Double Diamond is the sixth album by British jazz-rock group If

If (band)

If was a progressive rock band formed in Britain in 1969.Referred to by Billboard as "unquestionably the best of the so-called jazz-rock bands", in the period spanning 1970-1975, they produced 8 studio-recorded albums and did some 17 tours of Europe, the US and Canada.-History:They toured...

. With only Dick Morrissey

Dick Morrissey

Richard Edwin "Dick" Morrissey was a British jazz musician and composer. He played the tenor sax, soprano sax and flute.- Background :...

 left from the original band, the new line-up featured Fi Trench

Fiachra Trench

Fiachra Terence Wilbrah Trench is a musician and composer from Drogheda, County Louth in Ireland....

 (keyboards) and Pete Arnesen (keyboards), Steve Rosenthal (guitar/lead vocals), Kurt Palomaki (bass) and Cliff Davies (drums). It was recorded at The Manor

The Manor Studio

The Manor Studio was a recording studio in the manor house at the village of Shipton-on-Cherwell in Oxfordshire, England, north of the city of Oxford. It was the first residential recording studio in the UK...

 recording studios shortly after Mike Oldfield

Mike Oldfield

Michael Gordon Oldfield is an English multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, working a style that blends progressive rock, folk, ethnic or world music, classical music, electronic music, New Age, and more recently, dance. His music is often elaborate and complex in nature...

's Tubular Bells

Tubular Bells

Tubular Bells is the debut record album of English musician Mike Oldfield, released in 1973. It was the first album released by Virgin Records and an early cornerstone of the company's success...

, and released in 1973.

In that same year, following the success of the group in Germany, as part of the This is ... series, Brain Records (a division of Metronome

Metronome

A metronome is any device that produces regular, metrical ticks — settable in beats per minute. These ticks represent a fixed, regular aural pulse; some metronomes also include synchronized visual motion...

) brought out a vinyl LP version of Double Diamond for distribution in Germany only, changing the title to This Is If. The track listing is identical in both cases.

Side one

1. "Play, Play, Play" (D. Morrissey/K. Palomaki) – 3:45
2. "Pebbles on the Beach" (D. Morrissey/B. Morrissey) – 4:34
3. "Pick Me Up (And Put Me Back on the Road)" (Davies) – 5:03
4. "Another Time Around (Is Not for Me)" (Davies) – 6:57

Side two

1. "Groupie Blue (Every Day She's Got the Blues)" (D. Morrissey-T. Preston) – 4:09
2. "Fly, Fly, The Route, Shoot" (Palomaki) – 4:27
3. "Feel Thing Part 1" (Arnesen) – 4:18
4. "Feel Thing Part 2" (Arnesen) – 4:54
5. "Feel Thing Part 3" (Arnesen) – 3:18

Line-up and credits

• Pete Arnesen - keyboards
• Cliff Davies - drums, vocals
• Kurt Palomaki - bass
• Steve Rosenthal - guitar, vocals
• Dick Morrissey
  Dick Morrissey
  Richard Edwin "Dick" Morrissey was a British jazz musician and composer. He played the tenor sax, soprano sax and flute.- Background :...
  
   - saxophones, flute
• Fi Trench
  Fiachra Trench
  Fiachra Terence Wilbrah Trench is a musician and composer from Drogheda, County Louth in Ireland....
  
  - piano

External references

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