Back in 1968, Tetragrammaton Records of Beverly Hills, Bill Cosby’s label, released a local Los Angeles group’s only recorded album, Quatrain. The group consisted of Don Senneville, one of Los Angeles’ more creative lead guitarists, Steve Lindsay on bass guitar, Rick Pease on rhythm guitar, and Jim Lekas on drums. The record album was produced and engineered by the late David Briggs, Neil Young’s producer for many years.
Quatrain was a garage band out of the San Fernando Valley and was originally formed in 1963 as The Fourth Shadow by founding members Senneville and Pease, with Lekas joining to play drums and sing in November of 1964 after a stint as an aerospace worker and part-time surf band drummer. Pease was a talented folk musician and excellent writer, as was Senneville.


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Released: 1962 Big Band Bossa Nova is a 1962 Bossa Nova album by American impresario, jazz composer, trumpeter, arranger and record producer Quincy Jones. and his big band.

Over the course of his long career Quincy Jones’ contribution to the musical world is huge – as a solo artist, songwriter, producer, film composer and record label executive he has made an indelible mark on modern life. He has worked with many of the biggest names in the business and his credits include some of the most notable albums of the last few decades, and this feat is recognised in his significant collection of Grammys.His early career was as a trumpeter in the Dizzy Gillespie Band and before long he was leader of his own band. Though his performances were critically acclaimed, all did not go well financially on tour, and he ended up with considerable personal debt. So he took a job at Mercury Records and by 1964 he was vice-president.

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The Four Tops - 1967 - Reach Out

One of Motown's most consistent hitmakers and its longest lived lineup (40 years), the Four Tops were the most stable and consistent vocal groups to emerge from Motown Records in the '60s, charting with scores of upbeat love songs featuring Levi Stubbs' rough hewn lead vocals.

"Reach Out and I'll Be There" hit #1 in October, 1966, followed by "Standing in the Shadows of Love" (#6) in 1967.

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this is the first original recording of Joan Baez

Original release date: May 1964 (Recorded in June 1958)Produced and recorded by: Dick Tognazzini for Storm Records

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This album has received only bad reviews and the most of the people says that this album isn't good. Well, in my opinion this is not true. The three first albums are great and better than "Bernice", but you can find also in this album some good songs, with nice and psych melodies. Only one thing. Don't expect to find in that album any Middle - Eastern sounds and things like in the previous albums.

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Pavlos Sidiropoulos (Greek: Παύλος Σιδηρόπουλος) (Athens, August 27, 1948 – Athens, 6 December 1990) was a Rock musician, noted for supporting the use of Greek lyrics in rock music, at a time when most Greek rock groups were using English lyrics. During the 1970s and 1980s, he was arguably the most popular Greek rock musician. Despite his early death, he remains one of the most popular rock musicians in Greece.

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The Plastic Cloud were an Ontario-based folk-rock quartet, consisting of Brian Madill (bass), Don Brewer (lead vocals, 12-string guitar), Mike Cadieux (guitar), and Randy Umphrey (drums). Formed in 1967, they managed to encompass the commercial side of the music in pleasant, Byrds-like original numbers, but also showed a much harder sound dominated by fuzztone guitar and other effects, for a much more spaced-out sound on about half of their recorded material. Madill and Umphrey were the initial partners, with Cadieux and Brewer -- who not only sang lead but wrote all of their original songsFrom Bay Ridges, Ontario, this band made one of the best and most sought-after albums of the psychedelic era. All of the tracks were written by Don Brewer and it’s one of the most consistently good Canadian albums of this era.


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One-shot masterpiece from genius songwriter Spider Barbour. His songs show remarkable lyrical and musical depth. Acoustic rock (not quite folk-rock) songs dominate, but the album is full of surprises, from searing fuzz guitar to the whacked-out fantasy “Dr. Root’s Garden” that closes the album. There are spots of jazz, prog (way before its time) and music hall, all of which can ruin psychedelic records, but work incredibly well here because they’re part of Barbour’s vision, not just attempts to be trendy. Favorite lyric: “God is a ring of smoke, wrapped around my finger, a wasp without a stinger, buzzing in my ear." Other lyrics veer towards the psychological and emotional with equally memorable results. Barbour’s voice is soothing and appealing. Nancy Nairn is used sparingly but effectively (two and a half songs) as the other lead vocalist. Her unhinged performance on “April Grove” adds to the appeal and strangeness of the album but is effective precisely because it’s not overused. Some other songs are stunningly beautiful and tragic. One of the all-time greats.

