No Secrets is pop/folk singer-songwriter Carly Simon's third studio album, released in 1972. No Secrets was Simon's commercial breakthrough album. The album itself hit number 1 on the Billboard charts and quickly went Gold, as did its leadoff single, "You're So Vain", which remained at number 1 on the Pop charts for three weeks, and at number 1 on the Adult Contemporary charts for two weeks. 25 years after its initial release, the album was officially certified Platinum on December 12, 1997. 01 - The Right Thing To Do 02 - The Carter Family 03 - You're So Vain 04 - His Friends Are More Than Fond Of Robin 05 - We Have No Secrets 06 - Embrace Me, You Child 07 - Waited So Long 08 - It Was So Easy 09 - Night Owl 10 - When You Close Your Eyes LINK
Shelagh McDonald is a Scottish folk singer, song-writer and guitarist who released two albums before her abrupt and mysterious disappearance in 1971. On her albums, she was backed up by many notables within the English folk-rock scene, including Richard Thompson, Dave Mattacks, Danny Thompson, Keith Tippett, Keith Christmas, the Fotheringay rhythm section, as well as Ian Whiteman, Roger Powell and Michael Evans, then members of Mighty Baby. On 23 June 2005, by which time McDonald's albums had been reissued on CD, an article by Charles Donovan appeared in The Independent, the first high profile piece about McDonald's disappearance. This prompted copycat features in local papers, the Glasgow Herald and the Scottish Daily Mail. It was the latter of these that caught the eye of McDonald herself. In November 2005, McDonald turned up in the offices of the Scottish Daily Mail and told them her story. She retreated from public life after a bad LSD trip left her paranoid and hallucinating, with a ruined voice. Living with her parents and working privately in Edinburgh, she met and married bookseller Gordon Farquhar; together, they lived a nomadic lifestyle in north Britain, living on welfare benefits and moving from house to house, and later tent to tent. 01 - Mirage 02 - Look Over The Hill And Far Away 03 - Crusoe 04 - Waiting For The Wind To Rise 05 - Ophelia's Song 06 - Richmond 07 - Let No Man Steal Your Thyme 08 - Peacock Lady 09 - Silk And Leather 10 - You Know You Can't Lose 11 - Ophelia's Song 12 - Jesus Is Just All Right [Bonus] 13 - Book Of Rhyme [Bonus] 14 - What More Can I Say [Bonus] 15 - The City's Cry (Demo 1) [Bonus] 16 - The City's Cry (Demo 2) [Bonus] 17 - Rod's Song (Demo) [Bonus] 18 - Stargazer (False Start) [Bonus] 19 - Stargazer (Demo) [Bonus] LINK
Blue-eyed soul, freakbeat and state-of-the-art girl pop, South African Sharon Tandy was one of the best voices of the time. This first-ever career retrospective features virtually all of her 1960s singles and several cuts from Sharon's legendary 1966 session at Stax in Memphis. You've Gotta Believe It's Sharon Tandy includes virtually all the singer's UK singles 1965-69, upon most of which Sharon was accompanied by the Fleur De Lys - tracks such as Daughter Of The Sun and mod anthem Hold On have been sought-after collectors' items for years. Sharon was equally adept at pop, as evidenced by gems such as Perhaps Not Forever, and You've Gotta Believe It, the latter an absolute high-water mark of British girl recordings. And a full seven songs, including five previously unissued, derive from Sharon's legendary 1966 session at Stax, where she was backed by Isaac Hayes and Booker T & The MGs. 01 - You've Gotta Believe It 02 - Hold On 03 - I Can't Get Over It 04 - Our Day Will Come 05 - Perhaps Not Forever 06 - One Way Street 07 - Hurry Hurry Choo Choo 08 - Daughter Of The Sun 09 - Toe Hold 10 - Love Is Not A Simple Affair 11 - Look And Find 12 - I Wanna Be Your Baby 13 - The Way She Looks At You 14 - Hurtin' Me 15 - For A Little While 16 - Stay With Me 17 - I've Found Love 18 - Move A Little Closer 19 - Gotta Get Enough Time 20 - Border Town 21 - Things Get Better 22 - World 23 - He'll Hurt Me 24 - Now That You've Gone 25 - Somebody Speaks Your Name 26 - Two Can Make It Together LINK
