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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David Hemmings is mostly known as a screen actor, his most famous role in his youth being the photographer in Michaelangelo Antonioni's classic 1966 Swinging London-set Blow Up, though he continued to appear in films for decades, landing roles in Last Orders and Gangs of New York shortly before his death. In the wake of Blow Up, he also had a little-known career as a recording artist, issuing a solo album, Happens, on MGM in 1967.Actor David Hemmings was afforded pop star-like status after his dashing turn in '60s pop culture flick BLOW UP, so it's appropriate that he took time out from the day job to make an album with members of The Byrds. Released in 1967, HAPPENS is a nine-track folk rock album by the talented actor. I recommend this album to all who loved the Byrds in their psychedelic era.

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(1978)

Set up as an occasional formation Farmers Union played for a half year professional, with a repertoire that consisted of traditional English folk, completed with own material.This was exported mainly electric and in its time [1972] the group was pretty unique.

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Released in 1969 , If Only For A Moment is the Blossom Toes second album .Their first "We Are Ever So Clean " was a flinty but enjoyable portion of British psychedelia but their second album see's the band take on more progressive and grungier tendencies .The four piece band had two rhythm and lead guitarists (Brian Goulding and Jim Cregan ) and three vocalists (the aforementioned two plus bassist Brian Belshaw, the drummer was Barry Reeves).This leads to some fascinating interplay and harmonising but also means the music tends to be over elaborate at times -"Indian Summer" even reminds me of Spinal Tap on occasions -but overall the album is a laudable mixture of bluesy acid rock with a west coast psychedelic timbre.The music recalls Captain Beefheart , Wishbone Ash , Frank Zappa, and even early Led Zeppelin to these ears but tracks like "Just Above My Hobby Horses Head" evokes the Beatles with it's plangent sitar courtesy of US folkie Shawn Phillips.

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Jerry Butler, Jr. (born December 8, 1939 in Sunflower, Mississippi) is an American soul singer also known as “The Ice Man” because of his cool demeanour while singing often intensely emotional lyrics.Butler was dubbed the “Iceman” by a Philadelphia disc jockey while performing in a Philadelphia theater. However, Butler achieved what eluded many earlier Doo Wop groups during the 1950s and 1960s — longevity. Butler’s solo career had a string of hits, including “He Will Break Your Heart,” “Moon River,” “Make It Easy On Yourself,” “Let It Be Me” (the Everly Brothers classic re-done as a duet with Betty Everett), “Brand New Me,” “Ain’t Understanding Mellow,” (duet with Brenda Lee Eager), and “Never Gonna Give You Up,” followed by two hugely successful albums The Iceman Cometh in 1968 and Ice On Ice in 1970. The Iceman Cometh garnered Butler three Grammy nominations.

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An amazingly soulful set of jazzy folk tunes from the late 60s -- the only album we've ever seen from singer Jerry Moore, and a real rarity from the ESP label! Moore's got a style that's somewhere between Terry Callier and Tim Buckley -- earthy and acoustic one minute, but stepping out with some hipper rock-influenced touches the next -- in a style that makes the album way more than just a conventional folk set.

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There’s been so much written and said about each and every one of Bob Dylan’s albums that it’s all too easy to wind-up lost in the vast, labyrinthine myths surrounding them. One of the biggest is the whole shock-of-the-new deal, otherwise known as the day the earth stood still when Dylan picked up a Stratocaster. It seems ludicrous now that there could be so much ballyhoo over his decision to play some tunes with a rock group, especially when, even by the standards of the day, it was fairly innocuous rock music at that.

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The tongue-twisting name is as unique as the band itself. It was formed in 1964 in Wiltshire, England, was active until 1972.Starting out in the very early 60s as Dave Dee and The Bostons, the Dozies plied their trade around various UK venues and were also extremely popular on the Hamburg scene, playing clubs like The Top Ten and The Star Club. Their stage act involved a lot of humor and showmanship - in fact it still does - which made them stand out on the circuit.The songs, too, were wonderfully dramatic, and although each one was instantly recognizable as one of theirs (mainly penned by managers and songwriters Ken Howard and Alan Blaikley) they also each had a different theme to them, from the Greek influences of Bend It to the Latino rock qualities of Save Me and many points in between. The band’s name stems from the nicknames of the members, and was thoroughly twisted and mangled by DJs and presenters alike. Well you’ve got to admit it’s a bit of a mouthful, and it’s much easier to refer to them as The Dozies for short. Another aspect that made them stand out from the crowd was their fashion sense. They would design their own clothes, get the material and have them sewn together by a lady in Cheshire. Later the designs would be copied and appear in some form in the Carnaby Street boutiques for public consumption. Check out some of the vintage footage of the band and you’ll be aware that they had quite an influence on the clothing scene at the time.

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Clarence Carter (born 14 January 1936, Montgomery, Alabama) is a singer and musician.Carter’s earliest releases were as half of the duo Clarence And Calvin. Also known as the “C And C Boys”, the blind duo made seven singles, the last of which was recorded at Fame’s Muscle Shoals studio. When his partner, Calvin Thomas (aka Scott), suffered serious injuries in a car accident in 1966, Carter became a solo act (Calvin himself later reappeared as a solo act to record two Dave Crawford-produced Atco Records singles in 1969/70 and a Clarence Paul-produced 1971 album for Stax Records, I’m Not Blind . … I Just Can’t See, from which two singles were also taken). “Tell Daddy”, released in January 1967, began a fruitful spell of Fame-produced hits by Carter, released on the Atlantic Records label. Noteworthy were “Thread The Needle”, “Looking For A Fox” and “Slip Away”, where the singer combined his outstanding voice with his skill as an arranger and musician.“Patches”, first recorded by Chairmen Of The Board, was a UK number 2 and a US number 4 in 1970, but despite further strong offerings, Clarence was unable to sustain the momentum. He remained with Fame until 1973, where he also helped guide Candi Staton, who was now his wife, before moving to ABC Records the subsequent year.Further recordings on Venture and Big C took Carter’s career into the 1980s and later the artist found a sympathetic outlet with the Ichiban Records label. Despite being blinded as a child, he developed a distinctive guitar style that complemented his earthy delivery, and was just as comfortable on keyboards, writing songs or arranging sessions.


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Vanity Fare were a UK pop/rock group formed in 1966, best remembered for their million selling song, “Hitchin’ a Ride,” which became a worldwide hit in 1970, and the genteel “Early In The Morning”.

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The Vejtables had a career of two distinct parts. They were formed in San Mateo in 1964 and became a popular, local, folk-rock group. During this period they recorded for Autumn records and released two singles. In late 1965 and early 1966 they went through a period of personnel changes and lack of recording contract before landing a contract with Mercury. They then cut a number of tracks at Golden State Recorders. The new line-up, playing 'psychedelic-garage' music released one single. A final single was released by the group using the name The Book Of Changes. They finally split up in late 1967.


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