Vapour Trails

The music of Vapour Trails may make you feel that they were one of typical late 70's AOR / Westcoast. However please be advised that Vapour Trails was the British group of 3 session musicians!
In 1979, this one and only album recorded at Room 335 Hollywood, Larry Carton's private studio, was on sale. In spite of the excellent contents, this album did not sell well in the States then. In April 1981, the epoch-making Japanese TV programme, "The Best Hit U.S.A.", which played "Don't Worry Baby" every week at the opening of the programme, had started. The programme continued by September 1989 and "Don't Worry Baby" was also used as the opening theme by the last broadcasting, which made this song one of the most well-known non-Japanese song among Japanese. In 1981, this album was on sale as "The VT's / Autumn Breeze" with the different track order and the different LP artworks under Polystar Records here in Japan because Warner Bros., USA had already ended their contract with Vapour Trails.


Release: 1979
Label: Warner Bros Records, USA (BSK-3363)

First reissued CD Release: 28 July 2 1999 by Warner Music Japan (WPCR-10478)

Tracks:
1. Do The Bossa Nova
2. Don't Worry Baby
3. Night People
4. True Love
5. It's All Right
6. Slow Dancing
7. Modern Love
8. Non Merci
9. Hold On To Something Good
10. Strange Conversations
11. Throw Down The Dice
12. Falling

Producers: Larry Carton, Vapour Trails

Vapour Trails:
John McBurnie: Vocals, Guitars, Keyboards, Harmonica, Percussion
Andy Dalby: Guitars, Percussion
Phil Curtis: Bass

- Musicians -
Drums: John Ferraro, Steve Holly
Keyboards: Brian Mann, William D. Smith, Michael Omartian, Dave Rose, Brian Chatton, David Benoit
Percussion: Paulinho Da Costa
Sax: Tom Scott
Background Vocals: Vivienne McAuliffe, Besty Cook, Bill Champlin, Steve Holly

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