One Way Ticket

Songs

Don't Ask Why 3:25 Recorded at IBC studios.
I Wanna Dance 3:11 Recorded at IBC studios.
So Many Ways 3:50 Recorded at IBC studios. Featuring the Mellotron.
Take A Ride 2:18 Recorded at IBC studios.
Listen To The Children 3:22 Recorded at Regent Sound Studio, where the Rolling Stones made their first albums.
It's Too Late 3:02 Recorded at IBC studios.
Do You Remember 3:19 Recorded at IBC studios.
I Wanna Rock 2:37 This was the first song that Brian and Damon wrote together and is taken from the only surviving cassette of this session.
Lusty Eyes 3:05 Recorded at IBC studios.
D D D D Dance 3:40 Recorded at IBC studios.
Can't Stop Me Dancing 3:24 Recorded at Mayfair Studios London.
I Want You 3:43 Demo recorded at IBC studios.
Gotta Get Some Money 2:24 Recorded at IBC studios.
Come Back Romance 3:25 Demo recorded at IBC studios.
Caribbean Way 3:25 Recorded at IBC studios. Released in the UK and Germany.
You Know 3:15 Recorded at IBC studios. Featuring the Mellotron.
I'm Hurt 3:22 Demo recorded at Damon's house. This was to be the last song that Damon and Brian worked on together.

Credit

All tracks written and performed by Damon Lyon Shaw and Brian Carroll.
All instruments except on "Carribean Way" and "Can't Stop Me Dancing" played by Damon Lyon Shaw. Vocals Brian Carroll.
Published by Acuff Rose Opryland Music.

Evangel Records,
87-1-103 Sakae-cho, Kodaira-city, Tokyo 187, Japan.

P 1996 Evangel Records.
C 1996 Acuff Rose. All rights reserved.
Unauthorised copying, hiring, lending, public performance and broadcasting prohibited.
Manufactured by Evangel Records, Japan.

Cover Art: Peter Newell
From "Topsys & Turvys" and "Topsys & Turvys, Number 2" Charles E. Tuttle Co., Inc. Tokyo.
Cover Design: Noboru Fujisaki
Printed by Hidenori Harada, Japan

About One Way Ticket...

The 1960's in London were probably the most exciting years in the history of music as groups and singers from all over the country headed for the Capital to lay down their works of art in some of the best studios in the world. Recording engineers started to play an important part in the "new" sounds that had started with a strangers idea.
During the sixties there were less than 10 major recording studios in London and one of them was called I.B.C. Situated in the heart of London's "West End" this independent company was to compete with the other studios, that were largely owned by the major record companies, mainly because of a good reputation. This came with the recording of the KINKS, The STONES, The SMALL FACES, The WHO, The BEE GEES and many other artists who used the studio.
Two engineers who worked there all through these times were DAMON LYON SHAW (he was the engineer on the Who's "TOMMY") and BRIAN CARROLL (the first person to cut a master of the JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE) and before long they had an urge to try their hands at production. The band that caught their eyes for their recently formed "HOMEGROWN MUSIC" production company was "The FACTORY" which was to result in the release of two singles that were to become collector's items 25 years later, the haunting "Path Through The Forest" and "Try A Little Sunshine". The FACTORY eventually split up and Damon and Brian were left to look for another project that they could record which was to also be a collectable group, "FIVE DAY RAIN". It was a venture that was brought together in the form of a studio band that would make a good album and the finished product was lined up for release through a major company. With no working band to go on the road it was decided to shelve its release and within six months the deal was dead. By then FIVE DAY RAIN had gone their seperate ways with the main member Graham Maitland joining GLENCOE. During the making of the album Damon and Brian discovered that could write songs with each other and as Damon was a multi musician (playing drums, bass, lead guitar and keyboards), it was not long before they were laying down tracks of their own.
Although busy working late into the night with their various clients they eventually had written enough songs to approch a leading music publisher. This was to be Acuff Rose, who published the great songs of The EVERLY BROTHERS and ROY ORBISON. When they got the chance Damon and Brian would be in the studios recording their latest composition but this could take a long time as there were only the two of them. Starting with a basic accoustic guitar each instrument was added or mixed together by bouncing across to another track, that is until multi track came along and made life a little easier. Another time saver was the use of the Mellotron which allowed them to be able to add strings and brass.
As Brian Carroll remembers, "Our days were pretty hectic with Damon working through the night in one studio on the "TOMMY" sessions or with STATUS QUO and me working in another so it was quite hard to get together. Damon was one of those people who could have made music from any instrument and I'm sure that if he had not spent so much of his life making other people's music sound good he could have gone on to bigger things. When ever we had the spare time I would go and stay at his house in Woking (a town in southern England) where he had a spare bedroom turned into a mini demo studio. We would just kick a few ideas around until we came up with something, put down on tape and then we went back to IBC to lay down the master tracks".
In the seventies an album was released called "Time Is Right" on the President label by a band named "ONE WAY TICKET". This was infact a mixture of various bands that they have been envolved with producing through HOMEGROWN, plus some of teir own tracks. The original idea was for it to be an aibum of just their own material, but even the sleeve notes had to be made up to conceal their identities because of their contract with their publishing company. Now we can put together the album that should have been released with tracks from the Acuff Rose vaults plus some of the demos that were never finished. Perhaps with today's modern technology and with a bit more luck ONE WAY TICKET might have fore-filled their aims. Like the IBC studios, the HOMEGROWN idea and all those envolved with it have faded into the past. But all those who where there still have a common band.
Their love of music.

