Rockin' Horse LP "Yes It Is" 2012 Reissue SING SING038 Nice
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Rockin' Horse
“Yes It Is” LP
Sing Sing 038
Year: 2012 (Recorded in 1970 Originally)
Vinyl: A
Cover: A (plastic still on the sleeve/but opened and played maybe once)
Spine: A
Inner A
Rocking, rockin
Rockin' Horse (3) – Yes It Is
Label: Sing Sing Records (3) – SING-038
Format: Vinyl, LP, Reissue, Album
Country: US
Released: 2012
Genre: Rock
The two core members of Rockin’ Horse, Jimmy Campbell and Billy Kinsley, are masters of English beat music. Students of American R&B, The Everly Brothers, and the Shirelles, the pair could marry a hard rocking groove to a pop hook with ease and could blend their voices into beautiful close harmony. The band itself was a figment of the studio, a one-off ensemble gathered at Majestic Studios in Clapham, South London, to make the great ‘60s rock album four years too late. Yes It Is was immediately dismissed as irrelevant in a post-Beatles pop world when it was released in November of 1971. Since then, the record has existed mostly in obscurity, living as a prohibitively expensive vinyl and an equally uncommon Rev-Ola CD reissue. Thankfully, NYC-based Sing Sing Records re-released Yes It Is on vinyl earlier this year, marking the first time Rockin’ Horse has been accessible outside of YouTube-surfing and Dropbox downloading.
The liner notes from the Sing Sing release say that the concept for Yes It Is was for Campbell and Kinsley to “record a bunch of songs inspired by the same primal sounds of pure, live Mersey Beat that had spawned their initial love of music.” A simple, earnest endeavor, the album is the product of working musicians who came up playing every night in the clubs. Both performed regularly at The Cavern Club in Liverpool and emerged from the same milieu as the pair’s most obvious sound-alike and admitted influence, the Fab Four. Campbell had played in The Kirbys and the 23rd Turnoff while Kinsley made a career with The Merseybeats. The two met recording for Campbell’s Half Baked project, and Rockin’ Horse was the platform the pair used to develop their studio chemistry into a new band. As such, the live-in-the-studio sound shares a spirit with Let It Be-era Beatles just as much as The Band circa Big Pink.
Kept in a smoke free home since date of issue.
Any odd-seeming marks on the photos of the vinyl itself are purely glare from shininess of the vinyl reflecting back, all blemishes are otherwise reported and shown with a close up photo.
Ask me any questions you might have, and thanks for looking!
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