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The Rockytops: Life Can Be Beautiful

Life Can Be Beautiful The Rockytops Fellside Recordings FE015 (LP, UK, 1978)

Recorded at Bird Sound Studios, Fellside Recordings, August/September 1978;
Engineered by Stephen Riddel and Paul Adams;
Produced by Paul Adams;
Front cover illustration by David Winder;
Layout by Mary Blood

Musicians

Malcolm Heslop: lead vocals, acoustic rhythm guitar;
Glenn Bolton: lead guitar, acoustic 6 and 12 string guitars, lead vocals [8];
Kevin Miller: bass guitar, lead vocals [3], harmony vocals;
John Clark: drums, harmony vocals,
Derrick Hawkins: pedal steel guitar

with
Peter Major: keyboards, flute, harmony vocals;
Linda Adams: harmony vocals [8]

Tracks

Side 1

1. Virginia
2. Together Again
3. Love Me Tonight
4. Life Can Be Beautiful
5. She Can’t Read My Writing
6. Bandy, the Rodeo Clown

Side 2

7. Fire on the Mountain
8. Amazin’ Grace (Used to Be Her Favourite Song)
9. Love Couldn’t Be Any Better
10. The Entertainer
11. Silver Wings
12. Moving On

Track 2 Buck Owens;
Tracks 3, 5 Justin Tubb;
Track 4 Jerry Foster, Bill Rice;
Track 6 Sanger D. “Whitey” Shafer, Lefty Frizzel;
Track 7 anon.
Track 8 Todd Smith;
Track 9 Johnny Paycheck;
Track 10 Scott Joplin;
Tracks 11-12 Merle Haggard