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MANEIGE is probably the Quebec band that epitomizes best the Quebec Prog boom from 74 to 79. Their music are probably one of the best example of what Fusion music can be by blending in classical and folk elements together with jazz tones the whole thing having a very progressive rock ideal and could also fit the chamber rock style. Their style can only be really compared to other Quebecois group as SLOCHE and OPUS-5.

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Forgotten_Jewels

Formed around '67 / '68 when Martin Briley and Brian Engel met at Art School in Walthamstow, London[UK psychedelic rock/197Mandrake Paddlesteamer made one, now legendary, psychedelic 45 which inevitably interests collectors. The original release of Strange Walking Man is now very expensive to purchase but aside from the disc's reissue by Bam-Caruso in 1988, the 'A' side, Strange Walking Man has also been heavily compiled. It's unusual for a tempo change towards the end where the vocal parts end and the song culminates with an instrumental passage. The track also features some great understated guitar work, and superb trippy lyrics. The flip side, Steam, is a pretty decent keyboard-driven instrumental.

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Galliard is a sextet formed in the summer of 68, and developed a psychedelic type of brass rock, fronted by twin wind players Caswell and Smith and singer Geoff Brown. They recorded two albums on the Deram Nova label (the subsidiary prog label of Decca records) around the turn of the 70’s decade, when brass rock was the rage. Their first album Strange Pleasure By Galliard, released in 69, was quite eclectic, ranging from Medieval to Flamenco/Spanish music. For their second album New Dawn, wind player John Smith was gone, but the group adjoined a mega brass section of four player, plus keyboardist Morton. This second album sounds a bit different, but we are still roughly in the same realm even if the spectrum is enlarged to folk and Indian raga.

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Mike Absalom was a genuine oddity on the late-'60s/early-'70s U.K. scene, a singer/songwriter with a bent sense of humor that seemed to be driven as much by a heavy load of illicit pharmaceuticals as by a skewed worldview. Unlike the contemporary Syd Barrett, however, Absalom did not become an acid casualty. He recorded one album for Saydisc in 1969, a disc that escaped under the title of Save the Last Gherkin for Me, and he set out on a career of busking and living hand to mouth. Producer/A&R man Patrick Lyons (of Nirvana [U.K.] fame) found his attention engaged by Absalom's music when the singer/songwriter was playing for small change in a London Underground station, subsequently signing him to Vertigo Records.

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US pop rock/1964

Contrary to what the exploitative title might have you believe, this was not recorded during a Beatles tour (though Jackie DeShannon was an opening act on their 1964 North American tour), or even a live album. Instead, it was something of a grab bag of a dozen tracks that had already been released on Liberty singles between 1962 and 1964.

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Born Irving Lee Dorsey in New Orleans, Louisiana, Dorsey moved to Portland, Oregon when he was ten years old. He served in the United States Navy and began a career in prizefighting. Boxing as a light heavyweight in Portland in the early 1950s, he fought under the name “Kid Chocolate” and was quite successful. In 1970 Dorsey and Toussaint collaborated on an album entitled Yes We Can; the title song was Dorsey’s last entry in the singles chart. It was later a hit for the Pointer Sisters under the title, “Yes We Can Can”.

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Marie "Queenie" Lyons is a mystery girl, a Southern enigma. Like a kind of black Bobbie Gentry, after just one album ("SOUL FEVER") Queenie vanished. Following its 1970 release, she disappeared off the soul map forever, like a roman candle floating off into the warm Southern night.


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Cargoe did an admirable job blending power-pop melodicism with various contemporary sounds - late Beatles, post-CS&N and Traffic soft/folk rock, blues lead guitar and some country sounds. Listening to Cargoe, it sounds like they just a bunch of Southern boys who loved the Beatles and others, and went in a different direction. Southern rock were their brethren, (you can hear it on the vocals, the acoustic guitar bedrock and the blues-rock guitar leads), but instead of founding a new tribe, Cargoe became a curious attempt. Had they become more popular, they might have been the American Badfinger, but even better. You can sit down and figure out a Badfinger song relatively easily - Cargoe's songs are more complex and have excellent arrangements, probably the result of years of live playing and recording an earlier version of this album.(1972)

