If Only for a Moment

If Only for a Moment
Studio album by Blossom Toes
Released	July 1969
Genre	Psychedelic rock, freakbeat, hard rock
Length	43:51
Label	Marmalade 608010 Sunbeam (2007 reissue)
Producer	Blossom Toes, Giorgio Gomelsky
Blossom Toes chronology
We Are Ever So Clean (1967) If Only For A Moment (1969)
Singles from If Only For A Moment
"Peace Loving Man" b/w "Above My Hobby Horses Head" Released: April 1969, Marmalade 598014

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If Only for a Moment is the second L.P. by the Blossom Toes, released in 1969.

Line-up features a guest appearance on sitar from US folk musician Shawn Phillips.

Track listing

Side one

1. "Peace Loving Man" (Brian Godding) – 4:52
2. "Kiss of Confusion" (Godding) – 4:45
3. "Listen to the Silence" (Jim Cregan) – 4:50
4. "Love Bomb" (Godding) – 7:39

Side two

5. "Billy Boo the Gunman" (Godding) – 7:08
6. "Indian Summer" (Cregan) – 5:55
7. "Just Above My Hobby Horse’s Head" (Richie Havens) – 2:53
8. "Wait A Minute" (Cregan) – 5:49

Bonus tracks (2007 Sunbeam Records)

1. "Postcard" (45 A-side) – 2:55
2. "Everyone’s Leaving Me Now" (45 B-side) – 4:45
3. "Ever Since a Memory" (demo) – 4:25
4. "Nobody But" (demo) – 4:03
5. "Peace Loving Man" (demo) – 6:29
6. "Listen to the Silence" (live) – 3:58
7. "New Day" (demo) – 5:16

"Bears the influence of heavy California psychedelia and Captain Beefheart in its intricate, interwoven guitar lines and occasional gruff dissonance, leavened by close harmonies and sparkling guitar interplay" – Richie Unterberger, www.allmusic.com

Personnel

• Jim Cregan – lead and rhythm guitars, lead vocals (3, 6, 8)
• Brian Godding – lead and rhythm guitars, lead vocals (2, 4, 5), organ, piano
• "Big" Brian Belshaw – bass, lead vocals (1, 7)
• Barry Reeves – drums (all but 1), percussion, congas (1)

• John "Poli" Palmer – drums (1)
• Shawn Phillips - 12-string acoustic guitar (7), sitar (7)
• Giorgio Gomelsky - backing vocals (4)
• Paragon Publicity - design (sleeve design)
• Blossom Toes, Giorgio Gomelsky - producer
• Reggie King - producer (assistant)

External links

• http://www.sunbeamrecords.com/blossom_toes.html Sunbeam Records info