

Since the early sixties Rod Stewart had switched from various R 'n' B bands and in between attempted a solo career, his first single for Decca "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" was followed by a stint with the Hoochie Coochie Men and Long John Baldry who he again joined in Steampacket. Next he recorded a version of Sam Cooke's "Shake" for EMI before a brief involvement with the Shotgun Express - whose line-up included Peter Green and Mick Fleetwood, in 1967 he signed with Immediate. Mike d'Abo had recently joined the company and written a song "Little Miss Understood" for Chris Farlowe, but it was agreed it would be better suited to Stewart, so one of the label's finest singles was recorded, released and ignored - 263 copies were sold. Various other projects fell through - but he did get to meet The Faces.

Rod Stewart & P.P. Arnold - Come Home Baby (produced by Mike d'Abo)

In 1967 as manager, Andrew Loog Oldham's relationship with The Rolling Stones drifted apart, plans for Rod Stewart and P.P. Arnold to record an album with Jagger producing also fell apart, a few tracks were cut and this is one. Mike d'Abo was then set to take over the production duties but Immediate released Stewart from his recording contract to allow him to join the Jeff Beck Group.

Chris Farlowe - Handbags And Gladrags (written by Mike d'Abo)

Another change of writer and producer for Farlowe, and probably his finest vocal performance on this plaintive Mike d'Abo penned and produced song. It should have charted higher than no. 33 and had Farlowe been Rod Stewart, who later recorded the song, it would have. As Andrew Oldham would say "It's all down to image".

Michael d'Abo - Gulliver's Travels (See The Little People)(wr. by Mike d'Abo)

D'Abo came to Immediate to write and produce after the break up of the Manfred Mann group where he had replaced Paul Jones as vocalist. At the time Andrew Oldham and Sean Kenny were producing a musical based on Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" to play for a short season at London's Mermaid Theatre at the request of Sir Bernard Miles. They asked d'Abo to write some additional music and eventually invited him, to play the lead role. He did. A soundtrack album was released, possibly the strangest soundtrack ever, with "See The Little People" as a single. Both were withdrawn a week later when d'Abo's previous record company insisted that he was still under exclusive contract to them (such minor details seemed frequently to harass Immediate!), but the single appears here as a part of the story.

Rod Stewart - So Much To Say (So Little Time) (wr. by Mike d'Abo/Rod Stewart)

There is no story about this track in the souvenir booklet, but because Mike d'Abo was involved as writer and producer of this song I wanted to mention this song.

Also in October 1992 I read a story about The Small Faces in the English magazine "Record Collector". There was an interview printed with Small Faces drummer Kenny Jones, who said among others the following about the Immediate years:

On 28th January 1967, the Small Faces received an award from Jackie Trent for winning Radio Luxemburg's "Battle of the Giants" competition, having beaten Manfred Mann in the final. Later that evening, the lads dropped in on the Rolling Stones, who were recording a session in a nearby studio. Kenny says: "We were doing a lot of session work at the time. Steve and Ronnie were getting into producing and writing for other people because Andrew was encouraging them and taking a lot of notice of us, as he saw that we weren't just a pop band. I was doing some sessions for Immediate with Mike d'Abo, and one of the tracks that came out of that was "First Cut Is The Deepest" by P.P. Arnold. We finished the track, and then did a couple more, just me and Mike on piano. Rod Stewart came in a week later, and sang on another track which turned out to be "Little Miss Understood" - that was what I was like, we were all in and out of each other's studio, having a play on this or that, or someone would come in and play on our stuff".

05-97 CD	Wizard's Convention 2	Angel Air SJPCD009
tracks:
1.	Hot Head Of Steam	vocals Chris Farlowe
2	Zermatitis Blues	vocals Tony Ashton
3.	Happening All The Time	vocals Eddie Hardin
4.	Here I Go Again	vocals Mike d'Abo and Paul Jones
5.	Someone Sings	vocals John Lawton
6.	Talking Ain't Cheap	vocals Debbie Bonham and John Lawton
7.	Try A Little Tenderness	vocals Chris Farlowe
8.	Sultana (instrumental)	guitars Snowy White and Ray Fenwick
9.	Brickmasters Blues	vocals Denny Laine and Emma Hardin
10.	Can't Let You Go	vocals Gary Falcone and Peter Jameson
11.	I Think It's Gonna Rain Today	vocals Chris Farlowe
12.	As Long As I Still Have You	vocals Chris Thompson
13.	Before We Say Goodbye	vocals Paul Jones
14.	Lucille	vocals Eddie Hardin
15.	What A Way To Spend A Day	vocals Eddie Hardin

This first new material by Mike d'Abo for many years. A duet by the two lead singers of Manfred Mann is something unique of course. As the Manfreds they toured a lot and gave many shows, but now you can hear them on CD.

