Double Diamond (album)

Double Diamond is the sixth album by British jazz-rock group If and the second to be issued in the U.S. on the Metromedia Records label. With only Dick Morrissey left from the original band, the new line-up featured Fi Trench (keyboards) and Pete Arnesen (keyboards), Steve Rosenthal (guitar/lead vocals), Kurt Palomaki (bass) and Cliff Davies (drums). It was recorded at The Manor recording studios shortly after Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells, and released in 1973.

In that same year, following the success of the group in Germany, as part of the This is ... series, Brain Records (a division of Metronome) brought out a vinyl LP version of Double Diamond for distribution in Germany only, changing the title to This Is If. The track listing is identical in both cases.

Track listing

Side one

"Play, Play, Play" (D. Morrissey/K. Palomaki) – 3:45
"Pebbles on the Beach" (D. Morrissey/B. Morrissey) – 4:34
"Pick Me Up (And Put Me Back on the Road)" (Davies) – 5:03
"Another Time Around (Is Not for Me)" (Davies) – 6:57

Side two

"Groupie Blue (Every Day She's Got the Blues)" (D. Morrissey-T. Preston) – 4:09
"Fly, Fly, The Route, Shoot" (Palomaki) – 4:27
"Feel Thing Part 1" (Arnesen) – 4:18
"Feel Thing Part 2" (Arnesen) – 4:54
"Feel Thing Part 3" (Arnesen) – 3:18

Line-up and credits

Dick Morrissey - tenor and alto saxophones, lead and backing vocals, flute
Steve Rosenthal - guitar, lead and backing vocals
Pete Arnesen - piano, backing vocals, organ, synthesizer
Fi Trench - piano, backing vocals
Kurt Palomaki - bass, backing vocals
Cliff Davies - drums, backing vocals, percussion

External links

"allmusic (Double Diamond > Overview )". www.allmusic.com. Retrieved 2009-08-01.
"IF (6) - Double Diamond (LP) at Discogs". www.discogs.com. Retrieved 2009-08-01.

If

J. W. Hodkinson (deceased) John Mealing Dennis Elliott Dave Quincy Jim Richardson Terry Smith Cliff Davies (deceased) Dave Wintour Pete Arnesen Kurt Palomacki Steve Rosenthal Dick Morrissey (deceased) Fi Trench Gabriel Magno Walt Monaghan Geoff Whitehorn Mike Tomich Dave Greenslade

Studio albums	If (1970) If 2 (1970) If 3 (1971) If 4 (1972) Waterfall (1972) Double Diamond (1973) Not Just Another Bunch of Pretty Faces (1974) Tea Break Over, Back on Your 'Eads (1975)

Compilations	Forgotten Roads: The Best of If (1995) Europe '72 (Live) (1997)

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