Phase III

Phase III is the eighth studio album by the American singing group The Osmonds, released in 1972. The album entered the Billboard Top LPs chart on January 29, and reached number ten on March 11. Two singles released from the album, "Yo-Yo" and "Down by the Lazy River", reached No. 3 and No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, respectively. The album was certified Gold by the RIAA on May 29, 1972. Phase III was, as its name implied, a shift in direction for the band, after its 1960s era as variety-show child stars and the band's early breakthrough as bubblegum pop idols, much of this album featured the band moving into a hard rock sound and writing more of their own material. According to Wayne Osmond, the family was being pitched several songs that did not meet their moral standards at the time and thus decided to start writing their own. Mike Curb brought on a young producer named Michael Lloyd, who had just scored a hit with "A Natural Man" for Lou Rawls, to produce the new effort; Lloyd would also produce their subsequent rock album Crazy Horses. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase_I...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)