On the first Wizard's Convention Mike d'Abo sang a duet with Mike Smith, so for full information see the part in this book that describes that musical period of Mike d'Abo.

On this CD many well known artists like Chris Farlowe; Tony Ashton (from Ashton Gardener & Dyke); John Entwhistle (the Who); Denny Laine (Moody Blues and Wings); Eddie Hardin (Spencer Davis Group); Phil Manzanera (Roxy Music); Zak Starkey (son of Ringo Starr; he also played on the Mike d'Abo album "Indestructible") and Chris Thompson (Manfred Mann's Earth Band).

"Here I Go Again" is written by Eddie Hardin and Ray Fenwick. Eddie Hardin plays keyboards; Mo Foster (who was also in the Smith & d'Abo band) plays bass guitar and Ray Fenwick plays guitars. It's a ballad with lots of harmonica play by Paul Jones, a thing that he can like no one else can.

00-97 CD	The Story So Far	Angel Air SJPSIN501 (UK)
Tracks:
1.	The Demon Rose	McCoy
2.	Live Wire	Guitar Orchestra
3.	Talkin Bout You	The Pirates
4.	Restless 1	Gillan
5.	Give Or Fake (2nd version)	Route 66
6.	Always And Forever	Mammoth
7.	Clear Air Turbulence	Ian Gillan Band
8.	Poem About A Gnome	John Gustafson
9.	Here I Go Again	Mike d'Abo and Paul Jones
10.	In My Room	Musicians Union Band
11.	It's Over	Bobby Harrison
12.	I Won't Be There	Mick Grabham
13.	Back USA	Ray Fenwick
14.	Ma Belle Amie	Tee Set
15.	Lonely	Steve Hyams

February 1997 saw the very first release from Angel Air Records, a specialists independent record label created to bring to the market, rock and pop music from artists from the 70's, 80's and 90's on CD only.

This CD has tracks from the 15 first released CD's from Angel Air. From the CD "Wizards Convention 2" (which was the 9th CD from Angel Air) you will find as 9th track on this CD the song that was sung by Mike d'Abo and Paul Jones called "Here I Go Again" which is a very good choice by Angel Air. The costs of this CD are only £ 4,99 and can only be ordered from the records company itself (as far as I know).

00-97 CD

There Goes That Song Again

Reader's Digest BL-58-012-A (UK)

I got to know about this 3CD-set when I visited Mike d'Abo at his house in October 1997. There he showed me this Reader's Digest CD and played to me one song: "Now That I Need You", which is a song from the musical "Red, Hot, and Blue". The song is sung by Mike d'Abo and has Paul Jones on harmonica again like on the "Wizard's Convention 2" CD.

Also this song is a ballad and Mike told me, that he really liked this song and sang along when playing it. After I got home in Holland, I tried to buy this 3CD-set from Reader's Digest itself, but that was not that easy. Due through copyright laws it wasn't possible to send the CD to a country outside England. But they were willing to send the CD to a "care-of-address" within the United Kingdom, and because I have a lot of friends in the UK, I asked Alan Clayson to help me and of course he did. So after all I did get the CD, which has 43 songs in total sung and played by well known musicians. All songs are from musicals and I take this CD among my rarest Mike d'Abo items.

