Humpy Bong is the band Tim Staffell formed or joined when he left Smile so many years ago. The drummer is a former member of the Bee Gees (when the band was in fact more than just the brothers Gibb).
Check your history books for more info, but these two recordings, long out-of-print and digitized from a 45, are a long-forgotten little nugget of Queen history.
A Side: All Right Till Then link
B Side: Don't You Be Too Long link
Smile were formed in 1968 by Brian and Tim. They advertised for a drummer and Roger got the postion. They were signed to Mercury Records (a sign of things to come?) in 1969 and went into the studio recording a number of songs, one of which was the USA only single Earth with Step On Me as the b-side. In 1982 a Japanese LP appeared with 6 Smile songs on. At first Brian and Roger denied it was their Smile, but upon hearing the songs confirmed it was them. Although the LP was released without their consent (Mercury held the copyright) no legal action was taken on their part.
In 1970 Smile were no more. Tim joined a band named Humpy Bong (formed by Robin Gibb of The Bee Gees).
For more info check this: link
Hey Tiger --
Thanks for posting that info; I didn't have it handy when I was doing this, my first ezshare post thing.
And John -- I do not have the Tailfeathers. I have Morgan and am trying to get a couple other pieces of Staffellenia, but not that. Have you posted this?
As far as one version of Staffell doing Earth, it's actually officially released on a Morgan album. It's sort of difficult for those who want to listen to just that, since it's part of a suite of songs (remember those, fellow prog rock fans?). It is worth a listen, however, since according to Staffell it's the most faithful version of his song.
John S Stuart wrote: You don't have?
Tail Feathers (with Tim Staffell)
DON'T COUNT YOUR CHICKENS/Absolutely Right
No: I was asking NOT offering, as I can't seem to find it either.
John, are you still looking for a copy of that single? I know someone in Russia who owns two copies of the single, who's offered to sell me the 2nd copy.
Anyways, I have a FLAC upgrade forthcoming very soon for the Humpy Bong single folks, having acquired and received a copy very recently :-)
And as promised: link
Enjoy!
PS. There is a version marked 'Fixed', which had some heavy pop/clicks at the start of both sides (owing to extra vinyl blob present on the disc!) reduced as much as possible using Adobe Audition 1.5's tools
So, this is not official and ok to share?
Can someone please upload Now I'm Here from Concerts for the People of Kampuchea? It has been out of print a long time too. ;)
Panchgani wrote:
So, this is not official and ok to share?
Can someone please upload Now I'm Here from Concerts for the People of Kampuchea? It has been out of print a long time too. ;)
I have Now I'm Here from that Lp (Flac transfer made by me) but i think that is official...
Panchgani wrote:
So, this is not official and ok to share?
Can someone please upload Now I'm Here from Concerts for the People of Kampuchea? It has been out of print a long time too. ;)
I have Now I'm Here from that Lp (Flac transfer made by me) but i think that is official...
Yes both are official, but evidently it is OK to share Humpy Bong????
Evidently it conveniently must have been official even in 2005, which I recall was quite certainly also a hot topic back then, YET no-one bothered to raise a stink when Daniel uploaded the MP3's then! I figured I would provide you guys an upgrade of a very rare single that's been well out of print for more than 40 years and, unless some of you know something I don't, likely will NEVER see a CD release!
The Kampuchea NIH still stands a much stronger chance of seeing some sort of a re-release, whether through a box set, new Hammy '79 CD release, iTunes exclusive, etc.
You'll never see the Humpy Bong or Tailfeathers stuff on a Queen boxset since neither have anything directly to do with Queen, I can guarantee that!
If Barb or Richard take issue to this otherwise, I will be more than happy to oblige to a takedown of the links.