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AQUELARRE (meaning witches nocturnal meeting with the devil) was formed after the dissolution of the band ALMENDRA in 1970, as its bass player Emilio del Güercio and drummer Rodolfo Garcia joined up with guitar player Héctor Stark and keyboard player Hugo González Neira joined up. They performed in B.A.Rock II festival 1971, and their first studio album "Aquelarre" was released in 1972. It's cover was drawn by the band's bass player, who became graphic designer later. Their music is sophisticated psychedelic rock'n'roll with very impressionistic moments, artistic arrangements, surrealistic themes and they have a jazzy rhythm section. During next years they released three more albums, "Candiles" in 1973, and it's cover is a painting of Goya, which name is the same as the bands name!

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A 4-LP vinyl box, with some good psychedelic tracks. In the back side of the box is written: "This limited 4-LP collectors edition contains 60 ultrarare psychedelic, punk e.t.c. 60's tracks. All this tracks were not available on other albums before. This material comes mostly from private 45's, but also from acetates , soundtracks and unreleased mastertapes", and after the track list "This special collectors set is limited to 300 copies (booklet inside)".

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Dreamy, sunshine-infused pop psychedelia with a folk bent, originally released by independent Canadian label Allied Records in 1968.

Release the Sunshine - 1968

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BLONDE ON BLONDE (taking their name from BOB DYLAN's 1966 album) were formed in Newport, South Wales in 1967.
In 1968 the band moved to London to give out concerts, and their publicity led them to be signed for Pye Record label in late 1968. A single "All Day All Night / Country Life" was released in November of the same year. Then was recorded their debut long player ablum "Contrasts", which was issued by Pye in mid-1969 and produced by Barry Murray.
Musically the group was exploring the areas pioneered by 1967 psychedelic acts like PINK FLOYD, JEFFERSON AIRPLANE and CREAM, but in a much larger scale of influences than them, having a more wider musical palette than the bands influenced which them, offering much to the listener open to their style, with slightly varying production quality. Their music is a dance between contrasts of free impressionism paired with predefined melodic more carefully constructed elements, varying from streetwise side to high levels of spirituality, from folk tones, classical guitar runs and mantra like instrumental runs, bursting with oriental musical influences, introducing cosmic drones running hypnotically on varying time scales, and all this paired with hard rock tones of heavy psychedelic guitar similar to JIMI HENDRIX and 1960's work of PETE TOWNSHED.

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Mark Spoelstra: Five and Twenty Questions (1965) Elektra EKS-7283 Mark Spoelstra was an old friend of Joan Baez; they dated in high school. Fariρa met Spoelstra at the Big Sur Folk Festival where Richard & Mimi performed their first professional gig in June of 1964. In these liner notes Fariρa recalls his meeting with Spoelstra at a "seminar on the how-comes of New Folk Music" that attended the Festival, and he praises Spoelstra's political and musical integrity.


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One of the founding fathers of the British blues movement, Graham Bond released two spectacular albums in 1965 as the Graham Bond Organization. The Sound of ’65 and There’s a Bond Between Us (also re-released on BGO Records) are essential jazz/blues albums for any music fan. When Bond broke up the Organization, he moved to the United States where he recorded two “solo” albums in 1965. In 1966, he returned to England where he became a member of Ginger Baker’s Air Force for a time then left and formed the band Magick with his wife Diane Stewart. Holy Magick, the band’s debut album, was originally released on the “progressive” Vertigo label in 1970 . The album was based on Bond’s interest in white magic and Druid and Celtic mysticism. Holy Magick consists of two parts containing 18 songs based around mantras, rituals, and improvisational pieces. The band, a flexible unit, featured some of the top musicians Britain had to offer in 1970 including Rick Gretch (Blind Faith), Victor Bronx, Alex Dmochowski, Jon Moreshead from the Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation, and a host of session performers.

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A posthumous collection of odds and ends, this actually holds considerable appeal for anyone who likes their pair of fully realized albums. The 12 songs include a few studio outtakes, a few solo turns by Mimi on compositions written by Richard but incompletely recorded at the time of his death, a couple performances from the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, and a couple of Joan Baez tracks from sessions for an aborted album Richard was producing with her. These leftovers are generally up to the standard of the two “real” albums, especially “The Quiet Joys of Brotherhood” (covered by Fairport Convention) and “Morgan the Pirate” (a farewell to Bob Dylan, according to the sketchy liner notes). The two cuts by Baez (which Richard wrote or co-wrote), especially the compellingly melancholy “All The World Has Gone By,” are excellent, leading one to wonder if the projected album they came from would have been one of Baez’s best if it had been completed. These may be leftovers, but it’s a worthwhile collection nonetheless.