00-99 CD	Sixties Sing Nineties	Harry Records 1999 (UK)
Tracks:
1.	Don't Look Back In Anger	Dave Dee (Oasis)
2.	Would I Lie	Mike d'Abo (Charles & Eddie)
3.	Weather With You	Mike Pender (Crowded House)
4.	A Million Love Songs	Gerry Marsden (Take That)
5.	Runaway Train	Chip Hawkes (Soul Asylum)
6.	Something Got Me Started	Clem Curtis (Simply Red)
7.	More Than Words	Graham Knight & Sandy Newman (Extreme)
8.	Losing My Religion	Billy J. Kramer (R.E.M.)
9.	Two Princes	Wayne Fontana (Spin Doctors)
10.	Changing Man	Chris Farlowe (Paul Weller)
11.	Looking Back (Over My Shoulder	Cliff Bennett (Mike & The Mechanics)
12.	Love Is All Around	Reg Presley (The Troggs)

This is not really a legal CD, but made by Chip Hawkes (from The Tremeloes) and distributed through the internet and
when giving concerts. Lots of well known sixties artists, like Mike Pender (The Searchers), Gerry Marsden (Gerry & The Pacemakers), Chip Hawkes (The Tremeloes), Clem Curtis (The Foundations), Graham Knight & Sandy Newman (both
of The Marmalade) and Reg Presley (The Troggs) sing hits from the nineties. I've put the original artists between ( ) after the artists who are singing on this CD.

00-2002	Instant Karma	Castle Music CMRCD 426 (UK)
The tracks on this CD are:
1.	Outer Limits	Great Train Robbery
2.	Outer Limits	Sweet Freedom
3.	The Excelsior Spring	Happy Miranda
4.	The Excelsior Spring	It
5.	Eddie Thornton Outfit	Baby Be My Girl
6.	Sonny Burke Outfit	All You
7.	Copperfield	Any Old Time (You're Lonely & Sad)
8.	Copperfield	I'm No Good For Her
9.	Twinkle	Twinkle
10.	Twinkle	Darby & Joan
11.	Owen Grey & Maximum Breed	Sitting In The Park
12.	Pete Hunt & Maximum Breed	Pete Hunt & Maximum Breed
13.	Jimmy Scott	Ob-la-di Ob-la-da Story (Part 1) Alullo
14.	Jimmy Scott	Ob-la-di Ob la-da Story (Part II) Doh
15.	Twice As Much	Night Time Girl
16.	Vashti	Winter In Blue
17.	Bob Kerr's Whoopee Band	Afterglow
18.	Mike d'Abo	See The Little People (Gulliver Travels)
19.	Mike d'Abo	In The Beginning
20.	Samson	Traffic
21.	Samson	Venus
22.	Outer Limits	Great Train Robbery (Immediate demo version)
23.	Twinkle	Soldier's Dream
24.	Twinkle	Micky (Previously unissued long version)

Instant was the short-lived sub label of Immediate. Instant took care of some very rare releases of which was the soundtrack album of "Gullivers Travels", which is often seen as an album by Mike d'Abo, one of the rarest releases.

Besides the two Mike d'Abo songs, Mike is also present on this CD as producer of three songs by Twinkle: "Micky" (the normal 2,27 version), "Darby & Joan" and "Micky" (the 3,34 previously unissued long version). This last song makes this CD special for us Mike d'Abo record collectors. Mike can also be heard as pianist on "Micky".

The booklet that accompanied the CD release show the album cover of "Gullivers Travels" and the front of the "In The Beginning" sheet music, which is a rare item, because the song was in fact not released in the 60's.

The following is printed on the booklet of the CD:
On the face of it, Andrew Loog Oldham reverted to more familiar territory in February 1969 with the release of the album "Gulliver's Travels" (Instant INLP 003), which appeared to be the soundtrack of the play of the same name that, with Manfred Mann's Michael d'Abo as the star, was packing them in at the Mermaid Theatre in London. However, as was par for the course in the often surreal late 60's world of Oldham, all was not as it seemed. Far from being a literal soundtrack to the stage show, the Instant album was a bizarre aural montage that, aside from occasional moments of near-lucidity, included various snippets of songs both from and outside the Immediate vaults. The full story of the album, together with d'Abo's bemused comments ("I took it home and listened to it and thought – My God, what is this cacophony?!"), can be found on the recent CD reissue (Sanctuary CMRCD 063). However, for your delectation and delight, we've selected a couple of tracks from the project. "In The Beginning" was recorded by Michael d'Abo with the assistance of the Mike Sammes Singers and the Small Faces duo of Ronnie Lane and Kenny Jones, though it should be noted that, inexplicably, Oldham left the track off the album, and the song didn't gain an airing until the last twelve months or so, when it was included as a bonus cut on the aforementioned CD repackage!

