''Ridin' High'' is the third album by the

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band

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, released in 1977. The record got good reviews and got the band nominated for a

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(Canada's Grammy) in 1977 for Most Promising Group of the Year. The album produced two

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hit songs "Are You Ready", and "Ridin' High", as for Canada the album was considered too hard/heavy for Canadian radio at the time and consequently only the slowest paced song "Another Time Another Place" received any airplay in the band's home country. The album still sold well in Canada and especially in

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because of strong live appearances that included shows with

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and Trooper. In the words of Earl Johnson "''I remember going in doing radio interviews and Ridin High was the single and they would put it on and all the needles would just go tilt over right into the red and the station engineer would be freaking out. And I'm going, we're not going to get any airplay with this. I just knew it. And you know, we were a concert act''",

Credits

Buzz Shearman ''A Tribute to Buzz Shearman'' is a compilation/tribute album by the Canadian rock group Moxy in the band's original incarnation with Buzz Shearman, Earl Johnson, Buddy Caine, Bill Wade and Terry Juric. The album is a tribute to Moxy vocalist B ...

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*Earl Johnson:

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*Buddy Caine: Guitar -

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*Bill Wade:

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*Terry Juric: Bass * Jack Douglas - Producer *Edward Leonetti - Producer *Mike Jones - Engineer *Recorded in Toronto at Sounds Interchange in March 1977. *Mixed in

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in March 1977.

Track listing

# "Nothin' Comes Easy" - 4:22 (Earl Johnson) # "Rock Baby" - 4:48 (Earl Johnson) # "Sweet Reputation (Symphony for Margaret)" - 3:54 (

, Bill Wade, Earl Johnson) # "I'll Set You on Fire" - 3:17 (Buddy Caine) # "Ridin' High" - 4:03 (Earl Johnson) # "Young Legs" - 3:46 (Bill Wade) # "Another Time Another Place" - 4:39 (Earl Johnson) # "Are You Ready" - 3:52 (Buddy Caine, Buzz Shearman) # "Nothin' Comes Easy (Reprise)" - 1:02 (Earl Johnson)

Reissued

Moxy’s original catalogue of albums were again available starting in 1994 when Valerie Shearman ("Buzz" widow) oversaw the release of all of Moxy's back catalogue of albums on CD through Pacemaker Records, and again in 2003 this time through

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References

External links

Moxy official website
{{Authority control 1977 albums Moxy (band) albums Albums produced by Jack Douglas (record producer) Mercury Records albums