Honeybus - Proof Enough - Non-Album Tracks (1972-1977)

First off, I'm happy to report that the previous Honeybus stray tracks album I had posted - "Broken Wings" - had been banned here, but now it has been unbanned. With this blog, I don't get told any details why something is banned, other than it's a copyright problem. But with YouTube, they'll tell the exact song or songs causing the problem. So I tried uploading that album to YouTube and discovered that just one song was the problem, "Delighted to See You." And luckily that was just a demo, and I'd posted the studio version on the earlier stray tracks album "I Can't Let Maggie Go." So I reposted that album without that one song, and it hasn't been flagged again.

Here's the link to that one again, in case you missed it due to the quick banning:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2023/07/honeybus-broken-wings-various-songs.html

Now, moving on to this album... This is the fourth and last Honeybus stray tracks album. That's pretty remarkable when you consider they only released one album, "Story," in 1970, when they were together. (A second album, "Recital," was supposed to be released in 1972, but the record company kept it in the vaults for several decades.)

The first nine songs here were recorded in 1972, probably during the "Recital" sessions. Those all were only released much later, on the "She Flies like a Bird" anthology. The last three songs are technically solo singles from band members. Two are from Pete Dello and one is from Ray Cane. But I read in an interview that pretty much all solo works by Honeybus members were actually recorded with other guys in Honeybus, so I'm assuming that's the case here too.

Unfortunately, the commercial prospects of Honeybus, which were never that strong to begin with, slowly faded out in the 1970s. Even their solo efforts petered out. The last thing I could find was the A-side of a single from 1977. Pete Dello left the music industry in the mid-1970s and became a music teacher. The band's other main singer-songwriter, Ray Kane, eventually released some more music in the 2000s, but that's beyond the scope of these albums.

This album is 39 minutes long.

01 Music (Honeybus)
02 Madam, Chairman of the Committee (Honeybus)
03 In the End Is My Beginning (Honeybus)
04 Jug of Water (Honeybus)
05 Proof Enough (Honeybus)
06 Like Me like You Used to Do (Honeybus)
07 Lovely Ladies 'n' Things (Honeybus)
08 Caterina (Honeybus)
09 Slow Rock (Honeybus)
10 Working Class Man (Red Herring [Pete Dello & Honeybus])
11 Tattered Robe (Magenta [Pete Dello & Honeybus])
12 The Losing Game (Ray Cane & Honeybus)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15482301/Honeybs_1972-1977_ProfEngh_atse.zip.html

Photos of Honeybus are few and far between. All I know about this one is that it's from the early 1970s instead of the late 1960s.