03-98 CD 5-4-3-2-1		BMG 74321 566632 (UK)
		BMG 74321 566632 (Australia)
This CD has the following tracks:
1.	5-4-3-2-1
2.	Do Wah Diddy Diddy
3.	The One In The Middle
4.	Just Like A Woman
5.	Hubble Bubble Toil And Trouble
6.	Sha-la-la
7.	Ha Ha Said The Clown
8.	Semi-Detached Suburban Mr. James
9.	Come Tomorrow
10.	Pretty Flamingo
11.	My Name Is Jack
12.	Oh No Not My Baby
13.	Little Red Book
14.	Mighty Quinn
15.	Fox On The Run
16.	Ragamuffin Man
17.	You Gave Me Somebody To Love
18.	Handbags & Gladrags
19.	If You Gotta Go

This CD was released as The Manfreds. It took quite a while before this CD could be released. Mike told me already about it at our first meeting in 1993 that he was working on it. It seems that Manfred Mann isn't very happy with this project. I saw the Manfreds in concert for the first time in 1996 in Ipswich and I can assure you that the crowd went crazy. The whole evening everybody was singing along with all the songs.

Not all of the songs are recorded that well in my opinion, but that probably become because I know the originals so well. Only when the song is arranged in a different way than the original, they come out much better. Therefore I like the following three songs the most: "Oh No Not My Baby", "You Gave Me Somebody To Love" and "Handbags & Gladrags" (three ballads, by the way). However the Manfreds play many solo hits during the concerts, only one of them was included on this CD: "Handbags And Gladrags", and when you've been at one of their concerts you know why. This song got so much applause !!!

"Handbags & Gladrags" on this CD is a sort of unplugged version, with Mike behind the piano, Benny Gallagher on bass, a little keyboards and some tambourine and is far out the best version of this song I've heard so far, and I've heard quite some versions. When I was at Mike's house on October 31, 1997, Mike taped a similar version for me on cassette. On the CD they only added some keyboards and tambourine.

The Manfreds have been touring the Far East and Australia a number of times, so it's not a big surprise, that the CD was released in Australia too in the same form as the UK version, only a couple of lines on the booklet have been changed.

The CD was recorded at The Round House/Gallagher Garage and the band members are:

Paul Jones - Vocals; harmonica
Mike d'Abo - Vocals; keyboards
Mike Hugg - Keyboard; percussion
Mike Vickers - Saxophone; woodwind
Tom McGuinness - Guitar; vocals
Benny Gallagher - Bass; guitar; vocals
Rob Townsend - Drums; percussion

U.S.A.:
07-70	Let It Roar/California Line	Uni 6073 013
00-70	Miss Me In The Morning/Arabella Cinderella	Bell B-956
00-70	King Herod’s Song/Superstar (sung by Murray Head)	Decca 34803
07-72	Belinda/Little Miss Understood	A & M AT 12542

In January 1999 I found out about the USA single "Miss Me In The Morning/Arabella Cinderella" on the Bell label. My copy is a "promotional copy - not for sale" and is the only one I've ever seen or heard of, so there might not be an official release of this single. Is there anybody who can give me more information on this item?

07-70 d'Abo		Uni 6369 601
side one:	side two:
Let It Roar	Maria, Maria
Walk A Million Miles	Woman In My Life
As Long As I Have Loving	Clancy
Mary, Warm My Bed	California Line
Call My Heart Your Home	Oh! What A Day
The Ladder (When The Sun Comes Shining Through)	Handbags And Gladrags
06-72 Down At Rachel's Place		A & M SP-4346
side one:	side two:
Rachel's Place	Little Miss Understood
Rachel's Place	Little Miss Understood
Belinda	Salvation Song
Salvation Song	Battlefield
You Are The Singer	Tomorrow On My Mind
My Life (Is Starting From Today)

See the U.K. discography for more details.
.
side one:	side two:
Fuel To Burn	Handbags And Gladrags
This Is Me	Sitting On A Wood Floor
Broken Rainbows	Pappa Didn't Tell Me
The Last Match	My Load
I Go Where My Spirits Leads Me	Hold On Sweet Darling
See the U.K. discography for more details.

