Gallagher & Lyle - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: 1971-1978

I recently posted a couple of BBC albums by the British band McGuinness Flint. I pointed out at that time that most of their success was due to the songwriting talent of two members in that band, Benny Gallagher and Graham Lyle, better known as Gallagher and Lyle. In late 1971, they left McGuinness Flint and began a music career as a duo. Here's the BBC studio sessions they left behind. 

Gallagher and Lyle wrote the two big hits McGuinness Flint had, "When I'm Dead and Gone" and "Malt and Barley Blues." But they didn't have much success on their own at first. Their first big success came in 1975, when Art Garfunkel had a Top Forty hit in the U.S. with a song they wrote, "Breakaway." (Their own version is included here.) Then, in 1976, they had Top Ten hits in Britain with "Heart on My Sleeve" and "I Wanna Stay with You." Their success petered out towards the end of the 1970s, and they broke up in 1980. But they continued to have some success as songwriters after that. Most notably, Lyle co-wrote "What's Love Got to Do with It?" which was a Number One hit in the U.S. for Tina Turner in 1984.

Here's their Wikipedia entry:

Gallagher and Lyle - Wikipedia 

This album is all from BBC sources, and mostly consists of studio sessions. The first seven songs are from the BBC radio show "Top of the Pops" (and not the BBC TV show of the same name). These are from the same helper who gave me access to lots of other stuff from this show. I don't know if these have been easily publicly available before. Those date from 1971 and 1972. The next four songs come from the officially released album "Live in Concert," and are from a BBC concert in 1973. Then tracks 12, 13, and 14 are from the "Old Grey Whistle Test" BBC TV show in 1973. Tracks 15 and 16 are from another BBC concert in 1974, and also made it to the "Live in Concert" album. Then tracks 17 and 18 are from another appearance on the "Old Grey Whistle Test" BBC TV show, in 1976. Finally, the last three tracks are from another on the "Old Grey Whistle Test" BBC TV show, in 1978.

For the live tracks from the "Live in Concert" album, I used the MVSEP program to get rid of the applause, so they'd fit in with the other studio tracks. The "Old Grey Whistle Test" songs were performed live, but without an audience.

There's a BBC concert from 1978 that I will be posting as well. 

This album is an hour and two minutes long. 

01 Desiderata (Gallagher & Lyle)
02 Comfort and Joy (Gallagher & Lyle)
03 City and Suburban Blues (Gallagher & Lyle)
04 Home (Gallagher & Lyle)
05 Among the Birks (Gallagher & Lyle)
06 Give the Boy a Break (Gallagher & Lyle)
07 Joie de Vivre [The Great Australian Dream] (Gallagher & Lyle)
08 Conversation (Gallagher & Lyle)
09 Willie (Gallagher & Lyle)
10 Thoughts from a Station (Gallagher & Lyle)
11 International (Gallagher & Lyle)
12 Shine a Light (Gallagher & Lyle)
13 talk (Gallagher & Lyle)
14 I Believe in You (Gallagher & Lyle)
15 Seeds (Gallagher & Lyle)
16 The Clearing (Gallagher & Lyle)
17 Breakaway (Gallagher & Lyle)
18 I Wanna Stay with You (Gallagher & Lyle)
19 Showdown (Gallagher & Lyle)
20 talk (Gallagher & Lyle)
21 Throw Away Heart (Gallagher & Lyle) 

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That's Lyle on the left and Gallagher on the right.