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Music Appreciation

cayugafalls

(5,640 posts) Mon Feb 8, 2021, 06:07 PM Feb 2021

Year of the Cat - Al Stewart

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Year of the Cat - Al Stewart (Original Post) cayugafalls Feb 2021 OP

One of my favorites Mz Pip Feb 2021 #1

It is a beautiful album. cayugafalls Feb 2021 #2

Mine too. Takes me back to a happier time. hlthe2b Feb 2021 #3

That raging sax solo, was apparently the first of it's kind in pop/rock music. Pobeka Feb 2021 #4

Mz Pip

(27,439 posts)

1. One of my favorites

Reply to cayugafalls (Original post)

Mon Feb 8, 2021, 06:09 PM

Feb 2021

I play this album often.

cayugafalls

(5,640 posts)

2. It is a beautiful album.

Reply to Mz Pip (Reply #1)

Mon Feb 8, 2021, 06:10 PM

Feb 2021

hlthe2b

(102,225 posts)

3. Mine too. Takes me back to a happier time.

Reply to Mz Pip (Reply #1)

Mon Feb 8, 2021, 06:24 PM

Feb 2021

Pobeka

(4,999 posts)

4. That raging sax solo, was apparently the first of it's kind in pop/rock music.

Reply to cayugafalls (Original post)

Mon Feb 8, 2021, 06:43 PM

Feb 2021

IIRC, Alan Parsons had the idea for it, and during the recording session he knew of a sax player who lived just a few blocks away and called him on the spur of the moment to come in an play the part.

Screaming sax solos became a mainstay of pop/rock music for many decades after that.

I just love Al Stewart, he was a heavily played part of my music catalog during college and many years after.

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