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group

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. It was the first album to feature new vocalist José Luís Tejada, and drummer José María Moll, who had previously only played with the band in concerts. Tejada had replaced original singer and bassist

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on vocals, with Miguel Morales moving to bass guitar. Band leader

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took on the role of producer. "Boogie Rock" / "Mr Money" and "Casanova" / "Children" were released as singles.

Track listing

#"Mr Money" (

) – 5:01 #"Boogie Rock" (Arbex) – 6:15 #"Keep on Moving" (Enrique Morales) – 3:32 #"The Horse" (Miguel Morales) – 3:27 #"Casanova" (Arbex) – 5:04 #"You Know" (E. Morales, M. Morales, José Luís Tejada) – 3:51 #"Children" (Arbex, M. Morales) – 3:40 #"Time to Love" (M. Morales, M. González) – 3:42

Personnel

*José Luís Tejada –

lead vocals The lead vocalist in popular music is typically the member of a group or band whose voice is the most prominent melody in a performance where multiple voices may be heard. The lead singer sets their voice against the accompaniment parts of the ...

(except track 8),

harmonica The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock. The many types of harmonica incl ...

*Enrique "Ricky" Morales –

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and acoustic guitars, backing vocals *Miguel Morales –

bass guitar The bass guitar (), also known as the electric bass guitar, electric bass, or simply the bass, is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is similar in appearance and construction to an Electric guitar, electric but with a longer nec ...

, acoustic guitar, lead (track 8) and backing vocals * Ernesto "Tito" Duarte –

saxophone The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed on a mouthpiece vibrates to p ...

flute The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, producing sound with a vibrating column of air. Flutes produce sound when the player's air flows across an opening. In th ...

, bass guitar,

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a percussion mallet, beater including attached or enclosed beaters or Rattle (percussion beater), rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or ...

, backing vocals *Juan Vidal – keyboards *José María Moll –

drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

, backing vocals *Produced by Fernando Arbex *Recorded at RCA Victor Studios, Madrid

Release information

*Spain – RCA Victor LSP 10487 *Germany – RCA Victor LSP 10404 *USA – RCA SPL1-2000 *Disconforme DISC 1992CD (2000 CD)

Charts

References

External links

* Entry at

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