Jack the Toad

Savoy Brown | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 3, 1992)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Polygram Records
• ASIN: B000001FX5
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #253,903 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Coming Down Your Way

2. Ride On Babe

3. Hold Your Fire

4. If I Want To

5. Endless Sleep

6. Casting My Spell

7. Just Cos' You Got The Blues Don't Mean You Gotta Sing

8. Some People

9. Jack The Toad

Editorial Reviews

1991.nine songs.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A fantastic CD!!!, March 24, 2006

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Erroyl Slaseman "BIG E" (Lynchburg, Va) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Jack the Toad (Audio CD)

I have been looking for this CD for years without any success and I was ecstatic when I found it here. The same goes for Lion's Share. I had all of Savoy Brown's collection except these 2 and now I finally have them. I also enjoyed the bonus tracks included on the CD. There are some very good live performances on this CD. I highly recommend this CD to all old school ROCKERS, it is really great!!!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Comin' Down Your Way to play some Rock & Roll..., January 23, 2007

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Gerald Robert Horvath "funkdawg01" (Manitou Springs, CO United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Jack the Toad (Audio CD)

Wow, how do you give this classic album a bad review? Yes, the amazing Dave Walker had just left the band after Lion's Share, and Kim hit the road with yet another line up. But oh my, the classics. With Jack(ie) Lynton leading vocals, Paul Raymond on drums, Dave Bidwell on drums and Andy Pyle holding down the basslines, Savoy turned out a haunting concept album of sorts.
"Coming Down Your Way" starts off the album with a good Jackie Lynton. Kim takes the vocal lead on "Ride On Babe" and you feel like you're on the mechanical horse on the album cover. The next song is the real blues gem, "Hold Your Fire". It's one of my favorite Savoy Brown songs of all time.
Paul Raymond borrowed a mellotron from the Moody Blues. The boys covered "Endless Sleep" from Jody Reynolds and made it their own... Lynton's raspy British vocals were perfect. The second half of the short release (46 minutes) has more laidback blues & smooth vocals from Kim Simmonds, including "Just Cos' You Got the Blues Don't Mean You Gotta Sing", a nearly 6 minute jam worth the price of the album alone.

And of course, there's the title song, "Jack the Toad" that they should have combined with the Red Rider's "Panama Red" (and the Beatle's Rocky Raccoon) and made into a movie. It's as magical as David Anstey's gatefold album cover, which folds down to give a full length cosmic cowboy with futurist guns and a mechanical horse in the background. I had a local artist make me a poster of this, and had Kim sign it after a concert in Colorado Springs. Kim invited me backstage to meet the band, and I have the utmost respect for the guy.

The tour premiered in the US before selling out most of Europe (with ZZ Top and Status Quo along the way). Not long afterwards, Dave Bidwell lost his battle with the bottle, and Kim got bored and disbanded the band. Another era lost. Another one started.

Jack the Toad is an essential piece of the Kim Simmond's catalog. If you're lucky enough to be a fan of his music, go on ebay and find a copy of the original 1973 LP, on London's Parrot label. You'll love it!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Well, I'll Be Blowed!! It's Jack the Toad!!!, December 3, 2003

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chris meesey Food Czar (The Colony, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Jack the Toad (Audio CD)

An epic of the Wild West....a dusty street....two lusty gunfighters fight it out to the finish....and the singer is....British??? That's "Jack the Toad," the title track from the most fun album Savoy Brown ever recorded. Imagine Phil Collins singing the blues, and you've got Jackie Lynton, who is veddy, veddy, veddy British. How British is he? Well, mate, he's just the sort of chap who'd fancy a coupla pints (not "just the one," doncher know!) and a game of darts over a plate of bangers and mash (or fish and chips) down to the local pub. In fact, "Comin' Down Your Way" sounds like it's coming straight from the corner bar, with Paul Raymond's tinkling saloon piano and Lynton's bouncing, goodtime vocals. "Ride on Babe" features a rare (for the time period), early Kim Simmonds vocal, and finds the guitar master blowing a mean harp as well. Well, I'll be blowed!! Other highlights include the tricky wordplay of "Casting My Spell," Kim's fantastic (guitar) soloing on "Just Cos' You Got the Blues Don't Mean You Gotta Sing," and "Some People," and, best of all, Jackie's wonderful vocal melodramatics on the title song, the best Western epic sung by a Brit since "Theme From an Imaginary Western," sung with great feeling by Felix Pappalardi on Mountain's Mountain Climbing LP. Great!! Yes, I know this album is very, very difficult to find (I got my copy from Russia, of all places!), but do search diligently; the pub-rocking, good-time wonders which await are well worth it, or I'll be Blowed!!!!