Discography

ON A NIGHT LIKE THIS

This is the first collection of songs from Mark Urgent. The original line-up included Steve Smeltzer (drums and lyrics), Denny Geiger (guitar, lead and backing vocals), Steve Lethwaite (bass and backing vocals), John Forbing (guitar and backing vocals) and Barry LaBov (keyboards, saxophone, backing and lead vocals). The song that started it all off, On a Night Like This, was recorded during a blizzard in a friend’s attic (Jeff Stone played bass guitar for us that day). After that, we officially formed the band and jumped into creating original songs with Steve writing lyrics; Carol LaBov writing lyrics; and Barry writing music and some lyrics.

A highlight for us was being chosen as the opening act for John Mellencamp when he visited Fort Wayne and performed a charity event after our city flooded. Local video producer Mark Bontrager then created a music video that was featured on numerous networks, ultimately helping On a Night Like This be recommended on the Billboard charts. Many of the songs were produced in our basement studio and then later re-engineered at Chuck Surack’s home studio, Sweetwater Sound.

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