Argosy Mr Boyd 1969 - Roger Hodgson (SUPERTRAMP) , Elton John

At age 19, Roger Hodgson made his first appearance in a recording studio as guitarist for People Like Us, a band he joined shortly after graduating from boarding school. The group recorded a single, “Duck Pond” b/w “Send Me No Flowers”, which was never released.

After People Like Us disbanded, Hodgson auditioned for Island Records, with Traffic’s road manager providing him a foot in the door with the label. Island set him up in a recording studio as vocalist for the one-off “flower power” pop band Argosy, which also included Reginald Dwight (later known as Elton John), Caleb Quaye and Nigel Olsson. Their sole single, “Mr. Boyd” b/w “Imagine”, consisted of two pieces of orchestrated pop (both penned by Hodgson) and was issued in 1969 on the DJM (U.K.) and Congress (U.S.) record labels. It sold poorly and consequently has become rare and sought after. “Mr. Boyd” was covered in 1997 by Jake Shi

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Argosy did just one single in 1969, "Mr. Boyd"/"Imagine," which has attracted some attention from collectors more by virtue of the musicians involved than the quality of the songs. Both songs were written by the group's Roger Hodgson, who went on to Supertramp. The accompanying musicians were Elton John and two players who went on to play on much of John's most celebrated studio work, guitarist Caleb Quaye and drummer Nigel Olsson. The tracks are routine orchestrated late-'60s British pop-psychedelia, more on the Beatlesque pop side than the psychedelic one. Both of them were reissued in the box set The Rubble Collection, Vols. 11-20.

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