Assuming
they were a real band, based on the abbreviated liner notes on the album,
Hungry Tiger featured the talents of brothers Denny (lead guitar and vocals)
and Randy (vocals, guitar, keyboards) Davidson, drummer Michael Medeck, and
bassist James Webster. Given many Magna Glide acts were from Ohio,
that's where I'd guess these guys were based.
The
group's link to Kasenetz and Katz goes
back to 1968 when they produced a killer one-shot blue-eyed soul single for
the White Whale label for the band:
-
1968's 'Fee-Fi-Foo-Fum' b/w 'Tic Tac Toe' (White Whale catalog number WWS
313)
Co-produced
by Kasenetz, Katz, and Randy Davidson, musically 1977's "Hungry
Tiger"
offered up a
pretty decent set of MOR pop with a heavy emphasis on ballads like 'Ten
Miles Long', 'Forget About Tomorrow', and 'Small
Craft Warning.'.
Randy was responsible for most of the material and most of the vocals. The
other three members each handled one tune. Randy was an okay lead
singer, though his delivery was occasionally on the nasally and fragile side
('Can't
Stop Breathing'), Unfortunately
the heavy emphasis on ballads gave the album a one sided flavor and on those
rare occasions they took a stab at an up-tempo rocker, the results
were sabotaged by flat vocals - check out Webster's performance on 'Time To
Love'. They clearly were a talented outfit, but the absence of a
strong lead singer was something they simply couldn't
overcome.
Let
me add the back cover liner notes don't show the proper running order.
The information below has the songs in the proper sequence.
You can read the rest of the review at BadCatRecords:
I'm not a gun rights fanatic and I didn't pick this tax scam obscurity to make any kind of political statement. I simply like the bright colors and the Roy Lichtenstein styled pop-art cover. Like most tax scam labels, Guinness frequently didn't bother to credit the artists who recorded the music, so why would they bother paying anyone for cover art ? Needless to say, the limited liner notes don't offer up a clue as to whom was responsible for the art concept, or execution. Shame, since the art was far better than this clumsy collection of popular and less popular pop and rock hits - John Lennon, Paul McCartney and Wings, Starland Vocal Band Steppenwolf ...
