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A1 Shake Your Money Maker 0.00
A2 Young and Crazy 3.22
A3 I Wonder 5.39
A4 Working Man 9.08
A5 Sadie 13.42
B1 Hound Dog 17.11
B2 Take My Life 20.19
B3 Things Ain't Better 23.19
B4 Who's This Man 26.37
B5 I Just Want To Make Love To You 30.00
Bass – Geno Lucero
Drums – Danny McBride
Guitar, Vocals – Harry Brender A' Brandis
Vocals – Dennis Rodriguez, Richard Manuputi
All songs WrittenBy – Dennis Rodriguez (tracks: A2, A3, A5, B2 to B4), Richard Manuputi, except:
A1 Written by, Composed By Butterfield
B1 written by Leiber-Stoller
B5 written by, Composed By W. Dixon
Recorded At – Paramount Studios And Kent Studios
Record Company – TELDEC »Telefunken-Decca« Schallplatten GmbH Producer – Robert Duffey
“Growl is an underestimated blues-inspired hard rock outfit from Los Angeles (?), which recorded its first album as Utopia* (Utopia) in 1969 (released on Kent in 1970; re-issued on vinyl and CD by Akarma). Original line-up of Utopia was: Harry Brander A.Brandis on guitar & vocals, Frank Krajnbrink on guitar, Gene Lucero on bass, Danny McBride on drums and Dennis Rodriguez - lead vocals and harmonica. Rodriguez also wrote most of Utopia’s original compositions. By 1974 Frank Krajbrink was replaced by Mark Small (guitars) and Richard Manuputi took over the vocals. The band went to Paramount Studios to record new songs, so for the new album released in 1974 (on Discreet Records) they used 5 songs from “Utopia” and 5 new numbers, among them high-octane version of Paul Butterfield’s “Shake Your Money Maker”, classic “Hound Dog” and quite uninspiring version “I Just Want To Make Love To You” of Willie Dixon (many critics/reviewers mention live version by Foghat, which means that they don’t know the smashing performance by Mungo JerryElectronically Tested).The rest of the songs were written by Dennis Rodriguez (except Working Man credited to Richard Manuputi). Although Growl doesn’t sound as innovative and original as the headliners of that kind of hard rock (ZZ Top or BTO), it’s a solid and tight band, very macho, which should have been great on stage. Maybe not a must, but I like it. This re-issue on Lion Records (Germany) is quite affordable.” (https://johnkatsmc5.blogspot.com.es/2017/12/growl-growl-1974-us-boogie-hard-blues.html)