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An early seventies folk-rock album from the collaboration of Phil Pickett and Georg Kajanus before they form the successful pop band Sailor.

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A tripped-out batch of tracks from Brazil! These guys mix together a bit of funk, a bit of psych, and touches of Jorge Ben-like soul -- into a blend that's really groovy all the way through, and which will be sure to please any fan of the Samba Soul groove! Jorge Ben's influence is all over the set -- filtered through some garagey production that makes the tracks sound rawer than any of Ben's own work, and which give the guitars a nice fuzzed out edge. The whole thing's almost psychedelic at times, but has a fair bit of soul as well.

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Bobbie Gentry remains one of the most interesting and underappreciated artists to emerge out of Nashville during the late '60s. Best-known for her crossover smash "Ode to Billie Joe," she was one of the first female country artists to write and produce much of her own material,
In 1971, she issued her final Capitol effort, Patchwork, primarily confining her performing to her nightclub act for the next several years.

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Willie McKinley Hutchison, known professionally as Willie Hutch (December 6, 1944 — September 19, 2005) was an American singer, as well as a songwriter and record producer for the Motown record label during the 1970s.

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This album is of interest for Flower Pot, a long fifteen minute psychedelic suite which takes up the whole of Side Two. Complete with sound effects, phasing, screams, echo loops and bird noises, the track was recorded in one take, with the voices overdubbed later. The group formed in Las VegasThe groups energy in live performance could never really be captured on record. The horn sound created by the Trumpet, Trombone and Sax with the funky rhythm section was truly incredible.

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The Poppy Family was a late 1960s and early 1970s Canadian pop music group, based in Vancouver, British Columbia."In the late summer of 1969 the Canadian record buying public chose to endorse The Poppy Family by establishing "Which Way You Goin' Billy?" as the biggest Canadian hit ever. 'Billy' successfully climbed to the No.1 spot on all radio stations across Canada. Having watched The Poppy Family from Vancouver, British Columbia, evolve as a recording group has been a satisfying and rewarding experience. The constant creative growth, both musically and lyrically, within the group is evident in the album Which Way You Goin' Billy?. The versatility of the group, from Terry Jacks' meaningful writing, to his wife Susan's beautiful and emotion-packed voice allow them to explore avenues of musical expression hitherto uncharted. All the while The Poppy Family retain their own sound so unique to themselves". (Fraser Jamieson, President London Records, Canada - November 17 1969).[citation needed]

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Mega-rare light psych item is one of the few in the genre in which the creative force is a woman, Sue Akins. This isn't really much like all of the Airplane-wannabe bands, either; Hendrickson Road House has a distinctive sound with mildly jazzy arrangements, subtle lead guitar, a tad of autoharp, smooth vocals and a definite late-night feel. The guitar playing has a bit of a West Coast influence, though it's not the least bit heavy. The closest comparison would be the Serpent Power songs with Tina Meltzer on lead vocals. One jazzy instrumental with a lot of sax manages not to sound out of place. Otherwise Akins sings all of the songs, and the album has a coherence not often felt in the genre. Not a masterpiece, but quite good, and the lack of a reissue is truly puzzling given its quality and rarity.

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The band formed in 1966, with the members coming from Westminster, California, and Tustin, California (both in Orange County). Jim Quarles invented the name "because it had a mystical and otherworldly ring", and the father of one of the band members (Jim Foster) served as their manager. The two then began writing songs for the new band: "I didn't know what I was doing at the time. I just wrote the songs with Jim Foster. I didn't have any prior experience."


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Clem Alford was a classically-trained sitar player who spent time in India to enhance his knowledge of Indian classical music prior to joining the interesting but short-lived Magic Carpet in the early seventies. Upon their demise he recorded two solo albums of sitar music which are not easy to track down. The first is now a collector's item, and has been reissued on CD with additional material. The second, which is even harder to find, was recorded exclusively for use in music libraries. Prior to this in 1972 he'd recorded an album under the name Sagram.