A ragtag collection of odds and ends, live and studio, from both the Big Brother and solo era. The best cuts are on the Janis box in different versions, but serious fans will find some interesting items here, especially the Cheap Thrills-era outtakes and live performances; "Misery 'N," "Farewell Song," and "Catch Me Daddy" were easily good enough to have qualified for inclusion on that album. (RU)
01 - Tell Mama 02 - Magic Of Love 03 - Misery'n 04 - One Night Stand 05 - Harry 06 - Raise Your Hand 07 - Farewell Song 08 - Medley A) Amazing Grace B) Hi Heel Sneakers 09 - Catch Me Daddy
Lori Burton possessed one of the most powerful, lush female voices; she was part of a fairly successful writing and production team with a woman named Pam Sawyer; she was The Whyte Boots. Actually, both women went on to more successful songwriting careers writing for Motown, several individual groups such as Young Rascals, and doing session work with some of the biggest names in the business, while this record tanked and has remained relatively obscure. There are some nice, unappreciated gems on here that deserve a brighter place in the sun. Burton and Sawyer were briefly signed to Motown as songwriters and were one of the few (if not the only) female production teams on the New York rock scene in the mid-'60s. But Lori Burton was also a very credible blue-eyed pop/soul singer, who had a very good earthy voice, delivering both cool sensual low growling and impassioned rasp at the most climactic points. She began recording as a solo act for Roulette in the mid-'60s and in 1967, issued this album, Breakout, on Mercury. 01 - Nightmare [Mono Single Version] 02 - Gotta Make You Love Me 03 - Since I Lost Your Lovin' 04 - There Is No Way (To Stop Lovin' You) 05 - The Hurt Won't Go Away 06 - Gotta Get Over You 07 - Bye, Bye Charlie 08 - Love Was 09 - Let No One Come Between Us 10 - Only Your Love 11 - Nightmare 12 - The Hurt Won't Go Away [Mono Single Version] 13 - Bye, Bye Charlie [Mono Single Version] LINK
Bubblegum, Lemonade and… Something for Mama is the second solo album released by Cass Elliot. It was recorded in 1969 and arranged and produced by Steve Barri. The album was originally released on July 5, 1969 with only 11 tracks. It was released again on December 6, 1969 under a new title and with a different album cover as Make Your Own Kind of Music/It’s Getting Better. "Make Your Own Kind of Music" had just become a hit and was added to the album. Primarily a "bubblegum" pop album, it contained several other types of music, from country, tin pan alley and jazz. 01 It's Getting Better 02 Blow Me A Kiss 03 Sour Grapes 04 Easy Come Easy Go 05 I Can Dream Can't I 06 Welcome To The World 07 Lady Love 08 He's A Runner 09 Move In A Little Closer Baby 10 When I Just Wear My Smile 11 Who's To Blame 12 Make Your Own Kind Of Music LINK
Ellen McIlwaine is an American singer-songwriter and musician best known for her career as a slide guitarist. Born in Nashville, McIlwaine was adopted by missionaries and raised in Kobe, Japan, giving her exposure to multiple languages and cultures. She attended Canadian Academy, a K-12 international school in Kobe, graduating in 1963. Her first experience in music was playing Ray Charles, Fats Domino and Professor Longhair songs on piano that she heard on Japanese radio. On moving to back to the United States she bought a guitar, beginning a stage career in Atlanta, Georgia in the mid-1960s. As a female