“12 Tops Volume 10” by Damil Records House Band - album review

features in: Album Chart of 1973Album Chart of the Decade: 1970s

TJR says

The “Damil Records House Band” (as I call them) made albums which contained anonymous cover versions of recent and current hit singles. The recordings were intended to replicate the sound of the original hits as closely as possible. The albums were recorded by a studio group comprising session musicians and singers who remained unaccredited. The label had been inspired by Hallmark Records “Top of the Pops” series which had been the forerunner of the concept. When TOTP and their rivals were allowed onto the national LP charts in 1971 they had a spell of high success and were selling by the bucket load. And so inevitably, yet more covers albums started appearing, by a flurry of labels big and small. Damil Records of the USA were just one of many such labels, and launched their “12 Tops” Series in 1972.

The Jukebox Rebel
21–Feb–2010

Tracklist
A1 [02:54] 0.7.png Damil Records House Band - Right Thing To Do (Carly Simon) Songwriter
A2 [03:18] 2.1.png Damil Records House Band - Sweet Dreams (Don Gibson) Country
A3 [02:49] 2.0.png Damil Records House Band - Love Train (Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff) Disco / Funk
A4 [04:03] 2.3.png Damil Records House Band - Drive-In Saturday (David Robert Jones) Rock n Roll Ballad
A5 [03:15] 0.5.png Damil Records House Band - Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Old Oak Tree (Irwin Levine, Lawrence Russell Brown) Pop
A6 [03:25] 2.7.png Damil Records House Band - Why Can’t We Live Together (Timmy Thomas) Soul Ballad
B1 [02:29] 1.0.png Damil Records House Band - Get Down (Gilbert O’Sullivan) Pop
B2 [04:36] 0.8.png Damil Records House Band - I’m A Clown (Tony Romeo) Pop Ballad
B3 [03:58] 0.3.png Damil Records House Band - My Love (Paul McCartney) Pop Ballad
B4 [03:11] 0.6.png Damil Records House Band - Hello! Hello! I’m Back Again (Paul Gadd, Mike Leander) Pop
B5 [03:00] 1.0.png Damil Records House Band - Power To All Our Friends (Guy Fletcher, Doug Flett) Pop
B6 [03:31] 1.4.png Damil Records House Band - Never-Never-Never (Tony Renis, Alberto Testa, Norman Newell) Crooner / Cabaret
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