Description
Rock Around the World is a multi-artist compilation released on Refuge Records in 1984, distributed by The Benson Company. A follow-up album entitled Rock Across America, featuring mostly Refuge Records signed artists, was released on Shadow Records in 1986.
The Rock Around the World sampler featured the first opportunity for the public to hear a new track from Daniel Amos’ soon to be released album Vox Humana; the song «Home Permanent». Interestingly, this is an early rough mix of the track. (The version that later ended up on the album features an uncredited guitar solo by Greg Flesh, actually his very first contribution to a Daniel Amos recording. Flesch joined the band as a permanent guitarist in time for the Vox Humana tour.)
«No Doubt In This Love» is the flip-side of a 7-inch vinyl single featuring «Plastic Man» on the A-side, released on the Belgian label Embryo Arts under the artist name The Pulse. (Both tracks on the single were written and produced by the Australian artist Peter Beveridge and recorded by Roger Heiss at Resurrection Band‘s studio Tone Zone in Chicago.)
Communique was a band that included songwriter Brian Houston from Belfast. Houston also had a band called Mighty Fall and then went solo, as well as teaming with Wayne Drain and Noel Richards in The Hudson Taylors in 2001 (thus a band comprising a Welshman, an Irishman and an American Cherokee/Scot).
LP tracklist:
Side One
A1. SWEDEN: Jerusalem – “Let’s Go” (Can’t Stop Us Now, Refuge 1984)
A2. U.S.: Daniel Amos – “Home Permanent” (Vox Humana, Refuge 1984)
A3. GERMANY: Semaja – “Hey Friend” (No Burning Out, Refuge 1984)
A4. NORWAY: Jan Groth – “Lie Is Not Truth” (Roots, Refuge 1984)
A5. SOUTH AFRICA: Marloe Scott Wilson – “Love Explosion” (The Pink Lady, Refuge 1985)
Side Two
B1. AUSTRALIA: Peter Beveridge & The Puls – “No Doubt In This Love” (Plastic Man/No Doubt In This Love, 7-inch vinyl single, Embryo Arts)
B2. NORTHERN IRELAND: Communique – “A New Song”
B3. FRANCE: Christian Gonzales – “What Ever’s Happ’nin'” (Till the End of the Night, Refuge 1984)
B4. CANADA: Daniel Band – “Here I Am” (Straight Ahead, Refuge 1983)
B5. ENGLAND: Dave Eastman – “The Power Of Love” (The Hands of God, Window 1985)
Note: Simultaneously released on cassette and 12-inch vinyl LP by Refuge Record.
A full-page advertisement for various import albums released by Refuge Records – featuring Christian Gonzales’ Till the End of the Night, Keith Hutchinson’s Alpha-Omega, Jan Groth’s Roots, and Semaja’s No Burning Out – was featured in the August 1984 issue of CCM Magazine.
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