FRANCE:

00-72 Salvation Song/You Are The Singer		00-72 Salvation Song/You Are The Singer
	It seems that this single is only released in France. In the U.K. and U.S.A. these tracks are only available as LP-tracks.

AUSTRALIA:

00-70 d'Abo		MCA Records MAP/S 2040
side one	side two:
Let It Roar	Maria, Maria
Walk A Million Miles	Woman In My Life
As Long As I Have Loving	Clancy
Mary, Warm My Bed	California Line
Call My Heart Your Home, Girl	Oh! What A Day
The Ladder (When The Sun Comes Shining Through)	Handbags And Gladrags

See the U.K. discography for more details.

00-72 Down At Rachel's Place		A & M Records SAML 934586
side one	side two:
Rachel's Place	Little Miss Understood
Belinda	Salvation Song
Poor Man's Son	Battlefield
You Are The Singer	Tomorrow On My Mind
My Life (Is Starting From Today)

See the U.K. discography for more details

NEW ZEALAND

00-70 d'Abo		00-70 d'Abo
side one:	side two:
Let It Roar	Maria, Maria
Walk A Million Miles	Woman In My Life
As Long As I Have Loving	Clancy
Mary, Warm My Bed	California Line
Call My Heart Your Home	Oh! What A day
The Ladder (When The Sun Comes Shining Through)	Handbags And Gladrags

See The U.K. discography for more details.

00-72 Down At Rachel's Place		A & M SAML 934586
side one:	side two:
Rachel's Place	Little Miss Understood
Belinda	Salvation Song
Poor Man's Son	Battlefield
You Are The Singer	Tomorrow On My Mind
My Life (Is Starting From Today

See the U.K. discography for more details.

DENMARK:

00-70 Let It Roar/California Line		Uni 6073 013
	This single was released with a picture sleeve in Denmark and is so far the only release I found from this country.

GERMANY:

00-70 Miss Me In The Morning/Arabella, Cinderella		Bell 1134
00-70 Let It Roar/California Line		Uni 6073 013
03-73 Belinda/Little Miss Understood		A & M 12542 AT
07-70 d'Abo		Uni 6369 601
side one:	side two:
Let It Roar	Maria, Maria
Walk A Million Miles	Woman In My Life
As Long As I Have Loving	Clancy
Mary, Warm My Bed	California Line
Call My Heart Your Home	Oh! What A Day
The Ladder (When The Sun Comes Shining Through)	Handbags And Gladrags

See the U.K. discography for more details.

05-72 Down At Rachel's Place		A & M AMLH 68097
side one:	side two:
Rachel's Place	Little Miss Understood
Belinda	Salvation Song
Poor Man's Son	Battlefield
You Are The Singer	Tomorrow On My Mind
My Life (Is Starting From Today

See the U.K. discography for more details

00-97 CD Wizards Convention 2		Edel 029152EDL

See the U.K. discography for more details.

00-99 CD The New Christmas Collection		Choice Of Music 200 101-2
The tracks of this CD are:
1.	Christmas Tears Will Fall	Showaddywaddy
2.	Cold Cold Christmas	Dana
3.	Rock Christmas	Showaddywaddy
4.	The Star That Fell To Earth	Dik Cadbury
5.	Peace Must Come Again	Eddie Hardin Band
6.	Old Time Kinda Christmas	Mike d'Abo
7.	Send A Prayer (To Heaven)	Melbra Rai
8.	Christmas On My Mind	Neil Landon
9.	Christmas Gone By	Dik Carbury
10.	Feel Christmas	Edison Lighthouse
11.	Perfect Harmony	Showaddywaddy
12.	It's Christmas Time Again	Bill Jardine
13.	No More Christmas	Noel Redding & Friends
14.	Another Rock And Roll Christmas	Gary Glitter
15.	Christmas Wonder	Mungo Jerry
16	The Virgin Mary Had A Baby Boy	Daughters Of St. Paul

It took quite some time to get this CD in the shops, because it has a song by Gary Glitter, who has been arrested in 1999 and the record company thought that it was not a good idea to release this CD at that time. Probably that problem has been solved, but I doubt if the CD really reached the shops. I think it was only available through the internet.

