Wichita Fall - Life Is But A Dream (1969/2011) Tune In - TUNE IN 007

 

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Baroque Pop, Sunshine Pop, Psychedelic Rock

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Life Is But A Dream is the sole and only album by the Los Angeles band Wichita Fall, released in November 1968 on Imperial Records. It's a heavily orchestrated baroque/sunshine pop record: 13 tracks by singer-guitarists Philip Black and David Roush, arranged and conducted by Artie Butler. First CD release in 2011 on Tune In, adding bonus tracks "Lovely Love" and "Ginger Blue".

Tracks:

1. Morning Sun 2:10

2. Once In The Morning 2:36

3. Sunny Road 2:52

4. Going To Ohio 3:34

5. Playground 2:51

6. Ornamental Sideshow 2:57

7. Poor Mr. Drake’s Afternoon Show 2:18

8. Crystal Rain 3:32

9. Hectivity 2:49

10. Schubert’s Theme 2:45

11. Night Time Suite 1:07

12. Are You Sleeping 1:10

13. Life Is But A Dream 2:51

Bonus Tracks:

14. Lovely Love (Single A-Side 1969) 2:31

15. Ginger Blue (Single B-Side 1969) 2:50

Personnel:

Acoustic Guitar [Lead], Vocals - Phillip Black

Bass - Larry Watson

Drums - Len Feigin

Rhythm Guitar, Vocals - David Roush

Unicorn - Uphill All The Way (1971/1989) Line - TACD 9.00745 O

 

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Folk And Country Rock

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Uphill All The Way is the debut studio album by the Surrey-based British folk-rock group Unicorn, released in 1971 on Transatlantic Records. Produced by Hugh Murphy, who was also working on Gerry Rafferty's debut it blends folk and country rock with CSN-style harmonies and features covers of songs by Jimmy Webb "P.F. Sloan", Neil Young, James Taylor and Gerry Rafferty alongside Ken Baker originals.

Tracks:

1. P.F. Sloan 4:31

2. 115 Bar Joy 3:52

3. I’ve Loved Her So Long 2:42

4. Don’t Ever Give Up Trying 5:09

5. Country Road 4:13

6. Something To Say 4:43

7. Ain’t Got A Lot Of Future 6:49

8. Never Going Back 3:21

9. You, You, You Have 5:37

10. Please Sing A Song For Us 3:09

Personnel:

Bass Guitar, Vocals – Pat Martin

Drums, Congas, Percussion, Vocals – Peter Perrier

Electric Guitar [6 String], Acoustic Guitar [6 And 12 String], Organ, Piano, Harmonium, Electric Piano, Vocals – Ken Baker 

Lead Guitar, Electric Guitar [6 & 12 String], Acoustic Guitar [6 And 12 String], Flute, Vocals – Trevor Mee 

Tambourine – Hugh Murphy

Ergo Sum - “Mexico” (1971/2007) Lion Productions - LION 618M

 

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Progressive Rock, Jazz Rock with strong British influences

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Mexico is the sole and only studio album by Ergo Sum, a French progressive rock band from Aix-en-Provence. It was released in 1971 on the Thélème label, distributed by Barclay, and recorded at the legendary Michel Magne Studios in Hérouville. English-language prog blended with jazz, blues and Canterbury-style psych, featuring flute, violin and Hammond/Rhodes keyboards.The band disbanded in July 1972, making this their only release.

Tracks:

1. Night Road 3:05

2. Unparalleled Embrace 2:44

3. John’s Nightmare 3:53

4. Faces 6:27

5. Second Rebirth 4:10

6. Mexico 3:30

7. I Know Your Mother 8:50

8. Albion Impressions 4:52

9. Lydie 0:55

Bonus Tracks:

10. All’s So Comic 6:03

11. Tijuana 3:41

12. It’s Me 2:02

13. Mexico (Instrumental) 0:52

Notes

Tracks: 1-9 were released only one album in 1971.

Track: 10 is taken from the "Various - Puissance 13+2" anthology.

Tracks: 11 & 12 are both sides of the 7" Single released in 1972.

Track: 13 is a shortened instrumental version of the title track.

