The Grassroots - Greatest Hits Volume One (1987) {MCAD-31132}
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The Grassroots-
Greatest Hits Volume One
Yes, fans of the American version of "The Office", that's Creed Bratton on the far right- who, oddly enough, plays the character "Creed Bratton" on the TV series.
Notes-
Artist: The Grassroots
Title: Greatest Hits Volume One
Label: MCA Records
Format: CD
Catalog: MCAD-31132
Release: 1987
Line-up/Musicians-
From what I've gathered-
"Where Were You When I Needed You" (this version) is probably
P.F. Sloan and Steve Barri
Willie Fulton (vocals)
Denny Ellis, David Stensen, Joel Larson (drums)
The other songs are probably-
Creed Bratton, Rick Coonce, Warren Entner and Kenny Fukomoto,
who was replaced by Rob Grill
In 1969, Creed Bratton left and was replaced by Dennis Provisor on keyboards and vocals, plus rotating lead guitarists Terry Furlong and Brian Naughton to form a quintet — the first of many line-up changes that the band was to be subject to. In 1971, Rick Coonce, Terry Furlong, Brian Naughton and Dennis Provisor left and were replaced by Reed Kailing, Virgil Weber and original member Joel Larson
Got that?
(see below for more details)
Tracklist-
1. Let's Live for Today
2. Where Were You When I Needed You
3. This Precious Time
4. Two Divided by Love
5. River Is Wide
6. Sooner or Later
7. Walking Through the Country
8. Temptation Eyes
9. Feelings
10. Bella Linda
From wikipedia-
The Grass Roots are a U.S. rock and roll band that charted between 1966 and 1975 as the brainchild of songwriting duo P.F. Sloan and Steve Barri.
In their career, The Grass Roots achieved one platinum album, two gold albums, thirteen gold singles and charted singles a total of twenty nine times. Between 1967 and 1972, The Grass Roots set a record for being on the Billboard charts for 307 straight weeks. They are one of only nine bands that have charted twenty nine or more Top 100 Billboard singles. They have sold over thirty million records worldwide.
The band holds the all time U.S. attendance record for a concert consisting of only one act, their show for 600,000 people on July 4, 1982 in Washington, DC[citation needed]. Since the disbanding of the original group in 1975, early member Rob Grill and a new lineup of The Grass Roots continue to play many live shows each year. In 2008 they released a live album chronicling their fourteen Top 40 Billboard hits titled Live Gold.
The group's third — and by far most successful — incarnation was finally found in a Los Angeles band, called The 13th Floor (not to be confused with the 13th Floor Elevators). This band consisted of Creed Bratton, Rick Coonce, Warren Entner and Kenny Fukomoto and had formed only a year earlier before submitting a demo tape to Dunhill Records. [1] Rob Grill was recruited into the band when Fukomoto was suddenly drafted into the army. The band was offered the choice to go with their own name or choose to adopt a name that had already been heard of nationwide.
They had their first top 10 hit with "Let's Live For Today" in the summer of 1967, as The Grass Roots. With Rob Grill as lead singer, they recorded a third version of "Where Were You When I Needed You." The band continued in a similar hit-making vein for the next five years ( '67-'72). In the beginning, they were one of many U.S. guitar pop/rock bands, but with the help of Barri and their other producers, they developed a unique sound for which they drew as heavily on British beat as on soul music, rhythm and blues and folk rock. Many of their recordings featured a brass section, which was a novelty in those days among American rock bands, with groups like Chicago just developing.
The Grass Roots songs hitting the radio in these times include "Let's Live For Today" and "Things I Should Have Said" (1967), "Midnight Confessions" (1968), "Bella Linda", "Lovin' Things", "The River Is Wide", "Wait A Million Years" and "Heaven Knows" (1969), "Walking Through The Country", "Baby Hold On" and "Temptation Eyes" (1970), "Sooner Or Later" (1971) and "Two Divided By Love" (1972). The bulk of the band's material continued to be written by Dunhill Records staff (not only Sloan and Barri). The Grass Roots also recorded songs written by the group's musicians, which appeared on their albums and the B-sides of many hit singles. The most successful of their hit singles were "Let's Live For Today" (U.S. #8) in 1967, "Midnight Confessions" (U.S. #5, their biggest hit) in 1968, "Wait A Million Years" (U.S. #15) in 1969, "Temptation Eyes" (U.S. #15) in 1970, "Sooner Or Later" (U.S. #9) in 1971, and "Two Divided By Love" (U.S. #16) in 1972.
In 1969, Creed Bratton left and was replaced by Dennis Provisor on keyboards and vocals, plus rotating lead guitarists Terry Furlong and Brian Naughton to form a quintet — the first of many line-up changes that the band was to be subject to. In 1971, Rick Coonce, Terry Furlong, Brian Naughton and Dennis Provisor left and were replaced by Reed Kailing, Virgil Weber and original member Joel Larson. The singer/songwriter/guitarist duo of Warren Entner (later a successful heavy metal manager with groups such as Rage Against the Machine and Quiet Riot) and Rob Grill remained the point of focus in all these years.
From 1970 on, success slipped away slowly but surely. The Grass Roots had their last top 10 hit with "Sooner Or Later" in June, 1971, and success with "Two Divided By Love" not long after. Their final two hits in 1972 were "The Runway" and "Glory Bound." Follow-up singles sold disappointingly or failed to chart altogether - it was clear that their time was over. The 1976 single "Out In The Open" became their swan song, with the band having disbanded the previous autumn.
Rob Grill remained in the music business and launched a solo career in 1979 (assisted on his solo album by several members of Fleetwood Mac). When interest in bands of the 1960s began to rise again in the 1980s, Grill reformed The Grass Roots (now as "The Grass Roots Starring Rob Grill" ) and tours the United States. He continues to lead the band into the new millennium and is the voice of The Grass Roots, playing many live performances up to the present day.
In 2006, former manager Marty Angelo published a book entitled, Once Life Matters: A New Beginning which has numerous stories about his life on the road with Rob Grill and The Grass Roots back in the early 1970s.
From 2005 onward (as of June 2009), Creed Bratton can be seen as "Creed Bratton", Quality Assurance Officer, in the American NBC television situation comedy The Office. He continues to write songs and has released several solo albums, including Chasin' the Ball, The '80s, Coarsegold, and Creed Bratton.
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