Scraps is an album by the rock band NRBQ

NRBQ

NRBQ is an American rock band founded in 1967. It is known for its live performances, containing a high degree of spontaneity and levity, and blending rock, pop, jazz, blues and Tin Pan Alley styles. Its best known line-up is the 1974–1994 quartet of pianist Terry Adams, bassist Joey Spampinato,...

, released in 1972 by Kama Sutra Records, which later released their next album, "Workshop." It was not originally released on Rounder. It is the group's first album with guitarist/vocalist Al Anderson

Al Anderson (NRBQ)

Alan Gordon "Al" Anderson is an American guitarist, singer, and songwiter. Between 1971 and the early 1990s, he was the lead guitarist in the rock band NRBQ, also releasing several solo albums. He also played electric guitar on Jonathan Edwards' 1973 album Have a Good Time for Me...

, who would remain with the band for over twenty years. Anderson replaced previous guitarist Ken Sheehan. However, Anderson was prohibited from singing any lead vocals on the album, due to his existing contract as a solo artist with Vanguard Records

Vanguard Records

Vanguard Records is a record label set up in 1950 by brothers Maynard and Seymour Solomon in New York. It started as a classical label, but is perhaps best known for its catalogue of recordings by a number of pivotal folk and blues artists from the 1960s; the Bach Guild was a subsidiary...

. Frankie Gadler, the group's original vocalist, sings lead on most of the songs, although Johnny Spampinato (Jody St. Nicholas) sings on "Only You", which is a sort of love song to Jesus, and which features the use of a toy piano.

Track listing

1. "Howard Johnson's Got His Ho-Jo Working" (Terry Adams
   Terry Adams (musician)
   Terry Adams is an American pianist/composer and a founding member of the musical group NRBQ , known for decades of extensive touring, energetic and humorous live shows, and wide-ranging musical repertoire, including rock, blues, country, pop, and jazz...
   
   ) - 3:20
2. "Magnet" (Adams, Joey Spampinato
   Joey Spampinato
   Joey Spampinato was a founding member and bass player of NRBQ. He was also one of the band's lead singers and chief songwriters. Before NRBQ he played in several bands, including The Seven of Us, which in 1967 while in Miami, Florida, met another band, The Merseybeats USA. The bands merged to form...
   
   ) - 3:30
3. "Don't Knock at My Door" (Spampinato) - 2:59
4. "Tragic Magic" (Adams) - 1:52
5. "Only You" (Spampinato) - 2:46
6. "Who Put the Garlic in the Glue?" (Adams) - 2:01
7. "Get a Grip" (Adams, Steve Ferguson) - 4:29
8. "Boys in the City" (Spampinato) - 2:29
9. "New Tune" (Adams) - 2:35
10. "Scraps" (Adams) - 4:06
11. "It's Not So Hard" (Spampinato) - 2:44
12. "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive
    Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive
    "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive" is a popular song. The music was written by Harold Arlen and the lyrics by Johnny Mercer, and it was published in 1944. It is sung in the style of a sermon, and explains that accentuating the positive is key to happiness...
    
    /Things Are Getting Better" (Johnny Mercer
    Johnny Mercer
    John Herndon "Johnny" Mercer was an American lyricist, songwriter and singer. He is best known as a lyricist, but he also composed music. He was also a popular singer who recorded his own songs as well as those written by others...
    
    , Harold Arlen
    Harold Arlen
    Harold Arlen was an American composer of popular music, having written over 500 songs, a number of which have become known the world over. In addition to composing the songs for The Wizard of Oz, including the classic 1938 song, "Over the Rainbow,” Arlen is a highly regarded contributor to the...
    
    / Cannonball Adderley) - 3:15
13. "Do You Feel It?" (Adams) - 2:51
14. "Ain't It All Right" (Ferguson, Adams) - 2:23
15. "Just Close Your Eyes and Be Mine Ruby" (Adams) - 3:18
16. "Hymn #9" (Adams) - 1:14
17. "Trouble at the Henhouse" (Spampinato) - 2:13

Note: Tracks 15-17 were not on the original LP; they were first issued on the 2000 CD reissue.

Personnel

• Terry Adams
  Terry Adams (musician)
  Terry Adams is an American pianist/composer and a founding member of the musical group NRBQ , known for decades of extensive touring, energetic and humorous live shows, and wide-ranging musical repertoire, including rock, blues, country, pop, and jazz...
  
  : clavinet, piano, harmonica, vocals
• Joey Spampinato
  Joey Spampinato
  Joey Spampinato was a founding member and bass player of NRBQ. He was also one of the band's lead singers and chief songwriters. Before NRBQ he played in several bands, including The Seven of Us, which in 1967 while in Miami, Florida, met another band, The Merseybeats USA. The bands merged to form...
  
  : bass, vocals, acoustic guitar
• Al Anderson
  Al Anderson (NRBQ)
  Alan Gordon "Al" Anderson is an American guitarist, singer, and songwiter. Between 1971 and the early 1990s, he was the lead guitarist in the rock band NRBQ, also releasing several solo albums. He also played electric guitar on Jonathan Edwards' 1973 album Have a Good Time for Me...
  
  : electric and acoustic guitars
• Tom Staley: drums
• Frank Gadler: vocals

• Kenny Sheehan: guitar on 1, 9, 10
• Steve Ferguson: guitar on 14
• Donn Adams: trombone on 4, 12
• Doug Wray and Link Wray
  Link Wray
  Fred Lincoln "Link" Wray Jr was an American rock and roll guitarist, songwriter and occasional singer....
  
  : background vocals on 7