Jeremiah
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line up 1 (1971) - David Brown -- vocals, guitar, keyboards - Karl Jarvi -- bass - Denny Seiwell - drums, percussion - Pat Walters -- lead guitar, vocals
backing musicians: - Kenny Asher -- keyboards - Russell George -- bass - Al Rosica -- keyboards - Stuart Scharff -- bass - Dave Spinosa -- lead guitar - Eddie Trabanco -- drums
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- The Eighteenth Edition (David Brown and Karl Jarvi) - Aliotta Haynes (Denny
Seiwell) - The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (Pat Walters) - Paul McCartney and Wings (Denny Seiwell) - Henry McCullough and Denny Seiwell - The New Mix (David Brown and Karl Jarvi) - The Paragons (Pat Walters) - The Spongetones (Pat Walters) - The Denny Seiwell Trio (Denny Seiwell)
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Genre: rock Rating: 3 stars *** Title: Jeremiah Company: Uni Catalog: 73098 Country/State: US Grade (cover/record): VG+/VG+ Comments: small promo sticker on back cover Available: 2 Catalog ID: 809 Price: $40.00
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These guys are a mystery to me (and apparently to virtually everyone else since the web doesn't seem to have any real information on them). There are a couple of references that indicate they were led by singer/keyboardist John Jeremiah, but the liner notes on their first self-titled album don't show a John Jeremiah. Anyone out there got the scoop? So what little do I know? Bassist Karl Jarvi and lead guitarist Pat Walters had played in a number of North Carolina-based outfits including The Barons and the Paragons. Jarvi had also been in The New Mix with singer/guitarist David Brown. Drummer Seiwell went on to play with the Chicago-based Aliotta Haynes and then recorded a couple of mid-1970s albums with Paul McCartney and Wings.
Produced by Allen Mirchin and Joe Palmer, 1971's "Jeremiah" offered up a very likeable set of orchestrated power-pop. Singer/guitarist Brown was credited with penning all eleven songs and displayed a gift for writing Paul McCartney-styled pop - 'Sweet Rebecca', 'Lady Ellen', and 'So Many Ways' recalled those insidiously catchy throwaway tunes that McCartney effortless churned out in the mid-1970s (complete with pounding keyboard stylings). 'Hey Baby Don't You Cry' went back into the Beatles catalog sounding like 'Rocky Raccoon'. Similarly he had a highly commercial voice that occasionally recalled Eric Carmen doing his best Paul McCartney imitation. Emmitt Rhodes would be another good point of comparison. That was good news if you were a fan of McCartney's commercial leanings. Virtually every one of these songs would have sounded good on top-40 radio. Highlights including the pretty ballad 'Somewhere Someone', 'I Saw Your Picture In the Paper' (one of the best Beatlesque songs I've ever heard), 'The Lady Lives with Me', and the atypical rocker 'David Blue'. The downside was that like McCartney, these guys occasionally got too clever and soppy for their own good. Too many ballads gave the album a 'sounds-the-same feel'. The album would have earned another star had they shaken up the tempo with a couple more straight ahead rockers. Elsewhere the unsung hero was guitarist Walters. His tasteful solos managed to salvage even the most sentimental schlock - check out his power chords on the ballad 'Hey Now Baby', 'So Many Ways', or the rocker 'Roll It Over'. Even with those criticisms this one was worth scoring. It's also an album I keep coming back to.
"Jeremiah" track listing: 1.) Somewhere Someone (David Brown) - 3:24 2.) Hey Now Baby (David Brown) - 3:40 3.) Patience (David Brown) - 3:20 4.) Sweet Rebecca (David Brown) - 3:48 5.) Hey Baby Don't You Cry (David Brown) - 2:13
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2) 2.) The Lady Lives with Me (David Brown) - 2:34 3.) David Blue (David Brown) - 2:44 4.) Roll It Over (David Brown) - 2:49 5.) Lady Ellen (David Brown) - 2:08 6.) So Many Ways (David Brown) - 3:01
ICredited to David Brown & Jermiah, there is also a hard to find follow-on album - 1972's "I Want To Be with You" (Uni catalog number 73128).
A 45 was also lifted from the LP::
- 'Carolina Sun' b/w 'Highway Moon' (Uni catalog number 55329)
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