Beeb Warms Up
Note: Beeb Birtles is incorrectly spelt ‘Bebe’ Birtles
Sleeper Catcher Rolling Stone Magazine Review
By Paul Comrie – Thompson – Rolling Stone Magazine 27/7/1978
Cotton Bowl, Texas 1978
How The LRB Sound Started
Little River Band – Recordando
Using the same backing track of the original single, Glenn recorded Spanish lyrics for Reminiscing for territories which spoke Spanish, such as Peru. Released in July 1978.
John Boylan, Beeb Birtles & Geoff Cox
Beeb Birtles: “John Boylan, LRB’s producer for “Diamantina Cocktail”, “Sleeper Catcher” and “First Under The Wire”, me and Geoff Cox when Coxy temporarily sat in for Derek Pellicci after DP’s barbecue burn accident. Geoff’s doing what he does when he’s not talking.”
‘Reminiscing’ Poster
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Low Profile Approach – Glenn Shorrock Little River Band Interview
Little River Band – Reminiscing
Released: July 1978
Written By: Graeham Goble
Lead Singer: Glenn Shorrock
Produced by: John Boylan & Little River Band
Graeham Goble: “I loved watching old black and white movies, and I always also loved the music of Glenn Miller and Cole Porter, that whole era of writing, and it was my attempt to write a song to depict the romantic era. It came out very quickly, I wrote it in about half an hour. Even though a lot of people think it sounds complicated, on the guitar it’s very simple to play. It nearly never got recorded – when the time came to record it, the keyboard player I wanted to use, Peter Jones, was out of town, so we cut the band track with a different keyboard player. It didn’t work. A few days later when we tried it again with a different keyboard player, again it didn’t work, and the band was losing interest in the song. Just before the album was finished, Peter Jones came back into town, the band and I had an argument because I wanted to give Reminiscing a third chance. Peter played on it, we cut it, and finished it, and sent the album to Capitol. Capitol said that they couldn’t hear any singles on the album, and didn’t know what to release. Five weeks later, someone at Capitol’s New York office said ‘You’re all crazy, Reminiscing is a smash.’ Capitol put it out, and it just immediately caught on fire, and became our highest chart hit. It’s quite staggering; you don’t realise you’ve written something like that until it happens, until it’s history.”
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Reminiscing Sheet Music
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