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Charles Wright (born in 1940 in Clarksdale, Mississippi) & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band is a pioneering soul and funk band. Formed in the early 1960s, they had the most visibility from 1967 to 1973.
The title track is an upbeat soul/funk classic. The fuzzy bass and upbeat lyrics are sure to turn the party out. You can't front, this shit will have thugs smilin. "You are the One for Me" has a hard, stripped-down bassline and drum backing and nice laid back lyrics, also a party favorite. Like I said, almost everything on here has a catchy groove. I think there's even a Tribe sample in the beginning of "Mother's Love." Above all, what I like most about this album is the upbeat vibe. This shit is happy music. We pump it at the Lab when we have all-niters. Even the ballads got a groove to them, perfect for staring into space when you're feeling bezerk.


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Barclay James Harvest is a well-known British band with a strong influence from The Moody Blues. Their self-titled debut seemed although to be more in the vein of late 60's psychedelic rock with a few symphonic and progressive tendencies, especially on "The Sun Will Never Shine" and "When the World Was Woken". The two main songwriters in the band were guitarist John Lees and bassist Les Holroyd, and they would usually sing on their own songs, just like their influences in The Moody Blues.

Track Listings:

1. Taking Some Time On (5:27)

2. Mother Dear (3:13)

3. The Sun Will Never Shine (5:04)

4. When The World Was Woken (5:44)

5. Good Love Child (5:05)

6. The Iron Maiden (2:39)

7. Dark Now My Sky (11:54)

Total Time: 39:06

Bonus Tracks on EMI remaster (2002):

8. Early Morning

9. Mister Sunshine

10. So Tomorrow (1968 BBC session)

11. Eden Unobtainable (1968 BBC session)

12. Night (1968 BBC session)

13. Pools Of Blue (1968 BBC session)

14. Need You Oh So Bad (1968 BBC session)

15. Small Time Town (1968 BBC session)

16. Dark Now My Sky (1968 BBC session)

17. I Can't Go On Without You

18. Eden Unobtainable

19. Poor Wages

20. Brother Thrush

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This is the Sandy Denny of Greek folk music (although her father was a German). She had a superb voice. Her albums will enthrall you with the exotic delights of Greek folklore. Not only that, there are also elements of free jazz, mediaeval music and progressive rock.

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Please were formed by Peter Dunton and Bernie Jinks in late 1967. They had just returned to Britain from Germany where they had played with Neon Pearl, which also included their third member Jurgen Ermisch. The fourth original member Adrian Gurvitz later co-founded Gun. Unfortunately this line-up left no vinyl legacy or unreleased recordings that have been located behind it. They disbanded in May 1968 when Peter Dunton joined The Flies for whom he wrote both sides of their Magic Train 45.

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Joe South's debut LP was deleted almost too quickly for most listeners to find it, much less hear it. Now regarded as a country-soul classic (and, perhaps, the first country-soul album), Introspect anticipated the sound that Elvis Presley and Tony Joe White would both bring to the fore in the following year, except that it was even more ambitious than Presley or White, mixing and bending genres in new and exciting ways. Country, Eastern raga, gutbucket soul, and pop all brush up against each other within the same songs, some of which sound like Elvis singing with a backing band that included James Burton and Ravi Shankar. And thanks to South's use of various electronic devices in association with the considerable virtuosity in the playing, and his exceptional singing, this is still a bracing album four decades later. US rock/1968

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Please Mr. Postman is the 1961 debut LP from Motown girl group The Marvelettes. The focal track is the number-one hit single, "Please Mr. Postman", which was the album's only hit. It notably features a cover version of "I Want a Guy", which was the debut single for fellow Motown girl group The Supremes the same year. Other songs on the album include "Oh I Apologize", produced by Smokey Robinson, who would produce much of the group's later material, and "Angel". Both songs were early leads for Wanda Young who would later take Gladys Horton's place as the group's main lead singer.

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When one thinks about swamp music (and one should think about swamp music, at least sometimes), the first guitar player who comes to mind is probably Tony Joe White. He is of it. And he is so highly regarded by his iconic peers that a handful of the most luminary showed up to contribute to his newest recording. When you make a record, and Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler, J.J. Cale, Michael McDonald, and Waylon Jennings (posthumous) all come aboard to contribute songs, singing and playing, at that point surely you can conclude that you got all the way there in your lifetime.

