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You may be the first and last person who has ever tried to categories the Fugs as "Sunshine Pop"!

Well, the combination of "great tune", and "never heard of the group" sure makes my point! You can get their three CD's used for less than $1.00 each on Amazon, and I highly recommend all three of them if you like the sounds of this cut. I have all three and love them.

Right........I saw Susan performing in Austin a couple of years ago. She was good. Continental Drifters track, featuring Cowsill and ex-Bangles Vicki Peterson, and they also co-wrote it. Cowsill takes the vocal on the second verse. Group also includes ex-DB's Peter Holsapple (he and Cowsill were married), and ex-Dream Syndicate Mark Walton along with other very talented New Orleans musicians. The failure of this group to achieve popularity in the 90's shows how far gone the pop music industry is. Realize that this drifts continents away fro the Sunshine Pop string, but it shows what adorable little Susan Cowsill grew up into.

Do we know what the packaging is going to be yet? Will it be possible to break the set up in some practical way?

I'm actually quite fond of that Cowsill's track. And they did some other fine records also. And Susan Cowsill went on to do some other very interesting work later on.

Sunshine Company - Back On My Feet Again. Scraped the Top 40 in 1967 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFT7Xt6li3Q Don't know how "good" this one is, but it is crazy, with the phased vocals. Two bizarre aspects, first, these guys looked like the freaking Four Preps, with their crew cuts and matching suits. Second, this strange mess of a record somehow went to #20 on the pop charts in 1969.

Sunshine Pop on the outside, alienation lament on the inside.

1967s Gary Usher production on Columbia. Lead vocal by Glen Campbell (yes, that Glen Campbell) of all people! Yes, that was them.

WHOA! Who is THAT? That's pretty damn batshit crazy! A woulda, coulda, shoulda late 60's group called the Free Design. Check them out.

This one could have been a huge hit ca. 1968 if AM radio stations hadn't cringed at the "Damn" in the title. Spanky & Our Gang - Give a Damn

Yeah, I carry that one around on my MP3 player and have posted it out on Facebook in the last couple of months. Had the 45 back in the day.

Good to know, thanks.

I thought they did a very good job remastering those early Mahavishnu albums around 2000.

You're wrong on the Klemmer. What he did on those Impulse albums was very adventurous and attractive, none of the commercial concessions of his later recordings. In general, I agree this is a pretty bizarre set, and one that will need to justify itself in terms of price and packaging to get me to bite (though some of the titles are very appealing).

Some interesting items! I highly recommend TOCJ 50244 Blakey,Art(ds)/Gypsy Folk Tales 999, which was to me the very best of the latter Jazz Messenger albums, Bobby Watson's (and Valeri Ponomarev's) first with the group, along Walter Davis, Davy Schnitter, and Dennis Irwin . A 1977 Roulette release which has been very difficult to find on CD up until now. Feature's Watson's spectacular "Time Will Tell" and Davis's wonderful "Jodi". At 59 minutes, this was a very long LP, bursting with creativity and joy. Also interesting (and very surprising) to see the CD release of two of the three albums by The Fourth Way, a late 60's-early 70's West Coast proto-fusion group with violinist Michael White, Keyboardist Mike Nock, bassist Ron McClure, and drummer Eddie Marshall. Not worth Japanese import prices to me, but a good listen nonetheless.

Finally got a chance to watch this. Spellbinding, a great way to spend 30 minutes. A window into the soul of Jackie McLean the man. Thanks so much for posting.

I'm actually a descendant of Franz Schubert on my mother's side (absolutely the truth), and yet I like early R.E.M. and early Elvis Costello. Guess something went wrong in the genes somewhere along the way. And/or that there's just no accounting for taste.

This shows the cuts if anyone has the patience to figure out the albums involved. The John Klemmer Waterfalls jumped out at me. Impulse 50 with tracks

I've always considered Buttercorn Lady to be less than the sum of it's parts. The post-Hubbard/Shorter/Fuller/Walton/Workman 60's bands have always sounded like quite a letdown to me, even with the intriguing names. The one exception is that ubiquitous 1968 live session with Billy Harper, Julian Priester, Bill Hardman, Ronnie Mattews, and Lawrence Evans (who I am otherwise unfamiliar). It is available under any number of names on any number of budget labels, but it is great! Other than that, nothing really catches my ear until the 1973 Prestige recordings with Woody Shaw, Carter Jefferson, and Cedar Walton, though the one with Carlos Garnett and Joanne Brackeen from 1970 isn't half bad (but again, less than the sum of it's parts). Blakey didn't record regularly from 1966 until 1973 (and Max Roach didn't record regularly from 1968 until 1977) - what was that all about?

Colin, great job. Now we're even - I introduced you to Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons (as well as to my family) in the USA, and you introduced me to Matthew Halsall from the UK. I like to think we're both richer for the experiences!

PM sent on Don Friedman Trio - My Favorite Things (441) w/G.Mraz, L.Nash, $6 Paul Bley Trio - Questions (Steeplechase) $7 Paul Bley/Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen (Steeplehase) $6

PM sent on Orrin Evans - Captain Black Big Band - (Posi-Tone) 5 Sun Ra - College Tour Vol. 1 (a/k/a Nothing Is ++, 2 discs) (ESP) 10 SLD

That's always been my philosophy on burns/copies. If it comes along at a price I would have bought it for without having the copy, I buy it, not letting the fact that I have the copy overtly influence the decision.

No bonus cuts on these. Haven't seen any albums broken up. They abruptly cut off about 2 minutes at the end of one key track on the Kenny Dorham set to fit the two albums on one CD (very annoying), but have not hit any other missing or abridged cuts. I have four or five of these. I'd much rather have a Proper or an Avid or a Lonehill in general.