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Freeze is the tenth studio album by Dutch rock and roll and blues group Herman Brood & His Wild Romance.
The album reached No. 63 on the Dutch album chart on 3 November 1990, and stayed on the chart for 5 weeks.
In the summer of 1979, Brood tried to enter the American market, with support from Ariola's US division, which was attempting to expand into rock music.
Following on the success of Shpritsz, the band was booked as a support act for The Kinks and The Cars, playing in auditoriums; "Herman Brood and His Wild Romance Tour Cha Cha '79" headlined in New York's (Bottom Line) and Los Angeles' (Roxy).
A re-recorded version of "Saturday Night" peaked at number 35 in the Billboard Hot 100,[9] but the big break Brood hoped for didn't happen.
When he returned to the Netherlands in October 1979, his band had begun to fall apart, and soon his popularity went downhill.
Go Nutz, the album Brood had recorded while in the States, and the movie Cha-Cha, which finally premiered in December 1979, were considered artistic failures, even though Go Nutz produced three charting singles in the Netherlands and the Cha Cha soundtrack attained platinum status.
The 1980 album Wait a Minute... was a minor success, but the follow-up albums Modern Times Revive (1981) and Frisz & Sympatisz (1982) failed to make the Dutch album charts.
Brood continued to record throughout the 1980s and had a few hits—a top-10 single, "Als Je Wint" with Henny Vrienten, and a minor hit with a reggae song, "Tattoo Song," but he spent more and more time on his art work. At the end of the '80s he made a comeback of sorts; Yada Yada (1988), produced by George Kooymans, was well-received, and he toured Germany with a renewed Wild Romance (which saw the return of Dany Lademacher).
Brood wins the BV Pop Prize 1989. With the assistance of Clarence Clemons, the saxophonist from Bruce Springsteen's E-Street Band, and the famous Tex Mex accordionist Flaco Jiminez, Brood records the album Freeze.
If success is not forthcoming, Brood announces that he will stop performing. His work as a painter begins to become more and more successful and lucrative.
Track listing
1. Blue Ice Moon - 3:31
2. Crackin' Up - 4:26
3. The Talkin' - 3:59
4. Break Away - 4:29
5. Lie & Cheat - 2:17
6. Boys in Black - 1:02
7. Beefin' It Up - 4:21
8. Cat Smoke - 2:13
9. Legal in Amsterdam - 4:05
10. Johnny - 1:19
11. He'll Have to Go - 1:01
12. Cripple (Without You) - 2:49
13. On Top of You - 2:27
14. Forever - 2:07
15. Blue Moon - 1:00
16. It Ain't the Gun - 5:09
- Herman Brood and his Wild Romance
- Herman Brood – piano, keyboards, vocals
- Roy Bakkers – drums
- Ivo Severijns – bass
- David Hollestelle Jr. – guitar
with:
- Clarence Clemons – saxophone
- Flaco Jiménez – accordion
- The Bombita's (Lies Schilp, Inge Bonthond, Robbie Schmitz, Perla den Boer) – backing vocals
- Technical
- Koos van Dijk – executive producer
- John Tilly – engineer
- Herman Brood – design
- Alex de Groot – photography
Notes
Released: 1989
Recorded: Studio Friends Studio, Amsterdam
Genre: Rock and roll, blues
Length: 46:20
Producer: The Wild Romance
Label - CBS Records
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