Description
It Won’t Be Long is the debut album by the American hard rock/metal band Shout, released on Frontline Records in 1988. Also licenced to Music For Nations. The album was recorded by Robert Dire at Winetree Recording in Rancho Cucamonga, California; with band member Ken Tamplin producing. Mixed by Dave Jahnsen at Winetree Recording.
Shout was a 80’s metal band formed by Ken Tamplin and Chuck King. In 1987, Chuck King was playing with the band Idle Cure, but looking for more of a permanent role in music and simply trying to find the right path. Ken Tamplin was a guitarist in the band Joshua and also wanted to try something new (along with Joshua members Joseph Galletta and Loren Robinson). As a result – Shout was born.
With the most popular rock bands in Christian music all celebrating a full decade of music ministry, and having based entire careers on the brand of rock ‘n’ roll that was ferment during their youth, Shout sounds refreshingly effortless in grabbing the Album-Oriented Rock format bull by the horns. Essentially a vehicle for Ken Tamplin and Chuck King, who played a support role in Idle Cure, Shout majors on the dominant formula for success, best exemplified in bands like Foreigner, Loverboy and Van Halen (not to mention their many, many imitators).
Tamplin, a cousin of VH’s Sammy Hagar, has a strong, classic rock ‘n’ roll voice and shares guitar duties with King. While the duo has not yet forged a territory to which it alone can lay claim, ‘It Won’t Be Long’ reveals that this is a songwriting team with a long fruitful future.
Backed by the big drums of former A.D. member Dennis Holt, bassist Loren Robinson, and Mark Hugonberger on keys, Shout’s hooky choruses, stinging guitar fills, sparkling double leads, and flashy solos all work together with Tamplin’s seasoned pipes to drive home a simple message of «Timeless Love» and celebratory conviction («Never Stop», «Showdown», «Dancin’ Round the World», and «Shout»).
Shout will do very well on Christian radio and would sit in a hot groove, alongside Bon Jovi in regular Radioland, but it’s going to take another album or two before Shout stops sounding like a homogenized blend of the lowest common denominator and becomes a creative presence to be reckoned with. [Brian Quincy Newcomb, CCM, July 1988]
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LP tracklist:
Side One
A1. “Never Stop”
A2. “Winners Or Losers”
A3. “It Won’t Be Long”
A4. “Find A Way”
A5. “Dancin’ Round The World”
Side Two
B1. “Shout”
B2. “Showdown”
B3. “Timeless Love”
B4. “Without You”
Note: Simultaneously released on cassette, 12-inch vinyl LP, and CD by Frontline Records. Both of Shout’s albums, It Won’t Be Long and In Your Face, were later re-issued on one CD as a part of KMG’s Classic Archives Music Value Pak series. Remastered by Rob Colwell of Bombworks Sound and re-issued by Girder Records in 2019, and comes with 8-page booklet featuring song lyrics, in depth band insights provided by band members Chuck King and Ken Tamplin, and photos. As well featuring a 4-song Shout demo: “Shout”, Timeless Love”, Find a Way”, “Without You” (they are the exact demos that Ken shopped to Atlantic, Enigma and Capitol Records looking for a mainstream deal after landing a deal with Frontline).
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