Cado Belle were a British

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 rock group prominent in the pub rock

Pub rock (UK)

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 scene of the mid 1970s, and are notable for making the first recordings

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 featuring singer Maggie Reilly

Maggie Reilly

Maggie Reilly is a Scottish singer best known for her collaborations with the composer and instrumentalist Mike Oldfield...

 who went on to have success with 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...

 and as a solo artist.

Origins

In Glasgow, singer Maggie Reilly

Maggie Reilly

Maggie Reilly is a Scottish singer best known for her collaborations with the composer and instrumentalist Mike Oldfield...

 met Stuart MacKillop who asked her to join his band Joe Cool. In October 1974 the band merged with another called Up, forming Cado Belle. They issued their only, self-titled album

Album

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 in autumn 1976. It was followed a year later by an EP

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. They continued to gig in 1978 but dissolved the following year.

Line-up

• Maggie Reilly: Vocals, backing vocals
• Alan Darby: Guitars
• Gavin Hodgson: Bass
• Stuart MacKillop: Keyboards
• Davy Roy: Drums, percussion
• Colin Tully: Saxophone, flute, horn arrangements

Recordings

Their only LP, entitled simply Cado Belle, was released in 1976 on the Anchor Records

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 label

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. The tracklisting was -

1. "All Too Familiar" 3:09 (Stuart MacKillop / Alasdair Robertson)

2. "Infamous Mister" 3:49 (Stuart MacKillop / Alasdair Robertson)

3. "Rocked to Stony Silence" 5:26 (Colin Tully / Alasdair Robertson)

4. "I Name This Ship Survival" 4:31 (Colin Tully / Alasdair Robertson)

5. "Paper in the Rain" 3:55 (Stuart MacKillop / Alasdair Robertson)

6. "That Kind of Fool" 3:52 (Stuart MacKillop / Alasdair Robertson)

7. "Airport Shutdown" 3:39 (Colin Tully / Alasdair Robertson)

8. "Rough Diamonds2 4:49 (Stuart MacKillop / Alasdair Robertson)

9. "Got to Love" 2:45 (Stuart MacKillop)

10. "Stone's Throw from Nowhere" 4:55 (Colin Tully / Alasdair Robertson)

Mel Collins, Frank Collins and Paddie McHugh from the band Kokomo

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 guested on the album.

In 1977 they recorded the "Cado Belle EP", containing the following tracks -

1. "It's Over" (Boz Scaggs

Boz Scaggs

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/David Paich

David Paich

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)

2. "September" (Alan Darby)

3. "Play It Once For Me" (Stuart MacKillop)

4. "Gimme Little Sign

Gimme Little Sign

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" (Alfred Smith

Brenton Wood

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/Joe Hooven/Hal Winn)

A CD containing all fourteen tracks from the album and the EP was released by Mirror Image Records in 2008.