The band signed with EMI in 1968 and the band, barely old enough to drive, headed off to Abbey Road studios to record with now-legendary engineer/producer Geoff Emerick. He did get to London to demo some songs, and both Decca and EMI offered contracts. Hartman held out, hoping to get to London to record in an environment closer to the more British sound he and his St. A demo found its way to Capitol Records, and they offered to sign the band on the spot and send them to Los Angeles to record. They were greatly aided in this effort by the fact that Hartman could do a show-stopping McCartney or Lennon vocal impression as well as the fact that the group could really play. Louis with a group of teenage buddies who called themselves The Aerovons who were doing all they could to sound like their heroes, The Beatles. Here’s a fave of mine, stop me if I’ve already pimped this (I think I did way back at OO when it was GG, so sue me.)īack in 1967 a 16-year-old kid named Tom Hartman was kicking around garages and school dances in St.
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IT’S ZIMMERMAN’S WORLD…WE JUST LIVE IN ITĬreate a free website or blog at Shadows of Knight flexi is just excellent…and the Grapefruit, wow. The earlier volumes have gone up in price a lot, unfortunately, so act now to grab the ones you can cheaply. The CD of this album has exhaustive liner notes, as do all the volumes, and I see on Ebay you can still get Volume 5 and also Mystic Males 2, if you are so inclined, for under $15 each. The Fraternity of Man – Wispy Paisley Skies The Capes of Good Hope – Lady MargaretĢ1. The Lollipop Fantasy – It’s a Groovy Worldġ9. The Phoenix Trolley – When Charleys Doing his Thingġ7. The Charter Members – All the Worlds Kingsġ3. Why not enjoy the most recent entry in the main series, Volume 5, which some kind soul has posted to You Tube.
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An important and endlessly enjoyable series–a series that’s often playing at my home or on the road in the car. You won’t find early 70’s singer-songwriters here, and the late 60’s ones you find are more along the lines of Bob Ray’s ‘Initiation of a Mystic’ or Sonny Bono’s ‘Inner Views’ (and you can get a boatload of that kind of sublimity on the two MYSTIC MALES comps, which I highly recommend). Soft Sounds has a unique and instantly recognizable sound, which is at once more kitschy and more overtly psychedelic than the Fading Yellow series. I miss not having regular releases from Pet Records! As any listener to Steve Stanley’s NOW SOUNDS or Andrew Sandoval’s COME TO THE SUNSHINE or anyone who’s gone through some of the LOST JUKEBOX volumes I linked to knows, there is good material out there for many many more volumes of SSFGP. Like the Dylan collection, MM2 was issued in a cardboard mini-LP sleeve (the earlier volumes were in jewel boxes), had few tracks than earlier comps, and was issued simultaneously on LP (the reason for the lesser number of tracks). It seems as though the most recent release in the series was the sublime MYSTIC MALES 2, in 2014. The first volume of SSFGP came out in 2003, and since then there have been five volumes in the main series, and some side volumes of all-female collections, male-female duets, “mystic males,” and a wonderful compilation of Bob Dylan clones called IT’S ZIMMERMAN’S WORLD…WE JUST LIVE IN IT. Since I shared a FADING YELLOW compilation recently, I also need to offer an entry from the other stellar compilation series of trippy pop-sike 45’s from the late 1960’s, SOFT SOUNDS FOR GENTLE PEOPLE.