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You Can't Avoid Love

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You Can't Avoid Love --- 1979

Notes from drummer Gil Ray: "In the late 70's, Jamie decided to go into the studio with me and Murphy to record a 12" single of 2 pop tunes he had written. Jamie had been working as an engineer and producer in Charlotte for some time by now, occasionally calling me in for various studio gigs, and developing a long lasting relationship with one of Charlotte’s premier local engineer/producers - Mark Williams . He wound up calling this particular group The Happy Eggs, borrowing the moniker from our mid-70's prog lineup that featured the 3 of us with Dennis from Ebenezer. What the heck - The Happy Eggs is a pretty great name! ... His concept was to make the record itself to look like an egg (!) It’s on white vinyl with a bright yellow center label. The simple black & white cover (cheap...the extra expense was for white vinyl) features our faces inside egg shaped ovals. As you can see, this is before the new music was fully embraced due to our very 70's rock 'n roll mustaches! The songs were “You Can’t Avoid Love” and “Blue Skies”. Both were pretty straight ahead pop tunes. The title of “Blue Skies” had a pretty unusual circumstance; Wynn had visited a “psychic” and she predicted huge success for our musical futures and the word or color “blue” was very predominate. Jamie jumped all over that....so much for psychics!"