The CD has a lot of sixties artists singing Christmas songs and it is really great to see Mike d'Abo with the song "Old Time Kinda Christmas", because there are many CD's released by Mike the last couple of years, but not too many have new songs by Mike. Also nice to see two songs by Dik Cadbury, who used to be in Mike d'Abo's Mighty Quintet.

00-99 2CD	International Christmas Vol. Two	Polydor 107 638-2
CD one:
1.	It Maybe Winter Outside (But My Heart Springs)	Barry White
2.	Let It Snow	Boys II Men
3.	Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree	Mel & Kim
4.	The Christmas Song	Gladys Knight
5.	Silent Night	The Temptation
6.	White Christmas	Shakatak
7.	Christmas Presence	Gerald Alston & Shanice Wilson
8.	Give Love On Christmas Day	Johnny Gill
9.	Cry On My Shoulder	Laurent Daniels
10.	Go Tell It To The Mountains	Vanessa Williams
11.	Someday At Christmas	Stevie Wonder
12.	Send A Prayer (To Heaven	Melbra Rai
13.	Another Rock 'n' Roll Christmas	Gary Glitter
14.	Merry X-mas Everybody	Slade
15.	Slade	Mike Oldfield

CD two
1.	Christmas Time	Gil
2.	On Christmas Day	4 The Cause
3.	Last Christmas	Rap Allstars
4.	Another Christmas Without You	Loona
5.	Merry Christmas	DJ Bobo
6.	Everybody Needs Somebody	R'N'G
7.	Throw Your Hands	Pappa Bear
8.	The Lord Is Real	Blackstreet
9.	My Christmas	Tony Toni Toné
10.	Silent Prayer	Shanice
11.	Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas	Vanessa Williams
12.	Sweet Love	Odyssey
13.	Old Time Kinda Christmas	Mike d'Abo
14.	Christmas Tears Will Fall	Showaddywaddy
15.	Hark! The Herald Angel Sing	Baccara

Another rare Christmas collection from Germany, with many well known artists (The Temptations/Stevie Wonder/Mike Oldfield) and some totally unknown (at least to me). Again "Old Time Kinda Christmas" by Mike d'Abo has been included, and because the CD has been released by Polydor Records, it is something special.

HOLLAND:

side one:	side two:
Rachel's Place	Little Miss Understood
Belinda	Salvation Song
Poor Man's Son	Battlefield
You Are The Singer	Tomorrow On My Mind
My Life (Is Starting From Today)

See the U.K. discography for more details.

JAPAN

00-74 Stardust Serenade/All At Se

A&M AM 230

In 1974 Mike d'Abo took part in a Japanese song contest, in which he sang "Stardust Serenade", which is only released in Japan on a single and on a compilation album, featuring all artists from that song contest. During my March 2004 visit to the house of Mike and Lisa d’Abo, Mike gave me this single and you can imagine, that this is one of the very best items that I have in my large Mike d’Abo record collection. The picture cover of the single is at the top of this part of the Mike d’Abo website.

00-72 Down At Rachel’s Place	A&M Records AML 161

side one:	side two:
Rachel’s Place	Little Miss Understood
Belinda	Salvation Song
Poor Man’s Son	Battlefield
You Are The Singer	Tomorrow On My Mind
My Life (Is Starting From Today)

Until I saw it advertised on the internet, I didn’t even know this album existed. The album only cost me US$ 9,99 plus postage !!!
The inlay with the song lyrics in English and Japanese, plus the obi is included, so another fine item in my Mike d’Abo record collection.

00-74	Broken Rainbows	A&M Records AML 219
side one:		side two:
Fuel To Burn		Handbags & Gladrags
This Is Me		Sitting On A Wood Floor
Broken Rainbows		Papa Didn’t Tell Me
The Last Match		My Load
I Go Where My Spirits Leads Me		Hold On Sweet Darling

Also this album I discovered on eBay in November 2007 for the first time. When I started the Mike d’Abo website, I thought that there was only one Mike d’Abo record released in Japan, the single “Stardust Serenade/All At Sea”, but meanwhile I have two 70’s albums from Japan in my collection plus one more single. Is there more to come ?