Lyrics

DON'T ASK WHY


I'm the type of guy that some say is mean,
The biggest male bitch that you've ever seen.
I'm the kind of guy that you love to hate,
As I'm the only one that I really rate.
Don't touch me I'm mister big,
I'm the son of a male chauvinist pig.

Don't ask why, don't ask why
I'll tell you a lie, I'll tell you a lie,
Don't ask why, don't ask why
I'll say goodbye, I'll say goodbye,
Why can't you see it's the only way a mean can be.

I treat all my women as if they are toys,
I hang around bars with some of the boys.
I get so drunk and feel so tight
Don't say that as I'm always right
Don't touch me I'm mister big,
I'm the son of a male chauvinist pig.

Don't ask why, don't ask why
I'll tell you a lie, I'll tell you a lie,
Don't ask why, don't ask why
I'll say goodbye, I'll say goodbye,
Why can't you see it's the only way a mean can be.


I WANNA DANCE


Sunshine, beautiful day,
Springtime is here join the Easter parade.
New life comes to the land,
Brings lovers together to dance with the band.

I wanna dance (with you)

Moonlight, sweet serenade,
Mid summer dreams and a fancy charade.
Warms seas carressing the sand,
Brings lovers together to dance with the band.

I wanna dance (with you)

Lying by your side reflected eyes say that we both belong.
Lying in each others open arms to play our favourite song.
Listen can you hear the sound of love.

Moonbeams, wintery nights
And songs of cheer on those festive delights.
Snowfrakes touching the hand,
Brings lovers together to dance with the band.

I wanna dance (with you)


SO MANY WAYS


Sitting here, feel inside, memories I cannot hide,
Laughing eyes, realise, love it wore a strange disguise.
Another day, so far away, I bring it back,
Listen to what I say, so many ways.

I cannot sing like Elton John, but what I mean is in this song,
It's said before oh nothings new, but it's what I feel for you.
Another day, so far away, I bring it back,
Listen to what I say, so many ways.

I play and sing to say I think of you.
Violins, flutes and strings I send to you.
More and more I add until I'm swimming in a sea.
Nothing else, we're alone, just you and me.
And though a mellotron (melody) helps to build this song
Can it show us where we both went wrong.
Yet within the message is so very very clear,
That it all would mean much more if you were here.

Hope by now that you see, the music and it's harmonies.
Is to show you that I care.
Name the place I'll meet you there.
Another day, so far away, I bring it back,
Listen to what I say, so many ways.

I play and sing to say I think of you.
Violins, flutes and strings I send to you.
More and more I add until I'm swimming in a sea.
Nothing else, we're alone, just you and me.
And though a mellotron (melody) helps to build this song
Can it show us where we both went wrong.
Yet within the message is so very very clear,
That it all would mean much more if you were here.


TAKE A RIDE


On my two wheel drive I wanna host ya
Take a ride.
Come along I'll coast to coast ya.
Ride ride ride.

On my mean machine we'll be a team
Let me take you there, yes I'll take care
Come on girl I wanna hold ya, take a ride.

It's a modern day drag that will really motor, take a ride.
Take a chance and I will show ya, Ride ride ride.

On my mean machine we'll be a team
Let me take you there, yes I'll take care
Come on girl I wanna hold ya, take a ride.

It's a two tone racer, a record beater, take a ride.
Bet you've never seen one neater, ride ride ride.

On my mean machine we'll be a team
Let me take you there, yes I'll take care
Come on girl I wanna hold ya, take a ride.


LISTEN TO THE CHILDREN


There's fighting on the streets of distant lands,
From north down to the port of spain.
Everybody says that they are right,
Who's around to take the blame.
Has no one told them of a way to live,
Have they grown up too fast.
Has no one told them of the other world,
Where every moment lasts.

Listen to the children sing
See how the children play.
Listen to the children sing
Hear what the children play.

There's fighting on the streets of our home town,
From east to west and back again.
Either side says that they are right,
Neither side takes the blame.
Will any body tell them that
There's no need to hate.
Can anybody tell them soon,
Before it's too late.

