Snafu (Snafu album)

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Snafu
Studio album by Snafu
Released	1973
Recorded	The Manor Studio, Oxfordshire
Genre	Funk rock rhythm and blues
Length	36:22
Label	WWA
Producer	Vic Smith
Snafu chronology
Snafu (1973) Situation Normal (1974)

Snafu is the first album by Snafu; it has an unusual funky tone for a band that is essentially a rhythm and blues outfit. The album was issued on the short-lived WWA record label, founded in 1973 by Black Sabbath manager Patrick Meehan and was produced and engineered by Vic Smith.

"Drowning in the Sea of Love" had been released, in the United States, the previous year, as a promo single by Capitol.^[1][2] In 1974 the track "Goodbye USA" was released as a single, b/w "Dixie Queen" (written by Peter Solley), on the Vertigo label in the Netherlands.^[3][4]

Cover art[]

The cover art, including photography and the entire gate-fold sleeve inner, is by Roger Dean. The front cover image detail, apparently of an Eastern ploughman in a paddy field with two water buffalos, is revealed to be, in the full-sized inner image, the same scene on a record player turntable.

Track listing[]

All tracks are written by R. L. Harrison and M. Moody, except where noted.

Musicians[]

• Bobby Harrison - lead vocals, percussion
• Micky Moody - guitars, backing vocals, mandolin
• Pete Solley - keyboards, backing vocals
• Colin Gibson - bass
• Terry Popple - drums
• (uncredited - fiddle)
• (uncredited - backing vocals)

Other personnel[]

• Vic Smith - producer and engineer
• Malcom Koss - co-ordinator
• Roger Dean - photography and cover design

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