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able to contribute much to the writing nor add their harmonies to most of the album. The new harmonies did make an appearance on "Children" which was chosen to be the single released in May 1967 on
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Whilst some of these arrangements were overdubbed on what had already been recorded, Dick Taylor has recalled there were a couple of sessions where the band and
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Snapper CD, manager Mark St. John went
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were spread across a few months during which there were major changes in the band's line up. Their record company
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were played live preceding or following its release by the band. They simply ignored the album, but around the time of the single release of "Children" they did play the song live onstage in Paris which was broadcast live on French TV.
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Explosion 0970133278 2001 – Page 214 ".. they continued with their new sound on their next release, "Progress," an upbeat, horn-driven pop number released in December
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was unhappy with the direction the band was heading in, and, with money being rather short, he quit the band that
Christmas. A month later, bassist John Stax, similarly unhappy, also quit the band. Frontman
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