Procol Harum are a British rock band, who contributed to the development of progressive rock, and by extension, symphonic rock. In April 1967, Gary Brooker began working as a singer-songwriter and formed Procol Harum with Keith Reid (poet), Hammond organist Matthew Fisher, guitarist Ray Royer and bassist David Knights. Guy Stevens, their original manager, named the band after a friend's Burmese cat. Their best-known recording is their 1967 single "A Whiter Shade of Pale". Although noted for its baroque and classical influence, Procol Harum's music also embraces the blues, R&B and soul. Through The Garden Fence - BBC Sessions and Rarities, is an essential compilation of BBC sessions. Tracks 1-2: June 14, 1967, Track 3: September 27, 1967, Track 4: Top Of The Pops 1967, Track 5: Top Of The Pops 1968, Tracks 6-8: August 19, 1968, Tracks 9-12: Top Of The Pops 1967-1968, Tracks 13-17: October 6, 1971, Tracks 18-20: September 16, 1970 01 - A Whiter Shade Of Pale 02 - Mabel 03 - She Wandered Through The Garden Fence 04 - Homburg 05 - Monsieur Armand 06 - Wishing Well 07 - Skip Softly (My Moonbeams) 08 - Long Gone Geek 09 - Kaleidoscope 10 - Rambling On 11 - Quite Rightly So 12 - Skip Softly (My Moonbeams) 13 - Shine On Brightly 14 - Seem To Have The Blues 15 - Simple Sister 16 - Whiskey Train 17 - Juicy John Pink 18 - Nothing That I Didn't Know 19 - Your Own Choice 20 - A Whiter Shade Of Pale LINK
Appaloosa was a Baroque Folk band from Boston-Massachusetts. Singer, songwriter, and guitarist John Parker Compton co-founded the acoustic band Appaloosa with violinist Robin Batteau in the late '60s. Both musicians had been heavily influenced by the folk scene in their hometown, Cambridge, MA. Compton got his start singing in a Cambridge church choir before he and Batteau began playing the coffeehouse circuit together. As the 1972 press release for Compton's solo album, To Luna, told it, he showed up at producer Al Kooper's Columbia Records office in late 1968, hoping to show him his songs. Uninterested, Kooper told the kid (Compton was 18) to come back some other time. But a little while later, Kooper came in on Compton and Batteau performing for the office secretaries. Finally won over, Kooper recorded their demo, and within a year the newly signed musicians had released an album, the self-titled debut from their group Appaloosa. Also including bassist David Reiser and cellist Eugene Rosov, Appaloosa was joined in the studios by members of Blood, Sweat & Tears and by Kooper himself. (AMG)
01 - Tulu Rogers 02 - Thoughts of Polly 03 - Feathers 04 - Bi-Weekly 05 - Glossolalia 06 - Rivers Run to the Sea 07 - Pascal's Paradox 08 - Yesterday's Roads 09 - Now That I Want You 10 - Georgia Street 11 - Rosalie
The band was from Salem Ohio and played in Cleveland, Youngstown, and Pittsburgh areas opening for bands like Phil Keaggy and Glass Harp, Joe Walsh and The James Gang, B.B. King, and Keith Emerson and The Nice. Larry Davis - Drums, Paul Hess - Lead Guitar and Backup Vocals, Terry Davis - Bass & Lead Vocals, Mike Rifle - Keyboards & Backup Vocals, Mark Schuering - Guitar & Lead Vocals and Danny Hall - Keyboards & Backup Vocals formed The Sound Barrier and later Noah. This is a posthumous release of early 1970s recordings with long tracks and lots of hammond/guitar interplay. Overall vibe ranges from Iron Butterfly drama to a more jammy Deep Purple/Captain Beyond style. Tracks 1 & 3: The Sound Barrier, Tracks 2, 4, & 5: Noah
01 - Why Should I Care 02 - Brain Suck 03 - Goodbye Earth 04 - We Wanna Be Free 05 - I Wish I Knew My Name 06 - The Other Side (Medley)
The Freeborne's sole album is, in common with the mildly better-known '60s Boston psychedelic bands who comprised the Bosstown Sound, something of a goulash of then-trendy underground rock crosscurrents. It's not quite a ghoulish goulash, but it's not too tasty either, though they come up with some nice minor-key vocal harmonies. The record sounds like it was steeped in many listening sessions to the most popular psychedelic records of 1967, particularly the Doors' first album, Jefferson Airplane's Surrealistic Pillow, and the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper. Also at work are some jazz, classical, and raga influences, albeit of the sort by young musicians just getting to grips with those forms. The flaws of the album are that there aren't outstanding songs, and that the mood shifts seem more like an attempt to be as eclectic as possible than they do like genuinely well-thought-out compositional statements. The overall spacey, haunting feel of the record sometimes verges on self-conscious creepiness. It's embroidered by novel use of recorder, cello, harpsichord, and trumpet from time to time, though electric organ in the mold of the Doors or Country Joe & the Fish is more prominent, as is California psychedelia-influenced guitar.(AMG)
