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Route 66: a white-label single

Produced by Matthew Fisher


In the BtP Christmas puzzles, 2002, we were able to offer a rare white-label vinyl 45 rpm single recorded in 1988 by Danish trio Route 66, subeseuqently cleaned up by Matthew Fisher.

The two songs were written by Procol Harum's biographer, Claes Johansen, who generously contributes the prizes. He also contributed a live jam, with Route 66, to the 2002 Procol tribute album, Lost in the Looking Glass.

As Claes Johansen wrote in the liner note to the Angel Air Route 66 CD, 'In the summer of 1987 we went into a studio in Copenhagen to record five of my own songs for an intended mini album. They were done over two weekends for some money we had actually earned playing gigs! I suppose our style had changed a bit by then, and we were now leaning more towards groups like REM. This time around, however, the response was even poorer than back in '84; we couldn't get a deal at all. I took the master tapes to England and had Matthew re-mix them, but apart from two tracks which came out on a 7" single in 1995, this session remains unreleased until now.'


More non-Procol non-solo Fisher projects

Order Route 66 from Angel Air

Claes Johansen's Procol Harum biography, 'Beyond the Pale'

Record Collector Nov 2001 review

More about Route 66 on CD


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