One of Chicago’s great underground bands. Mountain Bus were frequently cited as Chicago’s answer to the Grateful Dead, and indeed some of their songs on the above album sound like San Fransisco’s most cherished sons.The fiasco of the lawsuit against Mountain Bus and Good Records by the people who represented Mountain really obscures the fact that the band created some fabulous, atmospheric and ambient music that at times bears a striking resemblence to the music being created by the Grateful Dead during the same period. Nothing, however, can obscure excellent songs, and Sundance is full of them. (part - Stanton Swihart, All Music Guide)
01 - Sing A New Song 02 - Rosalie 03 - I Don't Worry About Tomorrow 04 - Sundance 05 - I Know You Rider 06 - Apache Canyon 07 - Hexahedron
Primevil was a short-lived hard rock combo from Indiana, comprised of vocalist Dave Campton, guitarists Larry Lucas and Jay Wilfong, bassist Mark Sipe, and drummer Mel Cupp (Moe Whittemore contributed synthesizers in the studio) -- most of whom were barely out of their teens when they recorded their sole long-player, Smokin' Bats at Campton's, in 1974.Produced at Moe Whittemore's 700 West studio, Primevil's Smokin' Bats at Comptons, is one of the heavy rock monsters of the Midwest. 01 - Leavin' 02 - Progress 03 - Fantasies 04 - Pretty Woman 05 - Tell Me If You Can 06 - Hey, Lover 07 - High Steppin' Stomper 08 - Your Blues LINK
Refugee was a progressive rock group formed by former The Nice members, bassist Lee Jackson and drummer Brian Davison, with keyboardist Patrick Moraz. After The Nice, Jackson had formed Jackson Heights, with Davison later becoming involved in the project too. Jackson then invited Moraz to form a new trio, Refugee, with him and Davison and following the same keys/bass/drums format as The Nice had. Refugee released one album on Charisma Records. The music was composed by Moraz with lyrics from Jackson. Without a deal for a second album and with tensions in the band, Moraz accepted an offer to join Yes in 1974 and, after a final few shows, Refugee split up. 01 - Papillon 02 - Someday 03 - Grand Canyon Suite 04 - Ritt Mickley 05 - Credo LINK
01 - Kiss Me Quick 02 - Just For Old Times Sake 03 - Gonna Get Back Home Somehow 04 - Easy Question 05 - Steppin' Out Of Line 06 - I'm Yours 07 - Something Blue 08 - Suspicion 09 - I Feel That I've Known You Forever 10 - Night Rider 11 - Fountain Of Love 12 - That's Someone You'll Never Forget
01 - King Of The Whole Wide World 02 - This Is Living 03 - Riding The Rainbow 04 - Home Is Where The Heart Is 05 - I Got Lucky 06 - A Whistling Tune 07 - Girls! Girls! Girls! 08 - I Don't Wanna Be Tied 09 - Where Do You Come From 10 - I Don't Want To 11 - We'll Be Together 12 - A Boy Like me, A Girl Like You 13 - Earth Boy 14 - Return To Sender 15 - Because Of Love 16 - Thanks To The Rolling Sea 17 - Song Of The Shrimp 18 - The walls Have ears 19 - We're Coming In Loaded 20 - Mama 21 - Plantation Rock 22 - Dainty Little Moonbeams 23 - Girls! Girls! Girls! (End Title Version)
01 - Beyond The Bend 02 - Relax 03 - Take Me To The Fair 04 - They Remind Me Too Much Of You 05 - One Broken Heart For Sale [film version] 06 - I'm Falling In Love Tonight 07 - Cotton Candy Land 08 - A World Of Our Own 09 - How Would You Like To Be 10 - Happy Ending 11 - One Broken Heart For Sale 12 - Fun In Acapulco 13 - Vino Diner Y Amor 14 - Mexico 15 - El Toro 16 - Marguerita 17 - The Bullfighter Was A Lady 18 - No Room To Rhumba In A Sports Car 19 - I Think I'm Gonna Like It Here 20 - Bossa Nova Baby 21 - You Can't Say No In Acapulco 22 - Guadalajara
01 - It's Now or Never 02 - Stuck On You 03 - Fame And Fortune 04 - I Gotta Know 05 - Surrender 06 - I Feel So Bad 07 - Are You Lonesome Tonight 08 - His Last Flame 09 - Little Sister 10 - Good Luck Charm 11 - Anything That's Part Of You 12 - She's Not You
01 - Kissin Cousins (Number 2) 02 - Smokey Mountain Boy 03 - There's Gold In The Mountains 04 - One Boy Two Little Girls 05 - Catchin' On Fast 06 - Tender Feeling 07 - Anyone (Could Fall In Love With You) 08 - Barefoot Ballad 09 - Once Is Enough 10 - Kissin' Cousins 11 - Clambake 12 - Who Needs Money 13 - A House That Has Everything 14 - Confidence 15 - Hey, Hey, Hey 16 - You Don't Know Me 17 - The Girl I Never Loved 18 - How Can You Lose What You Never Had 19 - Clambake 20 - Stay Away, Joe 21 - Dominic 22 - All I Needed Was The Rain 23 - Goin' Home 24 - Stay Away
