TOP TOPHAM THE COMPLETE BLUE HORIZON SESSIONS
Audio CD (15 Sep 2008 )
Format Flac
At the age of 15, Surrey-born Anthony "Top" Topham stepped onto stage in May 1963 at the Eel Pie Island Club in Twickenham with his new blues-wailing band - THE YARDBIRDS. A few months later he was replaced with ERIC CLAPTON and after that a certain JEFF BECK and JIMMY PAGE also joined that volatile crew. When you consider what a staggering influence CREAM, BECK and LED ZEPPELIN have had on everything in rock then and now - it's a damn shame that Top Topham got musically lost in the mix somehow and has never been given the catalyst credit he so deserves.
Tracks 1 to 12 are "Ascension Heights", his only album released on Blue Horizon Records 7-63857 in January 1970 (recorded in London at CBS STUDIOS in October 1969) The album "Ascension Heights" has always been a £100+ vinyl rarity
Tracks 13 and 14 are the non-album "Christmas Cracker" and "Cracking Up Over Christmas", his lone 7" single on Blue Horizon 57-3167, which preceded the release of the LP in November 1969
Track 15 is "Hop House" which is a previously unreleased live BBC session
Tracks 16 to 19 are previously unreleased tracks recorded in May 1969 by then unknown Blue Horizon signing LLOYD WATSON
these tracks are released for the first time anywhere on this issue.
Track Listings
1. Sawbuk
2. Mini Minor Mo
3. Hop House
4. Ridin' The Blinds
5. Hot Ginger
6. Funk's Elegy
7. Ascension Heights
8. Tuxedo Junction
9. Globetrottin'
10. Spider Drag
11. Mean Old Pullman
12. How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)
13. Christmas Cracker
14. Cracking Up Over Christmas
15. Hop House
16. Heart Of Stone
17. You Gonna Ruin Me Baby
18. Long And Lonely Year
19. Anything For You
