Tame & Maffay

Tame & Maffay
Studio album by Tame & Maffay
Publication (s)	1977
Label (s)	Teldec
Format (s)	LP, MC, CD
Genre (s)	Country , rock
Title (number)	12
running time	44 min, 44 sec
occupation	Peter Maffay - vocals, guitar Johnny Tame - vocals, guitar Frank Diez - guitar Günther Moll - guitar Stefan Wissnet - bass Mike Thatcher - keyboard Alex Pittwohn - harmonica Hannes Beckmann - violin Giuseppe Solern - flute Eddie Taylor - saxophone Martin Harrison - drums Charles Campbell - percussion
production	Peter Maffay , Johnny Tame , Mike Thatcher
Studio (s)	Musicland recording studios
chronology - Tame & Maffay Tame & Maffay II (1979)

Tame & Maffay , also called Tame & Maffay 1 or Tame & Maffay I due to the continuation from 1979 , is a collaboration album by the two artists Johnny Tame and Peter Maffay , which was released in 1977 as a joint project. The album can be assigned to country rock .

History of origin

Peter Maffay met Johnny Tame, whose real name is Uwe Reuss, in 1976 while working on his album And it was summer . There he wrote the title I'm looking for my star . Shortly afterwards, the two met again at a “Lion Awards” from Radio Luxemburg in Dortmund's Westfalenhalle , where Tame performed. They hit it off right away and jammed together until the early hours of the morning. The spontaneous meeting gave rise to the desire to work together, and so they met again weeks later in Santa Margalida on Mallorca and wrote several songs. The English texts came from Johnny Tame. With the demo recordings they went to the recording studio Musicland, where the first album was produced with musicians of the Maffay band from September 1976 to November 1976. It was also the first cooperation between Maffay and Eddie Taylor, the Snowball saxophonist at the time , who was then also a member of the Peter Maffays band until 1996.

Music genre

In contrast to Tames and Maffay's previous works, which were mainly at home in Schlager (Tame / Maffay) and German rock (Maffay), Tame & Maffay is a country rock album with exclusively English lyrics. Influences from 1970s rock are also featured on the album, such as wah-wahs and congas .

Cover artwork

The album shows a photo of the two protagonists of the album in a western look, which has been processed with sepia tones . The photo was taken by Michael von Gimbut .

Track list

The songs were composed by Peter Maffay (1, 2, 4 to 8, 10 to 12) and Johnny Tame (1 to 12).

1. Turn It Over - 2:48
2. Making It Better - 3:46
3. Too Many Stones - 4:11
4. I'm Not a Man Who Wants to Be Alone - 4:08
5. I'm Living in a Dream - 3:41
6. I Can Be so Far Away - 3:12
7. I'm Not Only Passing Time - 4:53
8. Help Me - 2:26
9. See a Star - 5:02
10. And as I Hide Another Day - 4:21
11. I'm Giving You Love Again - 2:58
12. Nothing Can Be Changed Between Us - 3:18

success

Making It Better was released as a single . Despite the lack of airplay, the song reached number 35 in the German single charts and was in the charts for a total of five weeks. The album itself reached number 24 on the charts. It also made the two artists internationally known and also appeared in the United Kingdom .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Edmund Hartsch: Maffay. On the way to myself . C. Bertelsmann, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-570-01029-7 , pp. 96 .
2. ↑ Edmund Hartsch: Maffay. On the way to myself . 2009, p. 100 .
3. ^ ^{A b} Edmund Hartsch: Maffay. On the way to myself . 2009, p. 102 .
4. ^ Tame & Maffay. Discogs , accessed February 21, 2012 . 
5. ↑ Chart tracking singles. (No longer available online.) Musicline.de, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved February 29, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ search query. Charts.de, accessed on March 1, 2012 . 
7. ^ Teldec . In: Billboard . December 3, 1977, p. G-24 .
8. ^ From the Music Capitols of the World . In: Billboard . February 19, 1977, p. 587 .