Mark 'Moogy' Klingman Part 2 (1978)

 

The 2nd album it turns out is more polished and all over better than the first one, I should have reserved judgement instead of rushing to condemn him.  Info is here.  It's similar to the case with Allee Willis who started off so rough and Laura Nyro-like but developed into a really accomplished professional songwriter later in the decade of the seventies.  The voice has improved quite a bit from the earlier Cocker fake and at times is almost croonerish, like a simple man's Sinatra.  

Consider first the highly approachable Bessie track:

Of course, there's bound to be the throwaway tracks which for me are the kind of bluesy or boogie-woogie ones that are so easy any child could put together, or the ones with the really simplistic chord progressions everyone learns from the beginning of any kind of rock school education. Amazingly those are often the most popular songs among the public

When you take a look at the database you might be shocked to see that in addition to Todd Rundgren who again appears here, credited as engineer, there is Randy Brecker on horns, Rick Derringer, David Earle Johnson, and, insanely, Jan Hammer, though I'm sure each of these guys only does guest appearances on certain tracks.

Equally shocking is a (sadly short) composed instrumental track called Blue Mother that sounds like it should have come from a Stackridge album:

Please note that the youtube link provided by the commenter on the last moogy post includes bonus tracks from later and/or unreleased stuff, I would love to know how he found those.

An album deserving to be better known, thanks for the request again.  

It's good.