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The Grass Roots
Where Were You When I Needed You |
| CRREV93 | |
 Released 04/08/08. A very welcome repress/re-promotion for this highly regarded debut album from The Grass Roots, one of California’s most popular acts of the late 60s and early 70s. Featuring the original classic hit single ‘Where Were When I Needed You’ and the blinding garage punk reworking of Dylan’s ‘Ballad Of A Thin Man’ Only When You're Lonely / Look Out Girl / Ain't That Loving You Baby / I've Got No More To Say / I Am A Rock / Lollipop Train (You Never Had It So Good) / Where Were You When I Needed You / You Didn't Have To Be So Nice / Tell Me / You Baby / This Is What I Was Made For / Mr Jones (Ballad Of A Thin Man) Bonus Tracks / Where Were You When I Needed You (Single Version) / (These Are) Bad Times / You're A Lonely Girl / Tip Of My Tongue / You've Got To Hide Your Love Away / Hitch Hike / Eve Of Destruction / Where Were You When I Needed You | |
The 5th Dimension
The Magic Garden |
| CRREV259 | |
 Released 25/08/08. Wow! Here at Rev-Ola we’re proud to present this true undisputed classic of orchestrated, psych-tinged soft pop. The 5th Dimension are one of the most successful American bands of the late ‘60s. Hey, everybody knows their hit versions of ‘Up, Up And Away’ and ‘Aquarius’! However, in 1968 they were teamed up with producer Bones Howe and wunderkind composer/arranger/all-round bona fide musical genius beyond redoubt, Jimmy Webb, who presented them with a complex song cycle based on his own tumultuous relationship with his partner. Nestling between such dyed-in-the-wool classics as ‘Carpet Man’, ‘The Girls’ Song’, ‘The Worst That Could Happen’ (which all became hit singles for other artists) and the life-affirming title track (as covered by Dusty Springfield no less) are such lesser-spotted Webb gems as ‘Summer’s Daughter’ and ‘Paper Cup’. The whole cycle is linked with beautifully ornate pieces of orchestration, sitar flourishes and ethereal vocals. The contractual obligation inclusion of an earlier recording of The Beatles’ ‘Ticket To Ride’ was originally shoehorned into the middle of the running order but we’ve taken the liberty of shuffling it to the end so it no longer interrupts the flow of the cycle. Prologue / The Magic Garden / Summer’s Daughter / Dreams/Pax/Nepenthe / Carpet Man / Requiem: 820 Latham / The Girls’ Song / The Worst That Could Happen / Orange Air / Paper Cup / Epilogue / Ticket To Ride | |
Susan Carter
Wondeful Dreams And Adventures |
| CRREV260 | |
 Released 25/08/08. Along with the likes of Jackie DeShannon, Cass Elliot and Joni Mitchell, Susan Carter was an integral part of the late 1960s Laurel Canyon scene, a veritable "Lady Of The Canyon". Carter captured the attention of Epic Records, who teamed her with producer Les Carter and arranger Dick Halligan (of Blood, Sweat & Tears fame). Recorded in New York, her 1970 debut Wonderful Deeds and Adventures - A Collection of Stirring Scene and Moving Accidents was certainly that and more... something of an era timepiece. It was also interesting in that, with backing from Randy Brecker and most of BS&T, material such as Donovan’s 'Young Girl Blues', James Taylor’s 'Brighten Your Day with My Night' and 'Medley for Billie Holiday’ found Carter working in the blues and jazz genres years before Joni Mitchell and other contemporaries made such a move. Carter certainly had a powerful and versatile voice, capable of handling a wide variety of genres and her crystalline voice occasionally recalled Laura Nyro. Bluebird / Young Girl Blues / Temptation 'Bout To Get Me / Medley For Billie Holiday Billy's Blues (Laura Nyro) Lady Sings The Blues (Billie Holiday) Lonely Woman (Laura Nyro) / Brighten Your Day With My Night / I Need A Good Man Bad / I'm So Tired / Old Country / Illinois / Jam Session: Cruising With The Blues | |
Tokens
Both Sides Now |
| CRREV261 | |