Pickettywitch was a British pop group. The original members were Polly Brown (vocals), Chris Warren (vocals), Bob Brittain (organ), Martin Bridges (guitar), Mike Tomich (bass guitar) and Keith Hall (drums). Bridges and Tomich were replaced later in 1970 by Peter Hawkins (guitar) and Brian Stuart (bass), who would later be replaced by Paul Risi (guitar) and Paul Riordan (bass). The name Pickettywitch is often said to have been taken from a Cornish village through which their eventual lead singer, Polly Brown, had passed with her sister; in fact, there is no such village, though there is a pub of that name at Yeovil in Somerset. Pickettywitch was signed by record producer John Macleod to Pye Records and released their debut single, "You've Got Me So I Don't Know" b/w "Solomon Grundy" in July 1969.Two further singles also made the UK chart in that year - these were "(It's Like A) Sad Old Kinda Movie" (again written by Macaulay and Mcleod) (#16), and "Baby I Won't Let You Down" (written by Les Reed and Geoff Stephens) (#27).In 1970, "Days I Remember" was received radio airplay. The single did not appear on record charts, but "That Same Old Feeling" reached #67 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the summer of that same year. Brown left for a solo career in late 1972. 01 You Got Me So I Don't Know 02 Solomon Grundy 03 That Same Old Feeling 04 Maybe We've Been Loving Too Long 05 (It's Like A) Sad Old Kinda Movie 06 Times 07 Baby I Won't Let You Down 08 Please Bring Her Back Home 09 Take Away the Emptiness Too 10 Then It Will Be 11 Shame Shame 12 Sound of Silence 13 I'll Say Bye Bye 14 Days I Remember 15 Two Hearts Are Better Than One 16 There He Goes 17 This Day 18 Waldo P. Emerson Jones 19 Summertime Feeling 20 Dreamin' 21 Bring a Little Light into My World 22 Dream World 23 Number Wonderful 24 Point of No Return 25 The Power and the Glory 26 Living by the Gun 27 Fugue LINK
The Sedate Sunshine Colony was a 1965-69 psychedelic folk-rock band born in Kinsburg near Fresno. Woody Bell (vocals), Jeff Anderson (bass),Pat Erickson (vocals), Craig Anderson (guitar), Jonnie Sue Bartel (keyboard) and Chuck Zendner (drums). Near all tracks recorded live at the Dinuba Memorial Auditorium, CA, April 25, 1968 01 - Dark On You Now 02 - Thoughts And Words 03 - Evil Hearted You 04 - Where Were You 05 - Visionary Pumpkin 06 - Change Yourself For The World 07 - Whittier Blvd. 08 - Bentley Road 09 - Run For Your Life 10 - Whiskey Man 11 - Kill The Cobra (Bentley Road) LINK
Fairfield Parlour were an English progressive rock band that recorded in the late 1960s into the early 1970s. After the psychedelic rock group Kaleidoscope moved further into progressive rock, and also to avoid confusion with the American group Kaleidoscope, they renamed themselves Fairfield Parlour. The members were Peter Daltrey (vocals, keyboards), Eddy Pumer (guitars), Steve Clark (bass, flute) and Dan Bridgman (drums). The band released several singles and one critically acclaimed full album, From Home to Home, which is now considered a classic.
01 - Aries 02 - In My Box 03 - By Your Bedside 04 - Soldier Of The Flesh 05 - I Will Always Feel The Same 06 - Free 07 - Emily 08 - Chalk On The Wall 09 - The Glorious House Of Arthur 10 - Monkey 11 - Sunny Side Circus 12 - Drummer Boy Of Shiloh 13 - Bordeaux Rose 14 - Just Another Day 15 - Caraminda 16 - Song For You 17 - I Am All The Animals 18 - Baby, Stay For Tonight 19 - Eye Witness 20 - Baby Stay For Tonight
Great Speckled Bird was a Country rock group formed in 1969 by the Canadian musical duo Ian & Sylvia. Ian sang, played guitar and composed. Sylvia sang, composed and played piano. The other founding members were Amos Garrett on guitar and vocals, Bill Keith on steel guitar, Ken Kalmusky on bass and Ricky Marcus on drums. The album is notable for being the first album to be produced by Todd Rundgren.
