TOMMY MORRISON
PLACE YOUR BETS
Place Your Bets was co produced by Paul Rogers ( Free and Bad Company). Paul also played guitar on some of the tracks which will be added here shortly. The original version of Weakman appeared on this album. Among the guests were Pete Farndon and James Honeyman-Scott from the original Pretenders and Rod De'ath and Lue Martin from the Rory Gallagher band.
After recording the first few songs at Olympic Studios Barnes London with Dave Ramsey on drums, Bob Marshall on bass and Paul Rogers on guitars Tommy was signed to Real Records by Dave Hill. Other artistes on the label were Strangeways and The Pretenders, along with others.
Tommy moved to London in early 1968 and by the year end was singing with a band named Red Milk. Several bands later Tommy was recording for President Records in Regent B Studios in Denmark St Lond.on. This Studio was famous for the very early Rolling Stones recordings
CRY TO THE SKY
By the time Cry To The Sky was recorded The Tommy Morrison Band was formed and Ed Stasium, most famous for his work with The Ramones,arrived from New York to produce the album.It took a little over a week to record at Sarm East Studios in London. At the time Tommy was living at Keepers Cottage, near Guildford, Surrey with his wife Barbara and two goats, six dogs and a duck.
To promote this album a support tour with the Pretenders was arranged. Unfortunately, at the last minute, two of the band found they could not do the tour and UB40 did it instead ( and never looked back) This triggered the end of the band and Tommy returned to the North East
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SONG WRITER
Back in the North East Tommy continued to write songs for himself and other people, namely, Dave Ditchburn, Phil Caffrey, Leanne Morrow, Alex Edwards, Elkie Brooks, Smith and Jackson and others.
Leanne Morrow was later picked up by Kitchenware Records.
Tommy also struck up a songwriting partnership with Steve Thompson and an album (by Caffrey, Morrison and Thompson) will be released very shortly.
Tommy also wrote songs with Jimmy Smith and several appear on Jimmy's Hello There album
Tommy's latest venture is a song called "Billy The Kid" (That's What They Say) it too will appear on this site shortly
SADLY ON JANUARY 6TH 2014 TOMMY PASSED AWAY
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