Terry Winter (Thomas William Standen) was born in Brazil in 1947 from British parents. It was the first Brazilian artist to sing in English. His biggest hit, Summer Hollyday, 1972, was a huge success (at least in South America). 01 - Summer Holiday 02 - Ballony 03 - Look At Me 04 - Pretty Woman 05 - Our Love Dream 06 - Please Leave Me Alone 07 - Lovely Love 08 - I Know 09 - Tthe Whistler 10 - You´ll Notice Me 11 - Homesick 12 - Shadow Dark And Blue 13 - Something For Someone 14 - Nature LINK
Blossom Toes were an English psychedelic pop band active between 1967 and 1969. Initially known as The Ingoes, they were renamed and signed to manager Giorgio Gomelsky's Marmalade label. The original line-up comprised Brian Godding (guitar, vocals, keyboards), Jim Cregan, (guitar, vocals), Brian Belshaw (bass, vocals), and Kevin Westlake (drums). The band's debut album, We Are Ever So Clean, is a classic example of quintessentially English psychedelia. On release, it was presented in the UK music magazine Melody Maker as "Giorgio Gomelsky's Lonely Hearts Club Band". Although not a major commercial success, tracks such as "What On Earth" or "Look At Me, I'm You" have helped give the album something of a cult period status as it is unearthed by successive generations of 60s retro fans. It was recently voted Number 40 in Record Collector’s list of the "100 Greatest Psychedelic Records". 01 - Look At Me I'm You 02 - I'll Be Late For Tea 03 - The Remarkable Saga Of The Frozen Dog 04 - Telegram Tuesday 05 - Love Is 06 - What's It For 07 - People Of The Royal Parks 08 - What On Earth 09 - Mrs. Murphy's Budgerigar 10 - I Will Bring You This And That 11 - Mister Watchmaker 12 - When The Alarm Clock Rings 13 - The Intrepid Balloonist's Handbook, Volume One 14 - You 15 - Track For Speedy Freaks (Or Instant Lp Digest) 16 - Everybody's Talking 17 - Look At Me I'm You (Instrumental) 18 - I'll Be Late For Tea (Live) 19 - Mister Watchmaker (Live) 20 - I'll Be Your Baby Tonight 21 - Jim Cregan Bbc Interview 22 - Love Is (Live) 23 - Collects Little Girls (Demo) 24 - Hometime (Demo) 25 - Looking Up I'm Looking Back (Demo) LINK
St. John Green consisted of Ed Bissot (bass-vocals), Vic Sabino (harmonica-vocals), Bill Kirkland (guitar), Mike Baxter (organ-vocals), and Shel Scott (drums). St John Green, as the back cover of this album explains, were part of the "Canyon scene," a loose association of musicians and hippies based in and around Topanga Canyon in California in the late 60s. Spirit, featuring Randy California and Ed Cassidy, were the best known Canyon group. Although too patchy to be considered a "classic", this album by St John Green is a genuinely interesting period piece nevertheless, and it does include a handful of good songs. 01 - 7Th Generation Mutation 02 - Canyon Women 03 - Devil And The Sea 04 - Do You Believe 05 - Help Me Close The Door 06 - Messages From The Dead 07 - Goddess Of Death 08 - St. John Green 09 - Spirit Of Now 10 - Love Of Hate 11 - One Room Cemetary 12 - Shivers Of Pleasure LINK
From Los Angeles/California, this group made a pretty good laid back Rock record at the end of the decade that was re-issued in the '90s. This is one of those superobscure collector-type albums, probably better known for having only one existing copy than for the music contained. Nothing is known about the band Jungle except that they recorded this album in 1969. It's definitely an accomplished studio effort, with excellent recording and production. There are lots of really great swirling acid organ, good strong singing (sometimes harmonized), and some truly great isolated fuzz guitar breaks with some of the other guitar work approaching a jazzy flavor. The tunes are all originals, and while the lyrics have dated, the band still sounds great. Not only was this originally an extremely rare artifact originally, but both the CD and LP reissues were limited to 500 as well.(Westergaard, AMG) 01 - House Of Rooms 02 - Somewhere Sweet Memories 03 - Gray Picnic 04 - Changes I'm Going Through 05 - Early Morning Rising 06 - Slave Ship LINK
Pretties for You was the debut album by Alice Cooper. At this time, the name Alice Cooper referred to the band, not its lead singer, though the lead singer was known as Alice Cooper. The music has a psychedelic flavor to it. The group had yet to develop the more concise hard rock sound that they would become known for. Most of the tracks from the album have a distinct loud and dynamic rock sound. However, very few songs have had some sort of hard rock quality. For example, the spacey hard rock song "Fields of Regret", the bluesy "Sing Low, Sweet Cheerio", and a song that sounds a lot like Alice Cooper's music later on with the band, a live version of "Levity Ball". Pretties For You was a critical and commercial failure. 01 - Titanic Overture 02 - 10 Minutes Before The Worm 03 - Sing Low, Sweet Cheerio 04 - Today Mueller 05 - Living 06 - Fields Of Regret 07 - No Longer Umpire 08 - Levity Ball (Live At The Cheetah) 09 - B. B. On Mars 10 - Reflected 11 - Apple Bush 12 - Earwigs To Eternity 13 - Changing Arranging LINK
Alexis Korner was a pioneering blues musician and broadcaster who has sometimes been referred to as "the Founding Father of British Blues". A major influence on the sound of the British music scene in the 1960s, Korner was instrumental in bringing together various English blues musicians. In 1961, Korner and harmonica player Cyril Davies formed Blues Incorporated, initially a loose-knit group of musicians with a shared love of electric blues and R&B music. The group included, at various times, such influential musicians as Charlie Watts, Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker, Long John Baldry, Graham Bond, Danny Thompson and Dick Heckstall-Smith. It also attracted a wider crowd of mostly younger fans, some of whom occasionally performed with the group, including Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Rod Stewart, John Mayall and Jimmy Page. 01 - Robert Johnson 02 - Honky Tonk Woman 03 - I Got My Mojo Working 04 - King BB 05 - Im Your Hoochie Coochie Man 06 - I Got A Woman 07 - Operator 08 - Louisiana 09 - She Fooled Me 10 - Corina, Corina LINK
