Mighty Baby

Mighty Baby were an English band formed in January 1969 by former members of the Action. They released two albums, Mighty Baby (1969) and A Jug of Love (1971).
Following the 1968 departure of singer Reg King from the Action, keyboardist Ian Whiteman (who had joined in 1967 and then left the following year due to Reg King's unpredictable behaviour) returned to the group, sharing vocal duties with Alan King. Signing a recording contract with Head Records, the band changed its name to Mighty Baby (at the suggestion of Head Records' head John Curd), making its live debut under this name at the Roundhouse in January 1969, supporting Fairport Convention.
Mighty Baby recorded its eponymous debut at Morgan Studios in Willesden over two days in March 1969, produced by Guy Stevens. The album, a collection of psychedelic rock songs, was released in November 1969 by Head Records in the UK, and on Chess in the US. Despite a low budget and the resultant low production values, Mighty Baby was critically lauded in the underground press; but Head Records was unable to effectively promote and distribute the album. In 2022, Mojo's Jim Irvin regarded Mighty Baby as "one of the great lost albums of the period; a facet of the shape-shifting, dawn-of-prog dynamic shared by contemporaries Traffic and Family; music rooted in R&B but revelling in the opportunity to go anywhere it likes".
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==Links to Peel==
Mighty Baby grew out of the Action, whose summer 1967 single "Shadows And Reflections" Peel had played on the Perfumed Garden. It was his Radio London Climber in the week of 18 June-1967. The DJ was listed as MC for the 1969 Cambridge Midsummer Pop Festival, which featured amongst others, Mighty Baby. He also had the band do a session for his show in the same year. Peel was also at the "Pop Proms" in April 1970, where the group also performed. 
After the band split up, guitarist Martin Stone went on to play with Chilli Willi And The Red Hot Peppers, who did sessions for Peel, while Alan King was a founder member of Ace. But the main reason for the band's split was religion, with Ian Whiteman, Roger Powell and Mike Evans (not to be confused with the Liverpool Scene member of the same name) converting to Islam and being part of the same Sufi community as Richard and Linda Thompson and Peel's former flatmate Peter Sanders. Mighty Baby's recordings have been reissued in the twenty-first century, but Peel never revisited them. 
==Sessions==
1. Recorded 1969-12-02. First Broadcast: 20 December 1969. Repeated: None
*I’m From The Country / India / House Without Windows
==Other Shows Played==
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*22 November 1969: I’ve Been Down So Long (LP - Mighty Baby) Head
==External Links==
*Wikipedia
*Discogs
*Official Website
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