Framed Vintage Record Album Cover – Kings – Amazon Beach

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This is an actual vintage album cover containing the original vinyl record album. It has been mounted in a black plastic frame with a glass front and is ready for you to hang on your wall.

Framed Vintage Record Album Cover – The Kings – Amazon Beach

The Kings were formed in Vancouver, British Columbia and Oakville, Ontario, Canada. Original members were David Diamond, lead vocals, bass guitar and songwriter, Sonny Keyes, vocals, keyboards and songwriter, Max Styles, drums, and Mister Zero, guitar and songwriter.

The Kings were originally known as WhistleKing and rehearsed, did club gigs and wrote lots of songs for more than three years before going into Nimbus 9 Studio in Toronto to record their first album.

Amazon Beach is long out of print. On a Canadian tour in the mid 1990s the band found a copy of it in a used record store in Winnipeg. The store manager was nice enough to make a cassette copy for the band van and after one listening heading west it sailed out the window and became a part of the great Canadian landscape. Any of the songs from that album that are still in the set list for The Kings is played in its original arrangement.

AMAZON BEACH

Side 1

1 All The way
2 Amazon Beach
3 The Fools Are In Love
4 Surprises

Side 2

1 Got two Girlfriends
2 The Loading Zone
3 Why Don’t Love Do
4 Equal Noise

While recording, world famous producer Bob (Pink Floyd) Ezrin dropped by to visit and checked the band out and liked what he heard. He agreed to mix the tracks The Kings had recorded but soon discovered that the whole thing needed to be re-done. He approached Elektra Records in Los Angeles with The Kings’ tapes and the unknown band was signed to a world-wide deal.

The Kings did re-record the songs and the project was released as ‘The Kings Are Here’. The first single, ‘Switchin’ To Glide’, was put out and did get noticed but the tune was really two songs in one and the band insisted they be released together.

So when the segue ‘This Beat Goes On/Switchin’ To Glide’ was released radio really picked up on it. Even at over five minutes in length, the songs caught on all over the USA and Canada and stayed on the Billboard Hot 100 for over six months. It was named one of the Top 100 U.S. Radio Programmers Picks of the Decade by Album Network Magazine and The Kings were named most promising group by Cashbox Magazine.

An amazing apperance on Dick Clark’s ‘American Bandstand’ helped spread the word as well. The album ‘The Kings Are Here’ went gold in Canada, and since it was re-released on cd as ‘The Kings Are Here and More’, combined sales have passed platinum status.

The second Ezrin produced Elektra effort ‘Amazon Beach’ did not fare as well and the band left the label and signed with Capitol Canada which released ‘RSVP’ which contains the holiday classic ‘This Christmas’ which gets lots of airplay every yuletide season.

The next studio project was called ‘Unstoppable’ and the title track reached the Top 10 in Canada. Always a great live band, The Kings have logged close to 2000 shows across North America.

Then came the most recent full length studio album, ‘Because of You’ which shows the depth and versatility of the songwriting in The Kings.

The product measures 12 7/8 inches x 12 7/8 inches x 3/4 inch and weights approximately 3 lbs.

The item shown in the photograph is the actual album cover that you will receive. This is a vintage product and both the album cover and the record have signs of wear. This product is sold as a decorative collectible and not as a playable record album. As such there is no assurance that the vinyl record itself is in a condition that would allow you to enjoy the music if you played it