10-2001 CD Down At Rachel’s Place	A&N UICY-3334

tracks:
1.	Rachel’s Place
2.	Belinda
3.	Poor Man’s Son
4.	You Are he Singer
5.	My Life (Is Starting From Today)
6.	Little Miss Understood
7.	Salvation Song
8.	Battlefield
9.	Tomorrow On My Mind

10-2001 CD Broken Rainbows	A&M UICY-3335

tracks:
1.	Fuel To Burn
2.	This Is Me
3.	Broken Rainbows
4.	The Last Match
5.	I Go Where My Spirit Leads Me
6.	Handbags & Gladrags
7.	Sitting On A Wood Floor
8.	Papa Didn’t Tell Me
9.	My Load
10.	Hold On Sweet darling

NORWAY

00-72 Let It Roar/California Line

Uni 6073 013

SINGAPORE

00-70 Miss Me In The Moring/Arabella, Cinderella

Stateside CSS 3098

SOUTH AFRICA

00-74 Fuel To Burn/Hold On Sweet Darling

A&M Records AMRS 1126

SPAIN

00-72 California Line/Let It Roar

Uni 6073 013

SWEDEN

00-70 Miss Me In The Morning/Arabella, Cinderella

Bell BLL 1134

I found this single at a record convention in Holland in 1997 and it's one of the best Mike d'Abo items in my collection, because it has a beautiful drawn cover in which you easily recognise Peter Sellers and Goldie Hawn. Both songs are from the film "There's A Girl In My Soup" or as is printed in Swedish on the single cover "En Flicka Pa Gaffeln" (see the picture cover at the top of the Mike d'Abo solo records).

THE MIKE D'ABO RELEASES IN ALPHABETIC ORDER:

song:	written by:
Afterglow	Steve Marriot/Ronnie Lane
America	Sondheim/Bernstein
Annabella Cinderella	Mike d'Abo
As Long As I Have Loving	Mike d'Abo
Battlefield	Mike d'Abo
Belinda	Mike d'Abo
Broken Rainbow	Mike d'Abo
Build Me Up Buttercup	Mike d'Abo/Tony Macauley
California Line	Mike d'Abo
Call My Heart Your Home	Mike d'Abo
Clancy	Mike d'Abo
Easy Street	Mike d'Abo
Fox On The Run	Tony Hazzard
Fuel To Burn	Mike d'Abo
Gulliver's Travels (part 1)	Mike d'Abo
Gulliver's Travels (part 2)	Mike d'Abo
Handbags And Gladrags (version 1)	Mike d'Abo
Handbags And Gladrags (version 2)	Mike d'Abo
Handbags And Gladrags (version 3)	Mike d'Abo
Hold On Sweet Darling	Mike d'Abo
Horns Of Memphis	Mike d'Abo
I Go Where My Spirits Leads Me	Mike d'Abo
Intro	Various
Isle Of Debris	Mike d'Abo
Jump Boogie And Jive	Mike d'Abo
Just Like A Woman	Bob Dylan
Laputa	Various
Let It Roar	Mike d'Abo
Little Miss Understood	Mike d'Abo
Love Indestructable	Mike d'Abo/Karen d'Abo
Loving On A Shoestring	Mike d'Abo/Karen d'Abo
Maria, Maria	Mike d'Abo
Mary, Warm My Bed	Mike d'Abo
Miss Me In The Morning	Mike d'Abo
My Life (Is Starting From Today)	Mike d'Abo
My Load	Mike d'Abo
Nobody Else But You	Mike d'Abo
Oh! What A Day	Mike d'Abo
Pappa Didn't Tell Me	Mike d'Abo
Poor Man's Son	Mike d'Abo
Rachel's Place	Mike d'Abo
Revival	Mike d'Abo/Karen d'Abo
Rock 'n' Roll Crusade	Mike d'Abo
Salvation Song	Mike d'Abo
Ships	Mike d'Abo/Tom McGuinness
Sitting On A Wood Floor	Mike d'Abo
Slow Burning Love	Mike d'Abo
The Journey	Marriot/Lane/McLagan/Jones
The Ladder (When The Sun Comes Shining Through)	Mike d'Abo
The Last Match	Mike d'Abo
The Mighty Quinn	Bob Dylan
The Sea	?
Thank You	Mike d'Abo
This Is Me	Mike d'Abo
Time Warp	Mike d'Abo/Karen d'Abo
Tomorrow On My Mind	Mike d'Abo
Tomorrow's Troubadour	Mike d'Abo
Twinkle In The Eye	Mike d'Abo
Velvet Glove	Mike d'Abo
Walk A Million Miles	Mike d'Abo
Whose Heart?	Mike d'Abo
Woman In My Life	Mike d'Abo/Tony MacCaulay
Wonder Of A Woman	Mike d'Abo
You Are The Singer	Mike d'Abo

All songs which I don't know the composer of are from the album "Gulliver's Travels".


