A SONG FOR ME

Like all of Family's studio albums, all are worth listening to, but unlike the band's prior two albums especially their sophomore release "Family Entertainment", the band is quite emphatic about what they deemed to less than stellar recording conditions and poor engineering, they felt that a band of their stature should receive the same treatment as some of the bigger names in Rock music at the time.

Family felt that the only way that they would acheive this dream was to produce the album themselves. It was prior to this album that the band lost bassist/violinist Ric Grech to "greener pastures" to the ill-fated supergroup Blind Faith, but the band capitalsed on ex-Animal Jim Weider, whom similar dexterity was what the band was looking for.

Also long-time band mate, saxophonist Jim King at this time also was doubting his role within the band as a friend John "Poli" Palmer was contributing his talents to the band, whose overall talent was what the band was looking for. The fruits of the recordings for their third studio release "A Song For Me", was met with mixed reviews, but yet it is also considered a "transitional" album from the band's psychedlic past, but yet expanded on second album by taking on songwriting talents of Chapman and Whiney's love for a myriad of musical genres and produced a more harsher approach to their music.

Decades later after its initial release, "A Song For Me" is considered one of Family's finest moments as some of the album's best numbers would become part of the band's stage repertoire. Also during this time, the album edit "More Fool Me" would go on to become a minor hit in the UK.

Charles