01 - Love What You're Doing Child 02 - Calgary 03 - Trucker's Cafe 04 - Long Time To Get Old 05 - Flies In The Bottle 06 - Bloodshot Beholder 07 - Crazy Arms 08 - This Dream 09 - Smiling Wine 10 - Rio Grande 11 - Disappearing Woman 12 - We Sail
Pittsburgh power trio Fresh Blueberry Pancake formed in 1968, comprising singer/bassist Tony Impavido, guitarist John Behrens, and drummer Geoff Rydell. After two years of local gigging, the group built up enough of a fan base and enough original material to record a demo tape, and in 1970 they self-released Heavy, issued in a pressing of just 54 copies, the record is now much sought-after among collectors of plodding, monolithic acid rock. (The Shadoks label reissued Heavy in 2003.) After the album's release the group abbreviated its name to Pancake, dissolving in 1972. (Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide)
01 - Hassles 02 - Being´ In Town 03 - Clown On A Rope 04 - Bad Boy Turns Good 05 - I Call Him Lord 06 - Down On The Farm 07 - Where´s The Sun 08 - Sleep Bound 09 - Stranded
In April 1960 during the school vacation Paul borrowed a neighbour's tape recorder to record the then-called "Beatals" in his family home at No.20 Forthlin Road in Liverpool. In 1961 different tapes from these sessions were given to their friends in Hamburg, Hans Walther Braun and Astrid Kirchherr. In the late 70's Frank Dostal borrowed both original tapes and spliced them together in the Teldec studio on Heussweg is Hamburg. He made three copies, one for Hans Walther Braun, one for Astrid Kirchherr and one for himself. In April 1988 some tracks of one of these copies were released on the German LP "The Quarrymen At Home". Soon later most of the other tracks were released on a Dutch double LP called "John, Paul, George and Stu - Liverpool May 1960". The final missing vocal track "The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise" finally made it on Belmo's "Happy Christmas" single in 1991. All future CD releases were lifted from these sets which unfortunately were heavily compressed and edited. Even the official "Anthology Vol.1" double CD has the reverb and echo that was added to the tape in 1988! So it's not copied from the source tape but from the vinyl bootleg. For the first time now you have the chance to listen to the material lifted from the original source tape. To be honest, there are still some little snippets missing but many tracks are one or two seconds longer than on any previous release and one song for the first time ever could be heard in it's entirely: "Well Darling" on all previous releases was shortened from the original 5'06" to about 2'30" or 3'30". Here it is in full length without any fades or edits!
Disc 1 - Hans Walther Braun tape
01 - Hallelujah I Love Her So (Instrumental) 02 - Hallelujah I Love Her So 03 - The One After 909 (Version 1) 04 - Movin' & Groovin' 05 - Ramrod 06 - Instrumental No 1 07 - You'll Be Mine 08 - (Remaining Part Of Unknown Song) 09 - Matchbox 10 - I'll Always Be In Love With You 11 - The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise 12 - That's When Your Heartache Begins 13 - Instrumental No 2 14 - Wildcat (Version 1) 15 - The One After 909 (Version 2) 16 - Some Days 17 - You Must Write Every Day 18 - I'll Follow The Sun 19 - Hello Little Girl 20 - Wildcat (Version 2) 21 - McCartney Interview (1994) 22 - Hallelujah I Love Her So (Rm '95) 23 - You'll Be Mine
Around October of 1965, a small label called Savage Records released an album of Sheridan material. Where Savage got the songs to use on the album is not known. My theory is this: an album called The Beatles First had been issued in Germany in April of 1964, containing much of the same lineup as The Savage Young Beatles. Bootleggers in New York bought a copy of the record, and some time later -- with MGM's "My Bonnie" and Atco's "Ain't She Sweet" having hit the charts -- they decided to pirate the German Polydor album. Apparently in order to avoid possible lawsuits, they removed three of the four sides of the MGM and Atco hit singles from the album, reducing it to eight songs. The Savage album, appropriately named The Savage Young Beatles, contained four of the Sheridan/Beatles tracks and four songs by Tony Sheridan. The front cover deceptively shows the group without Tony and mentions Tony's name (on the front cover) only at the bottom, as though "T. Sheridan" were one of the songs. To its credit, however, the proper lineup of the Beatles (with Pete Best) was shown on the cover -- rather than making it appear as though these were "new" releases.(Frank Daniels)
01 - Let's Dance 02 - What'd I Say 03 - Sweet Georgia Brown 04 - Ruby Baby 05 - Ya Ya 06 - Why (Can't You Love Me Again) 07 - Cry For a Shadow 08 - If You Love Me Baby
Recordings of The Beatles in BBC Radio and Radio Sweden auditions 63-65. About the name "Johnny and the Moondogs", by October 26, 1959, the group was streamlined to just John, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison, and the threesome decided to make a second go at Carroll Levis' TV show "Discoveries." They called themselves Johnny and the Moondogs just for these auditions, which they unfortunately failed. One can only wonder whether Johnny and the Moondogs might have become a household name if they had passed the audition!