Only Japanese Mike d'Abo single	Picture cover of German	Picture cover of Italian
Stardust Serenade/All At Sea	Belinda/LittleMiss Understood	Miss Me In The Morning
on A&M Records AM-230	on A&M Records 12542 AT	Arabella Cinderella on R International SIR-BL 20.150

Japanese Mike d’Abo singleLet It Roar/California Lineon MCA records D-1077

02-69	(See The Little People) Gulliver's Travels/An Anthology (Gulliver's Travels part 2)	Immediate IM 075
07-70	Let It Roar/California Line	Uni UNS 525
12-70	Miss Me In The Morning/Annabella Cinderella	Bell BLL 1134
07-72	Belinda/Little Miss Understood	A & M AMS 7016
06-74	Fuel To Burn/Hold On Sweet Darling	A & M AMS 7121
04-87	Loving On A Shoestring/Thank You	President PT 559
00-88	Tomorrow's Troubador/Velvet Glove	President PT 570
00-90	Isle Of Debris/Jump Boogie And Jive	President PT 593

-67	7" In The Beginning (one sided)	Emidisc
-70	7" Handbags And Gladrags (one sided)	Emidisc
-71	Get Out Of His Life Girl (one sided)	Emidisc
-71	Down At Rachel's Place	?

10-70 Jesus Christ Superstar - Various Artists	MCA MAPS 2075/6 (Italy - with envelop-ish cover) MCA MAPS 2075/1-2/D (Germany - box-set) Petersburg STEREO 91 00029 (Russia)
side one:	side two:
Overture	Hosanna
Heaven On Their Minds	Simon Zealotes/Poor Jerusalem
What's The Buzz/Strange Thing	Pilate's Dream
Mystifying	The Temple
Everything's Alright	Everything's Alright
This Jesus Must Die	I Don't Know How To Love Him
	Damned For All Time/Blood Money

side three:	side four:
The Last Supper	Judas's Death
Gethsemane (I Only Want To Say)	Trial Before Pilate (Including The Arrest The 39 Lashes)
Peter's Denial	Superstar
Pilate And Christ	Crucifixion
King Herod's Song	John Nineteen: Forty One

11-06-2001	CD Gulliver's Travels	Castle Music CMRCD063 (UK)
Tracks of this CD are:
1.	Intro: Silent Night/Happy Days Toy Town (excerpt	Small Faces
2.	The Journey	Small Faces
3.	Gulliver Travels (Alias An Anthology Of Gulliver's Travels – Part Two	Michael d'Abo
4.	The Sea
5.	Gulliver Travels (alias [See The Little People] Gulliver Travels	Michael d'Abo
6.	America (excerpt)	The Nice
7.	Afterglow	Bob Kerr's Whoopee Band
8	Laputa	with excerpts from Zodiac Cosmic Sounds & Little Richard
Bonus tracks
9	See The Little People) Gulliver Travels (A-side	Michael d'Abo
10.	An Anthology Of Gulliver's Travels – part 2 (B-side)	Michael d'Abo
11.	In The Beginning	Michael d'Abo (previously unissued)

00-75 Family Portrait	A & M Records 86 768 XAT (Holland)
side one:
Love Story	Nino Tempo & Apris Stevens
Late Again	Stealers Wheel
All Kinds Of people	Burt Bacharach
Lay Down	The Strawbs
Goodbye To Love	The Carpenters
Ain"t No Sunshine	Bill Whithers
Just An Old Fashioned Love Song	The Sandpipers

side two:
Part Of The Union	The Strawbs
Blue Moon	Blue Haze
Smackwater Jack	Quincy Jones
Tijuana Taxi	Herb Alpert
Everybody's Gotta Live	Arthur Lee
Belinda	Mike d'Abo
White Line Fever	The Flying Burrito Bros.