''Ruby'' is the debut album by American rock group
Ruby
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, featuring
Tom Fogerty.
Track listing
Personnel
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Tom Fogerty –
guitar
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,
vocals
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* Randy Oda –
guitar
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,
keyboards,
vocals
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* Anthony Davis –
bass
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,
vocals
Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or witho ...
* Bobby Cochran –
drums
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,
vocals
Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or witho ...
* Ed Bogas - bass on "Baby, What You Want Me to Do"
Trivia
The instrumental track "BART" (named after the
San Francisco Bay Area subway), was frequently used by the
BBC to accompany
test cards, during intervals between schools programmes, and over ''
Pages from Ceefax
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'' in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and sporadically thereafter.
When the
digital switchover happened, the track was chosen to play out the last ''Pages from Ceefax'' before the closure of analogue
teletext
A British Ceefax football index page from October 2009, showing the three-digit page numbers for a variety of football news stories
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in the UK, in October 2012.
Reception
A
''Cash Box'' Magazine album review dated April 9, 1977, states "It would be hard to follow the high quality work that Tom Fogerty put into Creedence Clearwater Revival but Fogerty's new band, Ruby, deserves more than a casual listen. The combined talents of this quartet are potently showcased in their ability to play fast and funky or slow and silky with equal aplomb and careful control. For AOR and top 40 playlists."
Cash Box album reviews
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References
External links
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Tom Fogerty albums
1977 debut albums