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The live recording Precious Lord: The Fat and Frantic Doo-Wop Album is the sixth and final full-length album by the British alternative pop band Fat and Frantic, released on both Kingsway Music in 1994. The album was recorded 1994 by Nigel Palmer at St James The Less, a church in Vauxhall Bridge Road, London, England; and was produced by Craig McLeish and Jon Soper with Palmer co-producing. Mixed by Nigel Palmer at Gemini Studios in Ipswich, England.
The album is a tribute to the band’s close friend, the late Steve Fairnie (1951 – 1993), who wrote the title track together with Steve Rowles (a duo known as Fish Co.), a song included on the duo’s 1975 debut album Can’t Be Bad.
Having heard Fat And Frantic sing acapella worship songs at Steve Fairnie‘s funeral, Kingsway boss John Pac was able to persuade the Greenbelt favourites to come out of retirement to record this one-off project. A long, long way from «Last Night My Wife Hoovered My Head», instead you’ve got a selection of 14 songs mostly from the Kendricks/Richards/Bilbrough axis with one or two FAF originals while the title track isn’t the Thomas Dorsey classic but a Fish Co number from 1975. The arrangements are effective though only on a few of the songs do the band get even close to an authentic doowop sound promised by the sleeve. The numerous guests weighing in with harmonies and leads are effective (particularly Helen Jannaway) and though a little wearing to hear at one sitting will no doubt find sales with acapella enthusiasts looking for a change from Glad and Take 6 and Fat And Frantic legion of fans still willing the zaney bunch to reform permanently [Tony Cummings, Cross Rhythms, October 1994]
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CD tracklist:
01. There Is Power In The Name Of Jesus – 2:20
02. Rock And Redeemer – 3:05
03. All The Riches Of His Grace – 4:34
04. One Thing I Ask – 3:57
05. My Lord, He Is The Fairest Of The Fair – 3:06
06. Deep Down – 3:24
07. Are You Ready? – 3:49
08. Be Bold, Be Strong – 3:10
09. I Stand Before You, Lord – 3:10
10. So Freely – 3:08
11. O Lord, Hear My Prayer – 4:41
12. Praise God, All Creation Praise – 2:56
13. Precious Lord – 5:00
14. Mercy – 1:27
Fat and Frantic; “Precious Lord”. (This was the Fish Co song, written by Steve Fairnie and Steve Rowles and released on their 1975-album Can’t Be Bad, that Fat And Frantic were asked to perform at Fainie’s funeral ceremony in Bristol, March 1993.)
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