Blue Mink were a British six-piece pop group that existed from 1969 to 1977. Over that period they had six top 20 hit singles on the UK Singles Chart, and released five studio based albums.

The band's debut single "Melting Pot", written by Cook and Greenaway, was recorded with this line-up An American cover version entitled "People Are Together" by soul singer Mickey Murray proved too radical for American radio and failed to get any meaningful airplay. An album of the same name was released early in 1970, at the same time as the second single, "Good Morning Freedom", which reached No. 10 in the chart. The track did not feature on the first release of the LP, but was added to subsequent pressings. Reviewing Real Mink years later in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), Robert Christgau said Bell and Cook's collaboration is "solid white soul, marred by a couple of automatic instrumentals but graced by a charming self-consciousness as well as a few top commercial songs—oh yes, and a black singer."

The members' other projects now took priority until January 1972 when Blue Mink played two weeks at The Talk of the Town nightclub in London.

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! scope="row" |"Blue Mink"

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! scope="row" |"Melting Pot"

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! scope="row" |"Good Morning Freedom"

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! scope="row" |"Can You Feel It Baby" <small>(US-only release)</small>

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! scope="row" |"Our World"

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! scope="row" |"Time for Winning"

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|The Raging Moon soundtrack

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! scope="row" |"We Have All Been Saved" <small>(Europe-only release)</small>

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! scope="row" |"The Banner Man"

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! scope="row" |"Sunday"

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| rowspan="2" |A Time of Change

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! scope="row" |"Count Me In"

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! scope="row" |"Wacky, Wacky, Wacky"

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! scope="row" |"Stay with Me"

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| rowspan="3" |Only When I Laugh

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! scope="row" |"By the Devil (I Was Tempted)"

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! scope="row" |"Quackers"

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|The Best of Blue Mink

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! scope="row" |"Another 'Without You' Day"

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! scope="row" |"You're the One"

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! scope="row" |"Five Minute Wonder"

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! scope="row" |"Where Were You Today"

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| colspan="15" style="font-size:90%" |"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory.

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See also

  • List of performers on Top of the Pops
  • List of EMI artists
  • CCS
  • :Category:Blue Mink members

References

Other sources

  • The Guinness Who's Who of Seventies Music, (London: Guinness)