Paul Godfrey Band – Magic Touch 1990

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN:USA

LINEUP: Celeste Alexander – lead vocals * Paul Godfrey – guitar, vocals * Paul Fox – bass, vocals * Kirk Gibbs – keyboards, vocals * Norm Plischke – drums

Additional Musicians: Don Frank – drums * David Nowlin – bass * John Wedemeyer – guitar * Doug Caldwell – keyboards * Marc Bonilla – guitar

TRACK LISTING:

01 Magic Touch *
02 Only One *
03 Love Lies Deep *
04 Never Felt This Way Before *
05 Only Have Eyes For You *
06 Too Many Lonely Nights *
07 Tonight *
08 Can’t Get My Mind Off You *
09 Wild Ones *
10 Hold On

Background
Paul Godfrey was a name well known throughout the South Bay Area of San Francisco during the 80’s. Paul was involved with many different line-ups of his band all during the 80’s. By the mid 80’s however, his line-up had settled as a female fronted outfit, and were quite a popular around the Bay Area circuit. In 1988, Paul released a very rare 8 track EP which came out on the small Dolphin Records label. For pure AOR collectors, this is rare as hens teeth, though someone did sell a copy just recently on Ebay – so copies still exist. However, his second ‘full length’ album ‘Magic Touch’ which came out two years later is much better known among the AOR community – though still very hard to track down. For fans of female fronted AOR, it probably doesn’t get better than this! Take your pick of all the ‘dollie lolly’ albums during the 80’s (we’re talking Delta, ZZYZX, Drama, Idle Tears, Scandal and all the rest..) and this ‘Magic Touch’ album would be the equal of any of them. Tall words indeed, but worth every penny when you hear it.

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