Eat It (album)

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Eat It
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Studio album by
Humble Pie
ReleasedApril 1973
StudioSteve Marriott's Clear Sounds home studio, (Essex)
Green’s Playhouse, Glasgow (side 4)
Genre Blues rock, hard rock
Length64:30
Label A&M
Producer Humble Pie
Humble Pie chronology
Smokin'
(1972)		Eat It
(1973)		 Thunderbox
(1974)
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Eat It is the sixth album by English rock band Humble Pie, released in April 1973 through A&M Records. Released as a double album, it peaked at number 13 on the US Billboard 200, number 34 in the UK Albums Chart, [2] [3] and number 9 in Australia. [4]

Contents

Background

Steve Marriott had been talking to the group about having backing singers from early on. During the recording of Eat It, he had been in touch with Venetta Fields and asked her to find two other women to help her out. Fields chose Clydie King and Sherlie Matthews (both previously with Raeletts) to become the Blackberries and flew to London. When Marriott asked them to perform on tour with Humble Pie, Sherlie Matthews declined due to other commitments, including her two children and her husband. Matthews chose Billie Barnum to be missing member of the Blackberries.[ citation needed ]

Each side of this double album is different: side 1 features Steve Marriott penned rock and roll; side 2 has classic R&B covers; side 3 is a collection of acoustic Steve Marriott songs; side 4 features Humble Pie live in concert at Green's Playhouse in Glasgow, Scotland. [1]

Eat It was the band's seventh official album release and their fifth for A&M Records. [This was also their third double LP (two-record set) within 18 months, the other two being 1971's Performance Rockin' The Fillmore and the late 1972 A&M compilation - Lost & Found .]

Marriott produced the album and it was the first album recorded in Marriott's newly built home recording studio Clear Sounds, in a converted barn at Beehive Cottage, Moreton, Essex. [5]

Track listing

Side one

  1. "Get Down to It" (Marriott) – 3:25
  2. "Good Booze and Bad Women" (Marriott) – 3:11
  3. "Is It for Love?" (Marriott) – 4:39
  4. "Drugstore Cowboy" (Marriott) – 5:35

Side two

  1. "Black Coffee" (Ike Turner, Tina Turner) – 3:09
  2. "I Believe to My Soul" (Ray Charles) – 4:03
  3. "Shut up and Don't Interrupt Me" (Johnny Bristol, Edwin Starr) – 2:58
  4. "That's How Strong My Love Is" (Roosevelt Jamison) – 3:44

Side three

  1. "Say No More" (Marriott) – 1:58
  2. "Oh, Bella (All That's Hers)" (Marriott) – 3:25
  3. "Summer Song" (Marriott) – 2:42
  4. "Beckton Dumps" (Marriott) – 3:13

Side four

  1. "Up Our Sleeve" (Humble Pie, lyrics by Steve Marriott) – 4:57
  2. "Honky Tonk Women" (Keith Richards, Mick Jagger) – 4:03
  3. "Road Runner" (Eddie Holland, Lamont Dozier, Brian Holland) – 13:28 [1]

Personnel

Humble Pie

The Blackberries:

Guests:

Album production:

Releases

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Eat It - Humble Pie | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic . Retrieved 17 May 2021.
  2. ↑ "Humble Pie". Billboard. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
  3. ↑ "eat it | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". Officialcharts.com. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
  4. ↑ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 144. ISBN   0-646-11917-6.
  5. ↑ Twelker, Uli; Schmitt, Roland (18 August 2023). The Small Faces (The Faces, Peter Frampton, Rod Stewart, Ronnie Lane, Steve Marriott Humble Pie & other stories). Sanctuary. pp. 94–95. ISBN   978-1-86074-392-4.
  6. ↑ "Eat It - Humble Pie | Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic . Retrieved 17 May 2021.
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