Artist: The Smoke
Title: My Friend Jack Eats Sugar Lumps - An Anthology
Year Of Release: 2015
Label: Morgan Music
Genre: Psychedelic Rock, Psychedelic Pop
Quality: Flac (tracks, log)
Total Time: 02:37:30
Total Size: 895 Mb (full scans)
Tracklist:01. My Friend Jack
02. We Can Take It
03. High In A Room
04. If The Weather's Sunny
05. I Would If I Could, But I Can't
06. Have Some More Tea
07. Victor Henry's Cool Book
08. It Could Be Wonderful
09. Utterly Simple
10. Sydney Gill
11. Dreams Of Dreams
12. My Birth
13. Ride Ride Ride (Dick Turpin)
14. Guy Fawkes
15. Sugar Man
16. Jack Is Back
17. hat's What I Want
18. Shagalagalu
19. My Lullaby
01. My Friend Jack [Single Version]
02. Gimme Good Loving
03. Looking High
04. Waterfall
05. You Can't Catch Me
06. Wake Up Cherylina
07. Don't Lead Me On
08. I Wanna Make It With You
09. It's Getting Closer
10. It's Just Your Way of Lovin'
11. Keep a Hold of What You Got
12. She's a Liar
13. I Am Only Dreaming
14. Universal Vagrant
15. Some People
16. Battersea Fair
17. Same Old Fat Man
18. Hold On To Everything You've Got
CD 3:01. My Friend Jack (1976 Version)
02. She Put The Hurt On Me
03. Like A Good Man Should
04. Playing With Magic
05. Lady
06. Thus Spake Alice (aka Utterly Simple)
07. Sydney Gill (Alternative Version)
08. Bringing It All Back Home
09. Time To Go # 1
10. Time To Go # 2
11. The Man With One Leg
12. Old Feet, New Socks
13. Poor Little Frogs
14. Sweet Wilfred - A Rodent Of Note
15. Blown Away
16. Holiday Farm
17. Ring Me
18. She Put The Hurt On Me (Live)
19. High In A Room (Live)
20. My Friend Jack (Live)
The Smoke was an English pop group from York. They consisted of Mick Rowley (lead vocals) (born Michael Rowley, 29 June 1946, Scarborough, Yorkshire), Mal Luker (lead guitar) (born Malcom Luker, 3 March 1946, New Delhi, India), John "Zeke" Lund (bass) (born John Raine Lund, 13 November 1945, York, Yorkshire) and Geoff Gill (drums and compositor) (born Geoffrey Robert Gill, 15 May 1949, York).
The band originally performed around Yorkshire as "The Moonshots", changing their name to "The Shots" when they moved to London. There were two bands playing R & B and other cover versions, one was called Tony Adams and the Viceroys, who included John 'Zeke' Lund on bass; Mal Luker on guitar and Geoff Gill on drums. The other band was The Moonshots, who included Mick Rowley on lead vocals and Phil Peacock on guitar. The band then came together as The Shots and made a single for Columbia - "Keep A Hold Of What You've Got" which flopped. At some point Peacock left the band, who then changed their name to The Smoke.
The Smoke's biggest hit was "My Friend Jack" (German Chart: No. 2, UK Singles Chart: No. 45); the BBC banned airplay of the song over its alleged drug references. Later singles released under the band name often had variations on the remaining trio of Lund, Luker and Gill, performing along with session musicians to pad out the sound. All failed to sell in any numbers.
Guitarist Lund later became a sound engineer for Boney M., who recorded a cover version of "My Friend Jack".
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