''Let's Spin!'' is the debut album by

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. It was released in 1988 on

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Track listing

Side one # "Let's Spin!" - 4:12 (Camarillo Eddy) # "Catch That Angel" - 4:19 (Eddy) # "The Unsuccessful Dutch Missionary" - 0:08 (Eddy) # "The Big Guns" - 4:35 (Eddy) # "Rodeo Drive" - 4:27 (Eddy) # "Ed Takes a Vacation (A Suite)" - 5:50 (Lyrics: Eddy; music: Eddy, Gene Pool, Berger Roy Al) Side two # "Snowball" - 4:13 (Eddy, Pool, Roy Al, Hort Elvison) # "I've Got an Idea" - 4:10 (Eddy) # "Don't Ask Me How I Feel" - 6:27 (Eddy) # "Ed Again" - 0:35 (Eddy) # "What a World, What a World" - 5:05 (Eddy)

Personnel

* Camarillo Eddy: rhythm guitar, vocals. *

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: lead guitar, keyboards. * Arthur Fhardy: keyboards. *

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: guitars. * Berger Roy Al: bass guitar. * Hort Elvison: drums. Additional musicians * Jany Macklebee: backing vocal, spoken word on "Snowball". * Buckeye Jazzbo: horn. * Horns performed by the Horns O' Plenty under the direction of Buckeye Jazzbo. Production notes * Engineered by Doug Doyle. * Mixed by Camarillo Eddy and Doug Doyle. * Recorded and Mixed at Asylomar Studios,

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. * Art Direction and Design by Jeb McSwaggart.

References

{{Authority control 1988 debut albums The Swirling Eddies albums