Double Your Strength, Improve Your Health and Lengthen Your Life
HLAH continued touring the country (including playing at the Big Day Out festival) and tragically in early 1996 their manager, Gerald Barry Dwyer (who also managed Shihad) died suddenly. They returned to the studio later in the year, this time at Sing Sing Studios in Australia with producer Robbie Rowlands to record their third album, 'Double Your Strength, Improve Your Health, & Lengthen Your Life'. Crying Shame (otherwise know as 'The trumpet Song') while not having any chart success became a popular song in the bands set which they still perform, often using ring in Trumpeters and/or other brass as Tom Watson who originally played the trumpet is no longer a member of the band.
The first single off the album, 'Cornbag' was released in November 1996, and received some limited chart success. This was followed by the release of the album and more singles including 'A Crying Shame', 'Keith' and 'Hootnanny'. HLAH performed at the 1997 Big Day Out as the final act after the headliners Soundgarden, and had a huge crowd in The Supertop. HLAH also released a video for their cover of 'I'm on Fire', a Bruce Springsteen song.
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