Listen to the children sing
See how the children play.
Listen to the children sing
Hear what the children play.


IT'S TOO LATE


You won't catch me like you caught me before.
Oh no, no more.
I won't be there when you walk through that door.
Oh no, no more.

When we were lovers, that was OK.
After our quarrel what can I say, what can I say.
It's too late, this is the end
It's too late, goodbye my friend.

We won't be fighting our cat and mouse war,
Oh no, no more.
I won't be playing that game any more,
Oh no, no more.

We were together until that day.
Now things are different what can I say, what can I say.
It's too late, this is the end
It's too late, goodbye my friend.


DO YOU REMEMBER


Do you remember,
How both of us laughed through a day,
Do you remember,
All the games that we would play,

We use to be happy and smile through the love in our eyes,
But if we were happy why did it all turn to lies,
You say that it's over
You say that you want to be free.
Don't let it be over
Won't you please come back to me.

Do you remember,
Our love was not a yours or a mine,
And if you remember
Then how come you could be so unkind.

We use to be happy and smile through the love in our eyes,
But if we were happy why did it all turn to lies,
You say that it's over
You say that you want to be free.
Don't let it be over
Won't you please come back to me.


I WANNA ROCK


I wanna rock, I wanna roll, I wanna do what's in my soul.

Someone loves you can't you see, you're too busy being free.
You won't take a single chance, do your thing and do your dance.

I gotta rock, I gotta roll, I gotta do what's in my soul.

Don't you know that she loves you, can't you see her eyes of blue.
Don't you know that you belong, don't you feel it in her song.
Love me.

I gonna rock, I gonna roll, I gonna do what's in my soul.

You don't know and you don't care, you don't give and you don't share.
You don't see that she's around, you don't see what you have found.

I wanna rock, I wanna roll, I wanna do what's in my soul.

Take her hand she'll take you to, a land that she has saved for you.
See her smile she loves you so, can't you feel the warming glow.

I gotta rock, I gotta roll, I gotta do what's in my soul.

Can't you stop a while and see, with that girl you too could be,
For she rocks and she rolls, listen to her words of soul.
Love me.

LUSTY EYES


Listen hear, have you heard,
The rumours going round.
How I'm wrong to want that girl,
She's from the wrong side of town.

Ooh ooh ooh I don't know what to do,
'Cos I've got my big lusty eyes on you.

Listen here, come on near,
They all say I'm crazy.
But I can't care how I am,
She makes my heart go racing.

Ooh ooh ooh I don't know what to do,
'Cos I've got my big lusty eyes on you.

Listen here, I'll tell you,
They say my girl is evil.
But I don't care I'll take that chance,
Just like Mr Knievel.

Ooh ooh ooh I don't know what to do,
'Cos I've got my big lusty eyes on you.


D D D D DANCE


Young or old I'm sure you know, from this place some day we'll go.
So if you're rich or if you're poor, loose it all when you reach the floor,
And you can dance.

Shake shake, up and down.
Shake shake, round and round.
Shake shake, face to face.
Shake shake, human race.
We all have many ways, we all have different days,
In which we give much more,
So it's better to dance than to fight a war.

From the past right up to now, many people show us how,
To behave just like them, can they remember when they danced.

Shake shake, up and down.
Shake shake, round and round.
Shake shake, face to face.
Shake shake, human race.
We all have many ways, we all have different days,
In which we give much more,
So it's better to dance than to fight a war.

Do you feel that your movingwell, if you are then you can tell
those who sit and criticize, that at last you've put them eise
'Cos you can dance.

Shake shake, up and down.
Shake shake, round and round.
Shake shake, face to face.
Shake shake, human race.
We all have many ways, we all have different days,
In which we give much more,
So it's better to dance than to fight a war.


CAN'T STOP ME DANCING


I ain't no preacher, I ain't no teacher,
Nothing to say that's my way.
I've just got something in my soul,
That makes me wanna dance that's all.

Can't stop me dancing if I want.

I ain't no rover, I'm no pushover,
Just watch me tour across the floor.
And I've got something in my soul,
That makes me wanna dance that's all.

Can't stop me dancing if I want.

You aren't no loser, if you're a mover,
And you do what you wanna do.
It comes from something in our soul,
That makes us wanna dance that's all.

Can't stop me dancing if I want.


I WANT YOU


Cry when your feeling sad, can life be really that bad.
And it seems to me that everybody gets lonely and blue,
But I know why I'm lonely, it's because I want you.

Outside we shed a tear, inside wish you were here.
And it seems to me that everybody gets lonely and blue,
But I know why I'm lonely, it's because I want you.

If that's called falling in love,
Then I am sure I've found a love that true.
Why is it falling in love,
Hurts so much if I'm not alone with you.

If only you were here, I'd wipe away this tear.
And it seems to me that everybody gets lonely and blue,
But I know why I'm lonely, it's because I want you.


