LP: Inside Every Fat Man
Artist: Sandy Davis
1974 EMI/2025 Big Pink Music
LP/CD: BIG PINK 954

Sandy Davis: 12-string acoustic guitar, piano, bass, drums, vocals
Martin Briley: electric guitar, acoustic guitar
Peter Skellern: piano (4, 10, 12)
Andrew Pryce Jackman: electric acoustic piano, recorders
Alan Cowderoy: electric guitar (1)
Henry Spinetti: drums
Roy Babbington: bass
Chris Squire: bass (3, 6, 7)
Ray Cooper: percussion


Produced by Sandy Davis/Andrew Pryce Jackman
Arranged by Andrew Pryce Jackman
Engineer: Gregg Jackman
Recorded at Morgan Studios May-Nov 1973
Front cover by Nicholas Brennan


Tracks:
1. "Inside Every Fat Man" [Davis] (3:12)
2. "I Got Friends" [Davis] (2:54)
3. "Rockerbox Man" [Davis] (3:39)
4. "Show a Little Love" [Davis] (3:28)
5. "Snuggle Up" [Davis] (3:29)
6. "Up High" [Davis] (4:06)
7. "Really Move It" [Davis] (4:06)
8. "Sunny Day" [Davis] (2:56)
9. "My Favourite Lady" [Davis] (2:59)
10. "Last of My Goodbyes" [Davis] (2:57)
11. "Lend Me a Fiver" [Davis] (3:31)
12. "He Gives Us All His Love" [Randy Newman] (3:47)


Notes: Side 2 began with track 7. This album was released 11 Mar 1974, but Squire wasn't credited at the time. Davis later talked on social media about his involvement and credited him on a Bandcamp digital re-release. I would guess Squire got involved through Andrew Pryce Jackman's involvement. He was recording Tales from Topographic Oceans at Morgan Studios around the same time. Squire isn't given the most complicated bass parts to play, but I think his playing does stand out, particularly on (7).

Sandy Davis (also known as Paul Davis) started his career in the prog rock band Gracious before going solo, starting with this folk-rock album. Cowderoy was at school with Davis and they played together back then and were both in Gracious. Babbington was in Soft Machine at the time, and would later play with Rick Wakeman's cousin Alan on their album Softs (1976). Briley was a regular session guitarist in London at the time and would go on to briefly play in Greenslade. Cooper was another regular session player and had recently worked on Rick Wakeman's The Six Wives of Henry VIII. Likewise, Spinetti (the younger brother of actor Victor Spinetti) was also regularly doing sessions.

David dedicated the album to his cat.

Details here are taken from David's Bandcamp page for the album and the Big Pink re-issue (which has terrible liner notes). (HP, 23 Feb 26)

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