Pumpkin, Powder, Scarlet & Green

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Pumpkin, Powder, Scarlet & Green
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Released 1968
Recorded1968
Studio Universal Recording Corporation, Chicago, Illinois
Genre Pop, rock
Length27:58
Label Acta
Producer Bill Traut
The American Breed chronology
Bend Me, Shape Me
(1968)
Pumpkin, Powder, Scarlet & Green
(1968)
Lonely Side of the City
(1968)
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Pumpkin, Powder, Scarlet & Green is the third album released by the 60's pop group The American Breed, released in the summer of 1968. This album was not as successful as their first two efforts, but the album did manage to have three modest hit singles: "Cool It (We're Not Alone)", "Ready, Willing and Able" (#84), [2] and a cover version of The Troggs' "Anyway That You Want Me" (#88). [3] Unfortunately, this album marked a beginning in decline of the group's popularity.

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Pumpkin"Eddie Higgins0:58
2."Cool It (We're Not Alone)" Kenny Young, Scott English 2:14
3."Welcome, You're in Love" Jerry Riopelle, Murray MacLeod, Stuart Margolin 2:40
4."The Right to Cry" Gerry Goffin, Carole King 3:06
5."Ready, Willing and Able"Bob Stone2:26
6."Take Me if You Want Me" Al Ciner, Chuck Colbert, Gary Loizzo, Lee Graziano2:24
7."Powder"Eddie Higgins0:44
8."Scarlet"Eddie Higgins1:07
9."Anyway That You Want Me" Chip Taylor 2:24
10."Master of My Fate" Larry Weiss 2:23
11."Music to Think By"Bobby Whiteside, Richard Boyell2:20
12."Train on a One-Track Mind"Arthur Resnick, Joey Levine 2:10
13."I'm Gonna Make You Mine"Bill Carr, Carl D'Errico, Carole Bayer Sager 2:15
14."Green"Eddie Higgins0:47

Personnel

The American Breed

Additional musicians

Technical

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References

  1. Pumpkin, Powder, Scarlet & Green at AllMusic
  2. "Billboard Hot 100 - The American Breed - Ready, Willing and Able" . Retrieved May 8, 2021.
  3. "Billboard Hot 100 - The American Breed - Anyway That You Want Me" . Retrieved May 8, 2021.