Minute By Minute (Remaster) The Doobie Brothers

• 1 Here To Love You (2016 Remastered) 04:00
• 2 What A Fool Believes (2016 Remastered) 03:46
• 3 Minute By Minute (2016 Remastered) 03:27
• 4 Dependin' On You (2016 Remastered) 03:50
• 5 Don't Stop To Watch The Wheels (2016 Remastered) 03:25
• 6 Open Your Eyes (2016 Remastered) 03:18
• 7 Sweet Feelin' (2016 Remastered) 02:42
• 8 Steamer Lane Breakdown (2016 Remastered) 03:25
• 9 You Never Change (2016 Remastered) 03:30
• 10 How Do The Fools Survive? (2016 Remastered) 05:18
• Total Runtime 36:41

Info zu Minute By Minute (Remaster)

Minute by Minute is the eighth studio album from the Doobie Brothers, that rose to the pinnacle of the Billboard Top 200. To date, it remains the band’s only #1 album, but the achievement was hardly a surprise to anyone who’d caught the band’s seminal appearance on a very special two-part What’s Happening!! episode – entitled “Doobie or Not Doobie” – only a few months earlier. After all, surely we can all agree that any band capable of holding their own against the formidable trio of Rerun, Roger, and Dwayne was destined to top the charts sooner than later.

Even without such a significant pop culture achievement in their back pocket, though, it’s fair to say that the Doobies probably would made it to #1 with Minute by Minute anyway, given that the album features one of the greatest singles of Michael McDonald’s stint with the band: “What a Fool Believes,” which was a #1 hit in its own right. The song’s been covered by numerous folks over the years, including Aretha Franklin, Matt Bianco, Peter Cox of Go West, M People, and Dionne Warwick, but if you’ve never heard Self’s cover of the song, one which was performed on toy instruments long before Jimmy Fallon and the Roots made it cool to do so, you should remedy that situation immediately by clicking here.

Of course, the title track of Minute by Minute proved pretty darned memorable in its own right, making it to #14 on the charts, and “Dependin’ on You” had solid chart success, too, hitting #24. But, hey, why are we wasting time running through song titles when we can just revisit the album itself?

„With Tom Johnston gone from the lineup because of health problems, this is where the "new" Doobie Brothers really make their debut, with a richly soulful sound throughout and emphasis on horns and Michael McDonald's piano more than on Patrick Simmons' or Jeff Baxter's guitars. Not that they were absent entirely, or weren't sometimes right up front in the mix, as the rocking, slashing "Don't Stop to Watch the Wheels" and the bluegrass-influenced "Steamer Lane Breakdown" demonstrate. But given the keyboards, the funky rhythms, and McDonald's soaring tenor (showcased best on "What a Fool Believes"), it's almost difficult to believe that this is the hippie bar band that came out of California in 1970. There's less virtuosity here than on the group's first half-dozen albums, but overall a more commercial sound steeped in white funk. It's still all pretty compelling even if its appeal couldn't be more different from the group's earlier work (i.e., The Captain and Me, etc.). The public loved it, buying something like three million copies, and the recording establishment gave Minute by Minute four Grammy Awards, propelling the group to its biggest success ever.“ (Bruce Eder, AMG)

Patrick Simmons, guitar, vocals
Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, guitar, steel guitar
Michael McDonald, keyboards, synthesizers, vocals
Tiran Porter, bass, vocals
John Hartman, drums
Keith Knudsen, drums, vocals
Additional musicians:
Bobby LaKind, congas, vocals
Tom Johnston, vocals on "Don't Stop to Watch the Wheels"
Nicolette Larson, vocals on "Sweet Feelin'" and "Dependin' on You"
Rosemary Butler, vocals on "Here to Love You" and "Dependin' on You"
Norton Buffalo, harmonica
Herb Pederson, banjo
Byron Berline, fiddle
Lester Abrams, electric piano on "How Do the Fools Survive"
Bill Payne, synthesizer (with Michael McDonald) on "What a Fool Believes" and "Minute by Minute"
Andrew Love, saxophone
Ben Cauley, trumpet
Ted Templeman, percussion

Recorded 1978 at Warner Bros. Recording Studios, North Hollywood, California
Engineered by Donn Landee
Produced by Ted Templeman

Digitally remastered

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