vocalist who is known more for her acoustic guitar, her music tends to be classified in the folk sections of record stores, despite her strong roots in blues, soul and rock music, and her cover versions of songs by Isaac Hayes, Stevie Wonder and Browning Bryant. She has also recorded several covers of songs by Jimi Hendrix: she wrote "Underground River" about him. 01 - Ain't No Two Ways About It (It's Love) 02 - All To You 03 - Sliding 04 - Never Tell Your Mother She's Out Of Tune 05 - Farther Along 06 - I Don't Want To Play 07 - Underground River 08 - Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven (But Nobody Wants To Die) 09 - Jimmy Jean 10 - We The People LINK
Linda Perhacs is an American psychedelic folk singer, who released her only album Parallelograms in 1970. Linda's sole album, originally released on Kapp in 1970, has gained its deserved fame and reputation in the folk-psych scene in the last years after the NY label Wild Places released it on CD format some few years ago. We could talk about Joni Mitchell and the likes if we had to compare with anything, but fans of folk music in all its variety must be delighted with this amazing album, a truly hippie psychedelic folk masterpiece and without any doubt one of the top albums of the genre. 01 - Chimacum Rain 02 - Paper Mountain Man 03 - Dolphin 04 - Call Of The River 05 - Sandy Goes 06 - Parrallelograms 07 - Hey Who Really Cares 08 - Moons And Cattauls 09 - Morning Colors 10 - Porcelain Baked Over Cast-Iron Wedding 11 - Delicious LINK
The Great Society (aka The Great! Society!!) were a 1960s San Francisco rock band that existed between 1965 and 1966, and were closely associated with the burgeoning Bay Area acid rock scene. Best known as the original group of model turned singer, Grace Slick, the initial line-up of the band also featured her then-husband Jerry Slick on drums, his brother Darby Slick on guitar, David Miner on vocals and guitar, Bard DuPont on bass, and Peter van Gelder on saxophone. Miner and DuPont would not remain with the band for the duration of its existence. The Matrix, a renovated former pizza shop, was a nightclub in San Francisco from 1965 to 1972 and was one of the keys to what eventually became known as the "San Francisco Sound" in rock music. Located at 3138 Fillmore Street, The Matrix opened August 13, 1965 showcasing Jefferson Airplane, which singer Marty Balin had put together as the club's "house band." 01 - Sally Go Round The Roses 02 - Didn't Think So 03 - Grimly Forming 04 - Somebody To Love 05 - Father Bruce 06 - Outlaw Blues 07 - Often As I May 08 - Arbitration 09 - White Rabbit 10 - That's How It Is 11 - Darkly Smiling 12 - Nature Boy 13 - You Can't Cry 14 - Daydream Nightmare 15 - Everybody Knows 16 - Born To Be Burned 17 - Father LINK
Carolyn Hester is an American folk singer and songwriter. She was a figure in the early 1960s folk music revival. Carolyn Hester's first album was produced by Norman Petty in 1957. In 1960, she made her second album for the label run by the Clancy Brothers. She became known for "The House of the Rising Sun" and "She Moved Through the Fair". Hester was one of many young Greenwich Village singers who rode the crest of the 1960s folk music wave, and appeared on the cover of the May 30, 1964 issue of the Saturday Evening Post. According to Don Heckman of the Los Angeles Times, Hester was "one of the originals—one of the small but determined gang of ragtag, early-'60s folk singers who cruised the coffee shops and campuses, from Harvard Yard to Bleecker Street, convinced that their music could help change the world." Hester was dubbed "The Texas Songbird," and was politically active, spearheading the controversial boycott of TV's Hootenanny when Pete Seeger was blacklisted from it. 01 - Come On Back 02 - Come On In 03 - 10 Train 04 - Captain,my Captain 05 - Water Is Wide 06 - Carry It On 07 - High Flying Bird 08 - Three Young Men 09 - Outward Bound 10 - The Weaving Song 11 - Sing Hallelujah 12 - That's My Song 13 - Summertime 14 - It Takes So Long 15 - Ain't That Rain 16 - Buckeye Jim 17 - Will You Send Your Love 18 - Jute Mill Song 19 - What's That I Hear 20 - Where Did My Little Boy Go 21 - Sidewalk City 22 - I Saw Her 23 - The Bad Girl 24 - Playboys And Playgirls LINK
