The Beckies

The Beckies were, by the end from the twentieth century, the final album to feature substantial contributions from Michael Dark brown, the talented keyboardist/songwriter who combined rock and roll and classical music in his prior organizations (the Still left Banke, Montage, and Tales). He performed keyboards, co-produced, and co-wrote (with drummer Gary Hodgden) every one of the songs for the Beckies’ singular, self-titled record, released by Sire in 1976, with Hodgden and Scott Trusty splitting business lead vocals. The materials is pretty identical to that noticed for the Tales albums to feature Dark brown, however, not as solid; the preparations and keyboards boast Brown’s brand classical-rock fusion, but are even more power-poppish than those from the Tales. As performers, Trusty and Hodgden, as may be the norm for Dark brown collaborators, favour the high range, but they’re no match for Tales’ Ian Lloyd, to state nothing from the Still left Banke’s Steve Martin. There are a few pretty, characteristically Dark brown melodies for the record, however the creation is as well slick as well as the music group doesn’t do the songs complete justice.