Hobo With A Grin

 

Produced By Steve Harley, additional production and mixing: Michael J Jackson. Remix engineer and additional recording in LA, James Isaacson. Mixed at Sunset Sound recorders, Hollywood California. All Synthesizer Bass, Brass and String parts were played by Duncan Mackay on a Yamaha CS80 Polyfonic Synthesizer Mixed at times with Aphex Aural Exciter. Photography by Jim Shea. Design by Kosh. Bill Payne,John Townsend and Michael McDonald appear courtesy of Warner Bros. Records. Bill Champlin appears courtesy of Full Moon/Epic Records. Bobby Kimball appears courtesy of CBS Records.

Roll The Dice (Harley, Partridge)

Drums – Rick Schlosser  Bass – Bob Glaub  Acoustic Piano – Bill Payne  Electric Piano – Harpsichord & Synthesizer – Duncan Mackay  Electric Guitars – Jo Partridge  Acoustic Guitar – Fred Tackett  Percussion – Michael Jackson  Backing Vocals – Michael McDonald,  Bill Champlin, Rosemary Butler,  Bobby Kimball, Tom Kelley  Engineers – John Haeny & James Isaacson  Assistant Engineer – Paul Black Sunset Sound

Living In A Rhapsody (Harley, Cregan, Mackay)

Acoustic and Electric Guitar – Jim Cregan  Synthesizer – Duncan Mackay  Acoustic Piano – Bill Payne  Background Vocals – Yvonne Keeley  String and Horn Arrangement – Jimmy Horowitz  Engineer – Tony Clark  Assistant Engineer – Hayden Bendall  EMI Studios/Abbey Road

Riding The Waves (For Virginia Woolf) (Harley)

Drums – Rick Schlosser  Bass – Bob Glaub  Acoustic Guitar – Jo Partridge  Electric Guitar – Greg Poree  Electric Piano & Synthesizer – Duncan Mackay  Acoustic Piano – Bill Payne  Background Vocals – Bill Champlin, Bobby Kimball & Tom Kelley  Electric Lead Solo – Jo Partridge  Engineer – James Isaacson  Sunset Sound

Hot Youth (Harley, Mackay)

Acoustic and Electric Guitar – Jo Partridge  Acoustic Bass – Herbie Flowers  All Keyboards – Duncan Mackay  Percussion – Luis Jordan  Engineer – Tony Clark  Assistant Engineer – Hayden Bendall  EMI Studios/Abbey Road

Faith Hope And Charity (Harley)

Keyboards & Synthesizers – Duncan Mackay  Background Vocals – Yvonne Keeley & Gloria Jones Intro Piano – Michael Jackson Engineer – Tony Clark  Assistant Engineer – Hayden Bendall  EMI Studios/Abbey Road

 

Amerika The Brave (Harley)

Drums - Ricky Fataar  Guitar – Joe Partridge & Marc Bolan  Keyboards and Synthesizer – Duncan Mackay  Saxaphone – Chris Mercer  Percussion – Simon Morton, Chris Caran, Luis Jordan  Background Vocals – Yvonne Keeley  Engineer – Tony Clark  Assistant Engineer – Hayden Bendall  EMI Studios/Abbey Road

I Wish It Would Rain (Whitfield, Strong, Penzabebe)

Drums – Ricky Fataar  Bass – Alan Jones  Acoustic & Electric Guitars – Ian Bairnson  Electric Guitar Solo – Tom Moncrieff  Piano – Duncan Mackay  Organ – Bill Payne  Background Vocals – John Townsend, Rosemary Butler & Roy Kenner  String Arrangement – Jimmy Horowitz  Engineer – Peter James  EMI Studios/ Abbey Road

Someone's Coming (Harley, Partridge)

Drums – Stuart Elliott  Bass – George Ford  Acoustic & Electric Guitars – Jo Partridge  Electric Piano – Duncan Mackay  Congas – Lindsay Elliott  Tambourine – James Isaacson  Background Vocals – Yvonne Keeley & Gloria Jones  String Arrangement – Jimmy Horowitz  Engineer – Tony Clark  Assistant Engineer – Hayden Bendall  EMI Studios/Abbey Road

(I Don't Believe) God Is An Anarchist (Harley)

Drums – Paul Humphrey  Bass – Reggie McBride  Classical & Electric Guitar – Greg Poree Hammond Organ and Synthesizer – Duncan Mackay Acoustic Piano – Bill Payne  Congas – King Erisson  Additional Percussion – Simon Morton, Chris Caran, Luis Jordan  Backgroung Vocals – Yvonne Keeley & Barry St. John  Engineer Gary Ladinsky  Record Plant (LA)

 

 

 

The Album Hobo With A Grin and the two singles, Roll the Dice and Someone's Coming, failed to chart in the UK top 40