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Ruby is the debut album by American rock group Ruby, featuring Tom Fogerty. [1]
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Ruby is the debut album by American rock group Ruby, featuring Tom Fogerty. [1]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Life Is But a Dream" | Randy Oda, Tom Fogerty | 3:26 |
| 2. | "Can You Really Say" | Anthony Davis | 2:37 |
| 3. | "BART" | Oda | 5:17 |
| 4. | "Starry Eyed" | Bobby Cochran | 5:12 |
| 5. | "Baby, What You Want Me to Do" | Jimmy Reed | 4:10 |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Running Back to Me" | Oda, Fogerty, Cochran | 7:24 |
| 2. | "Take Me Back to London" | Oda, Fogerty | 4:15 |
| 3. | "It's Taking a Long Time" | Oda | 3:42 |
| 4. | "Slippin' and Slidin'/Big Fat Woman" | Penniman, Bocage, Collins, Smith / B. Freeman | 5:08 |
The instrumental track "BART" was frequently used by the BBC to accompany test cards, during intervals between schools programmes, and over Pages from Ceefax in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and sporadically thereafter.
BART was also used for the musical highlights section of BBC's review of the 1987 Formula 1 season. [2]
When the digital switchover happened, the track was chosen to play out the last Pages from Ceefax before the closure of analogue teletext in the UK, in October 2012. [3]
A Cash Box Magazine album review dated April 9, 1977, states "It would be hard to follow the high quality work that Tom Fogerty put into Creedence Clearwater Revival but Fogerty's new band, Ruby, deserves more than a casual listen. The combined talents of this quartet are potently showcased in their ability to play fast and funky or slow and silky with equal aplomb and careful control. For AOR and top 40 playlists." [4]
Creedence Clearwater Revival, commonly abbreviated as CCR or simply Creedence, was an American rock band formed in El Cerrito, California. The band consisted of lead vocalist, lead guitarist, and primary songwriter John Fogerty, his brother, rhythm guitarist Tom Fogerty, bassist Stu Cook, and drummer Doug Clifford. These members had played together since 1959, first as the Blue Velvets and later as the Golliwogs, before settling on Creedence Clearwater Revival in 1967. The band's most prolific and successful period between 1969 and 1971 produced fourteen consecutive Top 10 singles and five consecutive Top 10 albums in the United States, two of which – Green River (1969) and Cosmo's Factory (1970) – topped the Billboard 200 chart. The band performed at the 1969 Woodstock festival in Upstate New York, and was the first major act signed to appear there.
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