Double Diamond (album)

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Double Diamond
Studio album by If
Released 1973
Genre Jazz rock
Progressive Rock
Producer Lew Futterman
Professional reviews
If chronology
Waterfall
(1973)		 Double Diamond
(1973)		 Not Just Another Bunch of Pretty Faces
(1974)

Double Diamond is the sixth album by British jazz-rock group If. With only Dick Morrissey left from the original band, the new line-up featured Fi Trench (keyboards) and Pete Arnesen (keyboards), Steve Rosenthal (guitar/lead vocals), Kurt Palomacki (bass) and Cliff Davies (drums). It was recorded at The Manor recording studios shortly after Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells. It was released in 1973.

Note: That same year, and following the success of the group in Germany, as part of their This is ... series, Brain Records (a division of Metronome) brought out a vinyl LP version of Double Diamond for distribution in Germany only, changing the title to This is If. The track listing is identical in both cases.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Play, Play, Play" (D. Morrissey/K. Palomacki)
  2. "Pebbles On The Beach" (D. Morrissey/B. Morrissey)
  3. "Pick Me Up (And Put Me Back On The Road)" (Davies)
  4. "Another Time Around (Is Not For Me)" (Davies)
  5. "Groupie Blue (Every Day She's Got The Blues)" (D. Morrissey-T. Preston)
  6. "Fly, Fly, The Route, Shoot" (Palomacki)
  7. "Feel Thing Part 1" (Arnesen)
  8. "Feel Thing Part 2" (Arnesen)
  9. "Feel Thing Part 3" (Arnesen)

[edit] Line-up and credits