Rock Archeologia

Hagood Hardy & The Montage - Montage (1972)

Artist: Hagood Hardy & The Montage
Album: Montage
Label: GRT Records
Catalog#: 9230-1012
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: Canada
Released: 1972
Genre: Rock, Pop, Vocal
Duration: 00:39:06

• Dreamy vocal pop from early 70s Canada -- a set that owes a lot to the 60s sweetness of Sergio Mendes & Brasil 66! The Montage have an approach that's a bit more rock-based overall, but there's definitely some Sergio-like touches in the music -- especially the way the two female vocalists sing together in a nicely spaced-out sort of sound -- warm, but with an undercurrent of coldness -- mixed in with some very groovy rhythms from Hagood Hardy on vibes, electric piano, marimba, and percussion! There's also a fair bit of bossa in the mix too -- not as overtly as on Brasil 66 records, and more filtered down into a 70s sort of hipness -- expanded out with wider pop influences, and some traces of Sunshine styles as well. Titles include great versions of "Cast Your Fate To The Wind", "Come Saturday Morning", "Baby I'm A Want You", "Guantanamera", "It's Too Late/I Feel The Grass Grow Under My Feet", and "If" -- and the record would be right at home on A&M! ~ Dusty Groove America.

 • Side One:
A1. Baby I'm A Want You - 04:20
A2. The Garden Path - 03:14
A3. How Insensitive - 03:32
A4. Come Saturday Morning - 02:52
A5. My Love - 02:21
A6. How I Think Of You - 02:40
 • Side Two:
B1. Cast Your Fate To The Wind - 03:12
B2. If - 02:33
B3. Won’t You Step Into My Life - 02:20
B4. Medley: It’s Too Late / I Feel The Grass Grow Under My Feet - 04:22
B5. Guantanamera - 02:56
B6. You’re Here - 03:27

      Recorded at RCA Toronto
      Producer, Engineer by George Semkiw
      Assistant Engineer by Hayward Parrott

Personel:
Hagood Hardy - electro-piano, piano, vibraton, percussion
Bill Bridges - lead guitar
Rock Homme - bass guitar
Dave Lewis - drums
Stephanie Taylor, Lynne McNeil - vocals & percussion

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