The Flying Machine - Down To Earth (1967, Air Mail Archive 2007)⭐

Artist: The Flying Machine
Album: Down To Earth With The Flying Machine
Label: Air Mail Archive – AIRAC-1367
Country of Artist (Band): UK
Released: 1969/2007
Genre: Bubblegum pop
Quality: FLAC (tracks+scans)

Tracklist:
1. Marie Take A Chance
2. Waiting On The Shores Of Nowhere
3. Maybe We've Been Loving Too Long
4. There She Goes
5. That Same Old Feeling
6. Send My Baby Home Again
7. Baby Make It Soon
8. Broken Hearted Me, Evil Hearted You
9. Smile A Little Smile For Me
10.A Thing Called Love
11.My Baby's Coming Home
12.Memories Of Melinda
Bonus Tracks:
13.The Devil Has Possession Of Your Mind
14.Hey Little Girl
15.Pages Of Your Life
16.Yes I Understand
17.Hanging On The Edge Of Sadness
18.The Flying Machine
19 Look At Me, Look At Me
20 Smile A Little Smile For Me (UK mono, no pno intro, oboe in coda)
21 Smile A Little Smile For Me (CDN mono, pno intro, oboe in coda)

Personnel:
Tony Newman - vocals, guitar
Steve Jones - guitar, vocals
Sam Kempe - vocals
Stuart Colman - bass, electric piano
Paul Wilkinson - drums

The band formed in 1969 after Pinkerton's Assorted Colors disbanded. They played a mix of pop, pop rock, and psychedelia. The band was a studio act and did not perform live. Most of the songs were written by Tony Macaulay and Geoff Stephens, a songwriting duo for Pye Records. The band achieved its greatest success with its first single, "Smile A Little Smile For Me," which reached number 5 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and sold over a million copies by December 1969. Riding the wave of success, the band's first self-titled album was well received by the public. However, neither a single nor the band's second album, "Down To Earth With The Flying Machine" (1970), achieved success, and the band disbanded in early 1971. Stuart Colman achieved his greatest success as a session musician, producer and presenter of his own weekly rock show on the BBC