The grouping auditioned for Herb Alpert together with A&M Records early but the audition did non teach well. Although it has been alleged past times around sources that the ring members showed upwardly belatedly together with heavily intoxicated to the audition, all of the ring members showed upwardly on fourth dimension together with sober. In spite of their pitiful performance, Alpert allow the ring tape around demos. Eventually they signed with Rubicon Management, which eventually landed the grouping a bargain with 20th Century Fox Records.
The outset album, Ambrosia, produced past times Freddie Piro, was released inwards Feb 1975. All 4 members of Ambrosia played on the outset Alan Parsons Project album, Tales of Mystery together with Imagination, which was recorded before long after Ambrosia's outset album. David Pack after appeared on the Alan Parsons album Try Anything Once (1993), co-writing, playing together with providing vocals on 3 songs.
Ambrosia is an American rock ring formed inwards southern California inwards 1970. Ambrosia had 5 Top xl striking singles betwixt 1975 together with 1980, including the Top 5 hits "How Much I Feel" together with "Biggest Part of Me". Most of the master copy ring members convey been active with the grouping continuously for the past times 25 years to the acquaint day.
Ambrosia currently tours internationally together with has worked inwards the past times together with acquaint with Leonard Bernstein, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Alan Parsons, Bruce Hornsby, together with most lately Michael McDonald, with other notable artists. In 2015 the grouping released a novel unmarried together with plans to unloosen an album of all-new textile inwards 2016.
Los Angeles quartet Ambrosia, whose founding members included guitarist/vocalist David Pack, bassist/vocalist Joe Puerta, keyboardist Christopher North, together with drummer Burleigh Drummond, fused symphonic fine art stone with a slickly produced popular sound. The grouping was discovered inwards 1971 past times Los Angeles Philharmonic conductor Zubin Mehta, who featured Ambrosia equally role of a so-called All-American Dream Concert. However, it took them 4 to a greater extent than years to teach a tape contract; Ambrosia was released inwards 1975 together with spawned the nautical chart singles "Holdin' on to Yesterday" together with "Nice, Nice, Very Nice." (The latter was based on Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle.) Ambrosia scored around other striking inwards 1977 with a encompass of the Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour" from the cinema All This together with World War II, which they also appeared in.
North left the grouping only earlier their biggest popular breakthrough inwards 1978 with the publish 3 striking "How Much I Feel." Ambrosia followed this success inwards 1980 with around other publish 3 hit, "Biggest Part of Me," together with the publish xiii follow-up "You're the Only Woman." Their adjacent album failed, ending their run of nautical chart success, together with the grouping broke up; private members are yet active equally session musicians together with vocalists, equally good equally producers.
The most underrated progressive stone ring of all time. Haven't stopped playing it since I got it.
Wish they'd teach dorsum together together with tape around other album!
If all yous know nearly Ambrosia are the popular ballads that got airplay, yous DON'T know Ambrosia!
Track listing
- "Nice, Nice, Very Nice" – 5:49 (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Christopher North, David Pack, Joe Puerta, Burleigh Drummond)
- "Time Waits for No One" - 5:01 (Drummond, North, Pack, Puerta)
- "Holdin' on to Yesterday" - 4:19 (Pack, Puerta)
- "World Leave Me Alone" - 3:17 (Pack)
- "Make Us All Aware" - 4:28 (Drummond, North, Pack, Puerta)
- "Lover Arrive" – 3:12 (Pack)
- "Mama Frog" – 6:06 (Drummond, North, Pack, Puerta)
- "Drink of Water" – 6:29 (Drummond, North, Pack, Puerta)
Personnel
- David Pack - guitar, lead together with backing vocals, keyboards
- Christopher North - keyboards, backing vocals
- Joe Puerta - bass, Pb together with backing vocals, guitar
- Burleigh Drummond - drums, backing together with Pb vocals, percussion, bassoon
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