Album: Ayshea
Artist: Ayshea
1970 Polydor
LP: 2384 026

Ayshea Brough: lead vocals
Brian Godding: guitar (5, 12)
Peter Ind: double bass (7)


Produced by Chris Brough
Arrangements and musical direction by Andrew Pryce Jackman (1-4, 6-11)
Arranged and produced by Brian Auger (5, 12)
Recorded at Morgan Studios with the help of Roger Quested


Tracks:
Side A
1. "Mister White's White Flying Machine" [Jackman/Nardelli] (5:10)
2. "Morning Please Don't Come" [Springfield] (2:42)
3. "Piece of My Heart" [Ragavoy/Burns] (3:13)
4. "Younger Generation" [Sebastian] (2:45)
5. "Mother Nature's Son" [Lennon/McCartney] (2:39)
6. "Ship of the Line" [Jackman/Stevenson/DeJongh] (3:12)

Side B
7. "Denver" [Kelly] (3:29)
8. "Flowers are Mine" [Rick Jones] (3:10)
9. "Everyone Loves the U.S. Marshall" [Jackman/Stevenson/DeJongh] (2:55)
10. "I Love Them All" [Stevens] (2:50), misprinted on the LP itself as "I Love The All"
11. "Chez Mozart" [Abail] (2:20)
12. "A Hard Day's Night" [Lennon/McCartney] (4:04)



Notes: The LP credits are sparse. Single releases also credit Jackman with conducting (1) and (8). The 2005 compilation Original Syn includes (1) and credits Jackman on keys, Peter Banks on guitar and Chris Squire on bass and backing vocals. I do not know if Squire and Banks performed on any other tracks.

"Mister White's White Flying Machine/Ship of the Line" was released as a single in 1970. (For the Italian release, (1) was just titled "White Flying Machine".) The song basically has The Syn reforming to back up Ayshea. As well as appearing on Original Syn, it was on the compilation Piccadilly Sunshine, Vol. 12: British Pop Psych and Other Flavours 1967-1971. (8) was released as the b-side to "Who's Gonna Rescue Jesus?", a Nov 1970 single. It was also included on the CD The Best of Ayshea.

Ayshea Hague was born in Highgate in 1948. She went to an arts school, with her first acting part as an uncredited extra in a 1958 film. At 16, she signed to Fontana, releasing a debut single in 1965. In Nov 1969, she began co-hosting the ITV music show, Lift Off, a sort of rival to the BBC's Top of the Pops, but aired within the children's programming schedule. The show would soon become Lift Off with Ayshea and Ayshea was one of the first women of Asian heritage to host a TV show in the UK. The show would have 2-3 musical guests each week, but the majority of the songs were performed by Ayshea herself. The show would run until 1974. After being romantically linked with Steve Winwood, Chas Chandler and Rod Stewart, she was to marry Chris Brough in 1969, who produced Cat Stevens. Chris also became her manager. She released two albums: this one, released December 1970, and Lift Off with Ayshea (1974). She also continued acting, including a regular part in the Gerry Anderson series UFO (filmed 1969-70), appearing alongside Gabrielle Drake (sister of Nick Drake). (HP, 21 Feb 21)

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