David Crosby was fired in October 1967 {he objected to using outside writers, as with this song}, and drummer Michael Clarke left the band midway through recording of this album / The album was voted the fourth-best album ever in a 1971 "ZigZag" magazine readers' poll.
Although Alexander wrote this song, and Steve Alaimo had a hit with it in 1962, and many other artists recorded it afterwards, oddly Alexander did not record his own version until 1975, a decent-sized hit for him. Click on the Link above, to view all 52 versions.
Live Duet by Nico and John Cale 1970. The song was originally on their first album, 'The Velvet Underground & Nico' (March 1967, Verve) // Click on the Link above, to view the CD
It has been suggested that this song was a source for the Rolling Stones late 1967 hit "She's a Rainbow", which incorporates the line "she comes in colors everywhere". // Click on the Link above/left, to view the original single.
Time:
5:38
Artist:
Merle Haggard [Billed as 'Merle Haggard And The Strangers']
Although this was on the Beach Boys 'Pet Sounds' album, the single was released before the LP, and credited to Brian - Click on the Link above/left, to view the original single.
* from 1947 to 1967, with the exception of the "Super Blues" sessions from January and September 1967 // Click on the Link above/left, to view the original single.
John Lydon {"Johnny Rotten"} cited the Small Faces as one of his few influences as a singer, and evidence of Steve Marriott's influence can be found on this song, some of which he sang in a greatly exaggerated cockney accent
According to Marriott's mother, he wrote this about his split with ex-fiancée Sue Oliver, though first wife Jenny Rylance states that Marriott told her, he wrote the song for her after her split with Rod Stewart. // The English album was released by English Decca Records, after the band had left the record label for Immediate Records / Click on the Link above, to view the original US single
... First recorded on December 18, 1952, for the album Thelonious Monk Trio. // Evans overdubbed three different yet corresponding piano tracks for each song.
"Raccoon" was The Youngbloods own label; members Joseph Bauer {drums} and 'Banana' {Lowell Levinger - Mandolin, Piano, Claves, Backing Vocals, Guitar} play on this akbum.
* To FURTHER confuse the matter, this track is NOT EVEN the Belfast Gypsies at all (the other three on the French EP are ... ) but apparently the work of Peter Bardens (ex-Them, organ), Ray Henderson (the Gypsies' manager) and Jon Morshead (or Mooreshead) // Click on the Link above, to view the original French EP, with a GORGEOUS color picture sleeve
FULL title of the CD: 'Jump, Jive & Harmonize (18 Pounding, Pulverizing, All-Out Garage Punk Dance Ravers - 1964-67)' /
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The album was cedited to the "SMALL Faces" on all North American issues; the record labels for initial vinyl printings give the album title as "THE First Step". Confused enough? :)
... Recorded on a simple tape recorder and released on the cassette format. Johnston recorded these songs in the basement of his parents' house in West Virginia. It was recorded in 1980 and 1981, and handed out to friends by Johnston. // 1988 - re-released by by Stress Records
"Monkey Man" was written as a tribute to Italian pop artist Mario Schifano, whom they met on the set of his movie "Umano Non Umano! (Human, Not Human!)"
George Frayne IV (alias "Commander Cody"), their keyboard player and singer, died September 26, at age 77. . Click on the Link above, for an obituary for him
George Frayne IV (alias "Commander Cody"), their keyboard player and singer, died September 26, at age 77 // Recorded live at the Armadillo World Headquarters in Austin, Texas in November 1973. Click on the Link above, for an obituary for him
... Recorded November 13, 1990 at "The Catalyst" in Santa Cruz, CA, as a warm-up for their "Ragged Glory" tour // The "Ragged Glory" album was released Sept 9th, 1990
Time:
7:55
Artist:
King Curtis [Gary Brooker, Keith Reid, Matthew Fisher]
A week after ithe album'[s release in August 1971, Curtis was stabbed to death outside his brownstone apartment in New York City / * This was the soundtrack to "The Summer of Love" {along with the Sargent Pepper album}
