Looking In

Looking In is the sixth album by the British blues band Savoy Brown. The album featured "Lonesome" Dave Peverett on vocals after Chris Youlden left the band the previous spring. Leader/guitarist Kim Simmonds would be the only band member to continue with the band after this album, as all other band members left to form Foghat the following year.

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Looking In
Studio album by
Savoy Brown
ReleasedOctober 1970
Recorded1970
StudioRecorded Sound Studios, London
GenreBlues
Length39:06
LabelDecca
Parrot
ProducerKim Simmonds
Savoy Brown chronology
Raw Sienna
(1970)		 Looking In
(1970)		 Street Corner Talking
(1971)
Singles from Looking In
  1. "Poor Girl"
    Released: 6 November 1970 (UK)
    December 1970(US)
  2. "Sitting An' Thinking"
    Released: March 1971 (US only)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [1]

It was released by Decca in 1970 (SKL 5066). For release in the United States and Canada, tapes were leased to Parrot Records (PAS 71042).

The album spent a week on the UK Official Charts and reached number 50.[2] It did considerably better in the US where it spent 19 weeks on the Billboard 200, peaking at number 39, their second highest charting US album.[3]

Track listing

Side one
  1. "Gypsy" (Kim Simmonds) – 0:57
  2. "Poor Girl" (Tony Stevens) – 4:04
  3. "Money Can't Save Your Soul" (Dave Peverett, Simmonds) – 5:34
  4. "Sunday Night" (Simmonds) – 5:23
  5. "Looking In" (Peverett, Simmonds) – 5:17

Side two
  1. "Take It Easy" (Peverett, Simmonds) – 5:47 (not 3:40 as printed on album)
  2. "Sitting an' Thinking" (Simmonds) – 2:40
  3. "Leavin' Again" (Peverett, Simmonds) – 8:29
  4. "Romanoff" (Simmonds) – 1:01

Personnel

Savoy Brown

Additional musicians
  • Owen Finnegan – congas on some tracks

Technical
  • Kim Simmonds – producer
  • Savoy Brown – arrangements
  • Paul Tregurtha – engineer
  • Eric Holand – engineer
  • Harry Fisher – mastering
  • Anthony Hawkins – 1990 CD remastering
  • David Anstey, Jim Baikie – artwork

Charts

Album
Chart (1970) Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[4] 25
US Billboard 200 39[3]
UK Official Charts 50[2]

References
  1. DeGagne, Mike. Looking In at AllMusic
  2. "SAVOY BROWN | full Official Chart History". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 2017-10-20.
  3. "Billboard 200 - Savoy Brown". Retrieved July 16, 2018.
  4. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 265. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
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