STUCK IN THE VINYL AGAIN - HENRY GROSS - LOVE IS THE STUFF

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Good morning audiophiles and welcome back to the Thursday and the April Fool's edition of Stuck In The vinyl Again. In addition to all that, it is also the 70th Birthday of Brooklyn born singer-songwriter and record executive, Henry Gross. Happy Birthday Henry ! Before going solo Henry ws a founding member of rock and roll doo-wop group,  Sha Na Na. His 7th solo record, Love Is The Stuff, was released in 1978 on Lifesong Records and produced by  Terry Cashman & Tommy West. If this record or any songs from it charted I can find no evidence. That probably lends itself to his title of a 'One Hit Wonder'. He is primarily known for the 1976 song, "Shannon" written about the death of Carl Wilson's Dog. 

A1 Rock'n'Roll I Love You

A2 Playin' For Change

A3 Love Is The Stuff

A4 Only The Beautiful

B1 When The Blue Begins

B2 Buy With My Heart

B3 Creeping Jenny

B4 Shake Down Your Love

B5 Happiness Is Still Homemade

Bass - Will Lee

Drums - Rick Marotta

Guitars - Henry Gross

Organ - Ben Harrison

Piano, Fender Rhodes, Synthesizer - Jon Cobert

Percussion - Jimmy Maelen

Background vocals - Marty Nelson , Tommy West, Henry Gross, Lani Groves, Vivian Cherry

Harmonica on "Shake Down Your Love" - Toots Thielemans

Saxophone on "Where The Blue Begins" - Lou Marini

Percussion on "Playin' For Change" - George Devens

Producers - Terry Cashman, Tommy West

Recording engineer - Jim Boyer

Assistant recording engineers - Dave Martone, Larry Gates

Photography - Jim Houghton

Design - John Berg

Production Coordinator - Susan Senk