Mighty Baby

Mighty Baby were an English band formed in January 1969 by former members of the Action. They released two albums, Mighty Baby (1969) and A Jug of Love (1971). History Following the 1968 departure of singer Reg King from the Action, keyboardist Ian Whiteman (who had joined in 1967 and then left the following year due to Reg King's unpredictable behaviour) returned to the group, sharing vocal duties with Alan King. Signing a recording contract with Head Records, the band changed its name to Mighty Baby (at the suggestion of Head Records' head John Curd), making its live debut under this name at the Roundhouse in January 1969, supporting Fairport Convention. Mighty Baby recorded its eponymous debut at Morgan Studios in Willesden over two days in March 1969, produced by Guy Stevens. The album, a collection of psychedelic rock songs, was released in November 1969 by Head Records in the UK, and on Chess in the US. Despite a low budget and the resultant low production values, Mighty Baby was critically lauded in the underground press; but Head Records was unable to effectively promote and distribute the album. In 2022, Mojos Jim Irvin regarded Mighty Baby as "one of the great lost albums of the period; a facet of the shape-shifting, dawn-of-prog dynamic shared by contemporaries Traffic and Family; music rooted in R&B but revelling in the opportunity to go anywhere it likes".) Between the recording of their two albums, the band supplemented their gigging income by playing a variety of recording sessions for others, including Robin Scott (Woman From the Warm Grass), Andy Roberts, Keith Christmas (Stimulus and Fable of the Wings), Shelagh McDonald, Sandy Denny, and Gary Farr (Take Something with You, Strange Fruit).