Waterfall is the fifth album released by the English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 jazz rock band 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...

. It was first issued in 1972 and reached #195 on the Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

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Pop Albums Chart. The original recording line-up was augmented by two new members, Cliff Davies and Dave Wintour, who filled the drum and guitar/bass chairs, respectively.

The album was recorded in London at Command Studios in February and at Morgan Studios

Morgan Studios

Morgan Studios, also known as Morgan Sound Studios, were recording studios in Willesden, North London. The studios were notable for many recordings of the 1960s and 1970s by many British bands and artists such as Ten Years After, Yes, The Kinks, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Joan Armatrading, Cat...

 in July 1972.

Track listing

1. "Waterfall" (D. Morrissey/B. Morrissey) – 5:42
2. "The Light Still Shines" (Quincy/Humphrey) – 5:06
3. "Sector 17" (Quincy) – 8:00
4. "Paint Your Pictures" (D. Morrissey/B. Morrissey) – 5:18
5. "Cast No Shadows" (Davies) – 7:30
6. "Throw Myself to the Wind" (D. Morrissey/B. Morrissey) – 4:42

Bonus tracks on CD release from 2003:

1. "You in Your Small Corner" (Humphries, Quincy) – 3:28
2. "Waterfall" (Morrissey, Morrissey) – 4:02
3. "Waterfall" (Morrissey, Morrissey) – 4:00

Credits

• Cliff Davies – drums
  Drum kit
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• Dennis Elliott
  Dennis Elliott
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   – drums
• J.W. Hodgkinson – vocals, percussion
• John Mealing
  John Mealing
  John Mealing is a keyboards player, composer and arranger.After leaving the Don Rendell-Ian Carr Quintet in the late-Sixties, he joined the pioneering British jazz-rock band If until they came off the road in 1972...
  
   – piano
  Piano
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  , organ
  Organ (music)
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• 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 :...
  
   – saxophone
  Saxophone
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  s, flute
  Flute
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  , vocals
• Dave Quincy – saxophones
• Jim Richardson
  Jim Richardson (musician)
  James Anthony Jim "Jimbo" Richardson born 16 February 1941, Tottenham, London, is a British jazz bassist and session musician.An original member of pioneering British jazz-rock band, If , he went on to doing intensive session and studio work...
  
   – bass
  Bass guitar
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• Terry Smith
  Terry Smith (British jazz guitarist)
  Terence 'Terry' Smith is a British Jazz guitarist.-Biography:Twice winner of the Melody Maker Music Polls, Smith spent the early 1960s playing with the Tony Lee Trio, before becoming Scott Walker's musical director and accompanying The Walker Brothers on their Japan tour in 1968...
  
   – guitar
  Guitar
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• Dave Wintour
  Dave Wintour
  Dave Wintour is a bass guitarist and session musician.He has played and recorded with artists such as Rick Wakeman, Pete Atkin, Kenny Young, the pioneer jazz-rock band If, Clifford T. Ward, Roger Daltrey, Slapp Happy, Steve Swindells, The Pretty Things, Stealers Wheel and Leo Sayer.From 1995 to...
  
   – electric guitar
  Electric guitar
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   & acoustic guitar
  Acoustic guitar
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  , bass, vocals