GOTTA GET SOME MONEY


You gotta get some money in order to enjoy yourself, 
You gotta get some money in order to enjoy yourself,

Just how far will your life go, if you haven't got the dough, so,
You gotta get some money in order to enjoy yourself,

But I've got sun and I've got rain,
Summer's coming round again.
I can sing and raise a smile,
Think I'll stop here for a while,
I look round and all that I see,
Is me and you that's free.

You gotta get some money in order to enjoy yourself, 
You gotta get some money in order to enjoy yourself,

If you haven't got a dime, who around will give you time,
You gotta get some money in order to enjoy yourself, 

But I've got dawn and sunset red,
Nothing buys what's in my head.
Oh I can sing and raise a smile,
Think I'll stop here for a while,
I look round and all that I see,
Is me and you that's free.

You gotta get some money in order to enjoy yourself, 
You gotta get some money in order to enjoy yourself,


COME BACK ROMANCE


Morning says hello, we start the day.
As only lovers should, in that special way.
Never thinking if it's wrong or right.
And all I want to do is what we did last night.

When you're in the arms of the one you love (you know)
Life is wrong living.
When you're in the arms of the one you love (you say)
Come back romance you are forgiven.

I don't want to loose, your love my friend.
I don't want to think it will ever end.
I don't want to ride a dream without you there.
All I want is me and you and a life to share.

When you're in the arms of the one you love (you know)
Life is wrong living.
When you're in the arms of the one you love (you say)
Come back romance you are forgiven.

And so we say goodbye to the sun once more.
That moments here again, just like once before.
We know till we sleep and turn out the light.
That all we want to do is what we did last night.

When you're in the arms of the one you love (you know)
Life is wrong living.
When you're in the arms of the one you love (you say)
Come back romance you are forgiven.


CARIBBEAN WAY


I was sitting on a beach with a rum in my hand,
Listening to the sound of a caribbean band.
Then someone spoke and I turned around,
And realised I was back in this town, I was back in this cold, cold town.

Here I go again, feeling so low again.
The sun was shining down on me,
A record played that reggae beat
While we danced the night away
The caribbean, the caribbean, the caribbean way.

The sea breeze that comes from the bay,
Forgotten words that I wanted to say.
Hanging around a lazy pool,
Warm nights were really cool, those warm nights were really cool.

Here I go again, feeling so low again.
The sun was shining down on me,
A record played that reggae beat
While we danced the night away
The caribbean, the caribbean, the caribbean way.

Palm tree and coral shells,
Warm nights of stories to tell.
Tropical birds of the air
Tell her soon that I'll be there, tell her soon that I'll be there yeah.

Here I go again, feeling so low again.
The sun was shining down on me,
A record played that reggae beat
While we danced the night away
The caribbean, the caribbean, the caribbean way.


YOU KNOW


I don't want to be anything that isn't me.
You know, you know.
I just want to say like this, the words to say are in our kiss.
We know, We know.
Love is born within, it comes in many ways,
It can last for years or it can last for days,
Sometimes there is one, with will never end,
This is called the real thing and not called let's pretend.

The love we need now is not the love we see before our eyes,
Together laughing it is then we realize that.
We light the flame of love that only we can do,
Me and you.
Hoping for love we've been through it so many times before,
Knowing no love we think we cannot take much more.
Till we find each other as lovers sometimes do,
Me and you.

Just a look to say it's true, there is no need to say I do,
You know, you know.
When we are alone at night, arms around us holding tight,
We know, We know.
Love is not a game love is not a life,
I t can break a heart in the word goodbye,
But a time will come when the heart will mend,
This is called the real thing and not called let's pretend.

The love we need now is not the love we see before our eyes,
Together laughing it is then we realize that.
We light the flame of love that only we can do,
Me and you.
Hoping for love we've been through it so many times before,
Knowing no love we think we cannot take much more.
Till we find each other as lovers sometimes do,
Me and you.


I'M HURT


I'm hurt but I can't stop loving you baby,
So hurt but I won't stop loving you baby.

It should be me who started running around,
I never thought that you would let me down,
Maybe tomorrow there'll be somewhere to play,
Until tomorrow let's just play it again and again.

I'm hurt but I can't stop loving you baby,
So hurt but I won't stop loving you baby.

Who was it who took all the fun that we had,
Who was it who said there's no turning back,
Maybe tomorrow I will join you there,
Until tomorrow why don't we both stay here.

The two of us alone.
We look into our souls.
Wondering where to go,
From here.

I'm hurt but I can't stop loving you baby,
So hurt but I won't stop loving you baby.

You said that you, you'd never leave.
I just didn't know what to believe.
Maybe tomorrow we can stop this game,
Until tomorrow let's just do it again and again.

I'm hurt but I can't stop loving you baby,
So hurt but I won't stop loving you baby.

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