Liz Damon's Orient Express was a 1970s band from Hawaii, featuring lead singer Liz Damon, two female backup singers and a rotating backup band. The name apparently derived from the original backup band being entirely Asian. Their only song to make the Billboard Hot 100 Top 40 was "1900 Yesterday", which made it to #33 on the U.S. and #16 on the Canadian charts in early 1971. Most impressively, it peaked at #4 on Billboard's Easy Listening survey.The band was the house band at the Garden Bar at the Hilton Hawaiian Village for 18 months and recorded its first album, At the Garden Bar, Hilton Hawaiian Village in 1970. Originally released on Makaha Records, it was then picked up by White Whale Records, who released it as an eponymous album and also released "1900 Yesterday" as a single. 01 - 1900 Yesterday 02 - Something 03 - But For Love 04 - You Make Me Feel Like Someone 05 - Bring Me Sunshine 06 - You're Falling In Love 07 - Everything Is Beautiful 08 - That Same Old Feeling 09 - Close To You 10 - Let It Be 11 - Heaven In My Heart 12 - Quando, Quando, Quando 13 - Canadian Sunset 14 - Wave 15 - Danny Boy LINK
US cover Yes are an English progressive rock band formed in London in 1968, generally regarded as one of the archetypal bands and pioneers of the genre. Despite many lineup changes, occasional splits within the group, and the ever-changing trends in popular music, the band have continued for more than 40 years and still retain a large following. They have sold over 30 million albums. The band's music blends symphonic and other classical structures with their own brand of rock music. Although the band's sole consistent member has been bass player Chris Squire, Yes are also generally noted for the distinctive high-register vocals of former lead singer Jon Anderson and the eclectic musical stylings of a succession of guitarists (Steve Howe, Peter Banks, Trevor Rabin, Billy Sherwood), keyboard players (Rick Wakeman, Tony Kaye, Patrick Moraz, Geoff Downes, Igor Khoroshev, Oliver Wakeman), and drummers (Alan White and Bill Bruford). Several band members became celebrated musicians and/or bandleaders in their own right, and a 1980 lineup of the band was briefly fronted by Trevor Horn (shortly before he became one of rock music's most celebrated record producers). Yes is the 1969 eponymous debut album from Yes, considered among the first progressive rock albums. With the original Yes line-up of vocalist Jon Anderson, bassist Chris Squire, guitarist Peter Banks, keyboardist Tony Kaye and drummer Bill Bruford, Yes was the quintet's original musical release. Lester Bangs favourably reviewed the album in Rolling Stone, writing that it was "the kind of album that sometimes insinuates itself into your routine with a totally unexpected thrust of musical power." 01 - Beyond And Before 02 - I See You 03 - Yesterday And Today 04 - Looking Around 05 - Harold Land 06 - Every Little Thing 07 - Sweetness 08 - Survival 09 - Everydays (Single Version) 10 - Dear Father (Early Version #2) 11 - Something's Coming (Bonus) 12 - Everydays (Early Version) 13 - Dear Father (Early Version #1) 14 - Something's Coming (Early Version) LINK
