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Shocking Blue (album)

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Shocking Blue
Studio album by
Released27 November 1967 (1967-11-27)
Recorded1967
StudioPhonograph Studio, Hilversum
GenreNederbeat, blues rock
Length35:43
LabelPolydor
Shocking Blue chronology
Shocking Blue
(1967)
At Home
(1969)

Shocking Blue is the debut studio album by the Dutch rock band Shocking Blue. It was released in November 1967 on Polydor. In Germany, the record was released in 1970 under the title Beat with Us. This was the only album with Fred de Wilde on lead vocal. Mariska Veres replaced de Wilde in the band's next album, At Home.

Track listing

All songs written by Robbie van Leeuwen, except where noted.

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Love Is in the Air"Robbie van Leeuwen, A.M. van Driel2:36
2."Ooh Wee There's Music in Me" 2:32
3."What You Gonna Do" 2:17
4."Whisky Don't Wash My Brains" 0:58
5."Little Maggie" 2:47
6."Jail My Second Home"Robbie van Leeuwen, Dimitri2:23
7."What's Wrong Bertha"Robbie van Leeuwen, Barry Hay2:24
8."League of Angels" 2:06
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
9."Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu"Huey "Piano" Smith, Johnny Vincent1:58
10."That's Allright"Arthur Crudup2:23
11."Crazy Drunken Man Dreams"Robbie van Leeuwen, Barry Hay2:51
12."Beggarman"Robbie van Leeuwen, Dimitri2:31
13."Hold Me, Hug Me, Rock Me"Gene Vincent, Bill "Tex" Davis2:01
14."Where My Baby's Gone"Robbie van Leeuwen, Dimitri5:00

Personnel

  • Fred de Wilde - lead vocals
  • Robbie van Leeuwen - guitar, backing vocals
  • Klaasje van der Wal - bass guitar
  • Cor van der Beek - drums

References