Peaceful World/Island of Real [PA]

Performer: The Rascals
Engineer: James Greene; Wayne Tarnowski
Producer: Felix Cavaliere
Distributor: E1 Distribution (USA)

Notes: The Rascals: Howard "Buzz" Feiten (vocals, guitar, ARP synthesizer, bass instrument); Felix Cavaliere (vocals, piano, organ, keyboards, ARP synthesizer, marimba, bass instrument); Ann Sutton (vocals, background vocals); Robert Popwell (bass instrument); Dino Danelli (drums, percussion). Personnel: Molly Holt (vocals, background vocals); Holly Holt (vocals); David Sanborn (alto); Charles Dinwiddie (tenor); Pepper Adams (baritone); Link Chamberlain (guitars); Louis Colin, Alice Coltrane (harp); Joe Farrell (flute, saxophone, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone); Hubert Lwas (flute); Ernie Wilking, Jon Smith (saxophone); Ernie Royal, Joe Newman , Steve Madaio (trumpet); Manny Stamm (flugelhorn); Garnett Brown (trombone, horns); Woodstock Horns (horns); C. Rainey, Gerald Gemott, Ron Carter , William Salter (bass instrument); Ralph MacDonald (congas, conga drum, talking drum, shaker, percussion, bells); Daniel Zebulon, Rocki Dzidzornu, Jack Scarangella (conga drum); Cynthia Webb, Buddy Buono, Bruce Buono (background vocals). Arrangers: Link Chamberlain; Arthur Jenkins . This two-fer package (put together by the premier `60s-reissue label, Sundazed) pairs two late-career Rascals albums, which lean heavily towards jazz and feature only two of the band's original lineup--leader Felix Cavaliere and drummer Dino Danelli--with a series of session players and guesting jazz greats like Alice Coltrane and Hubert Laws. Conjoining the already lengthy separate albums provides over two hours of solid pop-jazz fusion for fans of the mellower side of the band.

The kings of blue-eyed New Yawk soul, The Rascals (n� The Young Rascals) were veterans of local bar bands when they got signed by Atlantic in 1965 and scored the raucous #1 shouter "Good Lovin'." They eventually moved beyond their R&B roots to a more produced pop sound, and scored six Top Ten hits ranging from the dreamy "Groovin'" to the funky message song "People Got to Be Free," to the sublime elegance of "How Can I Be Sure," before disbanding in 1971.

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