''It's Smoke Time'' is the only studio album by the British

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band

The Smoke The Smoke were an English pop group from York. They consisted of Mick Rowley (lead vocals), Mal Luker (lead guitar), John "Zeke" Lund (bass) and Geoff Gill (drums and compositor). The band originally performed around Yorkshire as The Moons ...

, released in early 1967, originally by Swedish label

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only in Germany. It features the hit single “

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”, number two on the German charts.

Track listing

All songs written by The Smoke, except where indicated:

LP Side A

" - 3:03 #"Waterfall" - 2:41 #"You Can't Catch Me" - 3:17 #"High in a Room" - 3:00 #"Wake Up Cherylina" - 2:19 #"Don't Lead Me On" (Jerry Reno, Terry Brown) - 2:17

LP Side B

#We Can Take It - 2:43 #"If the Weather's Sunny" - 2:50 #"I Wanna Make It with You" - 3:10 #"It's Getting Closer" - 2:33 # "It's Just Your Way of Lovin'" - 2:25 #"I Would If I Could But I Can't" - 2:14

Bonus tracks (only CD release)

#"Have Some More Tea (

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) - 2:13 #"Victor Henry's Cool Book" - 2:28 #"Sydney Gill" - 3:32 #"It Could Be Wonderful" (

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) - 2:18 #"Keep a Hold of What You've Got" (A. Maldon) - 2:06 #"She's a Liar" (A. Maldon) - 2:21 #"I Am Only Dreaming" - 1:59 #"Universal Vagrant" (Bob Feldman, Jerry Goldstein,

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) - 2:53 #"Dreams of Dreams" (Chapman, Vaughan, Williams) - 2:31 #"My Birth" (Francis) - 2:41 #"Jack Is Back" (Danny Beckerman) - 3:18 #"That's What I Want" (

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) - 2:25 #"Playing with Magic" (W. Malone) - 3:07 #"My Friend Jack (''Alternate Take'')" - 3:10

Personnel

The Smoke

* Mick Rowley – Vocals, Guitar ith Two Fingers* Mal Luker - Guitar, Keyboards, Sitar *Zeke Lund –Bass *Geoff Gill - Drums

Additional personnel

*Supervised By – Monty Babson *Performer, Primary Artist - Shotstar *Liner Notes – Mark Brennan

References

External links

It's Smoke Time at DiscogsIt's Smoke Time at Allmusic
{{Authority control 1967 albums The Smoke albums