Bass – Edouard Magnani (11,12), Max Touat (1-10,13)

Drums – B.B. Brutus (11,12)

Drums, Congas, Maracas, Percussion – B.B. Brutus (1-10,13)

Electric Guitar – Michel Leonardi (1-10,13)

Electric Organ [Hammond Organ], Electric Piano, Flute – Jean Guerin (11,12)

Electric Violin – Roland Meynet (11,12)

Flute, Piano [Wurlitzer], Grand Piano [Steinway], Electric Piano [Rhodes], Electric Organ [Hammond Organ] – Jean Guerin (1-10,13)

Guest, Rhythm Guitar [Acoustic Rhythm Guitar] – Laurent Thibault (1-10,13)

Guitar, Xylophone – Marc Perru (11,12)

Violin – Roland Meynet (1-10,13)

Vocals – Lionel Ledissez (11,12)

Vocals [Vocal], Percussion, Bells [Sleigh Bells] – Lionel Ledissez (1-10,13)

Strawbs - Just A Collection Of Antiques And Curios (1970/1998) A&M Records - 540 938-2

 

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Art Rock, Folk Rock, Progressive Rock, Largely Acoustic

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Just A Collection Of Antiques And Curios is the third album by The Strawbs, released in late 1970 on A&M Records. It was recorded live at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall on 11 July 1970, produced by Tony Visconti. It was the band's US debut and their first to feature Rick Wakeman, whose solo piano piece "Temperament Of Mind" earned him his first front-page British music press coverage... 

Tracks:

1. Martin Luther King's Dream

2. The Antique Suite

3. Temperament Of Mind

4. Fingertips

5. Song Of A Sad Little Girl

6. Where Is This Dream Of Your Youth

Bonus tracks:

7. The Vision Of The Lady Of The Lake (Live, hitherto unreleased)

8. We'll Meet Again Sometime (Live, from B-Side of withdrawn "Witchwood" single)

9. Forever (Studio version, A-Side of single, also included on "By Choice")

Personnel:

Bass, Vocals - John Ford

Congas [Conga Drums], Cymbal, Tambourine, Sitar, Vocals - Richard Hudson

Organ, Piano, Harpsichord, Celesta [Celeste] - Rick Wakeman

Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Dulcimer - Dave Cousins

Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Tambourine - Tony Hooper

Jimmy James & His Blue Flames (1979/EP 7") Blue Flames Records - 5205

 

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Blues Rock

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This is a 1979 unofficial/bootleg 7″ EP (33⅓ RPM) released on Blue Flames Records (catalog no. 5205), attributing the recordings to Jimi Hendrix under his stage name "Jimmy James". The band, Jimmy James and the Blue Flames, was a short-lived 1966 Greenwich Village group fronted by Hendrix (then "Jimmy James") alongside 15-year-old Randy California, bassist Randy Palmer and drummer Danny Casey.

Tracks:

A1. Bright Lites, Big City (3:16)

A2. I'm A Man (4:25)

B1. No Such Animal Pt.1 (2:27)

B2. No Such Animal Pt.2 (2:36)

Personnel:

Guitar and vocals - Jimmi Hendrix

Guitar - Randy Wolfe (his stage name Randy California)

Bass - Randy Palmer

Drums - Dan Casey

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Guest keyboardists occasionally sat in during live performances, most notably: Al Kooper or Barry Goldberg. These musicians joined the group temporarily, particularly during their backing slot for John Hammond Jr. at the Cafe au Go Go, but they were not official members of the band's stable lineup.

Booker T. & The MG's - Time Is Tight (1998) Stax - 3SCD-4424-2

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Rhythm & Blues, Soul

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Time Is Tight is a 1998 three-CD compilation box set by Booker T. & The MG's, released by the Stax label. A remastered 3CD set containing 65 tracks with a total duration of approximately 3 hours and 51 minutes. The collection features the band's hits from 1962 through 1971, including "Green Onions" and the title track "Time Is Tight," along with numerous LP tracks and failed singles. The third disc is dedicated to previously unreleased live recordings (mostly from 1992–1994) and rarities, including a version of "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" featuring guest artist Neil Young.

American instrumental rhythm & blues and soul combo, formed 1962 in Memphis, Tennessee. Best remembered as the in-house backing band of the Stax record label. The band’s name is a combination of organist Booker T. Jones's first names and the acronym for “Memphis Group”, MG. Other members were Al Jackson Jr. (drums), Steve Cropper (guitar) and Lewis Steinberg (bass guitar) who was replaced by Donald "Duck" Dunn in 1963...

