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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Red Rocks Amphitheatre – Denver Colorado
21/6/1978 Red Rocks Amphitheatre – Denver Colorado
Sleeper Catcher 8 Track
Sleeper Catcher LP
A1 ‘Fall From Paradise’ Written-By – Birtles/Goble 5:01
A2 ‘Lady’ Written-By – Goble 3:55
A3 ‘Red-Headed Wildflower’ Written-By – Birtles, Ed Nimmervol 4:35
A4 ‘Light Of Day’ Written-By Birtles 8:33
B1 ‘So Many Paths’ Written-By – Shorrock, Idris Jones 4:22
B2 ‘Reminiscing’ Written-By – Goble 4:11
B3 ‘Sanity’s Side’ Written-By – Charles Dawes, Shorrock 4:12
B4 ‘Shut Down, Turn Off’ Written-By – Shorrock 3:55
B5 ‘One For The Road’ Written-By – Birtles/Goble 4:00
(Ric Formosa Extended Symphonic Intro on Fall From Paradise – Australian release)
Semper ‘Sleeper Catcher’ Review
Sleeper Catcher RAM Review
By Anthony O’Grady, RAM Magazine 19/5/1978
Come In Spinner – Sleeper Catcher
Juke Front Cover
April 22, 1978
Sleeper Catcher Juke Review
Sleeper Catcher Press Kit Photos
Lineup: Glenn Shorrock, Beeb Birtles, Greaham Goble, David Briggs, Derek Pellicci & George McArdle