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This quailifies on all three counts, from the REAL best album of 1967. Listen to the how one rhyming line is resolved by the first word in the third sentence rather than the last word in the second sentence. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBV91Cj8H5I

I'd eat it, but I'd wear a bib...

Not sure how I forgot this classic of the genre. The middle transition is wild - don't know what Guercio and the boys were smokin'. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIacsdOfKAQ

I do enjoy me some British Invasion stuff! Not sure how far beyond classic "Sunshine Pop" strictures we are going (someone already went to mid-70's proto-disco with "Afternoon Delight", but that was a fun period. The Searchers were probably my favorites, even their album cuts tended to be really good. And I'm willing to say it publicly, I love "Ferry Cross The Mersey" !

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Bubblegum. Lemon Pipers actually hated that record. I sort of liked it, in a guilty pleasure way, and even sort of liked the followup, "Jelly Jungle of Orange Marmalade", but hated the next one, "Rice is Nice". I was 13.

This one by the Cyrkle even moreso with the sitar and tack piano. To me it's the much superior (and much crazier) record. Went top 20 on merit in 1967, would sink without a trace today.

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.