CD1

1. Green Onions

2. Behave Yourself

3. Jellybread

4. Home Grown

5. Burnt Biscuits

6. Chinese Crackers

7. Mo' Onions

8. Tic-Tac-Toe

9. Fannie Mae

10. Soul Dressing

11. Can't Be Still

12. Boot-Leg

13. Outrage

14. Be My Lady

15. My Sweet Potato

16. Hip Hug-Her

17. Summertime

18. Slim Jenkins' Place

19. Groovin'

20. Soul Sanction

21. Pigmy

22. Booker's Notion

23. I Can Dig It

24. Expressway (To Your Heart)

25. You Don't Love Me

26. Never My Love

27. Blue On Green

28. Ode To Billy Joe

CD2

1. Soul Limbo

2. Heads Or Tails

3. Be Young, Be Foolish, Be Happy

4. Hang 'Em High

5. Willow Weep For Me

6. Over Easy

7. Time Is Tight

8. Johnny, I Love You

9. Lady Madonna

10. Mrs. Robinson

11. Soul Clap '69

12. I've Never Found A Girl (To Love Me Like You Do)

13. You're All I Need To Get By

14. It's Your Thing

15. Something

16. Sunday Sermon

17. McLemore Avenue

18. Beatles Medley

19. Chicken Pox

20. Melting Pot

CD3

1. Gotta Serve Somebody

2. Lay Lady Lay

3. MG Party

4. Terrible Thing

5. Hole In The Wall

6. (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay

7. Booker's Theme

8. Albert's Rap

9. Born Under A Bad Sign (with Albert King)

10. Medley: I'm With You/I Don't Mind/Oh, Baby Don't You Weep

11. Meditation

12. Green Onions

13. Sarasota Sunset

14. I've Been Loving You Too Long (To Stop Now) (with Boz Scaggs)

15. Hang 'Em High

16. Time Is Tight

17. (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay (with Neil Young)

 

Scrubbaloe Caine ‎- Round One (1973) Vinyl RCA Victor - APL1-0263

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Blues Rock, Boogie Rock, West Coast Rock

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Scrubbaloe Caine was a Canadian rock music group, active from 1970 to 1975. Round One is the debut and only studio album by the band, released in 1973. Recorded at RCA Victor's Music Center of the World in Los Angeles, it's a blues-rock record produced by David M. Kershenbaum with a lineup that included future Loverboy guitarist Paul Dean and Guess Who bassist Jim Kale.

In 1975  planned a second album to be titled Street Level. The album was never completed or released, and the band broke up in 1976.

Tracks:

1. Edmonton Rain 3:01

2. Do I Love You (Does A Guitar Play The Blues?) 3:51

3. Rosalie 3:27

4. Gonna Keep An Eye On You 3:30

5. Daybreak 5:29

6. Trouble 5:03

7. Feelin’ Good On Sunday 3:04

8. Travelin’ 3:48

9. Crazy ‘Bout A Blues Guitar 7:07

Personnel:

Bass, Vocals - Jim Kale

Drums, Percussion, Vocals - Bill McBeth

Keyboards, Harmonica, Lead Vocals - Al Foreman 

Lead Guitar - Jim Harmata

Lead Guitar, Slide Guitar - Paul Dean

Violin, Lead Vocals - Henry Small

 

The Glitterhouse - The Almost Complete Recordings 1966 to 1974 (2006) No Label

 

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Psychedelic Pop, Blue-Eyed Soul

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The Almost Complete Recordings 1966 to 1974 is a 23-track compilation by the Los Angeles pop-psych band The Glitterhouse, originally issued as a homemade CD-R in 2002 by keyboardist Moogy Klingman (later of Utopia) on his Moogy Music label essentially a band-approved, unlabelled bootleg that was later reissued as a proper 2006 CD. It gathers the band's only studio album Color Blind (1968, produced by Bob Crewe), three cuts from the Barbarella soundtrack, early 1966–67 fairy-tale singles ("Rumplestiltskin", "Alice in Wonderland"), the 1967 "New York Blues" audition tape, 1968 in-house demos, and 1974 reunion demos cut at Secret Sound (the studio Klingman shared with Todd Rundgren).

