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Pass It Around

Smokie

℗ 1975 RAK Records SRAK 510

℗ 1990 Ariola Records 261 030 217

Smokie • 1975 • Pass It Around

This was the debut album for Smokie, an English quartet who were a pet project for legendary English pop producers Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman. Although their unique blend of country-rock and pop would soon make Smokie a big success in Europe, their style comes off as tentative and unfocused on Pass It Around. The group's instrumental performance is tight and their Beach Boys-meet-Sweet vocal harmonies are quite pleasing to the ear but their songwriting abilities are not up to snuff. Too many of the songs are weighed down with lightweight lyrics: "It Makes Me Money" is a petulant jab at rock critics, and "A Day at the Mother-in-Law's" is a gimmicky novelty tune that wears out its welcome after the first listen. The worst offender in this respect is "Headspin," a song that wastes its catchy central country-rock riff on a silly lyric about getting drunk. Other songs feel more like loose collections of riffs than fully realized compositions: "Goin' Tomorrow" rides its galloping guitar riff into the ground through endless repetition, and "I Do Declare" runs into the same problem despite a catchy chorus. Despite this problem, echoes of the group that Smokie would eventually become shine through here and there: "Daydreamin'" works an infectious harmony-driven chorus into a likable guitar-fueled melody and the surprisingly complex arrangement of "Don't Turn Out Your Light" weaves serpentine guitar lines and a chorus built on escalating harmonies into a beguiling little pop tune. In the end, though, the inconsistent moments outweigh the solid tunes. Thus, Pass It Around can only be recommended to the Smokie completist. — Donald A. Guarisco.

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Pass It Around

(Chinn — Chapman)

Well do you know how it feels
To be walkin' around with your run down heels and do you know just how it looks to be left outside with your college books
And the great thing ybout being you
Is you can do whatever you want to do

So if you turn on to something good and by the way you're going
God knows you should
If you turn on to something good
If you turn on to something good
Pass it around

Well do you know what it's like
To be locked inside nearly every night
And do you know how people talk when you ain't got a car so you walk, walk, walk and the great thing about being you
Is you're free to do what you want to do

So if you turn on to something good... don't keep it to yourself cos I ain't got nothin' else
Don't keep it to yourself cos I need  your help

So if you turn on to something good...

Daydreamin'

(Norman — Spencer — Uttley)

Daydreamin' is an occupation I know
'Cos I got nothin else to do
Daydreamin' is an occupation I know
I sit alone and think of you

And I don't believe in make believe don't deceive myself
All that I have left of you
Is up here on the shelf

Stargazin' is an occupation I know
I watch them flashing through the sky
I see your face with every twinkle of the night
Can't stop myself from asking why

And I don't believe in make believe...

And I don't believe in make believe...

Oh Well, Oh Well

(Norman — Spencer)

Oh well, oh well, you're on your own again yes
And who can tell,
Maybe this time, that's how you'll stay
Too bad too bad,
He's gone and left you but it's
So sad so sad
I warned you about the things you say

You wonder why
You lose every guy
You don't even try
It's just the things you say

Hello hello,
Who's this you're talking to now and so, and so looks like you've found another day

You wonder why...

Now you've gone and brought him down and he says he ain't hangin' around you have told him that he's n good
He doesn't do the things he should
No wonder he has gone away all that's left for
Oh well, oh well, you're on your own again yes
And who can tell,
Maybe this time, that's how you'll stay
Too bad too bad,
He's gone and left you but it's
So sad so sad
I warned you about the things you sayme to say is,

You wonder why...