Looking In

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Looking In
Looking In - Savoy Brown.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedNovember 1970 [1]
Recorded1970
StudioRecorded Sound Studios, Bryanston Street, Marble Arch, London
Genre Blues
Length39:06
Label Decca
Parrot
Producer Kim Simmonds
Savoy Brown chronology
Raw Sienna
(1970)
Looking In
(1970)
Street Corner Talking
(1971)
Singles from Looking In
  1. "Poor Girl"
    Released: 6 November 1970 (UK)
    December 1970(US)
  2. "Sitting An' Thinking"
    Released: March 1971 (US only)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Looking In is the sixth album by the British blues band Savoy Brown. The album featured "Lonesome" Dave Peverett on vocals after Chris Youlden left the band the previous spring. Leader/guitarist Kim Simmonds would be the only band member to continue with the band after this album, as all other band members left to form Foghat the following year.

Contents

It was released by Decca in 1970 (SKL 5066). For release in the United States and Canada, tapes were leased to Parrot Records (PAS 71042).

The album spent a week on the UK Official Charts and reached number 50. [3] It did considerably better in the US where it spent 19 weeks on the Billboard 200, peaking at number 39, their second highest charting US album. [4]

Track listing

Side one

  1. "Gypsy" (Kim Simmonds) – 0:57
  2. "Poor Girl" (Tony Stevens) – 4:04
  3. "Money Can't Save Your Soul" (Dave Peverett, Simmonds) – 5:34
  4. "Sunday Night" (Simmonds) – 5:23
  5. "Looking In" (Peverett, Simmonds) – 5:17

Side two

  1. "Take It Easy" (Peverett, Simmonds) – 5:47 (not 3:40 as printed on album)
  2. "Sitting an' Thinking" (Simmonds) – 2:40
  3. "Leavin' Again" (Peverett, Simmonds) – 8:29
  4. "Romanoff" (Simmonds) – 1:01

Personnel

Savoy Brown

Additional musicians

Technical

Charts

Album

Chart (1970)Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report) [5] 25
Canada (RPM) [6] 58
US Billboard 200 39 [4]
UK Official Charts 50 [3]

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References

  1. "Album Reviews" (PDF). Record Mirror. 5 December 1970. p. 15. Retrieved 15 September 2021.
  2. DeGagne, Mike. Looking In at AllMusic
  3. 1 2 "SAVOY BROWN | full Official Chart History". Official Charts Company . Retrieved 20 October 2017.
  4. 1 2 "Billboard 200 - Savoy Brown". Archived from the original on 19 July 2018. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
  5. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 265. ISBN   0-646-11917-6.
  6. "RPM Top 100 Albums - December 12, 1970" (PDF).