Tracklist
| A1 | Think! What's In This Life For You | 4:32 | |
| A2 | You Ain't Gonna Find Me | 3:30 | |
| A3 | That's The Way It Goes | 3:58 | |
| A4 | Range Rider | 3:10 | |
| A5 | Dear John | 2:56 | |
| B1 | One Night Stand Man | 4:24 | |
| B2 | Plastic World | 3:13 | |
| B3 | Queen Of Downs | 3:30 | |
| B4 | In My World | 2:45 | |
| B5 | Dedicated To Your Head | 3:08 | |
| B6 | Last War | 2:52 |
Companies, etc.
- Published By – MRC Music, Inc.
- Produced For – All Spice Productions
Credits
- A&R [A&R Director] – Bob Reno
- Arranged By – Al Del Monte, David Spinozza
- Art Direction – Des Strobel*
- Design – Wm. Falkenburg*
- Engineer – Neal Ceppos
- Liner Notes – Bob Moore Merlis
- Mastered By – Gilbert Kong
- Performer [Group Members] – Al Del Monte, Christie Thompson, David Spinozza, Glen Tappan, Jack LeGrazie, Lenny Colangello, Ron Viola, Steve Pucci, Tom Arlotta
- Performer [Special Thanks To The Following Musicians] – Albert Block*, Albert Fanelli, Garnett Brown, Linc Chamberlain*, Meco Monardo, Rick Marotta, Ron Frangipane, Warren Covington
- Producer – Al Del Monte, David Spinozza, Irving Spice, Max Ellen
Other Versions (1)
View All| Title (Format) | Label | Cat# | Country | Year | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
New Submission | What's In This Life For You? (LP, Album, Promo) | Mercury | SR-61285 | US | 1970 |
Recommendations
Reviews
At first, it was a record I bought just because of the cover. I admit that I found it far below its real value in Turkey :) the giant record has become one of the most important pieces of my archive for the last few years when I started listening mainly to psychedelic rock and funk. I'm happy to have a very clean copy.- Edited 11 years agoGiant can be best described as a psychedelic rock or psychedelic funk band from the late 1960’s. The group contained nine members and was arranged by Al Del Monte and David Spinozza who were both members of Giant. The group appears to have reached the climax of their success with the 1970 Mercury Records recording of “What’s In This Life For You”. Unfortunately, the album was never released by Mercury and Giant fell into musical obscurity. I first discovered Giant after listening Queen of Downs on “Status Breaks – Heavy Sounds for Today’s Connoisseur”. Queen of Downs represents the best of what the group was capable of. The song is laced with the types of riffs, breaks and vocals that were indicative of the genre and style of the time. Queen of Downs can be classified as early funk or psychedelic rock but this simple and broad description does not summarize the group’s overall sound. With songs like Plastic World, Queen of Downs, Think! What’s In This Life For You, Range Rider, In My World (which sounds similar to Bossa Nova) and One Night Stand Man that is reminiscent of the instrumentals from the “School House Rock” animated shorts of the early 1970’s. Perhaps it was the group’s genre ambiguities and (Mercury Records) releases by artist with better defined listener bases such as Jerry Lee Lewis, Jerry Butler, Rod Steward and Melba Moore that caused the sheaving of Giant’s album; on the other hand a band with a sound as diverse as Giant is a treasure for the beat digging producer or disc jockey looking for something very few others have found. This album may be slightly advanced for the beginner vinyl aficionado but for those who are searching for obscure funky laced tracks with production value, “What’s In This Life For You” can be the hidden gem in your arsenal that sets your sound apart from the other’s.
kM kELLAM
Release
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