"One of the finest American progressive rock groups of the 70s". Yezda Urfa is an American progressive rock band founded in the fall of 1973. The band recorded two albums before breaking up in the spring of 1981. The band's music is currently distributed by Syn-phonic. The name Yezda Urfa comes from Yazd, Iran and Urfa, Turkey. The band came across these names while leafing through the dictionary, looking for a band name. Yazd was changed to Yezda to ease pronunciation. Described as a blend of Yes and Gentle Giant, Yezda Urfa is known for playing high-energy progressive rock. Break-neck tempos, changing time signatures, and diverse instrumentation are hallmarks of their sound. Brad Christoff: drums, percussion, Phil Kimbrough: keyboards, mandolin, wind, vocals, Mark Tippins: guitar, vocals, Marc Miller: bass, cello, marimba, vibes, vocals and Rick Rodenbaugh: vocals 01 - Boris And His 3 Verses, Including Flow Guides Aren't My Bag 02 - Texas Armadillo 03 - 3, Almost 4, 6 Yea 04 - To-Ta In The Moya 05 - Three Tons Of Fresh Thyroid Glands 06 - The Basis Of Dubenglazy While Dirk Does The Dance (Bonus Track) 07 - Aspirations (Bonus Track) 08 - She's Got Tartar On Her Teeth (Bonus Track) 09 - Eggs, Nuts And Other Assorted Livers (Bonus Track) 10 - La (Bonus Track) LINK
Lost & Found (1961-1962) is a compilation album by The Beach Boys released in 1991 under the DCC Compact Classics label. This compilation has all the material not previously published of their first recording session in October 1961 and includes notes of sessions lost. 01 - Luau (The Pendeltones) 02 - Surfin' (The Pendeltones) 03 - Studio Chatter 04 - Surfin' (First Attempt) 05 - Studio Chatter 06 - Surfin' (Master) 07 - Studio Chatter 08 - Luau (First Attempt) 09 - Luau (Master) 10 - Barbie (Kenny And The Cadets) 11 - What Is A Young Girl Made Of (Kenny And The Cadets) 12 - Surfin' Safari (Unissued) 13 - Studio Chatter 14 - Surfin' Safari ( Approved As Master) 15 - Studio Chatter 16 - Surfer Girl ( Approved As Master) 17 - Judy (Unissued) 18 - Judy ( Approved As Master) 19 - Beach Boy Stomp (Aka Karate) (Unissued Long Version) 20 - Surfin' Safari (An Attempt At Overdubbing) 21 - Lavender LINK
Zzebra were a British fusion and afro prog band active in the UK in the early 1970s. The band was formed when Terry Smith (guitar) and Dave Quincy (saxophone), both left the band If, when it broke up, and joined Lasisi "Loughty" Amao ex-Osibisa (flute and tenor sax), Gus Yeadon (aka August Eadon) ex-The Love Affair (piano and vocals), Liam Genockey (drums) and John McCoy (bass). They released their first album Zzebra in 1974. 01 - Cobra Woman 02 - Mr.J. 03 - Mah Jong 04 - Ife 05 - Spanish Fly 06 - Amuso Fi 07 - Rainbow Train 08 - Hungry Horse LINK
The Animals on Tour was The Animals' second album in the United States. The title did not mean to imply a live album, which it was not, but rather that the music on it was influenced by the American musical genres the English group had encountered during their previous trips stateside. The only song on this album that is not on one of the first three UK albums is "I'm Crying", which occurs only here or on one of their compilation albums. 01 - Boom Boom 02 - How You've Changed 03 - I Believe To My Soul 04 - Mess Around 05 - Bright Lights Big City 06 - Worried Life Blues 07 - Let The Good Times Roll 08 - I Ain't Got You 09 - Hallelujah I Love Her So 10 - I'm Crying 11 - Dimples 12 - She Sad Yeah LINK
