''Ego Is Not a Dirty Word'' is the second
studio album
An album is a collection of audio recordings (e.g., music) issued on a medium such as compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl (record), audio tape (like 8-track cartridge, 8-track or Cassette tape, cassette), or digital distribution, dig ...
released by Australian rock band,
Skyhooks, in July 1975. The album was the follow-up to their highly successful debut album, ''
Living in the 70's'' (1974). As with the former album, it was also produced by
Ross Wilson.
The album spent 11 weeks at the number-one spot in the Australian
Kent Music Report
The Kent Music Report was a weekly record chart of Australian music singles and albums which was compiled by music historian David Kent from May 1974 through to January 1999. The chart was re-branded the Australian Music Report (AMR) in July 19 ...
Albums Chart and sold over 200,000 copies.
Two singles were lifted from the album, "
Ego Is Not a Dirty Word" and "All My Friends are Getting Married".
The American release of the album contained "Horror Movie" and "You Just Like Me 'Cause I'm Good in Bed" from their first album in place of tracks 9 and 10. The album was re-released by
Mushroom Records
Mushroom Records was an Australian flagship record label, founded in 1972 in Melbourne. It published and distributed many successful Australian artists and expanded internationally, until it was merged with Festival Records in 1998. Festival ...
in 1997.
At the Australian
1975 King of Pop Awards the album won Most Popular Australian Album.
At the 1975 Australian Record Awards, the album won Group Album of the Year.
Track listing
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
Personnel
;Skyhooks
*
Shirley Strachan – lead vocals
*
Red Symons
Redmond Symons (born 13 June 1949) is an Australian musician and television and radio personality. He was the lead guitarist in the band Skyhooks, the snide judge of 'Red Faces' (a segment of the long-running variety show '' Hey Hey It's Satur ...
– guitar, backing vocals, piano (9)
*Bob "Bongo" Starkie – guitar, backing vocals
*
Greg Macainsh – bass guitar, backing vocals
*Imants Alfred Strauks – drums, percussion, backing vocals
;Additional musicians
*
Ross Wilson (as Duke Wilson) – producer
* Peter Jones – Fender Rhodes electric piano (2, 8), marimba and vibraphone (1), chimes (3),
boobam
The boobam is a percussion instrument of the membranophone family consisting of an array of tubes with membranes stretched on one end, the other end open. The tuning depends partly on the tension on the membrane and partly on the length of the tu ...
s (4)
* Greg Sneddon – Arp synthesiser (10)
*
Andy Cowan – Minimoog synthesizer (10)
*
Col Loughnan
Colin John Loughnan (; born 26 October 1942) is an Australian jazz saxophonist, teacher, and composer, best known as a member of the Delltones, Ayers Rock (band), Ayers Rock, Judy Bailey quartet, and as a teacher of saxophone at the Sydney Cons ...
– tenor and baritone saxophones (6)
*
Pat Wilson – finger cymbals (1)
* Ross Wilson – Yamaha synthesiser (1), vocal harmonies
* Ian Mason – harmony vocals (8)
* Jenny Keath – harmony vocals (1)
References
External links
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1975 albums
Skyhooks (band) albums
Glam rock albums by Australian artists
Mushroom Records albums