01 - Images 02 - Land Of Diana 03 - Visions Of My Own 04 - Sadly Acknowledged 05 - Peak Impressions & Thoughts 06 - Yellow Sky 07 - Hurtin' Kind Of Woman 08 - Inside People 09 - A New Song For Orestes 10 - But I Must Return To Frenzy 11 - Images (Mono 45 Vers.) 12 - Land Of Diana (Stereo Mix -2) 13 - Incidental Music
A middling late-sixties psychedelic group, Twentieth Century Zoo were the first such band from Phoenix to get an album released and nationally distributed, even if that LP was on a small L.A. label, and not many people would hear it. The band evolved from the Bitter Sweets, which had a couple of local singles in 1966 and 1967. In 1967 and 1968, Twentieth Century Zoo had a couple of singles on the small Caz label, the first of these, "You Don't Remember, " being respectable psych-punk in the mold of the Music Machine. Bob Sutko (vocals, harmonica), Allan Chitwood (bass), Greg Farley (guitar), Paul "Skip" Ladd (lead guitar) and Randy Wells (drums). In late 1968, the group recorded an album in Los Angeles for Vault Records, Thunder on a Clear Day. Featuring elongated fuzz-sustain riffs and heavy organ, somewhat in the manner of Fever Tree, there was little to make it stand out from the crowd of similar late-sixties American albums. At times there was also a hard blues-rock feel, which could break into tedium on longer tracks, such as a ten-minute cover of Little Walter's "Blues with a Feeling." Twentieth Century Zoo got to open for several bigger bands in Phoenix, such as Iron Butterfly and Blue Cheer, and did one more single for Vault before breaking up in 1970.( R.Unterberger) 01 - You Don't Remember [Single Version] 02 - Clean Old Man 03 - Love In Your Face [Single Version] 04 - Tossin' And Turnin' 05 - Quiet Before The Storm 06 - Rainbow 07 - Bullfrog 08 - Love In Your Face 09 - You Don't Remember 10 - It's All In My Head 11 - Blues With A Feeling 12 - Only Thing That's Wrong 13 - Stallion Of Fate 14 - Country 15 - Hall Of The Mountain King 16 - Enchanted Park LINK
The 1910 Fruitgum Company (often shortened to 1910 Fruitgum Co.) is an American bubblegum pop band of the 1960s. The group's biggest hits included "Simon Says," "1, 2, 3, Red Light," "May I Take A Giant Step," "Special Delivery," "Goody Goody Gumdrops," and "Indian Giver." Guitarist Frank Jeckell claimed to have adopted the name from a candy wrapper that he found in his attic. Simon Says is the first album by the 1910 Fruitgum Company on the Buddah Records label. Released in 1968, it included two songs that appeared on the Billboard Top 100—the most from any of the group's albums—although it was not their highest-charting album. It's been debated whether or not the members of the band actually played on the album since the Ohio Express, another band put together by Super K Productions (headed by Jerry Kasenetz and Jeff Katz), actually consisted of two groups: one that produced the records and another that toured and promoted the name. This is countered by original drummer Floyd Marcus, who has stated that all five men listed really were behind the instruments. 01 - Pop Goes The Weasel 02 - Keep Your Thoughts On The Bright Side 03 - Magic Windmill 04 - The Year 2001 05 - Soul Struttin' 06 - Simon Says 07 - May I Take A Giant Step (Into Your Heart) 08 - Bubble Gum World 09 - Happy Little Teardrops 10 - The Story Of Flipper 11 - (Poor Old) Mr. Jensen LINK
Savoy Brown, originally known as the Savoy Brown Blues Band, are a British blues band formed in 1966, in Battersea, South West London. Part of the late 1960s blues rock movement, Savoy Brown never achieved as much success in their homeland as they did in the United States, where they promoted their albums with non-stop touring.The original line-up included guitarist Kim Simmonds, singer Bryce Portius, keyboardist Bob Hall, fellow guitarist Martin Stone, bassist Ray Chappell, harmonica player John O'Leary and drummer Leo Manning. Street Corner Talking is the seventh studio album by the band. Released by Parrot in 1971, it was the first album released by the band since the departure of Lonsome Dave Peverett, Roger Earl, and Tone Stevens who all went on to form the band Foghat. This left Kim Simmonds as the only original member left in the group. Simmonds recruited a fresh lineup of musicians which, in turn, ushered in a new sound for the band. 01 Tell Mama 02 Let It Rock (Rock and Roll on the Radio) 03 I Can't Get Next to You 04 Time Does Tell 05 Street Corner Talking 06 All I Can Do 07 Wang Dang Doodle LINK