The Complete French EP Collection 1964-1967 box-set combines all ten of the British Invasion act's French four track EPs released between 1964-67 along with a bonus CD single disc with two tracks, 'San Franciscan Nights' & 'Good Times'. All tracks are in the original mono, except for the bonus disc in stereo, & remastered in high definition 24-bit. Released in 2003. EP 1 1 - The House Of The Rising Sun 2 - Talking About You (French EP version) 3 - Gonna Send You Back To Walker 4 - Baby, Let Me Take You Home EP 2 1 - I'm Crying 2 - Take It Easy 3 - She Said Yeah 4 - I'm In Love Again EP 3 1 - Boom Boom 2 - Club-A-Gogo 3 - Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood 4 - Roadrunner EP 4 1 - Brig It On Home To Me 2 - Hallelujah! I Love Her So 3 - For Miss Caulker 4 - Mess Around EP 5 1 - We've Gotta Get Out Of This Place (French EP version) 2 - I Can't Believe It 3 - I Ain't Got You 4 - How You've Changed EP 6 1 - It's My Life 2 - I Believe To My Soul 3 - I'm Going To Change The World 4 - Let The Good Times Roll EP 7 1 - Inside - Looking Out 2 - That's All I An To You 3 - She'll Return It 4 - Outcast EP 8 1 - Don't Bring Me Down 2 - Cheating 3 - What Am I Living For 4 - I Put A Spell On You EP 9 1 - See See Rider 2 - Mama Told Me Not To Come 3 - Help Me Girl 4 - That Ain't Where It's At EP 10 1 - Hey Gyp 2 - In The Night 3 - When I Was Young 4 - Ain't That So Bonus CD 1 - San Franciscan Nights 2 - Good Times Full covers included. LINK
Catch Us If You Can (1965) (released with the title Having a Wild Weekend in the U.S.) was the feature-film debut of director John Boorman. Ostensibly designed as a vehicle for pop band The Dave Clark Five, whose popularity at the time almost rivalled that of The Beatles, and named after their hit song "Catch Us If You Can", this strangely downbeat film actually departs in various ways from the formula created by Richard Lester in A Hard Day's Night, and by Sidney J. Furie and Peter Yates with the Cliff Richard films. Although they perform the off-screen soundtrack music, The Dave Clark Five (unlike The Beatles) do not play themselves, but appear to be a team of freelance stuntmen/extras, led by the saturnine Steve (Dave Clark). Clark had worked as a stuntman on a number of films, providing him with experience and camera-sense that The Beatles would have lacked in A Hard Day's Night. Far from being a conventional pop vehicle, this serious, thought-provoking film concerns itself with the frailty of personal relationships, the flimsiness of dreams, and the difficulty of maintaining spontaneity and integrity in a stage-managed "society of the spectacle." 01 - Catch Us If You Can 02 - On the Move 03 - If You Come Back 04 - Long Ago 05 - Any Time You Want Love 06 - I Can't Stand It 07 - Your Turn To Cry 08 - Hurting Inside 09 - Don't Be Taken In 10 - Don't You Realize 11 - I Cried Over You 12 - Sweet Memories LINK
The Dave Clark Five was the first British Invasion band to tour the USA. Coast to Coast, from 1965 was released only in USA, and peaked #6 in the US chart. 01 - Anyway You Want It 02 - Give Me Love 03 - I Can`t Stand It 04 - What Is There To Say 05 - Everybody Knows (I Still Love You) 06 - Crying Over You 07 - Say You Want Me 08 - When 09 - Don`t You Know 10 - To Me 11 - It`s Not True LINK
The Dave Clark Five had 17 records in Billboard's Top 40, with 12 Top 40 United Kingdom hits between 1964 and 1967. Their song "Over And Over" went to number one in the U.S. on the Billboard Hot 100 at the end of December 1965, despite less than impressive sales in the UK, and they played to sell-out crowds on their tours of the U.S. Promoted as having a "cleaner" image than the Beatles, the Dave Clark Five were the first British band to tour the USA, and they made 18 appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show. Weekend In London was released only in USA.
01 - Come Home 02 - We`ll Be Running 03 - Blue Suede Shoes 04 - Hurting Inside 05 - I`ll Never Know 06 - `Til The Right One Comes Along 07 - I`m Thinking 08 - Your Turn To Cry 09 - Little Bitty Pretty One 10 - Remember It`s Me (Stereo) 11 - Mighty Good Lovin`
