Together (Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich album)

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Together
Together (Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich album) front cover.jpg
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Released12 September 1969 (12 September 1969)
RecordedJuly 1969; except "Don Juan" and "Margareta Lidman" 27–30 January 1969; "Snake in the Grass" and "Bora Bora" 15–16 April 1969
StudioPhilips Studios, Marble Arch; Lansdowne Studios, Holland Park
Genre Rock
Label Fontana
Producer Dave Dee, Steve Rowland
Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich chronology
If No One Sang
(1968)
Together
(1969)
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Together is the fourth studio album by English rock band Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich.

Contents

Cover

The album cover is a collage of different images, one being of the band, and another being of a group of people stood in front of the band, who are all sitting. The album personnel is (from left to right): Dozy, Beaky, Mick, Tich, and Dave Dee.

Track listing

  1. "Below the Belt" - 3:17
  2. "Love Is a Drum" - 4:22
  3. "First Time Loving" - 3:17
  4. "Bora Bora" - 2:15
  5. "Don Juan" - 3:05
  6. "Snake in the Grass" - 3:08
  7. "P. Teaser" - 2:49
  8. "Run Colorado!" - 3:45
  9. "Margareta Lidman" - 2:17
  10. "Mountains of the Moon" - 3:26

Personnel

Technical

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References

  1. Dave Thompson. "Together". Allmusic . Retrieved 28 December 2011.