The Moody Blues are an English rock band formed on 4 May 1964, in Erdington, Birmingham, England. Ray Thomas, John Lodge, and Michael Pinder had been members of El Riot & the Rebels. They disbanded when Lodge, the youngest member, went to technical college and Michael Pinder joined the army. Michael Pinder then rejoined Thomas to form the Krew Cats. The pair recruited guitarist/vocalist Denny Laine, band manager-turned-drummer Graeme Edge, and bassist Clint Warwick. The five appeared as the Moody Blues for the first time in Birmingham in 1964. The name developed from a hoped-for sponsorship from the M&B Brewery which failed to materialise, the band calling themselves both "The M B's" and "The M B Five" and was also a subtle reference to the Duke Ellington song, "Mood Indigo". Among their innovations was a fusion with classical music, most notably in their 1967 album Days of Future Passed. The Moody Blues have sold in excess of 50 million albums worldwide and have been awarded 14 platinum and gold discs. As of 2010 they remain active. This is a 1996 compilatiom. 01 - I've Got A Dream 02 - From The Bottom Of My Heart 03 - Can't Nobody Love You 04 - Stop 05 - Something You've Got 06 - Come Back (I Don't Want To Go On Without You) 07 - Bye Bye Bird 08 - It Ain't Necessarily So 09 - True Story 10 - And My Baby's Gone LINK
The 5th Dimension are an American popular music vocal group, whose repertoire also includes pop, R&B, soul, and jazz. The 5th Dimension were best-known during the late 1960s and early 1970s for popularizing the hits "Up, Up and Away", "Wedding Bell Blues", "Stoned Soul Picnic", "One Less Bell to Answer", "(Last Night) I Didn't Get to Sleep at All", and "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In", as well as the eponymous 5th Dimension and The Magic Garden LP recordings. The five original members were Billy Davis, Jr., Florence LaRue, Marilyn McCoo, Lamonte McLemore, and Ron Townson. The Magic Garden is the second album by The 5th Dimension, released in 1967. 01 - Prologue 02 - The Magic Garden 03 - Summer's Daughter 04 - Dreamspaxnepenthe 05 - Carpet Man 06 - Ticket To Ride 07 - Requiem 820 Latham 08 - The Girl's Song 09 - The Worst That Could Happen 10 - Orange Air 11 - Paper Cup 12 - Epilogue LINK
Nirvana were a United Kingdom-based progressive rock band active in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Though the band only achieved limited commercial success, they were acclaimed both by music industry professionals and critics. Nirvana was created in 1967 as the performing arm of the London-based songwriting partnership of Irish musician Patrick Campbell-Lyons and Greek composer Alex Spyropoulos. On their recordings Campbell-Lyons and Spyropoulos supplied all the vocals. The instrumental work was primarily undertaken by top session musicians and orchestral musicians - with Campbell-Lyons providing a little guitar and Spyropoulos contributing some keyboards. "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."(AMG)
01 - The World Is Cold Without You 02 - Excerpt From The Blind & The Beautiful 03 - I Take To My Room 04 - Christopher Lucifer 05 - Aline Cherie 06 - Tres, Tres Bien 07 - It Happenend Two Sunday Ago 08 - Black Flower 09 - Love Suite 10 - Illinois 11 - Shine 12 - Pentecost Hotel (1993 Version)
Kiss, usually written as KISS, is an American hard rock band formed in New York City in January 1973. Easily identified by its members' face paint and flamboyant stage outfits, the group rose to prominence in the mid to late 1970s on the basis of their elaborate live performances, which featured fire breathing, blood spitting, smoking guitars, and pyrotechnics. Kiss has been awarded 24 gold albums to date in the USA. The band has sold over 19 million albums in the United States, and their worldwide sales exceeded 100 million albums. This is an early live performance of the band.
01 - Deuce 02 - Strutter 03 - Got To Choose 04 - Hotter Than Hell 05 - Firehouse 06 - She 07 - C'mon And Love Me 08 - 100.000 Years 09 - Black Diamond 10 - Rock And Roll All Nite
Bridget St John is a British folk rock singer and songwriter, best known for the three albums she recorded between 1969 and 1972 for John Peel's Dandelion label. Peel produced her debut album Ask Me No Questions. She also recorded a large number of BBC Radio and Peel sessions and toured regularly on the UK college and festival circuit. Her popularity peaked in 1974 when she was voted fifth most popular female singer in that year's Melody Maker readers poll. 01 - To B Without A Hitch 02 - Autumn Lullaby 03 - Curl Your Toes 04 - Like Never Before 05 - Curious Crystals Of Unusual Purity 06 - Bare Feet And Hot Pavements 07 - I Like To Be With You In The Sun 08 - Lizard Long Tongue Boy 09 - Hello Again (Of Course) 10 - Many Happy Returns 11 - Broken Faith 12 - Ask Me No Questions LINK
