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Reduced price due to jewelcase being vg adn two small tab marks on inlay

Reissue of the 1977 Sweeney Todd album ‘If Wishes Were Horses’. Canada’s Sweeney Todd is the glam-like outfit that gave rise to the peculiar pop skills of electric dreamer Nick Gilder, a towering magical imp, and meat-and-potatoes professional Bryan Adams. Sweeney Todd, was an obviously theatrical para-pop 10cc-type-unit that quickly ensnared a local following. Producer Martin Shaer caught the act at a high school gymnasium and they soon got the band signed and released Sweeney Todd in 1975. When the band lost its creative impetus they replaced Clark Perry with a 15-year-old Bryan Guy Adams. Adams sang on a new version of “Roxy Roller” and accepted a Juno on behalf of the Gilder version. Sweeney Todd’s “If Wishes Were Horses” features the earliest Bryan Adams’ songs, as well as holdovers from Gilder and McCulloch (including the excellent “Tantalize”). “Song For A Star” details Adams attempts at mimicking the Bolan-like-brainiac Gilder. Adams fell out of favour with Sweeney Todd after exhaustive touring in support of If Wishes Were Horses, and split to return to high school. A year later, in 1978, Adams happened upon his soon-to-be songwriting partner, Prism’s Jim Vallance, in a music store. The duo penned songs for a plethora of established stars until Adams reached solo superstar status in the mid-’80s. Sweeney Todd laboured on with new manager Ron Wright until 1978. Gilder re-formed the band in the late ’90s. The “If Wishes Were Horses” album was released on vinyl in 1977 but was then released on both vinyl and cd several times during the 90s but then in most cases with a new cover artwork with Bryan Adams on, making it look like a Bryan Adams release instead.

Track list:
1. Wastin Time
2. Say Hello Say Goodbye
3. Shut Up
4. Until I Find You
5. All Of A Sudden
6. No. 5243605 Smith
7. Song For A Star
8. Tantalize
9. If Wishes Were Heroes
10. Pushin And Shovin