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's early working bands (it followed Poor Heart, which broke up c. 1970). The group, which had released the single "Stick Around" in 1974, the album ''Black Sheep'' in 1975, and the album ''Encouraging Words'' in late 1975, was no longer performing when Gramm was invited by Mick Jones to join the band Foreigner in 1976. Don Mancuso and Ron Rocco were later members of Cheater, a local hard rock band from Rochester that released a 10-inch record entitled ''Ten Cent Love Affair'' in 1980 on Mallard Records. Black Sheep's bass player

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played on Lou Gramm's solo albums in the late 1980s (which also featured contributions from another Black Sheep alumnus, guitarist Don Mancuso) and joined Gramm in one of Foreigner's later incarnations, in 1992.

Albums

"Black Sheep" (1975) - Capitol Records / Capitol ST-11369

;Side One # "Payin' Yer Dues" - (

atico, Don Mancuso, Larry Crozier, Ron Rocco) - 4:08 # "Broken Promises" - (Grammatico, Crozier,

) - 3:20 # "Woman Back Home" - (Grammatico, Turgon) - 3:20 # "Piano Prelude" - (Crozier) - 1:04 # "Let Me Stay" - (Grammatico, Turgon) - 7:15 ;Side Two #

"Power To Heal" - (Grammatico, Turgon) - 3:19 # "Far Side Of The Sun" - (Grammatico, Mancuso, Rocco) - 6:56 # "A Little Or A Lot" - (Grammatico, Mancuso, Turgon) - 3:34 # "Freight Train" - (Grammatico, Mancuso, Rocco) - 3:00 # "

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) - 8:19 - Cover of the sixth track of Free's self-titled second album ;Personnel * Lou Grammatico -

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* Don Mancuso -

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* Larry Crozier -

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* Bruce Turgon - bass * Ron Rocco -

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"Encouraging Words" (1975) - Capitol Records / Capitol ST-11447

;Side One # "Halfway Home" - (Lou Grammatico, Bruce Turgon) - 4:19 # "Encouraging Words" - (Grammatico, Don Mancuso, Turgon) - 5:27 # "To Whom It May Concern" - (Grammatico, Larry Crozier) - 3:51 # "No Worry, No Pain" - (Grammatico, Turgon) - 4:11 # "When It All Makes Sense" - (Grammatico, Crozier) - 4:24 ;Side Two #

"The Change" - (Turgon) - 5:13 # "All I Am" - (Turgon) - 3:35 # "Shauna" - (Grammatico, Mancuso) - 3:44 # "Chain On Me" - (Grammatico, Mancuso) - 4:21 ;Personnel * Lou Grammatico - vocals * Don Mancuso - guitar * Larry Crozier - keyboards * Bruce Turgon - bass * Mike Bonafede - drums

References

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