Savoy Brown

Savoy Brown (originally, Savoy Brown Blues Band) are an English blues rock band formed in Battersea, south west London in 1965. Part of the late 1960s blues rock movement, Savoy Brown primarily achieved success in the United States, where they promoted their albums with non-stop touring. After leaving Savoy Brown, musicians became members of groups such as Yes, Fleetwood Mac, UFO and Foghat. 
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== Links To Peel ==
“Really going well now. Better each time heard lately.”(John Peel, ABC Of Beauty, Disc & Music Echo, 2 Nov 1968.)
Savoy Brown were a typical band of the early Top Gear era, who did sessions for the programme but found bigger audiences and more success with tours of the United States. Their manager Harry Simmonds told the music press (e.g. in Record Mirror of 24 July 1971) that this was because there was no radio exposure for their records in Britain, apart from Peel's shows.
They were one of the first of the British blues boom outfits to record, issuing a debut album, Shake Down, in mid-1967. Peel doesn't seem to have played anything from it, either on the Perfumed Garden or his early shows for Radio 1, but he did praise guitarist Martin Stone on the Perfumed Garden of 16 July 1967, ranking him alongside Eric Clapton, Peter Green and Mick Taylor. But judging by the fairly small number of plays of their material, they never became a favourite band of the DJ, unlike their contemporaries Fleetwood Mac and Chicken Shack - despite the comment from Disc quoted above.
== Festive Fifty Entries ==
*None
== Sessions ==
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Three sessions. No known commercial release.
1. Recorded 1968-05-20. First broadcast 30 June 1968.
*Louisiana Blues / Walkin' By Myself / Gnome Sweet Gnome / Mr. Down Child
2. Recorded 1969-05-19. 25 May 1969. Repeated 29 June 1969.
*Ring In Her Nose / I’ve Made Up My Mind / Train To Nowhere / Don’t Turn Me From Your Door / Life's One Act Play (first broadcast on 29 June 1969 repeat)
3. Recorded 1970-06-01. First broadcast 10 January 1970.
*Better Pray For The Lord To Guide You / A Hard Way To Go / When I Was A Young Boy
== Live ==
*18 January 1970: live, recorded at Paris Theatre, 1970-01-15, with Free
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== Other Shows Played ==
*25 August 1968: Stay With Me Baby (LP - Getting To The Point) Decca
*27 October 1968: Train to Nowhere (single) Decca 
*03 March 1972: I'll Make Everything Allright (LP - Hellbound Train) Decca 
*24 March 1972: If I Could See An End (LP - Hellbound Train) Parrot 
== See Also ==
*ABC Of Beauty
*Cover Versions
*Plastic Penny
*Record Mirror
*Gigography 1968
*Gigography 1969 
*Gigography 1970 
*Sounds
== External Links ==
*Wikipedia
*Discogs
* Other
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