 Released 25/08/08. The title kind of gives the game away here, it being somewhat a game of two halves! A semi concept follows the title of the exquisite baroque cover of the Joni Mitchell tune...The Tokens are pictured on the cover in off-duty mode, casually dressed and with a cigar on the go. Side one consists of more baroque re -workings of modern folk rock standards, covering label mates Melanie and The Lemon Pipers creditably, as well as doing a stripped down beauty of a cover of ‘Don't Worry Baby’, which surely influenced The Beach Boys later live revamps of their early repertoire. Side two revisits The Tokens past in the manner of their later ‘Oldies Are Now!’ project, with their first two hits ‘Tonight I Fell In Love’ and ‘The Lion Sleeps Tonight’, and their soft-pop masterpiece ‘I Hear Trumpets Blow’ among others, being reinvented in the style of side one. Both Sides Now / Brandywine / Green Tambourine / Beautiful People / She Lets Her Hair Down(Early In The Morning) / Don't Worry Baby / The Lion Sleeps Tonight / Tonight I Fell In Love / I Hear Trumpets Blow / He's In Town / If I Were A Carpenter / Some People Sleep / Bonus Track / Oh To Get Away / I Could See Me (Dancin' With You) | |
Vince Martin
If The Jasmine Don’t Get You The Bay Breeze Will |
| CRREV139 | |
 Released 07/07/08. Long - overdue repress for this classic Rev - Ola reissue: Vince Martin first emerged in the late 1950's as a folk - blues singer around Greenwich Village, of the tendency, which kind of avoided the academic approach. A friend of commercial Folk - Pop group The Tarriers, he was the lead singer on their Cindy Oh, Cindy 45, a monster hit and one of the first real big successes to emerge from the Folk Boom. Snow Shadows / I Can’t Escape From You / Summerwind / Danville Girl / Yonder Comes The Sun / Jasmine (If The Jasmine Don’t Get You The Bay Breeze Will) | |
The Lollipop Shoppe
Just Colour |
| CRREV256 | |
 Released 28/07/08. Originally known as The Weeds and featuring Fred "Deep Soul" Cole, The Lollipop Shoppe sound amazingly modern! After The Weeds signed to UNI Records, their new manager, the infamous "Lord" Tim Hudson, insisted they change their name to The Lollipop Shoppe to fit in with the current trend of bizarrely named bubblegum groups. The band's actual recordings are hardly bubblegum, but instead a mix of crunching garage rock and wild psychedelia. You Must Be A Witch / Underground Railroad / Baby Don’t Go / Who'll Read The Will / It's Only A Reflection / Someone I Know / Don’t Look Back / Don’t Close The Door On Me / It Ain't How Long / It's Makin' It / I'm Gonna Be There / You Don’t Give Me No More / Sin / Through My Window | |
Gale Garnett and the Gentle Reign
Gale Garnett and the Gentle Reign |
| CRREV257 | |
 Released 28/07/08. Like a lot of folk - pop performers who began their careers in the early - to - mid - '60s, by the end of the decade Gale Garnett seemed to have drifted into the rock and psychedelic scene, hooking up with the band The Gentle Reign to cut these two bizarre albums for CBS.Freddy Mahoney / Peace Comes Slowly To The Thrashing Fish / Pretty Is Gone / This Year's Child / Berkeley Barb / Want Ad / Deer In The City / Water Your Mind / My Mind's Own Morning / Trip Note Song / Man In The Middle / Freely Speaking / Breaking Through / Fall In Love Again / Mini Song #1: Ophelia Song / Ballad For f. Scott Fitzgerald / Big Sur / Mini Song #2: Tropicana High / That's Not The Way / Word Of Advice / Believe Me / Mini Song #3: Lament For The Self Sufficient / You Could Have Been Anyone / Bad News / Dolphins / Mini Song #4: Tropicana Low | |
Q65
Nothing But Trouble - The Best Of |
| CRREV258 | |
 Released 28/07/08. From Den Haag (The Hague) in Holland, Q65 were among the country’s wildest beat groups of the 1960s. Their firebrand approach to the beat and rhythm ‘n’ blues boom was the opposite of what most of the country’s successful pop group fraternity were putting over at the time; best represented with the unpolished, raw intensity of You’re The Victor, their 1966 debut for Decca which shook up the charts and caused shockwaves throughout the nations living rooms.Cry In The Night / From Above / I Got Nightmares / The Life I Live / I Despise You / World Of Birds / You Re The Victor / Just Who’s In Sight / It Came To Me / 80% O / Spoonful / Ann / So High I’ve Been, So Down I Must Fall / Sour Wine / I’M A Man / Summer Thoughts In A Field Of Weed / Down In The Bottom / Middle - Age Talk / And Your Kind / No Place To Go / Fairy Tales Of Truth / Where Is The Key / I Was Young / Ridin On A Slow Train | |
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