Tracks:

1. Tinkerbell’s Mind 4:40

2. Princess Of The Gingerland 4:19

3. Sassafrass And Cinnamon 4:07

4. Child Of Darkness 4:18

5. I Lost Me A Friend 4:13

6. Times Are Getting Hard 3:45

7. Where Have You Been Hiding? 2:48

8. Hey Woman 3:57

9. Happy To Have You Here Again 3:25

10. Barbarella 2:40

11. Love Drags Me Down 3:40

12. I Love All The Love In You 3:48

13. Rumpelstiltskin 2:23

14. Ode To An Unknown Girl 2:02

15. Alice In Wonderland 2:28

16. New York Blues 3:37

17. Born To The Blues 2:06

18. It’s Going To Take Some Time 1:46

19. Grandma, Why Do You Live In Harlem? 4:07

20. Going Home 4:56

21. Rainbow Child 3:27

22. For Ann, Liz And Harvee 3:09

Notes

LP Color Blind 1968 / tracks: 1-9

From The Movie "Barbarella" 1968 / tracks: 10-12

The Early Singles 1966/1967 / tracks: 13-15

The Audition Tape 1967 / track: 16

In House Demos 1968 / tracks: 17-18

Reunion Demos 1974 / tracks: 19-22

Personnel:

Mike Gayle - lead vocals, lead guitar

Hank Aberle - guitar, violin, harmony vocals, lead vocals (22)

Al Lax - bass, harmony vocals

Moogy Klingman - keyboards, lead vocals (19)

Joel "Bishop" O’Brien - drums, lead vocals (18)

The Buoys (1971/1999) Citadel - CITADEL 8865

 

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Pop Rock

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The Buoys were an American pop/rock band from the early 1970s. Its membership included Bill Kelly, Fran Brozena, Jerry G. Hludzik, Carl Siracuse and Chris Hanlon, based in the Wilkes-Barre-Scranton, Pennsylvania, area. The group released their self-titled debut album in 1971 on Scepter Records, which also included the song "Give Up Your Guns", a hit in Europe. The Buoys are best known for their recording of Rupert Holmes's "Timothy", a song deliberately written to get banned, based on the theme of cannibalism.

Tracks:

1. Give Up Your Guns (4:15)

2. Castles (2:24)

3. Sunny Days (1:42)

4. Memories (3:18)

5. The Prince Of Thieves (4:17)

6. Streams (2:47)

7. These Days (2:45) 1969

8. Timothy (2:42)

9. Tell Me Heaven Is Here (3:30)

10. Bloodknot (2:09)

11. Tomorrow (3:22)

12. Absent Friend (3:48)

13. Pittsburgh Steel (4:08)

14. Good Lovin' (2:25)

Notes

Tracks: 1-5, 8-12, originally released on Scepter Records in 1971(only studio album).

Tracks: 6,7,13,14 Bonus

Personnel:

Bass, Vocals – Jerry G. Hludzik

Drums, Percussion – Chris Hanlon

Guitar, Flute, Vocals – Bill Kelly 

Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals – Fran Brozena

Guitar, Keyboards, Flute – Carl Siracuse

Cello – Sally Rosoff (12)

Spectrum - Milesago (1971/2004) Black Rose Records - BR 178

 

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Progressive Rock [Masterpiece]

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Spectrum are an Australian progressive rock band which formed in April 1969 and broke up in April 1973... Spectrum released their debut studio album, Spectrum Part One, in March 1971, although it did not include the hit single. Their second album, Milesago, was released in December 1971, as the first Australian rock music double album. It is also the first Australian rock album to be recorded using a 16-track recorder...

Tracks:

1. But That's All Right 4:23

2. Love's My Bag 4:17

3. Your Friend And Mine 7:22

4. Untitled 4:31

5. Play A Song That I Know 3:49

6. What The World Needs (Is A New Pair Of Socks) 7:18

7. Virgin's Tale 3:27

8. A Fate Worse Than Death 4:43

9. Tell Me Why 1:47

10.-13. The Sideways Saga (Part 1-4)

a. The Question 1:07

b. The Answer 2:16

c. Do The Crab 4:55

d. Everybody's Walking Sideways 2:44

14. Trust Me 6:04

15. Fly Without Its Wings 10:08

16. Mama, Did Jesus Wear Make Up? 2:10

17. Milesago 7:14

Originally released as 2LP in December 1971 [Harvest]

Personnel:

Michael Rudd - Acoustic & Electric Guitars, Recorder, Vocals

Lee Neale - Organ, Harpsichord, Piano, Vocals

Bill Putt - Bass

Ray Arnott - Drums, Percussion, Vocals

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Jeremy Noone - Saxophone (4,5,8)

David Clarke - Saxophone (4,8)

Steve Miller - Trombone (4)

Simon Wettenhall - Tuba (8)