Obscure bands

Hey arcam88,
You know I'm a City Boy fan. I also listed the "Dinner at the Ritz" as one of my favorite albumn covers on another thread. 

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Great to hear from another City Boy fan mofimadness! I remember Trooper and Prism but not China Crisis. I will be checking them out!                                 Have You or anyone else heard of Crack the Sky?                                                            Thanks to everyone for the ideas! Keep them coming!

Two more spin-offs, this time from the Doctor Buzzard/Kid Creole family:

Don Armando's Second Avenue Rhumba Band
and
Elbow Bones and the Racketeers

Like their "parent" bands, both of these bands hybridized disco with other musical forms (notably big band jazz) in very clever ways.  IMO, Elbow Bones, in particular, had a great album, "A Night in New York".

Arcam88...thanks for the reference to Crack The Sky.  I have never heard of them, but in doing some research, Rolling Stone compared them to Steely Dan, which is my favorite band of all time. So, I am going to have to check them out.

A few others:

Grin
Camel
Wishbone Ash
Uriah Heep
Spooky Tooth

Crack the Sky is an outstanding band from Baltimore that never quite made it big. Don't know that I would compare them to Steely Dan but excellent rock & roll.