If Only for a Moment

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If Only for a Moment
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ReleasedJuly 1969
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Length43:51
Label Marmalade
Producer
Blossom Toes chronology
We Are Ever So Clean
(1967)
If Only for a Moment
(1969)
Singles from If Only For A Moment
  1. "Peace Loving Man"/"Above My Hobby Horses Head"
    Released: April 1969
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If Only for a Moment is the second and final album by Blossom Toes, released in 1969 on Marmalade Records. The album was reissued in 2007 by Sunbeam Records along with bonus tracks. [2] [3] [4] [5]

Contents

Track listing

Side A
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Peace Loving Man" Godding 4:52
2."Kiss of Confusion"Godding4:45
3."Listen to the Silence" Cregan 4:50
4."Love Bomb"Godding7:39
Side B
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
5."Billy Boo the Gunman"Godding7:08
6."Indian Summer"Cregan5:55
7."Just Above My Hobby Horse’s Head" Havens 2:53
8."Wait A Minute"Cregan5:49
Bonus tracks (2007 reissue)
No.TitleLength
9."Postcard"2:55
10."Everyone’s Leaving Me Now"4:45
11."Ever Since a Memory" (Demo)4:25
12."Nobody But" (Demo)4:03
13."Peace Loving Man" (Demo)6:29
14."Listen to the Silence" (Live)3:58
15."New Day" (Demo)5:16

Personnel

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