“Look Again”

Our first album – recorded in Kansas City, MO.

This song was written by Jon and me. and once again, we sang lead together. I think the verse was mine and the middle 8 was Jon’s. We both did lyrics, but Jon usually had a notebook full of ideas, so he surely came up with a lot of them. He and I would come in with an idea of how to arrange the song, where harmonies would go and how the song should build up, but the lead guitar fills and drum parts were left up to Ken and Kim.

Some time back, Art “Smart” called me and asked where that song came from. Surprising since he was there for the recording in Kansas City. But he thought the song was very nice and a real winner. Recently a fan posted it on YouTube, so I thought I would put it up here for people to hear. It is hard for me to hear the Beatles influence, but I will leave that to you to decide.

Mick Orton

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