11/07/2023
Listen back to Weird & Wonderful 1965 - 1974 with Bingo Gravy, July 10th on Surrey Hills Community Radio https://www.mixcloud.com/surreyhillsradio/weird-wonderful-10-jul-2023/
Track list and more information:
🎶 East of Eden – Waterways.
From the 1969 debut album Mercator Projected, released by the Deram label. Their professional career began back in 1967 when they were formed in Bristol as Pictures of Dorian Gray, by Dave Arbus (violin, flute, saxophone, trumpet), Ron Caines (alto saxophone), Geoff Nicholson (guitar, vocals), Mike Price (bass) and Stuart Rossiter (drums).
After the debut LP they released another 11 albums, including Snafu (February 1970, Deram), East Of Eden (June 1971, Harvest) and New Leaf (November 1971, Harvest).
🎶 Thin Lizzy – Vagabond of the Western World (Decca).
From the LP Vagabonds of the Western World, the third studio album by Irish hard rock band Thin Lizzy, released in 1973. It was the band's last album with original guitarist Eric Bell. The other band members were Philip Lynott (vocals, bass guitar, rhythm guitar, associate producer) and Brian Downey (drums, percussion). Gary Moore also played guitar on the record.
🎶 Black Sabbath – Planet Caravan.
From the 1970 album Paranoid, the second studio album by Birmingham’s seminal four-piece. It was released on Vertigo Records in England and Warner Bros. Records in the US. The title track is the band’s only Top 20 hit, reaching number four in the UK charts. The track is a departure from Sabbath’s usual output, with lead vocalist Ozzy Osbourne using a Leslie speaker to achieve the vocal treble and vibration effects.
🎶 Cromagnon – Caledonia.
From the 1969 album originally called Or**sm (ESP-Disk), later renamed Cave Rock. During recording, band members brought in random people from the street and asked them to contribute to the album.
Led by multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriters Austin Grasmere and Brian Elliot, Or**sm was the band’s only album release.
AllMusic’s Alex Henderson wrote of the album: "Depending on one's point of view, Cave Rock is either a ridiculously self-indulgent artifact of the '60s counterculture or an underground gem that was way ahead of its time – and it's probably a little bit of both."
🎶 The Monkees – Goin’ Down.
The B side of the 1967 single Daydream Believer, the lead vocal was sung by Micky Dolenz. It was released on Colgems Records in support of the band's fourth album, Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd.
The song became a staple of the Monkees' touring setlists, with a live version of the song appearing on the album 2001: Live in Las Vegas. It has a big band influence, with an arrangement by jazz musician Shorty Rogers and a high-note trumpet solo by Wrecking Crew member Bud Brisbois.
🎶 Mothers of Invention – Who are the Brain Police?, from the 1966 LP Freak Out.
It was written by band leader Frank Zappa, who wrote about the song on the album’s liner notes: "At five o’clock in the morning someone kept singing this in my mind and made me write it down. I will admit to being frightened when I finally played it out loud and sang the words."
The Mothers of Invention, at the time, were Zappa (guitar, vocals), Ray Collins (vocals), Jimmy Carl Black (drums), Roy Estrada (bass guitar) and Elliot Ingber (guitar).
🎶 Silver Apples – Gypsy Love.
Taken from the US duo’s second studio album, Contact, released in 1969 by record label Kapp. The band, consisting of Danny Taylor (vocals, drums, percussion) and Simeon (vocals, oscillators, banjo) had earlier released the album Silver Apples in 1968.
The front and back cover artwork generated a lawsuit from Pan Am Airlines. The front features the Silver Apples in a Pan Am cockpit, while the back shows the band amongst plane wreckage playing banjos. The resulting lawsuit by Pan Am against Silver Apples led to the breakup of the band.
🎶 Ash Ra Tempel – Amboss. From the album Ash Ra Tempel, released in 1971. The eponymous debut studio album was engineered by Conny Plank and released on the Ohr label.
Plank is best-known for his innovative work as a sound engineer and producer in Germany's krautrock and kosmische music scene in the 1970s. He was involved in releases by Neu!, Kraftwerk, Cluster, Harmonia, Ash Ra Tempel, Guru Guru, Kraan, and other German groups of the era.
The album features group fonder members guitarist Manuel Göttsching with drummer Klaus Schulze and bassist Hartmut Enke.
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