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BABY WHALE were a brief and relatively obscure early seventies folk band based out of Cambridge whose sole album sat archived for nearly thirty years before being released on CD in 2002. The band's genesis came when Cambridge Folk Club resident Nick Barraclough met his future wife Anne Baker, an American in England playing acoustic folk music. The two recruited TOBY JUG BAND guitarist/vocalist Steve Brooks and GOODY TWO SHOES was born. Shortly afterwards Brian Wren and Lindsey Scott would sign on, and the band would change their name to BABY WHALE and appear at 1973's Cambridge Music Festival. During their short existence the group was known to have supported or appeared with such varied acts as VELVET UNDERGROUND, DAVID BOWIE, PRETTY THINGS, MC5, LOU REED, CURVED AIR, CHUCK BERRY and FAIRPORT CONVENTION. Signed to DJM Records, they cut a dozen tracks at Rockfield Recording Studios in Wales, but due to financial troubles the label folded before the record could be properly released. Shortly after those sessions Anne Baker would depart and be replaced only briefly by SALLY OLDFIELD (Mike's sister and half of the folk duo SALLYANGIE) before the group disbanded and its members dispersed to other ventures.

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Nirvana's third and final album for Island (sometimes titled Dedicated to Markos III in discographies) was extremely rare in its first 1969 LP issue, the U.K. release limited to a few hundred promo copies. The group's cutesiness was toned down considerably for this LP, though they were still offering the kind of light orchestrated pop-rock that they had on their previous Island records, with some jazz and classical influences. It's a more mature product than their first two albums, but a little tired-sounding, and lacking in the more psychedelic ambition that produced some of their best songs, like "Rainbow Chaser" and "I Believe in Magic." In fact they sometimes sound rather like film composers or pop-jazz-vocals singer/songwriters caught in a different era, what with the rather grandiose (and certainly grandiosely arranged) Euro-romantic sweep of most of their songs.

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“Girls In The Sun” it recounts one from the knownest histories of love of old Greek cinema, the innocent shepherd (Yannis Voglis) and a beautiful tourist (Anne Lonnberg), with background the Greek province of the 60s.Easily one of strongest "groovy 60's" soundtracks I've ever happened upon, this wonderful collection of tunes touches on quasi Morricone guitar and organ folk-twang, exotic late night cool cat jazz, twinkling mallet instruments, and a baroque touch that drapes a sleepy, mystical aura over everything. The performances are strong and the compositions very tight.

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The rock group Family Tree formed in 1968 in Canada. Members of the lineup included vocalist and guitarist Bob Segarini, vocalist and keyboardist Michel Dure, drummer Vann Scater, keyboardist and guitarist Jimmy de Cocq, and bassist Bill Trochim. The band had a short life and only released one album. The year it formed, Family Tree landed a deal with RCA Records and recorded a debut album, Miss Butters. It would be the group's first and last offering. Some of the tracks from this loner are "Any Other Baby," "Nine to Three," "Butters Lament," "Simple Life," and "Melancholy Vaudeville Man." Members from Family Tree moved on to other groups, like the Dudes, Roxy, and the Wackers. Bob Segarini also carried on a long solo career.


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A nearly forgotten singer/songwriter of the ’60s, Tim Rose’s early work bore a strong resemblance to another Tim working in Greenwich Village around 1966-1967 — Tim Hardin. Rose also favored a throaty blues folk-rock style with pop production flourishes, though he looked to outside material more, wasn’t quite in Hardin’s league as a singer or songwriter, and had a much harsher, even gravelly vocal tone. Before beginning a solo career, Rose had sung with Cass Elliott in the folk trio the Big Three a few years before she joined the Mamas and the Papas. Signed by Columbia in 1966, his 1967 debut album (which actually included a few previously released singles) is considered by far his most significant work. Two of the tracks were particularly noteworthy: his slow arrangement of “Hey Joe” inspired Jimi Hendrix’s version and “Morning Dew,” Rose’s best original composition, became something of a standard, covered by the Jeff Beck Group, the Grateful Dead, Clannad, and others. Years later, though, it was debated as to whether Rose wrote the song, or whether folksinger Bonnie Dobson penned the original version. Some non-LP singles he recorded around this time have unfortunately never been reissued, and although he made several other albums up through the mid-‘70s, none matched the acclaim of the first one.

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