00 - Introduction (Radio Sweden) 24.10.63.wav 01 - I Saw Her Standing There (Radio Sweden) 02 - From Me To You (Radio Sweden) 03 - Money (Radio Sweden) 04 - Roll Over Beethoven (Radio Sweden) 05 - You Really Got A Hold On Me (Radio Sweden) 06 - She Loves You (Radio Sweden) 07 - Twist & Shout (Radio Sweden) 08 - Nothin Shakin (BBC Radio) 23.07.63 09 - Lonesome Tears In My Eyes (BBC Radio) 10.07.63 10 - So How Come (No One Loves Me) 10.07.63 11 - Please Mr. Postman (BBC Radio) 10.07.63 12 - Crying Waiting Hoping (BBC Radio) 16.07.63 13 - Ticket To Ride (BBC Radio) 26.05.65 14 - Rock And Roll Music (BBC Radio) 25.11.64 15 - Kansas City (BBC Radio) 25.11.64 16 - This Boy (BBC Radio) 28.02.64 17 - Can't Buy Me Love (BBC Radio) 28.02.64
01 - I Want To Hold Your Hand 02 - Money 03 - Twist And Shout 04 - From Me To You
Empire Pool, Wembley April 26, 1964
05 - She Loves You 06 - You Can't Do That 07 - Twist And Shout 08 - Long Tall Sally 09 - Can't Buy Me Love
Festival Hall, Melbourne, Aus June 15, 1964
10 - I Saw Her Standing There 11 - You Can't Do That 12 - All My Loving 13 - She Loves You 14 - Till There Was You 15 - Roll Over Beethoven 16 - Can't Buy Me Love 17 - Twist And Shout 18 - Long Tall Sally
Very rare BBC-TV Aircheck Tape 11. Nov. 1963 pm7:28 - 8:30 ON AIR
01. Introduction by Dickie Henderson 02. From Me To You 03. She Loves You 04. Till There Was You (John's M.C. "Those in the cheaper seats clap. Those upstairs just rattle your jewelly) 05. Twist And Shout
THE BLACKPOOL NIGHT OUT 1. AUG. 1965
06. I Feel Fine 07. I'm Down 08. Act Naturally 09. Ticket To Ride 10. Yesterday 11. Help!
ROYAL VARIETY SHOW 4. NOV. 1963 (BBC RADIO BROADCAST 10. Nov. 1963 pm7:28 - 8:30 ON AIR)
12. From Me To You (fade in) 13. She Loves You 14. Till There Was You 15. Twist And Shout
EMPIRE LIVERPOOL 7. DEC. 1963 ("IT'S THE BEATLES" ON AIR)
16. From Me To You 17. I Saw Her Standing There 18. All My Loving 19. Roll Over Beethoven 20. Boys 21. Till There Was You 22. She Loves You 23. This Boy 24. I Wanna Hold Your Hand 25. Money 26. Twist & Shout 27. From Me To You
01 - Flaming Star 02 - Summer Kisses Winter Tears 03 - Britches 04 - A Cane An A High Starched Collar 05 - Black Star 06 - Summer Kisses Winter Tears [movie version] 07 - Flaming Star [end title version] 08 - Wild In The Country 09 - I Slipped, I Stumbled, I Fell 10 - Lonely Man 11 - In My Way 12 - Forget Me Never 13 - Lonely Man [solo] 14 - I Slipped, I Stumbled, I Fell [alternate master] 15 - Follow That Dream 16 - Angel 17 - What A Wonderfull Life 18 - I'm Not The Marrying Kind 19 - A Whistling Tune 20 - Sound Advice
01 - Tonight Is So Right For Love 02 - What's She Really Like 03 - Frankfort Special 04 - Wooden Heart 05 - GI Blues 06 - Pocketful Of Rainbows 07 - Shoppin' Around 08 - Big Boots 09 - Didja' Ever 10 - Blue Suede Shoes 11 - Doin' The Best I can 12 - Tonight's Alright For Love
